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Mo. man, angered over digital switch, shoots his TV set
bnd.com ^
| 02/20/09
| KSDK
Posted on 02/20/2009 6:33:27 AM PST by TornadoAlley3
The digital transition has left some confused, but a Joplin man was down right frustrated with the switch. So frustrated, in fact, that he peppered his television set with gunfire.
Police responded to the man's house Wednesday after reports of shots being fired inside.
Turns out the 70-year-old gunman was livid over losing cable and could not get his digital converter box to work. Police took Walter Hoover into custody after a brief standoff and charged him with unlawful use of a firearm.
Hoover's wife told police that he had been drinking before the incident.
TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; Politics/Elections; US: Missouri
KEYWORDS: banglist; digital; dtv; shoots; tv
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To: TornadoAlley3
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posted on
02/20/2009 6:34:51 AM PST
by
TribalPrincess2U
(Welcome to Obama's America... Be afraid, be very afraid)
To: TornadoAlley3
Another “Hold muh beer” incident.
To: TornadoAlley3
I always wondered what happened to Archie Bunker..
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posted on
02/20/2009 6:34:56 AM PST
by
mnehring
To: TornadoAlley3
Damn, I didn’t know it was illegal to shoot your TV! I wonder if its ok to throw shoes at it?
To: TribalPrincess2U
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posted on
02/20/2009 6:35:43 AM PST
by
TornadoAlley3
(Obama is everything Oklahoma is not.)
To: TornadoAlley3
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posted on
02/20/2009 6:35:58 AM PST
by
Doogle
(USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
To: TornadoAlley3
Anyone see an 80s TV show called Sledge Hammer! ?
He would done the same.
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posted on
02/20/2009 6:36:48 AM PST
by
ketelone
To: Doogle
ssshame he ain’t gonna see himself on the news
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posted on
02/20/2009 6:37:11 AM PST
by
Doogle
(USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
To: mnehrling
“I always wondered what happened to Archie Bunker..”
+++++++++++++++++++++++
Nobody knows where those millions of AB’s are and nobody’s talkin bout it!
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posted on
02/20/2009 6:37:40 AM PST
by
gunnyg
To: TornadoAlley3
He did an Elvis on his TV set
Why the police? It’s not against the law to kill your TV
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posted on
02/20/2009 6:37:51 AM PST
by
dennisw
(Archimedes--- Give me a place to stand, and I will move the Earth)
To: TornadoAlley3
Isn’t there a FReeper whose tagline is something about throwing another shot-up tv on the pile out back?
: )
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posted on
02/20/2009 6:38:32 AM PST
by
ozark hilljilly
(I don't even think I think!)
To: TornadoAlley3
Was alcohol involved? Seems so.
----->>>Hoover's wife told police that he had been drinking before the incident.
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posted on
02/20/2009 6:39:40 AM PST
by
dennisw
(Archimedes--- Give me a place to stand, and I will move the Earth)
To: Bob Buchholz
Damn, I didn’t know it was illegal to shoot your TV! I wonder if its ok to throw shoes at it? No, only US Presidents named Bush.
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posted on
02/20/2009 6:40:34 AM PST
by
Dahoser
(America's great untapped alternative energy source: The Founding Fathers spinning in their graves.)
To: TribalPrincess2U
LOL. I hope he didn’t take my tagline literally.
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posted on
02/20/2009 6:40:35 AM PST
by
Crolis
(Kill your television!)
To: ozark hilljilly
Isn’t there a FReeper whose tagline is something about throwing another shot-up tv on the pile out back?
: )If computers were half made out of glass they would get shot up too
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posted on
02/20/2009 6:40:57 AM PST
by
dennisw
(Archimedes--- Give me a place to stand, and I will move the Earth)
To: TornadoAlley3
I know someone who did this but he was just drunk and wanted to shoot something.
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posted on
02/20/2009 6:42:53 AM PST
by
peggybac
(Government's first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives. Ronald Reagan)
To: TornadoAlley3
This is probably the best shot he’s taken in a quite a while.
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posted on
02/20/2009 6:45:40 AM PST
by
AD from SpringBay
(We deserve the government we allow.)
To: AD from SpringBay
Sounds like he had plenty of shots.
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posted on
02/20/2009 6:48:06 AM PST
by
listenhillary
(Rahm Emmanuel slip - A crisis is a terrible thing to waste.)
To: ozark hilljilly
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posted on
02/20/2009 6:51:17 AM PST
by
TornadoAlley3
(Obama is everything Oklahoma is not.)
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