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Updated: 11-23-2009
 

Posts Tagged ‘guns’

Misdialed number leads to angry texts, shooting

Thursday, October 29th, 2009

I can attest that phone calls can be annoying, especially at the end of a long day, but getting mad enough to shoot someone might be a tad over the line.   Can you say “Busted!”

SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — Georgia police said a misdialed number led two strangers to trade hostile calls and text messages before arranging a meeting where one shot the other. Savannah-Chatham police spokeswoman Veda Lamar Nichols told the Savannah Morning News in a Wednesday story that man, 22, faces an aggravated assault charge. The 22-year-old suspect was jailed after a 24-year-old man was shot in a CVS parking lot around 2:30 a.m. Tuesday.

Nichols said the victim was taken to Memorial University Medical Center in serious condition. She said the two didn’t know each other but began arguing through phone calls and text messages after a misdialed number and arranged to meet in the store’s parking lot.

The suspect was taken to the Chatham County jail. Nichols said his vehicle was damaged during the incident.

Information from: Savannah Morning News, http://www.savannahnow.com

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Shotgun-wielding man Tasered after manure dispute

Tuesday, September 15th, 2009

What a load of crap, literally!   A dispute over crap leads to tazering and arrest.  Way to go neighbor.  Punishment should be 6 months of Mr. Rogers re-runs.  I wouldn’t like to be his neighbor.

HURON TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) — Police said a dispute over manure led to a man firing his shotgun near his neighbors and police later using a Taser to subdue him. The Saginaw News reported the man approached his neighbors in Huron County’s Huron Township, about 110 miles north of Detroit, Saturday as they spread lime and manure on their farm.

Police said the 45-year-old fired his shotgun and then aimed the gun at the couple as they approached the fence in their tractor. Authorities said the disagreement over the placement of the manure had been ongoing.

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Mom, 80, shoots at deputies as son hides in closet

Friday, August 21st, 2009

She certainly isn’t the picture of a gun totin momma at 80, but I guess the gun makes it so.  I am thinking 3 shots at police is going to get her a nice one bedroom cottage made of concrete for the rest of her days, kind of a home away from home.

Granny-Clampett_detail[1]JACKSON, Tenn. (AP) — An 80-year-old West Tennessee woman and her son are being held in jail after deputies said she shot at them when they came to arrest the man. Sheriff Melvin Bond said the elderly woman fired several shots at officers Friday night in a standoff that began when deputies tried to capture her 60-year-old son.

The Jackson Sun quoted Bond who said four deputies went to the woman’s mobile home on a tip that her son was there. Bond said officers heard the man talking inside the trailer and – when they knocked on the door – the woman opened it, slammed it shut and fired a shot through it.

The deputies took cover and, during the hour-long standoff, two more shots were fired through the door.

There were no injuries. The man was found hiding in a closet.

Information from: The Jackson Sun, http://www.jacksonsun.com

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Sheriff reprimands deputies over waitress photo

Thursday, August 20th, 2009

Come on this is Texas!  I can’t believe this even made the news in Texas, I would expect something like a waitress calendar of the month to be the outcome in Texas!

MIDLAND, Texas (AP) — An embarrassed Sheriff Gary Painter fired one Midland County deputy and suspended three others without pay after a scantily dressed waitress holding a rifle posed for photographs on the hood of a patrol vehicle. Round Rock officers were dispatched to the restaurant after someone reported the waitress with the weapon, which had been given to her by one of the deputies who had been attending a training session near Austin.

The incident occurred last week in the parking lot of a Twin Peaks restaurant, which promotes its “fun, friendly and sometimes flirty atmosphere!”

The deputies told Painter that they had about three to five beers each.

A fifth deputy who remained inside the eatery got a letter of reprimand.

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Information from:

The Midland Reporter-Telegram, http://www.mywesttexas.com/

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