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Man brings gun to enforce face mask compliance in gym before manager tackles him (Minnesota,eh.)
Washington Examiner ^ | 1-5-21 | Emma Colton, Social Media Manager

Posted on 01/05/2021 8:15:57 AM PST by dynachrome

A Minnesota man was arrested after he allegedly pulled out a gun in a gym because members were not wearing masks while they worked out.

Michael Florhaug, 64, reportedly went to an LA Fitness on Dec. 31 in Maplewood to monitor whether gym members were wearing face masks. He is not a member of the gym.

He reportedly spoke to an employee at the front desk to alert them that members were not complying with mask mandates and spoke in an "aggressive and angry" tone.

A manager then spoke with the man and said the gym does not employ enough people to monitor face masks but that Florhaug could pay an employee personally to enforce the rules.

Florhaug called the manager “dumb” and said he would "take pictures of people” in the gym to get the business in trouble with the state.

The manager refused to let Florhaug enter, prompting the man to say, "Oh yeah?"

He then pulled out a 9 mm handgun.

An employee said Florhaug did not “flash” the gun but that he "completely removed it from his pocket" and pointed it at the manager.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Minnesota
KEYWORDS: gym; localnews; maskhole; minnesota
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Too bad the maskholw wasn't shot.
1 posted on 01/05/2021 8:15:57 AM PST by dynachrome
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To: dynachrome

“Maskhole”

Need more coffee.


2 posted on 01/05/2021 8:17:34 AM PST by dynachrome ( “The people have spoken . . . and they must be punished.” Ed Koch)
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To: dynachrome

There must be bodies everywhere.

If the criminal Democrats can make you ignore your senses, then they can steal from you.


3 posted on 01/05/2021 8:20:18 AM PST by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer”)
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To: dynachrome

Dumbbell.


4 posted on 01/05/2021 8:24:11 AM PST by bramps (It's the Islam, stupid!)
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To: dynachrome

Yea, really too bad.

L


5 posted on 01/05/2021 8:24:28 AM PST by Lurker (Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is. )
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To: dynachrome

Gee, what are the chances you might get overpowered physically at a gym?


6 posted on 01/05/2021 8:24:41 AM PST by Bruce Campbells Chin
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To: dynachrome

Last week I was in a large discount/grocery store and I thought two guys were sort of loud disagreeing buddies. It was the manager convincing the shopper he had to wear a mask under Michigan governor’s edicts. Guy said he and his doctor don’t believe masks work, etc.

Worker was sent to bring him two “free” masks and he put one on.

Muttered about his constitutional rights. Was red faced but complied after a while.

What if an armed security guard and an armed CCL shopper get into a really heated and escalating argument?

Are the Fauci and Birx myths worth someone’s life? “Guy was shot dead with five bullets in him but at least he was saved from geting Covid without a mask.”/s


7 posted on 01/05/2021 8:25:34 AM PST by frank ballenger (End vote fraud harvesting,non-citizen voting & leftist media news censorship or we are finished.)
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To: dynachrome

Things maskholes say: “If wearing a mask saves just one life!”


8 posted on 01/05/2021 8:27:41 AM PST by wildcard_redneck (COVID lockdowns is are the Establishment's attack on the middle class and our Republic)
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To: dynachrome

3000 tyrants one mile away


9 posted on 01/05/2021 8:29:20 AM PST by dirtboy
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To: dynachrome
Maplewood isn't too far from where I am currently sitting. My gym is on the complete opposite side of the Twin Cities from where this gym is...

Lucky for this guy as I'd have no qualms over ending him for doing sh*t like that.

10 posted on 01/05/2021 8:29:39 AM PST by Dead Corpse (A Psalm in napalm...)
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We don’t have a mask mandate in my state. (There is insanity here, but not that insanity.) There are a few who mask up at the gym voluntarily, but others look at them like they’re crazy. Mask mandates make people crazy from fear of an invisible enemy from which they believe the mask offers them protection. They will become fanatical as they become more convinced of the threat to their “safety” from those sans mask. This has all been carefully planned with the knowledge that millions of Americans are woke morons who will do as they are told. No-maskers are becoming the “other”. This time is a little different in that “the other” is well armed and intends on remaining so.


11 posted on 01/05/2021 8:32:07 AM PST by bk1000 (Banned from Breitbart)
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To: dynachrome

12 posted on 01/05/2021 8:33:27 AM PST by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic...)
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To: dynachrome

The guy is a snowflake paradox. He’s OK with guns, but not OK with mask-less. Maybe I’m missing something.


13 posted on 01/05/2021 8:33:52 AM PST by MayflowerMadam (I'd rather have Covid-19 than Biden-20.)
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To: dynachrome

Just this week, I had to stop very much needed PT for bone fracture recovery because they instituted the mask mandate. Last month, I left a different PT system for the same reason. There are no other PT facilities around, so no PT for me.

I’ve tried to wear them but just can’t do it for more than a few minutes.

Mrs. K


14 posted on 01/05/2021 8:35:24 AM PST by Kalamata (BIBLE RESEARCH TOOLS: http://bibleresearchtools.com/)
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To: Dead Corpse
I thought Gov. Walz had extended the closure of gyms and restaurants, which had originally been due to expire on Dec.18 ?

You mean I could have been doing real lifting for the last 3 weeks?

15 posted on 01/05/2021 8:38:37 AM PST by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change with out notice.)
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To: dynachrome

"Am I the only one around here who gives a **** about the rules?!?"

16 posted on 01/05/2021 8:39:17 AM PST by Boogieman
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To: Kalamata

“I had to stop very much needed PT ... because they instituted the mask mandate.”

I was in the same situation after surgery in June. I couldn’t breathe wearing the damn mask. I continued because I assumed the overall PT was beneficial. (As it turned out, it damaged my hip replacement and I’m looking at a revision.) You can recover yourself doing your own therapy — plus there’s the advantage of being able to breathe.


17 posted on 01/05/2021 8:40:47 AM PST by MayflowerMadam (I'd rather have Covid-19 than Biden-20.)
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To: dynachrome

Just wait until the elites pull of their fake alien contact hoax. That’s on deck and warming up. It’s the natural next step after the virus hoax. Comply, or the aliens will melt our skulls with their ray beams!!!!

We are going to need our own spaces. That way, we can deal with people like this mask idiot, or he can leave. Anything else is going to result in even more carnage than what the status quo is leading to.


18 posted on 01/05/2021 8:53:07 AM PST by cdcdawg (Turn off Fox!! You can do it! )
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>>The guy is a snowflake paradox. He’s OK with guns, but not OK with mask-less. Maybe I’m missing something.

No paradox, just a typical Marxist....

“Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun”
— Mao Zedong


19 posted on 01/05/2021 9:01:32 AM PST by vikingd00d (chown -R us ~you/base)
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To: dynachrome
I'm old enough to remember when the propaganda Media made a big deal out of the guy who went to the rapey pizza place with an AR-15.

You still see the Lefties on Twitter making references about it.

Some whack-a-doodle getting brain-washed about Da Covid by the same propaganda Media?

**crickets**

20 posted on 01/05/2021 9:03:06 AM PST by kiryandil (Chris Wallace: Because someone has to drive the Clown Car)
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