Busy-body fraidy cat report leads to Walmart lockdown

Don’t you just love busy-bodies minding everyone else’s business, but not their own? You know who they are, they’re the people who never leave the house on a sunny day because their shadow scares them to death. They’re cowardly little people who deserve a beating. They’ll peer through their binoculars in to your house hoping to catch something so they can call the police and be the big neighborhood hero. They stick their heads over the fence and look at your backyard to see if there’s anything that could harm them or you, like maybe your kid jumping off the diving board in your pool, but he’s not wearing a life jacket, you know, that kind of nanny nonsense. Every neighborhood has a jerk-off like that and we all hate them.

With that in mind, let me introduce to you another busy-body minding someone else’s business that closed down a Walmart over a cell phone.

Kirksville, Mo. — A report of an armed man acting erratically in the Wal-Mart parking lot Wednesday led to the store being temporarily locked down before Kirksville Police responded to and diffused the situation with no injuries.

According to Kirksville Police Chief Jim Hughes, a passerby stopped a Kirksville Police officer and said they had seen an individual acting erratically in a truck in the Wal-Mart parking lot shortly before 2:30 p.m. The passerby believed the individual had a gun to his head.

“We don’t take these things lightly,” Hughes said, “especially nowadays.”

KPD responded to control the scene and ordered a lockdown of the store both to keep shoppers in and prevent the individual from entering the store.

After identifying the vehicle and person in question, Hughes said a decision was made on the scene for police to attempt contact. They were able to communicate with him and he voluntarily exited the vehicle. No weapon was found and the individual was taken into custody without incident less than 20 minutes after police arrived on scene.

The individual was talking on a cell phone at the time of the incident. It’s likely that is the object the passerby identified as a gun.

Hughes said no crime was committed and no additional information, including the person’s name, would be released.

See what I mean? Mind your own business people. Life is a lot less stressful and the bonus is, you don’t make a horse’s ass of yourself and get a reputation as the neighborhood sissy.

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