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jpak

(41,758 posts)
Fri Feb 1, 2013, 01:20 PM Feb 2013

The Alabama Bunker Dude killed a dog with a pipe and owns an assault rifle

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/02/01/alabama-standoff-enters-third-day-as-official-says-child-held-hostage-in-bunker/

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Dykes was known in the neighborhood as a menacing figure who neighbors said once beat a dog to death with a lead pipe, threatened to shoot children for setting foot on his property and patrolled his yard at night with a flashlight and an assault rifle.

Arrington confirmed that Dykes held anti-government views, as described by multiple neighbors: "He's against the government -- starting with Obama on down."

"He doesn't like law enforcement or the government telling him what to do," the police chief said. "He's just a loner."

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This country loves its assault rifles more than it does its children.

Ban 'em

The massacre gunz that iz...

yup
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The Alabama Bunker Dude killed a dog with a pipe and owns an assault rifle (Original Post) jpak Feb 2013 OP
Beat a dog to death with a lead pipe, Sekhmets Daughter Feb 2013 #1
I'm probably going to make some people unhappy here. This seams like one of those times.... wandy Feb 2013 #2
Crazy WITH GUNS is the important factor Doctor_J Feb 2013 #7
Yeah, because it would be acceptable behavior if his rifle didn't have a pistol grip n/t krispos42 Feb 2013 #3
Fail. (nt) Control-Z Feb 2013 #4
Or a pistol grip on his lead pipe. Remmah2 Feb 2013 #5
I know krispos42 Feb 2013 #8
Military-styled assault rifles are all the rage with the Red Dawn anti-gummint types jpak Feb 2013 #12
And are used to kill maybe 200 people year. krispos42 Feb 2013 #13
Today - assault rifles jpak Feb 2013 #19
Exactly krispos42 Feb 2013 #20
Exactly where do they get lead pipe from these days? Remmah2 Feb 2013 #6
This message was self-deleted by its author guyton Feb 2013 #9
Fox News, media lie? Remmah2 Feb 2013 #11
Probably steel pipe. N/T GreenStormCloud Feb 2013 #16
I saw the interview with the dog owner on NBC this morning n/t freeplessinseattle Feb 2013 #21
"Lead pipe" is the plumbing equivalent of an AR 15. Eleanors38 Feb 2013 #23
Wonder if the same hyperbole was used in describing his firearm SQUEE Feb 2013 #10
Will we ever be rid of these bullet-heads??!? lastlib Feb 2013 #14
Ban pipes. Or at least ban assault pipes. GreenStormCloud Feb 2013 #15
While I don't own an assault rifle I do own a AR and haven't beat any dogs to death. ileus Feb 2013 #17
foxnews? jpak, you're slipping. Tuesday Afternoon Feb 2013 #18
Maybe and maybe not. Straw Man Feb 2013 #22
If he does not have an MSDS sheet for that lead pipe, he could be in trouble PuffedMica Feb 2013 #24

Sekhmets Daughter

(7,515 posts)
1. Beat a dog to death with a lead pipe,
Fri Feb 1, 2013, 01:23 PM
Feb 2013

allowed to own an assault weapon and roam the streets. I am so frightened for that poor child.

wandy

(3,539 posts)
2. I'm probably going to make some people unhappy here. This seams like one of those times....
Fri Feb 1, 2013, 01:48 PM
Feb 2013

where guns weren't the most important factor. CRAZY was the most important factor!
What in gods name kind of bad fireworks went off in this person's head that caused him to do this.
What in hell was wrong with his friends, coworkers, neighbors that allowed this loon to have so much as a butter knife, let alone a gun.
The police who showed up about the dog killing. Where were their brains. This is not the action of a person in their right mind.
What is worse is that this person has a history of bad acting.
He is what should have been baned, or at least placed in a padded cage.

jpak

(41,758 posts)
12. Military-styled assault rifles are all the rage with the Red Dawn anti-gummint types
Fri Feb 1, 2013, 06:15 PM
Feb 2013

that beat dogs to death and hold kids hostage in their Rambo Bunker.

yup

krispos42

(49,445 posts)
13. And are used to kill maybe 200 people year.
Fri Feb 1, 2013, 06:27 PM
Feb 2013

So you want them banned, not because they are a threat, but because you don't like the kind of people that buy them.


Of course, the more you fight against them, the more the Red Dawn anti-govmint types want them and mobilize against you.

Response to Remmah2 (Reply #6)

SQUEE

(1,315 posts)
10. Wonder if the same hyperbole was used in describing his firearm
Fri Feb 1, 2013, 04:47 PM
Feb 2013

Because rifle, gun or weapon doesnt give that same frisson as Assault Rifle.

lastlib

(23,253 posts)
14. Will we ever be rid of these bullet-heads??!?
Fri Feb 1, 2013, 07:09 PM
Feb 2013

bullet-heads--made of lead and powder, and explosive when heated.......

ileus

(15,396 posts)
17. While I don't own an assault rifle I do own a AR and haven't beat any dogs to death.
Fri Feb 1, 2013, 07:58 PM
Feb 2013


You would be proud of me though, I did trade one of my death spewers ( the 9c) off for a dirtbike today.


Straw Man

(6,625 posts)
22. Maybe and maybe not.
Fri Feb 1, 2013, 09:31 PM
Feb 2013
The Alabama Bunker Dude killed a dog with a pipe and owns an assault rifle


Parrish described the weapon as an assault rifle, while another neighbor said it was a shotgun; authorities have not disclosed what firearms Dykes might have in his possession.

-- http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/02/01/jimmy-lee-dykes-speak-pipe-negotiators_n_2597567.html

PuffedMica

(1,061 posts)
24. If he does not have an MSDS sheet for that lead pipe, he could be in trouble
Sat Feb 2, 2013, 07:15 AM
Feb 2013

You have not seen trouble until the EPA comes in to shut Dykes' bunker down.

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