Posted on 05/15/2012 3:57:33 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
A Detroit groundskeeper, who turned in a loaded handgun he found hidden in weeds while working, was fired by the Wayne County Department of Public Services, MyFoxDetroit.com reports.
John Chevilott, who is just two years shy of retirement, found the loaded snub-nosed revolver on May 3 when he and his crew were mowing a lawn in Wayne County. Chevilott secured the gun, waiting for police to drive by so he could hand it over to them.
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The union says they’re supporting him but I can’t see how things got this far without the union allowing it. I spent enough years in the AFL-CIO to know that firing is something that happens eventually if at all.
As my postmistress has discovered, union support is pretty shaky if you aren’t one of their urban ideologues. They talk a big game but will turn right around and screw them.
He touched it! He’s got cooties!
Lawyers are salivating as I type. That bureaucrap is in deeper trouble than he knows.
Because of this stupidity the next employe to find a gun, see a crime in progress, etc. will most likely ignore it.
♪♪♪ See the USA in your Chevrolet ♪♪♪
♪♪ America is asking you to call ♪♪♪
♪♪♪ Drive your Chevrolet through the USA ♪
♪ America's the greatest land of all ♪♪♪
huh....what...ugh.....oh....ok.... damn... never mind. I misread his name. He's Mr. Chevilott...not Mr. Chevrolet. DUH
Have you taken your meds today?
I can’t believe a city gives a pension to someone for mowing grass for 25 years!
Sounds like the union I used to belong to years ago. They took my money but never provided any support. All I was ever told was, “Don’t rock the boat!”.
I can’t believe the guy didn’t halt work, call the police, and then have his crew hang out at time-and-a-half sitting around the gun to “secure” the area for the 4 hours it would have taken the cops to respond.
dude
Everybody wants their only little government-funded Ponzi scheme.
What a bunch of idiots!
If I found a loaded firearm, it would quietly go into my collection.
Nope, not yet. Take half an aspirin right before I go to bed, though.
By the way, ma'am .... have you taken your head out of your a$$ today?
#27 Jmax: I enjoyed your little Chevrolet ditty. Too cute!
Thank you, Jo. Just trying to lighten things up a little. The news is normally a downer, which in turn makes us grumpy.
What does the union think proper procedure would be for this type of situation? Cordon off the gun?
A distant relative of mine decades ago did that exact same thing in Moline IL where he lived. When he died his daughter sold the gun to someone who went to register it in Michigan, but then the SHTF when it came up stolen and ballistics matched it to the former owners murder during a robbery way back when in IL.
Just be careful is all I'm saying, just like with a new girlfriend you really don't know where that thing has been and done before you got it.
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