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Related: About this forumMansfield man allegedly pulls gun on salesmen
Charles C. Cook, 51, is free now on $5,000 cash bail following his arraignment Monday in Attleboro District Court. But Cook spent the weekend behind bars after he was arrested Friday at West Village Apartments on West Street.
Police say he confronted two men selling magazines outside his neighbors apartment Friday night by pointing a handgun he held in his jacket pocket and telling them to move on.
The men had gone to Cooks apartment first while he and his fiancé were eating dinner, before Cook told the men he was not interested, according to police.
http://www.thesunchronicle.com/news/local_news/mansfield-man-allegedly-pulls-gun-on-salesmen/article_ec267694-e582-11e1-a2a4-0019bb2963f4.html
rocktivity
(44,576 posts)Last edited Sat Jan 13, 2018, 08:12 PM - Edit history (3)
(Cooks lawyer) said Cook never took the gun out of his jacket pocket...He said his client only recently moved to Massachusetts...and has not yet had time to get a Massachusetts gun license.
(Cooks lawyer) said Cook was about to call about the two men for trespassing when police came to his door...
He never took out his gun, yet someone called the cops on HIM? Who would do such a thing -- a couple of salesmen who'd had a gun pulled on them?
Throw the book at the doofus -- and make him wait at least year to get his new gun permit. He simply should have called the landlord or building management if he thought the salesmen trespassing, and them handle it. And aggressive sales pitches do not equate to a deadly threat.
rocktivity
bongbong
(5,436 posts)Stay scared, gun-religionists! Your complete and pants-filling fear of everything is what keeps the NRA leadership in their mansions!
friendly_iconoclast
(15,333 posts)Stay scared, gun-control religionists! Your complete and pants-filling fear of guns is what keeps the MAIG leadership in his mansions!
bongbong
(5,436 posts)Copying me is the best you can do?
The NRA hasn't published Talking Points to address the situation, so that's all you got! H-I-L-A-R-I-O-U-S
Wait Wut
(8,492 posts)...if the salesmen refused to leave? Stand there looking like a complete tool or shoot someone?
Remmah2
(3,291 posts)There have been cases where contractors, salesmen, meter readers etc go door to door as imposters only to be casing a house.
DanTex
(20,709 posts)ManiacJoe
(10,136 posts)bongbong
(5,436 posts)AKA, "I"m so scared of EVERYTHING that I need Depends if I venture outside!"