Posted on 11/22/2013 2:26:09 PM PST by grundle
PORT CHARLOTTE, Fla., (UPI) --
Authorities in Florida said a reported handgun that led to a mall lockdown turned out to be a folded-up apron being carried by a waiter.
The Charlotte County Sheriff's Office said the Port Charlotte Town Centre Mall was locked down Monday after deputies received word around 11 a.m. a man was seen carrying a handgun near the facility's J.C. Penny's store, WBBH-TV, Fort Myers, Fla., reported Thursday.
The mall and several nearby schools were put on lockdown while deputies searched the building.
Deputies said they were unable to locate the reported gun-toting man or spot anyone carrying a firearm on security cameras. The mall and schools were on lockdown for about an hour.
The sheriff's office said deputies eventually located the man who was the subject of the report, and they discovered he was a waiter at a local restaurant and he had been carrying his folded-up apron around the mall.
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“Like someone who attacks you with a pointed stick?”
It’s a reasonable precaution. That apron could easily have actually been a half chewed poptart. /s
Since it has the ability to be folded, would this qualify as an assault apron?
Liberals, mass murderers, the media and terrorists have done this to the country. People “see” guns where there are no guns. Burritos are taken for explosives.
What a message this sends to terrorists. All they have to do is leave a tablecloth folded to ‘resemble’ a gun in every mall, and the whole country will be in lockdown.
Not too long ago in this little town of 30,000 people in the middle of nowhere, there was a full-blown multi-agency SWAT response because somebody spotted a 7th-grader carrying an aluminum foil-wrapped burrito.
We really need more gun education in this country. An apron? Seriously?
If you like your folded up apron, you can keep it. Period!~
Turns out the guy is carryin' a rolled/folded up piece of cloth.
Uh huh.
We continue down the path of .00000001 % of the population with a phone mobilizing an armed .001 % of the population that terrorizes 50% of the population.
Unless it’s one of those “subpar” aprons . . .
It’s long past time for common sense apron control.
How on earth can a rolled up apron be mistaken for a handgun? Is the US population going crazy?
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