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Varmintmist
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Philadelphia Enquirer
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 15, 2014
Two Democratic state lawmakers escaped harm Tuesday night when one of them engaged in a shootout with a would-be robber on a street four blocks from the Capitol, officials said.
Rep. Marty Flynn (Luzerne), a former corrections officer, traded the gunfire with the robber after he and Rep. Ryan Bizzaro (Erie) were stopped on their way back to their Harrisburg residence.
The House Democratic Caucus released this account:
Flynn and Bizarro were returning from a late dinner with four other lawmakers at a Second Street Restaurant about 11 p.m. when a male “pointed a gun first at Flynn and then at Bizzarro and demanded their wallets.”
A second male in the meantime was across the street shouting directions to the gunman.
Flynn then drew his handgun and “exchanged shots” with the gunman.
The lawmakers and the assailants then fled in opposite directions.
Bizzarro and Flynn made it back to the front of their residence and called 911.
Flynn told an responding police officer that he had fired his gun and handed over his weapon.
“Bizzarro and Flynn expressed relief that nobody was struck by gunfire and they thanked the Harrisburg police for the remarkably quick response,” the caucus statement said.
Harrisburg police are investigating but caucus spokesman Bill Patton said earlier police had three individuals in custody.
A spokeswoman for the City of Harrisburg said a press conference is being scheduled on the attack later Wednesday.
This was the second armed hold up near the Capitol in the past week.
It came as the state Senate was poised to debate a bill that passed the House that would make it harder for local municipalities like Harrisburg to enact local gun laws by giving standing to gun rights groups like the NRA and forcing the municipalities to pay legal costs regardless of the outcome of a trial.
Last week a woman was held up at gun point at the base of the Capitol steps shortly before 10 p.m.
It was not the first time a state lawmaker has fought back against assailants in altercations near the Capitol. Rep. Tim Solobay (D.,Washington) fought off armed robbers who assaulted him outside the Capitol in 2010.
http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/harrisburg_politics/Two-lawmakers-involved-in-shoot-out-with-robbers-near-Capitol.html
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 15, 2014
Two Democratic state lawmakers escaped harm Tuesday night when one of them engaged in a shootout with a would-be robber on a street four blocks from the Capitol, officials said.
Rep. Marty Flynn (Luzerne), a former corrections officer, traded the gunfire with the robber after he and Rep. Ryan Bizzaro (Erie) were stopped on their way back to their Harrisburg residence.
The House Democratic Caucus released this account:
Flynn and Bizarro were returning from a late dinner with four other lawmakers at a Second Street Restaurant about 11 p.m. when a male “pointed a gun first at Flynn and then at Bizzarro and demanded their wallets.”
A second male in the meantime was across the street shouting directions to the gunman.
Flynn then drew his handgun and “exchanged shots” with the gunman.
The lawmakers and the assailants then fled in opposite directions.
Bizzarro and Flynn made it back to the front of their residence and called 911.
Flynn told an responding police officer that he had fired his gun and handed over his weapon.
“Bizzarro and Flynn expressed relief that nobody was struck by gunfire and they thanked the Harrisburg police for the remarkably quick response,” the caucus statement said.
Harrisburg police are investigating but caucus spokesman Bill Patton said earlier police had three individuals in custody.
A spokeswoman for the City of Harrisburg said a press conference is being scheduled on the attack later Wednesday.
This was the second armed hold up near the Capitol in the past week.
It came as the state Senate was poised to debate a bill that passed the House that would make it harder for local municipalities like Harrisburg to enact local gun laws by giving standing to gun rights groups like the NRA and forcing the municipalities to pay legal costs regardless of the outcome of a trial.
Last week a woman was held up at gun point at the base of the Capitol steps shortly before 10 p.m.
It was not the first time a state lawmaker has fought back against assailants in altercations near the Capitol. Rep. Tim Solobay (D.,Washington) fought off armed robbers who assaulted him outside the Capitol in 2010.
http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/harrisburg_politics/Two-lawmakers-involved-in-shoot-out-with-robbers-near-Capitol.html
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-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German writer and politician
Probably, he wears his fancy drawers on the outside to, too,two, tu.
Didn't Bizzaro have a strange face like shaving cream ? Most Democrats seem Bizzaro to me.