Posted on 05/18/2012 4:05:15 AM PDT by Colonel Kangaroo
A public works employee was fired after he turned in a gun he had found on the ground while he was working.
John Chevilott, of Wayne County, Michigan, lost the job he held for 23 years after he turned in the fully-loaded snubnosed revolver while on his job mowing the lawn earlier this month.
But Mr Chevilott's supervisors at the county's department of public works said the worker violated a policy of possessing a weapon on work property.
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Looks like the muzzle crown needs a little freshening up. Then it would be good to go.
It was probably dumped after a previous crime. Handle the ‘free’ weapon carefully and save it for a rainy day. Trying to do the right thing made the guys life a living hell.
Agree you agree :-)
just trying to add the notion of the process, and then compare, of idiot removal..
Likely so. However, a barrel changeout is not a terribly difficult thing to do. Easy on a semi-auto, sometimes possible on a revolver. Cheaper than buying a new one.
Roger that! Finders keepers.
Luckily for Mr Chevilott’s supervisors there isn’t a policy about possession of stupid on work property.
What if it had been used in a murder?
What if it had not?
They're going to love your story as they haul you away.
Not worth the risk unless you bury it for the end times...
That depends on whether it was roll stamped, direct stamped, or laser dot-etched (most new weapons have this). Additionally, most weapons can have their barrel changed out.
The 'crime' if there was one was not committed by the weapon; that prize goes to the perp who used it.
All argument aside, my decision on keeping really would rest on whether local accounts of possible crimes indicated a perpetrator could be identified if the weapon turned up.
Why would that protect anyone? The accuser could just say that the one who found it used gloves to open it and retrieve the money, then called a co-worker to then bag it and turn it over. Don’t see where this is foolproof at all. What am I missing........or have I watched too much NCIS? LOL!!!!
Zero tolerance is for those who are not capable of thinking and weighing various facts and circumstances, case to case in life. It is a method by which people who have no souls pursue and conduct a foreign (turd world), amoral justice.
It worked in the resort where I was. It still works there and several other places where it has been adopted. The “victim” can’t prove that any particular person opened the wallet. It complicates things such that the opportunity for scam is not even taken advantage of. It is no longer he-said/she-said but more like he-said/all-of-those-people-said and there are no visible “clues.” In the case of the gun, had it been, indeed, a stolen gun that had been used to shoot someone criminally, the finder’s fingerprints on it would not be helpful at all to the finder. Without prints the police would have to find something else to tie him in and probably wouldn’t try. Prints would give police a chance to possibly “clear” a crime without having to work too hard.
I must have a criminal mind. I can totally see how that would be easily circumvented by the “robber”. Not discrediting what works, good job for coming up with a solution that works for so many businesses!
I think the suggestion was shut the job down, clear the area, call 911, and await for the police special weapons and tactics squad to arrive and clear the scene of the dangerous devive.
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