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Perhaps the dumbest thing I’ve ever heard of

Blake has the details of some silliness:

An emergency management agency director’s attempt to stage a realistic drill shocked people attending a Carter County Commission meeting.

Commissioners had just convened last night in Elizabethton (ee-LIHZ’-uh-BETH’-t’n) when a man and a woman rushed in carrying guns, held a weapon to the head of county finance director Jason Cody and said there would be no new taxes.

One of the people acting as a hostage-taker fired a blank.

The shaken finance director said later he didn’t know what was happening. The county sheriff wasn’t clued in either and city police responded when someone called 9-1-1.

Good thing your friendly neighborhood SayUncle wasn’t at the meeting or, well you know. On second thought, maybe not. That no new taxes thing and all.

All kidding aside, they seriously didn’t tell the police about it. Sounds like a good way to get shot.

Update: And why does News 2 spell Elizabethton phonetically?

10 Responses to “Perhaps the dumbest thing I’ve ever heard of”

  1. Phelps Says:

    “EEEEK! His bullets were blanks!”

    (Puzzled Phelps) “What kind of dumbass terrorist uses blanks?

    “Give up? Dead ones!”

    And then I become prisoner #100345203. (Or, as I refer to myself, Number 6.)

  2. Drake Says:

    The EM director needs his ass chewed. I can’t believe that no one involved in that poorly acted theatre thought “wait, what if I get shot?”

    Am I also wrong for being miffed it was planned for tax protestors? Are they painting with a wide brush like the Nashville media portrayed the horn-honkers? Or am I just overreacting?

  3. tgirsch Says:

    Phelps:

    Was that a reference to the old Patrick McGoohan TV show?

  4. mostly cajun Says:

    I find it interesting and somewhat significant that the “terrorists” espoused a conservative cause, no new taxes, as opposed to mirroring one of the groups more likely to be involved in terrorism, such as the Earth First! bunch or Islamists.

    Of course, then one has to ask, What’s going on at a small county commisioner’s meeting that would be worthy of terrorism?

  5. F-Stop Says:

    I was just about to email this story to you…behind the curve, I know. WTF?? I hate to say I don’t know, but is one allowed to CC at these meetings? What if an off duty LEO had wandered in? Yikes!

  6. skb Says:

    Yeah, that was pretty outrageous. It’s a miracle noboby got killed. And I’m not so sure it was a “drill”. These no-tax nuts are getting more and more militant.

  7. skb Says:

    P.S. I was thinking of you when I first read that (a reader e-mailed me the story and I was going to post on it tomorrow). I was thinking about folks in the audience who might have concealed carry permits and exercise them, and Flight 93, and so on. Like I said, it’s a miracle…

  8. mAss Backwards Says:

    Darn, another great potential Darwin opportunity blown.
    This exercise in stupidity does make a good argument for CCW though.

  9. chuck Says:

    Did the genius get fired?

  10. mike hollihan Says:

    Something I haven’t seen addressed, except in the comments above, that makes me wonder: how many folks at that meeting (other than the knobs performing the drill) were packing at the time? Why didn’t they pull their own weapons? Has anyone answered this question yet?

    If in fact several people were armed but didn’t react, doesn’t that speak awfully well for concealed carry? It shows the restraint and caution of the folks who were armed, yes?

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