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National Guardsman shoots armed man; rifle turns out to be BB gun (New Orleans)
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| 03/08/07
| wwl
Posted on 03/08/2007 6:35:29 AM PST by Ellesu
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To: Ellesu
Nobody posted the obligatory Peter Billingsley pic? I'm shocked.
To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
![](http://www.dodgeglobe.com/images/112903/christmasstoryLR.jpg)
Here you go.
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posted on
03/08/2007 10:35:25 AM PST
by
Mila
To: Mila
Somehow, I doubt that the hacksaw-toting perp looked anything like Ralphie. Just a hunch...
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posted on
03/08/2007 12:28:40 PM PST
by
Charles Martel
(Liberals are the crab grass in the lawn of life.)
To: marvlus
"He was asking/begging for death."
I'm afraid you're right. I feel sorry for the guardsman, who will forever have to live knowing he killed a man holding a BB gun, even though completely justified. And for the family of the deceased, too.
From The (New Orleans) Times-Picayune:
Burton was killed in a home long owned by his family at 2141 Benton Street, the same place where he rode out Hurricane Katrina flooding, according to relatives. His mother, who died recently, had worried incessantly about the sometimes-homeless Burton and asked family members to look out for him, according to Burton's uncle, Henry Faggen, 71.
Burton's history of mental illness led to repeated stays in mental health facilities and at one point he was declared mentally incompetent to stand trial in Orleans parish on minor drug charges, according to relatives. He was "deathly afraid of police," his uncle said.
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posted on
03/08/2007 3:26:59 PM PST
by
macmedic892
(I am serious. And don't call me Shirley.)
To: Ellesu
The National Guard is ~still~ in New Orleans?
Wassupwitdat?
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posted on
03/08/2007 3:44:55 PM PST
by
Ramius
([sip])
To: WBL 1952
...you'll put your eye out with that...
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posted on
03/08/2007 9:46:58 PM PST
by
Reagan80
("Government is not the solution to our problem, Government IS the problem." -RR; 1980 Inaugural)
To: Ramius
what's up that????
...shoot; seems like it's time for a troop surge...
Reagan80
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posted on
03/08/2007 9:49:48 PM PST
by
Reagan80
("Government is not the solution to our problem, Government IS the problem." -RR; 1980 Inaugural)
To: Ellesu
****The man pulled out a knife and then threw a piece of broken glass as them, cutting a sergeants arm. Sounds to me like he needed to respect the law and stop thinking he was above it and the rules didn't apply to him.
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posted on
03/10/2007 12:38:38 AM PST
by
WasDougsLamb
(cry me a river, then build a bridge and get over it !)
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