Oh, SWAT is here.

Johnny_L.A · October 5, 2012, 1:08pm

OK, not here; but there was a little excitement in this sleepy village yesterday, of which I was completely unaware. I’m on the mailing list for the chairperson here, and this came in the mail today (identifying information removed):

As a SWAT team surrounded his home Thursday afternoon, Oct. 4, a 23-year-old [local] man was posting updates about the standoff to his Facebook page.

Nobody was hurt in the standoff that started when [name] fired several shots into the air at his house in the 4300 block of [street], said Whatcom County Undersheriff Jeff Parks. [name] is also accused of threatening - over the phone - to kill a friend of a friend, and telling people he wanted to commit suicide by cop.

At 3:50 p.m., minutes before police were informed of the threats, [name] wrote on his Facebook page, “Somebody is going to (expletive) die today.”

Surrounding roads were blocked for about a half an hour, starting at 4:30 p.m., while negotiators and the man’s father convinced him to leave the house. Twenty minutes into the standoff, he told his Facebook friends, “Swat is here” (sic). He walked out of the house unarmed at 5 p.m. No shots were fired during the actual standoff, Parks said.

[name] was booked into Whatcom County Jail on investigation of felony harassment.

I looked up the Facebook page, and one of his friends wrote of him:

I’ve only scanned his FB page, but based on the images he’s a member of the Constitution Party.

The weird thing was that when his page came up, I saw that we have one mutual friend. :eek: Turns out it’s just an FBO, and not an actual person. He also is, or was, a member of the Civil Air Patrol. If I could afford to fly and did not have other demands on my time, I would be in the CAP and might have known him.

Chimera · October 5, 2012, 2:02pm

So he’s a fucking liar too, eh?

Johnny_L.A · October 5, 2012, 2:05pm

I’m sure somebody died yesterday. Probably hundreds of thousands of somebodies. Ah, the latitude of imprecision!

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