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2006-11-01 -Lurid Crime Tales-

Bush DUI-tipping attorney arrested in Maine while dressed as osama

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Posted by anonymous5089 2006-11-01 10:08|| || Front Page|| [6 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 A little background. It's real shocking...

SOUTH PORTLAND -- Tom Connolly's political activism is eccentric, sometimes even goofy, including his penchant for dancing around in a George W. Bush mask on Casco Bay Bridge.
But his donning of an Osama bin Laden costume, complete with plastic assault rifle, and waving an anti-TABOR sign alongside Interstate 295 went too far, police said of Tuesday's Halloween political prank.
"This redefines the word stupid," said South Portland Police Chief Ed Googins, whose officers arrested Connolly at gunpoint on a misdemeanor charge of criminal threatening. "Whether it was a political ploy or not, we had officers responding to something they felt was a serious threat to public safety."
Police say Connolly is lucky he wasn't shot by the officers who converged on the hill at the Westbrook Street overpass at 9 a.m.

TABOR, BTW, is a measure to limit state spending, similar to Prop 2 1/2.

Posted by tu3031 2006-11-01 11:49|| 2006-11-01 11:49|| Front Page Top

#2 Honest to Gawd, we don't invent this stuff.

Posted by Fred 2006-11-01 12:34|| 2006-11-01 12:34|| Front Page Top

#3 The clinically insane: Why do they hate us?

Posted by Atomic Conspiracy 2006-11-01 14:28|| 2006-11-01 14:28|| Front Page Top

#4 Lady Karma, she is a bitch.

Posted by Mike 2006-11-01 14:44|| 2006-11-01 14:44|| Front Page Top

#5 And to the young man who once told me the circus never makes it to Maine, I thumb my nose at ya.

Posted by Pappy 2006-11-01 22:42|| 2006-11-01 22:42|| Front Page Top

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