Darwin Opportunity Missed
Via Say Uncle (via NashvilleFiles Blog - welcome to the blogroll) comes the stupidest thing I've heard in quite a while, or at least since last night's Clinton appearance on Letterman:
UPDATE (via NashvilleFiles - with picture of dumbass): Emergency Management Agency Director Ernest Jackson was suspended while the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation investigates the incident.
ELIZABETHTON, Tenn. An emergency management agency director's attempt to stage a realistic drill shocked people attending a Carter County Commission meeting.Why anyone would do this in a CCW-friendly state such as Tennessee is WAY beyond my level of comprehension. Hey, here's an idea, let's storm the police barracks shooting blanks to test the preparedness of our local law enforcement personnel. These idiots, who are lucky to not be perforated right now, need to be charged with reckless endangerment, assault with a deadly weapon, disturbing the peace, and felony beingadumbass.
Commissioners had just convened last night in Elizabethton (ee-LIHZ'-uh-BETH'-t'n) when a man and a woman rushed in carrying guns, held a weapon to the head of county finance director Jason Cody and said there would be no new taxes.
One of the people acting as a hostage-taker fired a blank.
The shaken finance director said later he didn't know what was happening. The county sheriff wasn't clued in either and city police responded when someone called 9-1-1.
UPDATE (via NashvilleFiles - with picture of dumbass): Emergency Management Agency Director Ernest Jackson was suspended while the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation investigates the incident.
