Bush's Drunk Driving Lawyer Arrested

[Rose Siding]

A True Halloween Story
The lawyer who disclosed President Bush’s drunk-driving arrest just before the 2000 election was arrested in South Portland, Maine, after he was spotted on a highway overpass dressed as Osama bin Laden and toting a fake assault rifle, the Associated Press reports.

The costume, according to AP, came equipped with plastic dynamite, plastic grenades, and a plastic replica of an AK-47. Tom Connolly, 49 years old, was charged with criminal threatening, a misdemeanor. Connolly was carrying a sign that read “I love TABOR,'’ (that’s the Taxpayer Bill of Rights on the Maine ballot in the Nov. 7 election). But someone who saw it thought it read “I love the Taliban,'’ according to the South Portland Police Chief Ed Googins. “The whole thing is just incredibly bizarre,'’ Googins said.

http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2006/10/31/a-true-halloween-story/

[no_hypocrisy]

1. Better arrested than another "suicide". n/t

[mrreowwr_kittty]

2. He's too young to have been his drunk driving lawyer, I think?

That happened back in the 70s. He'd have been in his late teens/early 20s.

[bahrbearian]

3. the very 1st sentence is

"The lawyer who disclosed President Bush’s drunk-driving arrest just before the 2000 election was arrested in South Portland, Maine"

[mrreowwr_kittty]

6. Okay, sorry. Will work on reading comprehension ;)

[eppur_se_muova]

8. I thought it referred to a lawyer who was driving drunk ...

unintended effect of headline compression.

[BrotherBuzz]

4. He was the lawyer who disclosed President Bush’s drunk-driving arrest...

not a Bush* lawyer.

[Renew Deal]

5. Now that's dumb.

:banghead:

[Bluerthanblue]

7. Ha- ha, 'free country' ..."Tabor"="Taliban" wonder who the 'someone'

was- *'s not been up here today-
Geesh- criminal threatening- why? For dressing up on halloween like 'bin Laden'????? What's next? arrest anyone who dresses up like *? he's killed more people than bin Laden- and he not only HAS WMD's- he has his finger on the button---

This country is so screwed-

[Realityhack]

9. Hope they drop the charges.

Seems rather anti-free speach.

[truthisfreedom]

10. Probably will. Carrying around hand-grenades and rifles, even if fake, even

on Halloween, will always raise eyebrows. I'd be scared if I thought they might be real.

[Realityhack]

11. One does wonder however...

exactly how 'real' they looked. Honestly a guy in an osama bin laden mask on holloween with a plastic assult rifle? Better have been one heck of a nice fake rifle etc.

Given he is a lawyer I smell lawsuit. They better have had a good reason for the arest given that by the time they made an arest it would have been quite clear what his sign did not say and wither he was in fact trying to threaten or trying to protest.

The call to the police I can understand. The police upon ariveal deciding to arest I can not.

[DoYouEverWonder]

14. You can buy that sort of crap

in any Walmart.

Maybe they should manufacture such things?

[Realityhack]

17. Do we know...

how realistic they actualy looked?

Why should that raise more eyebrows than say a bloody grim reaper sword?

Would the same thing have happend if he was dressed as a marine?

[ddeclue]

12. What a moron!!!

He's lucky the local SWAT team didn't turn him into Swiss cheese.

Doug D.
Orlando, FL

[Realityhack]

13. Um...

If the SWAT team starts shooting first without asking questions at every person brandishing a 'weapon' in public on holloween its time for a rebellion.

[ddeclue]

15. How often does it happen though?

They tend to shoot first and ask for ID later.

[Realityhack]

16. Not necisarily

Its unlikely that they would just shoot some guy walking down the steet with a sign (reguardless of weapons) without ordering him to drop them or whatever as long as he wasn't waving them around.

IMO my point sands reguarding randomly shooting people brandishing weapons on holloween. Now remember kids no fake weapons as part of your costume or the swat team will shot you on sight ;-)

[ddeclue]

18. Except that they do shot people full of holes from time to time...

Remember the unarmed guy in NYC who got shot 41 times for no obvious reason by six cops?

[Realityhack]

19. True but...

that was not the SWAT team IIRC.