Brickbat: Public Enemy

Jude McGovern, a retired New York city police officer now living in Swanlinbar, Ireland, came home one day to find "eight to 10" police officers had forced their way into his home and were searching his belongings. They were looking for a souvenir he'd brought with him when he moved to Ireland 25 years ago, a revolver he'd decommissioned by having the firing pin removed. McGovern said he made the mistake four and a half years ago of allowing a neighbor to photograph him with the gun, and the man posted the photo to Facebook. He said the Garda, the Irish police, must have finally seen the photo.

Comments

[Fist of Etiquette]

The NYPD would have respected a man's natural rights.

[mad.casual]

His natural right to have his soul sucked out by being photographed with an evil gun.

[Ersatz]

coming to a country near you
-i'm looking at you Canada!

[Rubbish!]

From the NY Post story on this:
“I said to them, I wish it was f–king loaded because I would have blown every f–king one of you away,” Jude McGovern recalled to The Post. The firing pin was removed from the gun a long time ago, and it is no longer functional.

They riled up the 88-year-old Irishman.

[sarcasmic]

ire
noun
anger.

Ireland. The land of "ire."

[Jerry B.]

Democrats salivate and cream their shorts.

[Quo Usque Tandem]

This is how it's done in a civilized country, amIright?

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

Move to a Stalinist country, get Stalinist treatment.

[Red Harem]

Actually, Ireland is a liquorarchy.