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Stephanie O'Connell / NBC Connecticut
Shattered windows at the Dunkin' Donuts on East Main Street in New Britain. According to police, a 63-year-old man smashed them with an ax after being told he couldn't stay in the store.
A man angry about being sent away from a Connecticut Dunkin' Donuts came back wielding an ax.
Wilfred Levine, 63, of New Britain, Conn., was loitering inside the Dunkin' Donuts at 118 East Main Street, New Britain, Wednesday afternoon, according to police.
Employees of the restaurant told Levine to leave and escorted him out.
Levine returned a short time later with an ax, police said. He jumped the counter and said he was looking for the two employees who sent him away, according to police.
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Levine began to demolish the inside of the store with the ax, before he walked outside and smashed the restaurant's plate-glass windows.
According to police, Levine raised his ax at the first officer to arrive at the scene. The officer drew his weapon and ordered Levine to drop the ax.
Levine refused, and officers used a stun gun to subdue him.
Levine faces charges of criminal attempt to commit assault, criminal attempt to commit assault on police, criminal mischief, criminal trespass, possession of a dangerous weapon, breach of peace, reckless endangerment and interfering with police. He is being held on $750,000 bond.
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Obviously we need to register axes and perhaps outlaw them all together.
An axe is just a tool like a shovel or a semi automatic assault rifle. People would have been safer if an AR-15 was involved in his rampage.
rick
What was the death count in this story?
Them Dunkin Donuts are hard to cut with a knife!
Flno, it could have easily have been 2 or 3 or just 1 if someone would have had a gun. Which would you have preferred the 2 employees hacked to death or the nut job on his way to the morgue or hospital with a well placed shot to the knee? Guns don't have to be used to kill, just stop!
"Dozens of un-named donuts of mixed background were wiped out in moment, it was horrible, the carnage was so completed that even pictures and DNS research could make identity possible. A mass grave will be performed. Further details could not be found....."
hehe... ok... DNA research might have been a better choice...
I figured it was an angry Romney supporter myself. :)
A big game hunter walked into the bar and bragged to everyone about his skills as a hunter. The man was undoubtedly a good shot and no one could dispute that. But then he said that they could blindfold him, and he would recognize any animal's skin from its feel. And if he could locate the bullet hole. he would even tell them what caliber rifle was used to shoot
it. This was a bit too much for the other customers, and soon a heated argument was going on. Then the hunter said that he was willing to prove it if they would put up the drinks, and the bet was on.
They blindfolded him carefully and took him to his first animal skin. After feeling it for a few moments, he announced, "Spring Buck." Then he felt for the bullet hole and declared, "Shot with a .22 rifle." The others could not believe it. He was right, and the argument was even
hotter than before. When some started to suggest that he must have peeked, he said that he was prepared to do it again. He would put up all the drinks they had bought before against them buying another round for him.
So they blindfolded him again, very thoroughly this time, and they brought a skin that someone happened to have in their car. He took a bit longer this time and then said, "Kalahari Lion" and fingering the bullet hole said, "and the rifle was a .308," which of course was right. This, of course, was like throwing fat on the fire, and he had to prove is skills over and over again, every time against a round of drinks.
Finally he staggered home, stoned out of his mind, and went to sleep. The next morning he got up and saw in the mirror that he had one heck of a shiner. So he said to his wife, "Listen, I know I was drunk last night, but not too drunk to know that I did not fight anyone in that bar. So where did I get this black eye?" His wife replied angrily, "From me, of
course."
"But what did I do?" he asked. She replied, "You got into bed and put your hand down my panties. Then you fiddled around a bit and announced in a triumphant tone, 'Skunk, killed with an axe.'"
Hummmmmmm ... all over afew "Donut A-Holes?" ... lol
Clear case of attempted suicide by cop, thwarted by taser.
Sentence this guy to 3 years of splitting wood.
Zero. Probably because there were plenty of cops nearby.
Probably because he had an axe instead of an AR-15.
But yet another mental health failure. But I guess there are a lot of people and politicians that are comfortable with crazy people on the street with weapons.
Ban crazy people.
This sounds like another fully-automatic assault axe case. Why do they not ban these dangerous weapons? Innocent trees and logs are dying every day from these madmen! Remember, "when axes are outlawed, only outlaws will have axes". It doesn't mention it, but I suspect this axe had an extended clip on it as well!
Ban donuts! Mayor B-berg, where are you?
So instead of helping Mentally Ill people, we just wait for them to snap, and send them off to prison for reform? Glad to see greed win over morality. Speaks a lot about the people in this country.
A doughnut joint is not a good place for criminals.
Mornin' Pro...
I wouldn't be surprised if they also charged him with bald tires and expired insurance even though he wasn't driving. LOL
Looks like they charged him with everything possible within the axe wielding category.
This guy is a total idiot. Just walk away man. WTF do you gotta go and bring an axe back just because they said for you to leave. Seems he needed a bed and 3 square meals a day.
Seriously dude?! You need to understand that most people seem perfectly normal "then" snap.
"That", is when we realize they need help.
Your post suggests that we should give "everybody" a mental test regardless just to see "if" they need mental guidance.
shut up already with the gun debate. this story has NOTHING to do with guns. it was a wack job grabbing an ax from his vehicle and breaking crap. he might of had a gun in his car anyways, but wanted to break stuff so he grabbed the ax. point is, he was quick to arrest because of the pigs eating donuts outside.
I said I wanted skim in my cappaccino!
If everyone carried an AR-15 he wouldn't have made it into the door. But Obama and Soros and the commie pinko dirtbag LIEbrals want to ban my right to bear arms!!!111 I will start a revolution to defend my right to bear arms!!11111 (even thought the second amendment clearly states a well-regulated militia, but we'll overlook that).
/sarcasm
"NO COFFEE FOR YOU", Back of the line.
Cut him off! Obviously he is wired on too much caffeine!
Sometimes it is difficult to know the difference between mentally ill and simply entitled. Working with the public can have its hazards, fo sho! I wish we knew more about the "loitering." It is important, even when someone is breaking the rules, to not escalate the situation, although there will never be a way to diplomatically engage extremely agitated people.
(Yes, I was once told by an angry patron that I, a librarian, could not tell him to be quiet! *eyeroll* So security told him to shut up.)
I guess he had an axe to grind with D&D.... tried using the coffee grinder to do so...
But really, the liberals are ok with letting the violent mentally ill walk around, protected by HIPPA, yet go after people who legally own and use firearms... pffft.
Where was the employee with the hot coffee????
Lot of frightening and bizarre stories coming out of Connecticut these days. Something in the water perhaps?
If he had a gun people would be dead. Kudos to the great police work. Also if the obviously mentally ill man had a gun instead of an ax the police would have had no choice but to shoot him.
nah, Creekdog, mentallyi unsound people have histories that follow them everywhere they go. they dont just 'snap' one day, they have increasingly larger and larger snaps and almost every single one has a slew of friends, reletives, past gf/or boyfriends who have seen the carnage and got out while they could. the people in the periphery of all mentally ill peoples lives have a smorgasboard of crazy stories to tell--if only someone would listen.
the point is, the very hallmark of the mentally ill is 1] to beleive they are fine and that its the rest of the world that is messed up and 2] that they dont need any treatment to keep them balanced and 3]they are almost always on the brink or in a full on paranoid state of thinking. they are not capable of walking away--once their paronoiais at the helm, they dont have any ability to reality test or self calm.
our country is chock full of nut jobs living in every town and city and rural area of this country. most of them are untreated and refuse to be, they are all ticking time bombs waiting to go off with gun, axe, or even a face chewing set of inciscors like the dude in florida. mental illness is what is messing us up here with all these sandy hook and colorado shootings. we need to figure out how to deal with the mentally ill--they walk among us and are everywhere. a sick mind left untreated is capable of anything. and no prision doesnt help these people and it is not a deterant to a mind that is unstable. fixing the issue at the source before its out of hand is what will help.
#Rick503775 - got to this forum late - but I just figured reading the story that a gun-nutter would attempt to compare the ax to gun control.
One can only shudder at the thought of how many D&D employees would have died if he came back with a loaded gun instead of the ax.
Actually that's not the case. Most people who are diagnosed as mentally ill have been showing signs for a long period of time.
So, so, so tired of the "outlaw this outlaw that" on anything used to commit a crime or when we read a story of any one dying (cars, bikes, etc.). We get your point gun lovers - please GET OVER IT.
Well child, you seem to have all the answers and know everything. What do you propose?
Answer: I guess that depends on who has the AR. Guns are used over 100,000 times per year for defense... Many times no one is injured because no shots are fired.
If he wasn't wearing socks, it was really Joe Scarborough.
looks like" he had a axe to grind" and decided to "bury the hatchett" with those employees !
This just proves that anything can be a weapon in the hands of someone willing to use it. The fact that no one was inured or killed in this incident, was because he was looking for specific targets not the type of weapon used. This could have had a different ending if the two employees he was looking for would have been there.
Why are people going insane in Connecticut? ESPN. They are sick of the Lebron and Kobe stories and are losing their minds. I can't say I blame them.
You guys realize he didn't use the axe on anyone. So if he had the gun, he probably wouldnt have used that either. The guy was angry and just wanted to cause mayhem. It doesnt look like he was out to kill people.
I keep seeing a lot of conservatives mention locking up the mentally ill...
and I have to assume you mean all of them, because there's no way to know who'd be capable of "just snapping" one day...or why.
So, just curious...given how broke we are, how out of control spending is, and how much debt we have to payback...
who's going to pay for this?
Stop offering suggestions you arent willing to truly stand behind...it's disingenuos at best.
Police stunned the idiot who was wielding an ax. Hell, why didn't you empty your .9mm into his a$$ and spare the taxpayers a lengthy trial? You were more than justify to use deadly force on this POS. Tasers waste time and taxpayers' money against freaking idiots. Bullets are much cheaper and more effective against idiots who lose it.
Poor ol' Coot. Probably doesn't have heat in his house, just trying to stay warm.
Ha! Excellent DocHolliday-2979123.
Needs a refund on that anger management class.
Back East: I get really sick of people trying to make everything political, making divisive and inflammatory comments that are outright lies.
You say, "Liberals are ok with letting the violent mentally ill walk around, protected by HIPPA, yet go after people who legally own and use firearms."
That is just ridiculous. First, this article has NOTHING to do with the gun issue. Second, no liberal or conservative in their right mind is okay with violent mentally ill people walking around - especially with access to firearms. You obviously know nothing about HIPPA. Our nation's laws state clearly that unless someone is an imminent threat to self or others, there is NOTHING anyone can do. If the person has showed no previous signs of violence, that person is entitled to enjoy the same rights as you.
In defense of Creekdog's comment, there are people who seem normal and later 'seem' to snap. They are good at hiding their illness and symptoms. Yes, they are there, and their loved ones can see them. But there is NO WAY to compel or force a person to seek or accept treatment. The so-called 'snapping' is - in my view - the actual act of dangerous/violent behavior - at which time a psych hold is allowable.
Again, this is not a liberal or conservative issue. It is an American issue. Don't we all have the same desire - to prevent mentally unstable persons from shooting up our schools, malls, celebrating events, work places, etc.? Perhaps less accusatory and inflammatory remarks might just HELP figure out a solution instead of fuel partisanship.
Debra - what if there is no solution?
People "snap" for so many different reasons, or not real good reason at all.
I have a bipolar mother in law, who for the most part is "fine" - so long as she takes her meds.
But when she doesnt, she's a monster - in that she's emotionally abusive, behaves like a child and throws temper tantrums, and otherwise makes her childrens lives miserable.
My brother-in-law is going through a nasty divorce and I can assure that apple did not fall far from the mother tree...and he's likely to not have much custody when all is said and done, he might even end up in jail due to non-payment.
It has crossed my mind more than I would like to admit, a fear that she might kill the kids to punish his ex-wife if he were to end up in prison.
And for the past 13 years that I have been a part of that family, it has always crossed my mind that if the right series of events were to unfold, she'd be more than capable of shooting all of us as she takes herself out of this world.
Will she ever do any of that? Probably not...but if she did, I would not be surprised.
How do you do something about that, when you dont know what might happen...if anything happens at all?
A gut feeling isnt anything much...and it's awful living with that gut feeling.
But there it is. I suspect Adam Lanza's mom had the same gut feeling multiple times...but how do you convince yourself there's more to it than just a gut feeling, when nothing else has really proven it to be true?
No one died because he didn't find the two employees for whom he got his axe. If he had a gun *gasp*, it probably would have gone down more or less the same, expect when he pointed that at police, they would have shot him rather than use the taser.
It seems this poor guy was just trying to ax somebody a question. But with his choppy speech they were forced to kicked him out.
Then when he came back he had a real ax to grind.
Voting is the solution. The Tea Party wants to promote fear - first we were supposed to fear Osama Bin Ladin, now they want people armed like Bin Ladin to shoot our own government.
Isn't that called treason?
Guns are already kept out of airports and courtrooms.
They even used to be kept out of Dodge City limits by that gun grabbing Wyatt Earp.
The truly crazy will never shut up, but better if they only shoot their mouths off, not the local mall.
Rand Paul should go back to worrying about fluoridation.
Will the Ax Violence never end?
Ban all garden tools and implements now!
Where is Ms. Giffords! Please ask Obama to require Home Depot, Lowe's, and any other merchants of death to conduct background checks on purchasers of these heinous instruments of carnage!
You can thank your hero Ronald Reagan for killing mental health system.
Another one sided story!!! I want to hear the employees input on what this man did wrong that caused the employees to throw him out.
Respect works both ways. I myself have been to places where the employees lack respect for the customer.
Let's here both sides of the story. The employee's and the man's side or don't report it.
Not justifying the mans actions but something set him off.
Debra-450533
Debra, of course we do. Here is the problem.
Jerod Loughner passed the background check to buy the guns he used in the Giffords tragedy.
This is an excerpt from the linked story about Jerod Loughner.
This is compounded by this statistic from the National Institute of Mental Health.
Here’s the problem.
The National Center for State Courts and SEARCH, the National Consortium for Justice Information and Statistics, estimate that the NICS Index should contain more than 2 million disqualifying mental illness records.
But the NIMH states we have about 57.7 million Americans that suffer from a diagnosable mental disorder.
So, do we just ignore the other 55.7 million American's that suffer from mental illness? Or do we require all those 55.7 million other American's are included.
And if that’s the case, do all 313 million American's have to undergo mental health testing? If so, who is going to be responsible for testing this massive amount of people? Not to mention the years it would take for such a campaign.
What if someone is tested and found to be mentally competent and the goes out and still kills a group of people? Who is responsible? The shooter? The Psychiatrist/psychologist? The gun dealer?
I don’t think many people understand the enormity of your statement, “Don't we all have the same desire - to prevent mentally unstable persons from shooting up our schools, malls, celebrating events, work places, etc?”
It’s easy to say let’s just do background checks, but it’s another matter to find the people who are mentally incompetent that should be included in those checks.
57 million people is a massive number to find. I guarantee you NOBODY thought any of the mass-murderers would have been easy to identify before they committed these heinous crimes.
Lizzie Borden only had an axe also. Give him a lobotomy and send him to a vee. farm.
Kudos to the police for tasering him instead of shooting him. Otherwise you'd all be whining about police brutality. Thank the police for doing it right, right?
I wonder if some people realize how idiotic they look with the whole retarded 'ban this' @!$%#. It got old a few days after it started. Now it simply screams out the fact that they have nothing intelligent to say instead.
there were probably more cops there than at the station.
3 donuts and a fancy coffee.
That guy needs to switch to Dunkin Decaf.
He didn't hurt the Boston Cremes did he?
confussed
I preferred the story's outcome. Point was, no one was hurt. No gun was used either.
Look at this and tell me who put the most people in danger. The good guy with a gun or the bad guy?
http://www.myfoxorlando.com/story/21418473/police-investigate-shooting-in-walmart-parking-lot
ChildProtection and Debra,You are the only posters that seem to get that this man needs mental healthcare.I am glad that you are educated on the subject.The rest of the posters make jokes when they read these articles.It's either because they lack education on the subject or they are part of population that stigmatizes mental illness.Either way their joking about mentally ill people is unacceptable.We need better care for the mentally ill in this country.
Definition of BERSERK
1: an ancient Scandinavian warrior frenzied in battle and held to be invulnerable.
Definition of BESERK [sic]: taking an ax to Dunkin' Donuts apparently.
Yeah I guess he had an axe to grind...
Good one!
The way some of society enunciates our words; he could have been provoked.......
Customer: "What did you say donut boy?"
Counter help: "Sir, I "axed" you if you need any cream with your coffee?"
They are lucky it wasn't a coyote.
gm Sirlafalot
It's a good thing the cops arrived when they did. The Dunkin Donuts staff might have been stumped.
Hi Bill, think how many donuts you could stack if you had no hands!
Hey Denver. What do you think the odds are that the cops weren't already there.
And NBC News will probably leave that headline with that spelling error up all day. Sigh.
Bersmirching its rep! ;-) [Besmirch]
If they're going to be this sloppy with spelling, it makes you wonder how precise they are with the facts.
back in the 90's i seen a guy get into a car accident with another car ,the guy who rear ended the car came out of the vehicle with a metal pipe ,took a few swings ,but the driver who got rear ended came out with a AX and finished the job off ,it was nut job vs better armed nutjob ,bloody mess too ,i guess the driver who just got rear ended by a psycho with metal pipe decided to "bury the hatchett" into him
Crazy old COOT,,, oh wait,, he's my age. Never mind.
Gears of War has Berserkers
Police missed a great opportunity to deliver the POS to his maker. So many sick people out there.
If it had been in New York, the cops would have shot 27 bystanders, three cars, and consumed the doughnuts.
I had a similar thought. He threatened cops with an ax, and they used a stun gun on him? Good think he wasn't in Texas.
The Police had a better grasp of the situation than anyone posting comments. They felt that killing the guy served no purpose, that they really were not in danger and that a stun gun would suffice. Which, apparently, it did. There was no need to "take him out".
Good call, Joe. let's just shoot the mentally ill. Much cheaper than treating them.
It is cheaper and you dont have to deal with them again if you shoot them.
@ Larry - so then there wouldnt be a case since the cops would have eaten the evidence?
Crazy people, go figure.
I see no link to crazy.
Just another case of the Evils of Caffeine
Sure. Everyday sane people chop up a Dunkin donuts with an axe.
If we as a nation would just deal with mental illness, and ban crazy behavior, instead of banning law abiding citizen's right to bear arms to protect themselves then we would have a safer happier society.
What will the Left do if a crazy guy like this showed up at Sandy Hook and axed seven or eight kids to death?
Would liberals do nothing because this scenario does not fit their anti-gun narrative?
Or, would they try to register all ax owners and maybe ban axes?
The bottom line is liberals will never blame and hold the individual accountable for his/her actions no matter what the situation is, be it guns, axes, run overs with cars, poisons, etc.
Only objects can be evil in the liberal mind, not people!
I feel ya. The next time I order sausage and egg without cheese, hold the freaking cheese. See what happens when you keep making sandwich mistakes.
This guy must have been a "starbucks" ex-employee that is disgruntled because DD has the BEST coffee around.
That's why you need a gun available at all times. Like a seat belt, you never know when you might need it. This could have turned out for the worse if the man was going after the customers or the employees with the ax. I wouldn't want to try to subdue the guy without a gun with him swinging the ax, would you? Even the police had to use a gun, in this case a stun gun, to stop him.
He had an axe! One can run away from an axe. Not so much if he'd had a gun. Oh yes, we need more and more guns, then when someone starts swinging an axe, all the customers can start blasting away. Oh they may shoot him -MAY shoot him, in all the excitement of being able to use their guns who knows? How many of their fellow customers will be shot in the process? And when the police arrive to guns blasting in every direction, how do they decide who to take down?
Like a parachute, if you ever need one and don't have one, you probably will never need one again.
Exactly!
Then don't jump out of the plane.
Enma....You are the kind of people who shouldn't own a gun. You are too emotional and too easily excited. Fortunately, most CCW permit carriers are very calm, responsible, well-trained people. I hope you are very fast because someone with an ax can catch you with little effort. If I want to chop you up, you won't get too far.
Yea I mean, just look at all those young fit women, they could never get away from Jason and he never even ran! The girl would run and he would walk, he was always right behind them!
Yes, I know about the machete but he also used an ax once in a while.
Air....The ax man came through the front door. There is not alot of options to run. Reality sucks.
Really? You can't run away from or fight a guy with an AX? C'mon! I could take on a guy with an ax and I'm only 5'5". I don't need a gun for that. I'm not a pansy-ass little pussy.
He went in there for the employees that told him to leave and didn't find them. Obviously there IS another option. Like a back door maybe? Do you think there's only ever 1 entrance/exit? Clue - for fire/safety reasons there isn't!
Tim....Have you met a madman with an ax lately? Didn't think so. Until you have done those heroic things, don't claim to be a macho man.
Rob....Picture this. A long counter with seats in front. A roll of customers seated. The front door is located behind the seats, probably half the seats to the right and half the seats to the left. The swinging door to behind the counter and through the door to the kitchen is all the way to the left. Half the customers run to the swinging door or over the counter. The other half has no other option except over the counter. Meanwhile, the ax man can chop off a half dozen people's heads as they scramble and falling on top of one aoother as they rush for the kitchen. Blood everywhere.
here we go again with people assuming a gun carrier would just start blasting away and possibly kill innocent bystanders. Very rediculous argument,please stop. Pulling a gun and actually aiming at a perp is out of the question? You're imagined scenarios don't hold any water at all.
dtrx, your "imagined scenario" occurs over 100,000 times per year. Fortunately shots are not fired in most cases.
HOW OFTEN ARE GUNS USED FOR SELF DEFENSE? 100,000 TIMES PER YEAR!
David Hemenway, an eminent public-health scholar at Harvard University, and a gun
control advocate- admits his research indicates that guns are used for
defensive purposes 100,000 times per year in the USA. Making various
reasonable-sounding adjustments, other social scientists have suggested that
perhaps a figure somewhere between 250,000 and 370,000 might be more accurate.
This comes from an article in Bloombergs Business Week from December- hardly known
for their gun advocacy. Google "businessweek how often are guns used in self defense" to find the article.
We need to identify the "anger management" candidates, before they go Jason!
I just wanted to stir the @!$%# on the whole gun BS. I figure if I can't join 'em, I'll poke 'em with a stick.
Someone said that concealed carriers are all poised and accurate and Rambo and stuff- why aren't they all cops? I mean, cops are all trained up and all that and they manage to @!$%# it up, so how can you make the assumption and comment that concealed carriers are all calm, non-reactionary, smooth dudes? You just can't.
There's a common misconception that all police are firearms experts. They are not. The average cop isn't all that well trained. It's actually frightening how bad a lot of them are at handling firearms.
At a range in Michigan there were a number of incidents where bullets were getting over the berms and striking people's houses near the range. It turned out to be the local police training. They were screwing around and shooting at the ground trying to hit balloons. The bullets richocheted off the ground, over the berm, and eventually landed on the houses. One of the home owners was out puttign down new shingles when bullets started whizzing past him.
At a police range (training current officers), there was a cease fire/clear weapon order given, and one officer didn't know how to unload. Their solution was to fire off the rest of the rounds in the magazine that was almost full.
For a large number of officers, it's just a job and a firearm is just sort of there but they know nothing about it. A person with a permit to carry a weapon has taken the interest on their own account to carry the firearm. They are fully vested in the application of it, it isn't just a tool on their belt that their employer makes them carry.
Anybody too frightened to crawl out of bed without packing heat is probably not very calm.
Barney Fife trembled with this fear, but the police chief had the good sense to only permit Barney to carry one bullet. This single bullet, the one shot guaranteed by the 2nd Amendment, was safely buttoned up in his shirt pocket.
Give Barney Fife a loaded AR-15 and Mayberry would become Jonestown.
The comic sidekick are not in the police dept, they are in the White house
Your a fool if you deny yourself the right to protect you and your family.
When seconds count the police are minutes away!
Are they sure it is not the same guy that had hot coffee thrown in his face recently? What is going on at Dunkin Donuts? They are pissing a lot of people off lately!!!
They spill a drop of hot coffee at McDonald's on your lap and you used to be able to sue for millions.
Maybe , they should have just gave him donuts and coffee !!
Guess there was no background check before they sold him that axe. Slipped through the crack again
Axe show loophole.
I'm just afraid that when I'm carrying my hockey stick and golf clubs to the airport next month, a Dunkin Donuts worker with Delayed Stress Syndrome AND Concealed Carry will ice me.
Dude if you really want fame find some nice gated community where multimillionaires live too loose it?
Which is a more dangerous place to live, Chicago or Connecticutt? I feel safe in either because both have tough gun laws.
LMAO, you may "feel" safer, but statistics indicate otherwise...
Statistics say you are safer in Texas, because 2 out of 3 people own a gun shop. (One out of 3 are on death row.) The other 7 out of 10 are illegals passing through on their way north.
As someone who lives walking distance between two DD's, I can be a bit disappointed when there are no apple cinnamons or when pumpkin donut season is over; but the axe-thingy is just too rude. RE: the coffee; the dark blend isn't half bad and really cheap if I run out of Starbucks or Peet's (not walking distance).
Man, what a "donut" hole this guy is.
The word is spelled "berserk", not "beserk". A little disappointed in your editing, msnbc.......
I glad the cops creamed him.
Don't suppose if anyone knows if this guy has been psychologically evaluated, he could be your standard schizophrenic off his meds. And yes gun fans he would have done MORE damage with a gun and NO gun fans the police did not have to USE a gun to stop him, they used a stun gun. And NO gun fans we should not arm all dunken dounut employees with AK 47s
How about all legitimate Dunkin' Donuts customers? (that would leave out the fool with the axe)
Hey dome I didn't see where anyone is suggesting arming the workers with AK'S you morons on the left all need mental health checks!
What do they need AKs for when they have all the day olds they might need.
This guy was probably short a few sprinkles.
I wonder if Bloomberg has already banned this in New York? I think next on his list to ban are heels over 2 inches, open toed shoes, eating too fast. Just so we'll all be safe and secure.
"beserk"?
Yeah, don't the writers at nbc know how to use spellcheck?????
Were the police tampering with the evidence?
I knew there would be some funny comments with this one. The better headline would have been "Cop Goes Berserk with Axe in Duncan Donuts."
One can understand his rage.... Dunkin Donuts truly are awful. This man was probably seeking a good donut and look what he got.
Job Seeker - Maybe you should move to Hawaii
State
Total firearms murders, 2011
% change, 2010-11
Fire- arms murders as % of all murders
Fire- arms murders rate
Fire- arms robb- eries rate
Fire- arms assaults rate
▾
Illinois
377
4
83
2.93
2.26
5.26
Connecticut
94
-3
73
2.71
34.85
20.06
Hawaii
1
-86
14
0.07
n/a
n/a
How many people was murdered by other means? you didn't say or I missed it.
Phillip - remove the word Illinois, and replace it with Chicago. Believe me, if we could annex them and leave them to their own devices, we would. The rest of Illinois hates Chicago politics. As corrupt as it gets. Just look who they put in the White House!
The guy is crazy.
Unfortunately, our society seems to be putting people under pressure that they are unable to cope with, so they go berserk.
Crazy or crazed, it matters not. The fact is, garbage like this creature should be put down the moment they display their true psychopathic nature, thus saving the public a bunch of money and preventing harm to other citizens in the future. I think the cops should have double-tapped him instead of zapped him.
Exactly!
Agreed Mymom. In the meantime though, we should probably ban axes so no one else is hurt.
I applaud the officer for not shooting the axe wielding maniac 41 times, instead choosing the equally effective but non-lethal stun gun. More of the uneducated pigs should act like this officer.
The police officer didn't want to use his sidearm because he might miss and ruin a perfectly good custard filled long john.
I'm a gun owner, and I agree the officer should be commended...
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You should more respect for law enforcement Brian,I bet if you was in trouble you wouldn't ask the police men what kind of education he had.