Posted on 03/25/2005 12:34:02 AM PST by ambrose
Posted on Fri, Mar. 25, 2005
Deputies: Man tried to steal gun to "rescue Terri Schiavo"
Associated Press
SEMINOLE, Fla. - A man was arrested after trying to steal a weapon from a gun shop so he could "take some action and rescue Terri Schiavo," authorities said.
Michael W. Mitchell, of Rockford, Ill., entered Randall's Firearms Inc. in Seminole just before 6 p.m. Thursday with a box cutter and tried to steal a gun, said Marianne Pasha, a spokeswoman for the Pinellas County Sheriff's Office.
Mitchell, 50, told deputies he wanted to "take some action and rescue Terri Schiavo" after he visited the Pinellas Park hospice where she lives, Pasha said.
The feeding tube that has kept Schiavo alive for more than a decade was removed March 18 over objections from her parents. Schiavo's husband has said his wife would not want to be kept alive artificially.
Doctors have said she would probably die within a week or two of the tube being pulled.
Randy McKenzie, the owner of Randall's Firearms, said Mitchell pulled out the box cutter and broke the glass on a couple of display cases.
"He told me if I wasn't on Terri's side then I wasn't on God's side, either," McKenzie told The Associated Press.
McKenzie said he then pointed his own gun at Mitchell and ordered him to lie on the ground. But Mitchell fled out the store's back door before police arrived, he said.
Mitchell was later arrested in a parking lot and was scheduled to appear in court Friday. He was being held on $125,000 bond on charges of attempted armed robbery, aggravated assault and criminal mischief, officials said.
It was not known if he had a lawyer.
Seminole is about 5 miles west of Pinellas Park.
Nice to know our side has its share of whackjobs.
ping.
An embarassment to us all.
I guess simply buying the gun would've been too rational.....
Okay... what's his screen name??
PING
Didn't Gandhi get masses of people to walk up to barricades to recieve blows from the guards? What would the security do if 25,000 people walked up and past them?
BUMP
Don't bring a knife to a gunfight.
Yeah, we know you collect every story that makes the save Terri crowd look bad.
In this case it worked
Seriously, although I do NOT agree with what this man did, I sometimes wonder if there'll ever be an issue worth fighting for.
Conservatives tend to take more than our share of crap precisely because most of us *are* sane and stable individuals.
I agree.
Well... people keep saying she is being murdered... the fact that they're doing nothing suggests either they're passive accessories to her death, or they don't believe their own rhetoric. This man was just putting his money where his mouth is.
If even a thousand people showed up to that home, they could walk right past the police, put her into an ambulance, and drive her across state lines to Georgia, and out of Greer's jurisdictions. Lots of big talk demanding that Jeb Bush ignore judicial orders, but no one else seems to be volunteering for the task.
He could have bought one off the street.
ROTLOL
Yeah, it was great when he was trolling with dehydrated animal stories the other day.
Ping!
Smart. That's exactly the approach to take. The power of non-violent protest brought the British Empire to its knees; it could save Terri too.
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