Posted on 04/05/2009 12:24:53 PM PDT by Chet 99
PITTSBURGH (AP) — A 911 call that brought two police officers to a home where they were ambushed, and where a third was also later killed during a four-hour siege, was precipitated by a fight between the gunman and his mother over a dog urinating in the house.
The Saturday argument between Margaret and Richard Poplawski escalated to the point that she threatened to kick him out and she called police to do it, according to a 12-page criminal complaint and affidavit filed late Saturday.
When officers Paul Sciullo III and Stephen Mayhle arrived, Margaret Poplawski opened the door and told them to come in and take her 23-year-old son, apparently unaware he was standing behind her with a rifle, the affidavit said. Hearing gunshots, she spun around to see her son with the gun and ran to the basement.
"What the hell have you done?" she shouted.
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holy moly.
The kid wasnt’ killed?? That’s amazing. I guess those vests really do work.
Since when is it a crime to own body armor?
§ 907. Possessing instruments of crime.
(a) Criminal instruments generally.—A person commits a misdemeanor of the first degree if he possesses any instrument of crime with intent to employ it criminally.
(b) Possession of weapon.—A person commits a misdemeanor of the first degree if he possesses a firearm or other weapon concealed upon his person with intent to employ it criminally.
(c) Unlawful body armor.—A person commits a felony of the third degree if in the course of the commission of a felony or in the attempt to commit a felony he uses or wears body armor or has the control, custody or possession any body armor.
Good question.
I don’t know. But it seems like I heard somewhere that they made a law that it’s illegal to wear a vest while committing a crime. I could be wrong though.
I just thought of something else...
Isn’t it against the law for anyone with a dishonorable discharge to possess firearms? I think that counts like a felony.
Headline Blames doggie piddling in house...but article does not explain yet goes from argument over doggie piddle to he was stockpiling weapons.
Uhg.
Was it his dog perhaps that he left unattended while on his night out drinking?
Is Obamamites going to put Man Best Freind on the short list of things to outlaw./sarc
Off subject:
Notice the Obama girls have not yet recieved the Campaign promise of if Daddy is the next TOTUS you girls get a doggie.
Kind of like having a pry bar while committing burglary.
In Ohio I think they refer to it as possession of criminal tools.
Yes, it's a felony.
What? No one shot the dog? I thought that was first...
WEll there ya go.
That’s why he was so paranoid about cops taking his guns away from him...BECAUSE THEY WERE GOING TO TAKE HIS GUNS AWAY! His mom is lucky to be alive.
im confused - earlier reports had him upset about Obama taking away his guns....now it was precipitated over dog piss?...
i’m not sure what i would have done, but as a mom, if my kid shot someone and i had enough time to turn around and run, i think that i would have tackled my kid.
but then, does what i think i might have done really matter?
“does what i think i might have done really matter?”
NO
I’m wondering about “mom’s stability”. She has a 23 year old in her home. There’s a dog involved. Why didn’t someone tie the dog up outside? Or at the very least, take it to an animal shelter.
This kid was a problem child grown up. He got himself booted out of school to join the Marines, and then he got himself booted out of the Marines because he missed his girl friend. He was recently fired from his job.
I imagine the Mom had two choices: try to keep him at home and deal with him as best she could, or kick him out and let him sleep in a dumpster. She was probably doing the best she could, although who knows how much of the way he turned out was owing to her own bad decisions earlier?
Apparently the father was out of the picture, no details.
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When you wear it in the commission of a crime.
Do you have a problem with that?
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