Idaho man accused of using gun to force 'moonwalk'

[jpak]

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/04/26/idaho-man-accused-using-gun-to-force-moonwalk/

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The Coeur d'Alene Press (http://bit.ly/IhdPmS ) reports 30-year-old John Ernest Cross was charged with the felony Tuesday in 1st District Court and appointed a public defender.

Police say they were called to Cross' Clark Fork home on Monday after getting a report that he pointed a rifle at another man and demanded that the man perform the dance move popularized by Michael Jackson in the 1980s.

Investigators accuse Cross of using a semiautomatic rifle during the episode, but Cross claimed during his initial court appearance this week that the firearm was simply a pellet gun.

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idiots

yup

[CBGLuthier]

1. I used to think I could not moonwalk if my life depended on it

I do not think I would like to find out if that were literally true.

[Remmah2]

2. Trolling on FOX news are we? nt

nt

[discntnt_irny_srcsm]

6. With a source like that...

...I bet it's not true. It's probably something the right wing made up.

[shadowrider]

8. Ain't you got the memo?

Fox is only a reliable source when it's an anti-gun article or an article designed to make gun owners look stupid.

[ileus]

3. woo tang dang...

[Common Sense Party]

4. "Moonwalk! ... I hate that shit!"

[DonP]

5. A pellet gun, in Idaho, on Faux News is the best you can do?

Your Google dump du jour retread stories are getting weaker and funnier by the moment.

This is almost as bad as when you got all excited about Scott Walker banning guns in one Wisconsin state owned building after they passed Concealed Carry.

So, tell us what you're doing to repeal SYG in Florida where you claimed to live part of the year? Any success repealing CCW in Maine too?

[CokeMachine]

7. Forgive him

for he knows not what he posts

[Union Scribe]

9. That was the gunman's second choice

after his victim couldn't remember the macarena.

[petronius]

13. Damn you! Now I'm remembering the macarena,

and it hasn't improved with age...

[ileus]

10. BB guns make people dance.

[iverglas]

11. perhaps you would all prefer the Huffington Post

or maybe the Washington Post? Google news will find you the reports in them and a couple of hundred other places. Such an absence of curiosity here as one can never believe.

The original source seems not to have come up with any further details:
http://www.bonnercountydailybee.com/news/local/article_09928d82-8e9c-11e1-9fad-001a4bcf887a.html

The allegation is AR15, the claim in response is Airsoft. Should be easy enough to resolve. Unless he had one of each, and disposed of one before getting the visit, I guess.

I will be watching for the updates that tell us why on earth someone would do this particular thing ...


edit - wait, how about MSNBC?

http://entertainment.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/04/26/11413066-man-charged-with-assault-after-demanding-moonwalk-dance-at-gunpoint

According to a report in the Coeur d'Alene Press, sheriff's deputies arrived at the home of John Ernest Cross on Monday after being informed he was using drugs and had ordered another man to make with the moves made famous by the late King of Pop -- or else.

Well, not much enlightenment ...

[ileus]

12. My son loves his AR style airsoft...

Of course his MP5 is still my favorite.

I told him last night not to make his sister dance with the AR...