Man carrying umbrella, not rifle, was on his usual route (police state alert)

The Olympian | 3/20/2013 | CHELSEA KROTZER

[markomalley]

Story cannot be posted because of FR posting rules. Link to story is here.

[SWAMPSNIPER]

I caught the local B&N hiding all the gun magazines behind other publications.

[null and void]

Blue flames...

[Polynikes]

On a slightly different but I believe related situation I once was at the SF Public Library looking for “Zebra: The True Account of the 179 Days of Terror in San Francisco.” by Howard Clark. It was listed in the catalog but noted to “see the main desk”. They had a copy but it was held in the back and only brought out for reading 30 minutes at a time. It was not allowed to be checked out.

It was bizarre. It was like I walked into Area 51 and asked to see classified documentation on any alien contact. The book was impossible to buy in SF until I ran across it a used book store.

[Grams A]

My thoughts exactly. If he would have done this in LA, there would have been at least 500 rounds fired at him.

[matt04]

Sadly many idiots believe NRA members and pro-2A types will randomly shoot and kill people on the street. They have yet to realize that they are in more danger of begin shot by the police in a big city for no reason, multiple times.

[matt04]

My local B&N hasn’t done that the last few time I have been in. I suspect they have a plan-o-gram on how those racks are suppose to look based on the employee with a clip board rearranging magazines I saw last time.

[matt04]

Let me guess, many of those would be coming from a eeeeevil AR-15 with 30 rd. magazines. Bonus points if more rounds hit random civilians than the suspect.

I winder of the umbrella holder is now more likely to get firearms?

[Fred Hayek]

Yikes, sounds like the people in Minnestoopid.

[rawcatslyentist]

Hey, they can’t tell a pop tart from a glock!

[rawcatslyentist]

C’mon you know they only shoot women holding infants inside their homes.

[Texas Fossil]

Thanks for post my FRiend.

It shows where we really are and is frightening.

Militarization of the police is a prescription for disaster of epic proportions.

[Frank_2001]

“Stupid kids don’t even know what a umbrella looks like thes days.”

So, what do they carry when it rains???;)

[ApplegateRanch]

The “little green light” from the cirlcing helicopter... a laser sight?

Oh, don't be so silly and paranoid!

They were painting him for the drone striKe.

[ApplegateRanch]

OMG! The Wasp!

Loved that, and quite instructive.

Also, The Space Willies AKA Next of Kin "If you don't have a eustace, then you must have the Willies!"

Loved E.F.R.

[doorgunner69]

Most of them are prolly so stoned they do not notice the rain..............

[ApplegateRanch]

While you're looking for Wasp, also look for Russell's The Space Willies AKA (slightly lengthened a bit later) Next of Kin You'll enjoy both.

An aside: his father was a Royal Engineer & instructor at Sandhurst; and he, himself, served in The King's Regiment during the 1920s; then in the Royal Air Force during WWII.

[TigersEye]

Thanks. I will see if I can find that too.

[xp38]

It must have been a high capacity burrito

[null and void]

I’ll look for The Space Willies/Next of Kin.

Thanks!