“Banana wielder arrested for disturbing the piece.”

[demmiblue]

Royal Oak man to bear banana, not gun, at fest
BY HARRY COOK

Cook is a long-time resident of Royal Oak, a retired Episcopal priest and a one-time reporter, editor and columnist for the Free Press.

In what may be one of the more craven legislative acts to be committed by a local government entity in my memory, the city commissioners of Royal Oak are set to repeal their own wise and responsible ordinances prohibiting the open carrying of side arms in such venues as street festivals. There’s one such scheduled for Labor Day weekend in Royal Oak.

This means that the honorable commissioners have been cowed by the Open Carry lobby whose members swagger about with long, ugly pistols clipped to their belts just daring someone to object to the exercise of their Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms. Only they are not members of a “well-regulated militia.” But why should I mind? The Supreme Court doesn’t.

I am an introvert and try as far as in me lies to stay away from clots of people. Withal, I am girding up my loins to plunge into the man swarm at the Labor Day weekend street festival, the revelry of which will make my city unbearable to quiet pursuits. I will stride among the masses with a good-sized banana strapped to my belt, and, whenever I come upon an open-carrier with his piece, I will point to my fruit and say, “Hey, buster, mine’s longer than yours.”

More: http://www.freep.com/article/20100816/OPINION05/100816046


Ha! :D

[dipsydoodle]

1. Self-Defense Against Fruit

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=piWCBOsJr-w

[Euromutt]

9. Ah, you beat me to it!

That was my first thought as well.

[bobbolink]

2. Beware retired Episcopal priests!

:+

Because it was a small town, and all the bank employees had known me for a long time and we clowned around together, once I took in a banana and said to the teller "Up against the stick, motherwall, this is a fuckup."

She called over the manager to see it, and they were all cracking up.

A good time was had by all.

[damntexdem]

5. Repeel bananas!

But watch out for the grapeshot.

[bobbolink]

11. .

:rofl:

[Orrex]

3. He'll be exonerated on appeal

[demmiblue]

4. Lol!

:rofl:

[Gormy Cuss]

6. That's a slippery slope. n/t

[Euromutt]

10. This calls for reasonable, common-sense pun control measures. (n/t)

[SteveM]

13. ...but never on sundae. nt

[Ezlivin]

7. "...disturbing the piece"

Which piece did he disturb?

[cowman]

8. They didn't cave in to the Open Carry Lobby

they caved in to state law as the spox for the council stated.

[friendly_iconoclast]

12. I hope someone open carries some nuts, whipped cream and chocolate syrup

Where can we get a tactical ice cream maker? That's the real question...

[Glassunion]

14. No all we need is some tactical peanut butter

I've got the tactical bacon.


We can make some Elvis Sammiches!!!