Wis. man accused of shooting TV over Palin dance

[IDemo]

Source: Associated Press

MADISON, Wis. — A rural Wisconsin man apparently enraged by Bristol Palin's "Dancing with the Stars" routine blasted his television with a shotgun, leading to an all-night standoff with a SWAT team, investigators said.

Steven Cowan, 67, was arrested Tuesday morning after officers coaxed him out of his house in Vermont, a farming community near Madison. Cowan, who is accused of threatening his wife with the gun after destroying the television, appeared in a Madison courtroom Wednesday on a charge of second-degree reckless endangerment. His bail was set at $1,500.

Cowan's attorney at the hearing, Jonas Bednarek, declined to comment.

Cowan's wife, Janice Cowan, told investigators that her husband suffers from bipolar disorder and had threatened her life in the past.

Read more: http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory?id=12174135

[Drale]

1. I KNEW IT

Elvis is alive and he's living in Wisconsin. :rofl:

[hughee99]

2. Did he really get arrested for shooting the TV, or threating his wife? n/t

[Gman]

3. He looks like the typical teabagger/Republican

[tblue37]

4. But the teabaggers/Republicans are VOTING for Bristol, not getting pissed off because

she is still on the show, which is why he shot his TV.

[CLANG]

5. He sure does look like a teabagger

[bluestate10]

6. Seems like he got arrested for threatening his wife.

If the day come when we get arrested for shooting our televisions, but not harming of threatening anyone else, we are done. Let him shoot televisions, as long as he cleans up the environmental side effects.

[Zanzobar]

7. 99.9999999% chance alcohol was involved

And this ain't the first time the coppers done busted up a damn good party.