Thursday, November 25, 2010

Have Gun Permit, Will Stalk

Something else to look forward to with the Republicans in charge:

Last week, St. Paul police pulled the Anoka County Republican over and seized his loaded Smith & Wesson after he told them he was "jealous" about his "girlfriend," whom he didn't have any contact information for but suspected was with another man, according to police reports.

Police had been called to the city's Highland Park neighborhood by a security guard at a Planned Parenthood clinic, where Hackbarth had parked and appeared "suspicious."

Hackbarth, who has a permit to carry a concealed weapon, was briefly handcuffed and released without being charged with a crime, and he told the Pioneer Press he did nothing wrong or illegal.

Officers at the scene, however, suspected him of "stalking-like behavior" and borderline "harassment or terroristic threats," so they hung on to his weapon, reports state.

It gets even better when he tries to describe his "girlfriend":

Hackbarth provided officers the name of the woman but said he had no contact information for her and could not recall the website where he met her. Officers couldn't contact the woman, citing a lack of information. The Pioneer Press also couldn't contact the woman.

In his interview with the Pioneer Press, Hackbarth explained that in one of the dating websites he uses, people communicate with each other via e-mail routed through a central website. "You don't have an actual e-mail address," he said.

"I honestly can't give you any information," he said. "When you meet somebody online — if that's where you go — you meet somebody and you go out for coffee. You don't exactly tell each other your life stories."

He said he uses "maybe three or four" different dating sites and couldn't remember which one.

He said the woman he was looking for was the only one he had ever actually met face to face through online dating. "You don't get a lot of responses when you say you're separated," he said.

Yeah, I think those are called escort services.

I just wonder which one of our esteemed overlords will be pulling the Wisconsin version of this stunt.

3 comments:

  1. No doubt any number of those who will push for conceal and carry, since each and every one of them is mentally disturbed.

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  2. Sounds like a guy who needs to be watched. And who should not be carrying out a bunch of guns.

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  3. the cops really dropped the ball on that one; I wouldn't be surprised to hear this guy kills someone at some point.

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