NYC Police Throw Navy SEAL Into Psych Ward for Claiming…He’s a SEAL

The Blaze ^ | 1/23/12 | Buck Sexton

[Nachum]

A Virginia man claimed to be a Navy SEAL to talk his way out of a gun possession arrest on Thursday, and the New York Police Department committed him to a psych ward thinking his claims of elite military status were the rantings of a lunatic.NYC Police Throw Navy SEAL Into Psych Ward For Claiming... Hes a SEAL

Turns out the guy was in fact an elite Navy SEAL.

But as the New York Post put it, telling the NYPD “I’m in an elite military unit, you can’t arrest me,” doesn‘t help much when the city’s draconian gun laws are at issue.

Twenty-nine-year-old Shaun Day was on a leave from his duty as a Navy SEAL duty when cops nailed him for running a red light in Manhattan, New York on Thursday.

NYPD officers searched Day’s pickup truck and found a 9mm semiautomatic pistol and three magazines full of ammo.

During the arrest, police claim

[piasa]

drunken squid ping

[Travis McGee]

He might have gotten the search if police noticed some of the "wrong" bumper stickers on his car. You know, the ones the DHS warns the police about.

If you must drive through NYC, with a gun, be very careful...

[Chode]

yeah, like a base sticker...

[Frank_2001]

Oh, you mean like “Nobama 2012”?;)