Comments on: Suspect Throws Bombs, Leads Police on 40-Mile Chase

By: Brian

Brian — Fri, 09 Nov 2012 23:10:24 +0000

While I’m glad they caught this deadly dude, he doesn’t appear to be an anti-government extremist.

By: adamhill

adamhill — Fri, 09 Nov 2012 07:30:39 +0000

John,

You don’t know what you’re talking about.

http://www.splcenter.org/blog/.....lf-hatred/

By: Bill

Bill — Thu, 08 Nov 2012 21:18:48 +0000

Meh, 40 miles in Montana won’t get you through one county, besides, they’ve only had actual speed limits for maybe a decade. It’s all fun and games until a sheep or cow wanders onto the highway when you’re doing a buck 50 in your Hemi Charger.

Calling the state a “haven” for extremists is sort of a stretch, I’m not sure that Montana has a lock on whackjobs. This may have a much more mundane backstory when ex-girlfriends and specific cops are involved. Broken hearts and bombs just sort of go together for some people. In my experience, most bad guys have an anti-police agenda.

By: aadila

aadila — Thu, 08 Nov 2012 20:09:32 +0000

So an armed white male going around looking to pick a fight with a group of unarmed black kids, shoots one, and wants to be considered a hero?

Why didn’t he call the cops instead of going around looking for black people to gun down?

Sounds like a dangerous vigilante who should be in jail. Thanks, John for pointing out another reason to take the guns away to stop the violence.

By: Peter Hockley

Peter Hockley — Thu, 08 Nov 2012 19:22:26 +0000

John, first names, dates and places. Also links to the appropriate news story/ies. Or is this from WorldNutDaily?
The statistics show that violent crime very rarely crosses racial lines. A news story like this would be all over the net. Please crawl back to whatever white supremacist hole you crawled out of, and close it tight shut behind you.

By: John

John — Thu, 08 Nov 2012 17:49:41 +0000

Meanwhile, this site has continually ignored the black youth violence against unarmed whites which exploded this past summer and continues. This violence is considered a sport by the black youths. Of course, they are actually all victims just acting out on their frustration. In a recent case, a black youth mob, after beating up a girl in a part, decided to attack a white male who happened to be armed. He shot the main attacker and has been berated for hurting a poor black youth who was doing nothing wrong. I would think the violent mob action would be just cause for people to be angry.

By: Erika

Erika — Wed, 07 Nov 2012 15:38:41 +0000

*sigh* i really didn’t pay enough attention at this to notice that this was the same idiot leaving pipe bombs in Stafford County. Leave it to Virginia to supply someone who iis so much of a nutcase that he stands out in Montana :(

By: Aron

Aron — Tue, 06 Nov 2012 19:31:55 +0000

Pipe bombs don’t kill people.

I do.

By: CriticalDragon1177

CriticalDragon1177 — Tue, 06 Nov 2012 19:11:17 +0000

Bill Morlin,

Is it just me, or does this sound like something out of a Hollywood action movie?

Anyway, I’m really glad the police did their job and were able to apprehend him.

By: adamhill

adamhill — Tue, 06 Nov 2012 07:53:35 +0000

Pipe bombs don’t kill people. People kill people.

By: Erika

Erika — Mon, 05 Nov 2012 13:50:49 +0000

High speed chases are extremely common in rural areas – there were not policies against pursuits which are more common in urban areas. At least that was the case in the rural area where i worked in the public defender’s office.

Of course, if this had happened in a major city there probably would have been live news coverage of the chase especially once the bombs started flying :)

By: Reynardine

Reynardine — Sat, 03 Nov 2012 23:07:01 +0000

In quite a different incident, early voting had to be shut down for a couple of hours at a library in Winter Park, Florida, today, because two suspicious-looking objects, one of which appeared to be trailing a fuse, were discovered there. After having been detonated, they were examined. One was a cooler filled with random electronic parts and had a USB cord sticking out of it; the other was a bag of common trash. Whether these were deliberate dummies or random objects is not yet public knowledge.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Sat, 03 Nov 2012 21:23:06 +0000

I’m glad they got this dangerous person off the streets and no one was killed by this mad man. Hats off to the police involved.

By: Gregory

Gregory — Sat, 03 Nov 2012 01:38:19 +0000

What, did Robert lazo finally exercise his right to use explosives as a means of self defense?

By: wgblomberg

wgblomberg — Sat, 03 Nov 2012 00:24:04 +0000

Usually the stop pursuit policies are different from jurisdiction to jurisdiction. However, I think Aron is right because this most probably occured in the open areas of Montana, and not downtown somewhere.

But, once you start throwing explosives (or shooting) pursuits are usually guranteed to the end because of the issue of threat to life (let him/her get away and may kill someone anyway… so not taking that chance)..

I give great kudos to the Montana officers for keeping their cool and not shooting him as soon as he exited his vehicle (after throwing **7** pipe bombs at them).

By: Sam Molloy

Sam Molloy — Fri, 02 Nov 2012 21:36:01 +0000

Yes, Aron, a Corvette would have been faster, and with the top down, easier to throw pipe bombs out of.

By: Sam Molloy

Sam Molloy — Fri, 02 Nov 2012 21:33:31 +0000

It is a tragedy that he ruined his life this way. If he’d have just driven that little Hyundai to Montana, he could have landed a job screwing oil pipes together and made more money than he’s ever seen.

By: Aron

Aron — Fri, 02 Nov 2012 20:20:19 +0000

I hate myself for saying this, but that car chase sounded terribly exciting. Although I’m surprised the Montana 5-0s pursued. I thought it was general SOP to not engage in high-speed pursuits. Though this is sparsely-populated Montana, so maybe it was considered safer.

Except for the pipe bombs.

On another note, happy LXIX, Reynardine!!!