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| Loon shoots up airport 'cuz somebody made fun of his turban |
| 2002-05-23 |
| A man wounded two people with a shotgun at the New Orleans airport Wednesday, telling investigators that he fired because people made fun of his turban. The shotgun blast wounded an airline customer in the stomach and an airline employee in the hand. The gunman was tackled by bystanders in the ticket lobby of Louis Armstrong International Airport. Guess they should have stuck with making fun of his intellect... The suspect was idenitifed as Patrick Gott, 43, of Pensacola, Fla. Gott was carrying a Quran and invoked the name of Allah. "Invoked" or "raved about"? The sheriff said Gott told deputies he was in the terminal when people began making fun of his turban. He told investigators that he left the terminal, took a duffel bag with a shotgun out of his car, went back inside and fired. Well, that was a very Islamic thing to do. Guess we should count ourselves lucky he didn't behead anyone. |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |
| #2 Fred you aren't going to believe this.. but go over here and read the wonderful little email I got from American Airlines today. It's a real keeper. Mary Lu |
| Posted by: Mary Wehmeier 2002-05-23 18:55:40 |
| #1 Damn! There goes the ability to tell these nasty little limericks in line too! Didn't some silly SOB outside the airport see this stupid, card-carrying, turban wearing b@stard bringing the shotgun through the parking lot and INTO the airport? Or was the guard/cop/rentawantever sucking on cheetos at the other end of the building? And we're supposed to think we're safe? And pilots can't carry guns onboard? Uh huh... Mary Lu |
| Posted by: Mary Wehmeier 2002-05-23 14:12:59 |