Sorry I don’t have a picture of the idiot, but this is what he looks like in my imagination:
Now, here’s the story
What an idiot!
Anti-abortion protester David Robert McMenemy, 45, allegedly scoured the Midwest looking for an abortion clinic. He found a women’s clinic in Davenport, Iowa. Once there, the Michigan resident allegedly drove his car through the front of the clinic, doused it with gasoline and set it on fire. “McMenemy hoped his actions would stop or disrupt the clinic’s activities and save some babies’ lives,” federal indictment papers note.
There was just one problem with his plan: the clinic does not perform abortions, but rather offers pre-natal care to poor women. “We think he intended for it to be a suicide but he found out burning would be too painful,” said the county prosecutor. The clinic suffered about $170,000 in damage and was closed for weeks.
…So pretty much all he accomplished was to stop or disrupt the clinic’s activities and risk many babies’ lives. What an idiot. Isn’t he supposed to be prolife if he’s an anti-abortionist? He could have killed someone in the clinic and seeing as how events turned out he’s put the lives of several unborn children and their mothers at risk.
Police and Swat team gets carried away? You decide:
A parent attempting to record a middle school football game from the school’s roof was misidentified as a sniper, causing police to evacuate hundreds of people from the field. Is this the type of thing that could only occur in Utah? Midvale, Utah to be exact.
The accused parent, James Kranz wanted to shoot video of his children playing on Saturday. But an officer spotted him climbing a ladder onto the school’s roof with what looked like a rifle, said police Sgt. Gregg Olsen. How can you mistake a video camera for a rifle?
“An officer saw a man on top of the roof, walking around, pacing back and forth,” Olsen said. “He was acting extremely suspicious.”
It turned out to be a lawn chair that Kranz had with him — not a gun. Oh yes, lawn chairs really look like guns these days. Maybe it was one of those folding ones that come in their own bag?
The SWAT team was called in after Kranz was spotted on the roof.
Parent Andres Dominguez reported hearing someone screaming, “Shooting! Shooting!” when officials ordered the field cleared. He was skeptical, but followed fans off the field.
Another spectator spotted SWAT team members scanning the rooftop with rifles and figured it wasn’t a false alarm.
“When I saw the police looking through their scopes, following this guy across the roof, I thought it was for real,” Ron Watkins a spectator at the game said.
Kranz jumped down from the roof and ran when officers tried to get him to drop to his knees and show his hands, Olsen said. Kranz told police he didn’t respond because he didn’t believe they were really officers. What did he think they were? Early Halloween’ers?
Authorities ticketed Kranz for trespassing, then ordered him off the school grounds.
I know the world is a scary place at times but I still don’t understand how this small crowd could have thought the parent had a gun. If I was there I would have been more concerned that he was a pedophile watching the kids.
