Seattle PIGRAND JUNCTION, Colo. (AP) — A man is facing a felony menacing charge after two western Colorado sheriff’s deputies say he pointed a banana at them and they thought it was a gun.
The Grand Junction Daily Sentinel reports (http://bit.ly/1rqFiVE ) 27-year-old Nathan Rolf Channing, of Fruitvale, was arrested Sunday.
According to an arrest affidavit, Mesa County deputies Joshua Bunch and Donald Love said they feared for their lives even though they saw that the object was yellow. Bunch wrote in the affidavit that he has seen handguns in many shapes and colors.
He wrote that Love was drawing his service weapon when Channing yelled, “It’s a banana!”
The deputies say Channing told them he was doing a trial run for a planned YouTube video and he thought it would “lighten the holiday spirit.”
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Information from: The Daily Sentinel, http://www.gjsentinel.com
http://www.seattlepi.com/news/crime/article/Man-arrested-for-pointing-banana-at-deputies-5918064.php
Was it loaded?
Should have stuck it in their tailpipe… LOL.
Saw the title of this article this morning, but it came up ‘not found’ on the site I was at.
Why isn’t this cop fired for admitted incompetence and cowardness?
Building there excuses to continue the murder of Americans. The police don’t miss a trick there.
Monty Python did a training video on this, years ago.
All US police should be required to attend these courses
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=piWCBOsJr-w
Preferably in place of the course on “how not to plant evidence”
Is the part of the story where the affidavit was written by ‘BUNCH’ true???
Funny eitherway lol!