A True Halloween Story

[question everything]

October 31, 2006

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/ (subscription, I think)

[Systematic Chaos]

1. Sounds like "someone" saw what they wanted to see.

And I hope they get hit with a wave of karmic backwash that sends them reeling for quite a while. :grr:

[rsdsharp]

2. Someone needs to tell Mr. Connolly

that OBL's weapon of choice is the AK-74, not the AK-47. :evilgrin:

[benEzra]

3. Yup. Think I've seen a Krinkov or an AK-47SU in some photos

as well as a full-length AK-74.

I'm sure he thinks AK-47's are just SO 1980's Afghanistan...