Another dangerous male near a school!

iVillage Member
Registered: 02-19-2008
Another dangerous male near a school!
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Fri, 02-13-2009 - 12:09am

Yet again, a male was near a school. I posted a few days ago an alert UConn initiated about a male, doing nothing but being male and alive near a school. It looks like men are still at it! When will they learn!

http://bangornews.com/detail/99275.html?longstickgoesdumbass

BREWER — Police responded in force to the area around the high school just before noon to search for a man with a “long gun,” and the school was locked down as a precaution.

It turns out the “long gun” was bunches of birch a 31-year-old Ellsworth man was collecting along Dirigo Drive to sell as decorations.

“Somebody said somebody had a gun and we had to take it seriously,” Superintendent Daniel Lee said. “As soon as it was clear that no one had a gun, we unlocked the school. The children were not in danger at any time.”

The man, who asked not to be identified, said police converged on him with their guns drawn.

“It was a little bit crazy,” he said a few minutes after police left, still visibly shaken by the incident. “They searched me and checked my record” before letting him continue with his work. “I have a clean record.”

Sgt. Arden Jones, of the Brewer Police Department, said officers searched the entire area to make sure the man they stopped was the person in question, even following footsteps in the snow.

iVillage Member
Registered: 01-22-2009
Fri, 02-13-2009 - 12:27am

Um... you know the report was made because from a distance the person thought he was carrying a gun, right?


I'd be way more concerned if someone thought they saw a person with a gun in the vacinity of a school and didn't zilch, rather than notifying the authorities.

Community Leader
Registered: 04-05-2002
Fri, 02-13-2009 - 8:00am
<> There was a person carrying something appeared to be a gun, near a school and the authorities took action???? What is this country coming to?





iVillage Member
Registered: 08-30-2002
Fri, 02-13-2009 - 10:38am

No. They should have ignored it. Like authorities ignored the calls and pleas of the mother and Drs. of Scott Thorpe in my community. He was a menatlly ill man who became incresingly paranoid, stalked his counselor at Behavioral Health. Her superiors solution was to give him another counselor. One of his MD's notified BH several times of his increasingly odd behavior and was ignored. Until the day he came to BH and killed two women, then went to a local restaurant and killed the manager because "they were poisoning him."


http://www2.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2001/01/11/MN151154.DTL&hw=surrendered&sn=160&sc=326


Our schools went into lockdown and needless to say our little community has become quite paranoid. People regularly get stopped and questioned for things as suspicisous as carrying stuff alongside the road in black garbage bags, airsoft pistols, vacuum cleaners and bb guns and yes, even a man that was cutting dogwood branches was reported multiple times. That is the unfortunate thing, very REAL tragedies have led us to have to be hypervigilant.


If it were someone near my childs school that someone though MIGHT have a gun, sword, bomb or whatever...I don't give a tiny little rats behind if they are inconvenienced or shaken up, I want them checked out. I would expect that I, my SO, my childs grandfather or anybody else would go through the same. The man that killed the Amish girls was the milkman.



iVillage Member
Registered: 03-23-2003
Fri, 02-13-2009 - 1:38pm

Sounds like this had nothing to do with the fact that it was a male...and everything to do with the fact that it looked like he was carrying a gun.



iVillage Member
Registered: 05-23-2008
Fri, 02-13-2009 - 7:34pm
There are so many incidents of drug dealers and pediphiles picking up children at schools that the authorities have to be careful.