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Crazed woman in CA stabs 5 in a Target store.
Posted: Mon May 03, 2010 6:48 pm
by OldCannon
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100503/ap_ ... _stabbings
So. Crazy lady stabs people in Target store. Panic ensues. Luckily, off-duty PO draws gun to stop the stabbing. Unluckily, the PO is in CA, so everybody thinks he's a madman with a gun and panics more.
I predict the wise poplace of California will enact two new laws:
1) Off-duty POs must be disarmed. No fair having them scare people even more while there are criminals about. Might also confuse real cops. Can't be having that.
2) Knives longer than one half inch must be made of easily breakable plastic (made from post-consumer recycled materials) and may not exceed 2" in length. Anybody in posession of metal knives under 1/2" in length must get approval from the local sheriff or will be imprisoned for Felony Posession of a Stabby Thingy.
Re: Crazed woman in CA stabs 5 in a Target store.
Posted: Mon May 03, 2010 8:56 pm
by silverbear

My wife shops at Target because she thinks Walmart isn't safe.
Re: Crazed woman in CA stabs 5 in a Target store.
Posted: Mon May 03, 2010 9:57 pm
by aaangel
^^^^^^^^+1, usually we don't go to walmart (too many crazies!!!!) but now target????
Re: Crazed woman in CA stabs 5 in a Target store.
Posted: Mon May 03, 2010 9:58 pm
by SQLGeek
It's West Hollywood...'nuff said.
Re: Crazed woman in CA stabs 5 in a Target store.
Posted: Mon May 03, 2010 11:25 pm
by wheelgun1958
SQLGeek wrote:It's West Hollywood...'nuff said.
Must've been off her Prozac.

Re: Crazed woman in CA stabs 5 in a Target store.
Posted: Tue May 04, 2010 12:08 am
by karl
Speedy recovery to the injured, glad I've never been stabbed. My favorite part is how the AP thought it necessary to mention that the off-duty LEO was authorized to have have a gun:
...a five-year veteran of the department, was authorized to have a weapon in the store.
My head hurts enough from the ignorance in the comments section that I legitimately have a headache. Worst yet...
...the 2nd amendment MUST be repealed...
Is history class so watered down that nobody remembers why that amendment is there in the first place?
Re: Crazed woman in CA stabs 5 in a Target store.
Posted: Tue May 04, 2010 12:53 am
by Medic218
I think I found a picture of Los Angeles sheriff's Sgt. Josh Mankini.......
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Re: Crazed woman in CA stabs 5 in a Target store.
Posted: Tue May 04, 2010 1:43 am
by chabouk
silverbear wrote:
My wife shops at Target because she thinks Walmart isn't safe.
"Hel-LOOOO!" They call it 'TARGET'! Duh!"
Re: Crazed woman in CA stabs 5 in a Target store.
Posted: Tue May 04, 2010 8:04 am
by Oldgringo
That sort of stuff don't happen at Macy's and Dillards.
Re: Crazed woman in CA stabs 5 in a Target store.
Posted: Tue May 04, 2010 7:05 pm
by TLE2
I go to Target. I'm generally armed. If not, a can of black beans up side the head, would tend to discourage such behavior, IMHO.
Re: Crazed woman in CA stabs 5 in a Target store.
Posted: Tue May 04, 2010 9:20 pm
by surprise_i'm_armed
Do you know why there's no more Wal-Marts in Iraq?
We turned them all into Targets! :-)
SIA
Re: Crazed woman in CA stabs 5 in a Target store.
Posted: Tue May 04, 2010 10:53 pm
by 03Lightningrocks
TLE2 wrote:I go to Target. I'm generally armed. If not, a can of black beans up side the head, would tend to discourage such behavior, IMHO.
No kidding. A can of anything upside the head would have stopped her. I don't get why nobody picked up something and beaned that crazy lady. I would have hit her so hard she would have moved backwards in history.
Re: Crazed woman in CA stabs 5 in a Target store.
Posted: Tue May 04, 2010 11:16 pm
by surprise_i'm_armed
The stabbing woman's mother said that the
assailant is schizophrenic.
She's lucky she was taken in one piece.
If a CHL was around, she might have had a severe
case of thoracic perforation.
SIA
Re: Crazed woman in CA stabs 5 in a Target store.
Posted: Wed May 05, 2010 10:18 am
by cougartex
Very sad.
Re: Crazed woman in CA stabs 5 in a Target store.
Posted: Wed May 05, 2010 12:27 pm
by bci21984
same thing happened in Plano, about 6 months or so ago. lady went into a dollar general, found the kitchen knife section and proceeded to walk around the store shanking folks. i believe she got 2-3 before everybody got away from her and she was arrested.