Rep. Sticks Gun to Head of Innocent Bystander!

[DemocracyInaction]

If you come here to Maine, you might want to stay away from Dunkin' Doughnuts---or maybe that's Repubnuts! Here's the story:

We had a few week old child die in a homeless shelter in the town where our asshole Governor is from (and who would have been thrilled that he had one less poor person in the state). Today this Repuke representative from the area stuck a gun to the head of a photographer from a local paper (in the Dunkin' Doughnuts parking lot)and said he was looking for the mother's drug dealer..............he took a nice ride with a nice policeman after that...........There was no connection between the photographer and the child or the mother or the drug dealer. However, there is a big connection between the brain functions of this clown and the rest of the GOP up thar in the State House.

[Poll_Blind]

1. Names, links please!

That sounds crazy!

PB

[jpak]

2. Where did you see this - the KJ? Sentinel?

:shrug:

[elleng]

3. Holy S***! What will the folks up there think of that?

[buddysmellgood]

4. Amazing. Do you have his name? Is there a report?

[DemocracyInaction]

5. Here's what I know

I'm old and don't know how to do all that link crap but it's in the Portland Press Herald which you can find on line at www.pressherald. As far as what people think here....well, killing each other and burning down houses seem to be the favorite past time of our long winters.......still cold as hell here.

[baldguy]

6. State rep threatens to shoot "innocent bystander"

A state representative from Garland was arrested Saturday morning for pointing a handgun at a man at point-blank range in a Dunkin Donuts parking lot.

Republican Frederick Ladd Wintle, 58, faces charges of criminal threatening with a dangerous weapon and carrying a concealed weapon for pulling a gun on Morning Sentinel photographer Michael Seamans, of Sidney.

In what police termed a “bizarre” series of events, Wintle allegedly started talking to Seamans about the infant that died this week at Mid-Maine Homeless Shelter on Ticonic Street and said he was looking for the mother’s drug dealer.

more:
http://www.pressherald.com/news/State-rep-threatens-to-shoot-innocent-bystander.html

[jpak]

8. A highly caffeinated Douchebagger with a gun

what could go wrong?

:shrug:

[baldguy]

12. He could've been drinking bourbon.

[elleng]

7. Details here:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=118x419261

[L0oniX]

9. That would get you a mandatory 3 year sentance with no time off here in Florida.

[onethatcares]

10. no, no, no, that's only if you try to rob a store.

if you stick a gun in some guys/girls face outside of a retail establishment it's called "standing your ground" and we got the law to prove it.

[L0oniX]

11. "brandishing" alone gets you 3 years in Florida.

[FredStembottom]

13. Here... I'll do it:

Define: "brandishing"!

There. Done.

[L0oniX]

14. Google is your friend.