Posted on 03/03/2008 6:16:09 AM PST by avacado
CRAWFORD, Texas (CNN) — A Danish journalist came this close to getting shot Saturday by an elderly woman packing a pistol near President Bush's ranch here in what was easily the strangest incident I've ever witnessed covering the White House.
Terkel Svensson, a writer for the Danish News Agency, could not get wireless Internet access at the schoolhouse to file a story. But Svensson could get his cell phone working so he called his editor in Copenhagen and started wandering across a quiet country road as he chatted away.
"I was just so occupied dictating my story that I didn't really see where I went," Svensson told me later. "I was just walking and talking."
What Svensson didn't realize was that he had stopped walking a couple hundred feet away, on the front lawn of an elderly woman. An elderly woman who looked through her window and didn't like that a strange man was standing outside her house. An elderly woman who had, um, a gun.
Next thing you know the woman is outside, no more than a few dozen feet from the journalist, demanding that he leave. "Suddenly she comes out and she says, 'Get off my property. You're trespassing,'" recalled Svensson.
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DON’T MESS WITH TEXAS!!!!
YEEEHAWWWW
“An elderly woman who had, um, a gun.”
Is this what passes as journalism today?
Disarm that old woman!! Guns are bad!! The Bush ranch was how far away??
What a non story.
You were safe until you trespassed.
By all means, lets have single elderly women check on strangers, that are on their property, unarmed.
He’s probably safer in Texas.....after all, in Denmark, there are Muslims who want to kill Danes because of a cartoon depicting the so-called prophet Mohammed.
Good for her. these stories are easy.
I side with the property owner every single time.
Why does the writer sound surprised about the gun? It’s Texas.
I want pictures!! ;-]
She’s a great example of how the West was won. It’s women like this that caused Wyoming to be known as “The Equality State”.
You betcha!
Whether you’re armed or not. Watch your step.
All eyes of Texas are upon you.
He’s lucky that he didn’t get smoked.
What moron doesn't realize that he's standing on someone's front lawn?
Effin liberals. Try doing that in Harlem, Kosovo, or Iraq.
...and then the moron is upset because the little old lady isn't disarmed?! Like she's supposed to tell some man to leave her property while she's unarmed?!
Effin liberals.
Good for her. I have been down that road to the Presidents ranch and it is pretty remote when you get to the edge of Crawford. I was there when Cindy Shehan and her group were there. I’ll bet this woman had her gun by the front door then too. What she really needs is a dog.
“A Danish journalist came this close to getting shot “
Applauding the ‘elderly woman’ mainly because I would have and would do the same thing.
According to the article:
“I will show the photos to my wife and children,” Svensson told me. “They thought I was on a safe trip.”
The more idiots like this stay out of America out of fear of the “dangerous citizens” the better.
The Euroweenie didn’t even know the lady had a gun until some other journalist took a picture of it.
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