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| Iowa Columnist Freaks Out After Staring At Man's Bulge (gun?) |
| 2015-01-19 |
| Saw this via Facebook and had to post it here. Journalist see's a man's 'bulge' and gets all excited and hystarical thinking it's a gun. You just can't make this up... Lynda Waddington of the Cedar Rapids, Iowa Gazette is lucky to be alive after her recent encounter with a concealed handgun carrier. No, he didn't draw or even touch his firearm, or even say anything to her. For that matter, she didn't even see so much as a gun or a holster, so we aren't even sure they exist. She merely saw a bulge in a random man's jacket that might be a gun, and worked herself into a hysterical fit: There's a mantra quickly repeating in my head: "Please have a badge. Please have a badge. Please have a badge." It's a steady heartbeat as I begin a conversation with a shop clerk and reposition myself so I can peer over her shoulder. I've already seen the bulge in his jacket, and it's clear from the size and shape that he has a holstered gun. Now my eyes are quickly scanning, hoping to find a law enforcement badge clipped to his belt. I'm in a local bookstore and there's a sticker near the door asking patrons not to carry weapons on the premises. My two children scurried off the moment we entered, each in search of their own treasures. The man with the weapon is as interested with the bookstore patrons as he is with the books on display. I've watched him watch others. The way he tracks them is unnerving. There's no badge â at least not one I can see. And my inspection of him has not gone unnoticed. I rotate my handbag so that more of it rests toward the front of my body and gently pat it. It's a tell by women who are packing heat in their purse. Many do it without thinking, a subtle check of hard steel through the leather. My touch is greeted by the bristles on my hairbrush, but no one else knows that. The man recognizes the gesture, his eyes briefly flicking to my own before he moves past us in the aisle. I still don't know him, and the movie trailers increase. He could be the stalker, searching for his mark. He could be contemplating a robbery, or seeking someone to abduct. He could be an off-duty police officer, or even one that is undercover. He could be paranoid, thinking the world is out to get him or knowing someone truly is. He could be a fugitive, a drug dealer, a rapist or the owner of a sporting goods store. More at the link. (Some of the comments are a hoot too!) But wait there's more. A man who believes he's the one she's been eyeballing has come forward and says: That was no gun under my coat, it was a Halter monitor to monitor my arrhythmia to send to my Cardiologist. |
| Posted by:CrazyFool |
| #4 The loony left has completely lost their collective minds. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2015-01-19 22:36 |
| #3 See Mae West's greatest quotes. |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2015-01-19 20:48 |
| #2 It's a tell by women who are packing heat in their purse. Many do it without thinking, a subtle check of hard steel through the leather. Alright. Who told the bedwetter about the double super secret gun sign language? He could be paranoid, thinking the world is out to get him or knowing someone truly is. Ain't him that I'm worried about lady, even before I got to the punchline. That was no gun under my coat, it was a Halter monitor to monitor my arrhythmia to send to my Cardiologist Whellokthen, check on the weather...ok...no baseball yet....Hey Ethel! You know that crazy lady I told you about at the bookstore? Yeah, the one who kept tapping on her purse and staring through me? Looks like she is some sort of writer or something, because this story here sounds like me...she thought my counter was a gun. Yeah, in a gun free zone. That tapping, she was trying to tell me she was armed, like some damned cockatoo. Yeah I know, in a gun free zone. She thought I was some movie character; I can't believe I was that close to a legit crazy person. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2015-01-19 20:33 |
| #1 LOL! |
| Posted by: Shipman 2015-01-19 20:30 |