Lawyer arrested after dressing as bin Laden
 

Lawyer arrested after dressing as bin Laden


BOSTON (Reuters) - A Maine attorney who released information in 2000 about
President George W. Bush's drunken driving conviction was arrested on Tuesday after he dressed up as al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden and waved a fake gun at traffic.

Police in South Portland, Maine, arrested Thomas Connolly, 49, of Scarborough, Maine, and charged him with criminal threatening. He was released on bail, local officials said.

Lt. Todd Bernard said the police department received calls about a man wearing Middle Eastern garb and a bin Laden mask and carrying fake dynamite standing along an interstate highway. When police arrived, they saw Connolly holding a gun.

"They ordered him to drop the weapon several times and he eventually complied," Bernard said.

It turned out the gun was fake, Bernard said.

In a phone interview, Connolly said he'd been trying to protest a planned change in local tax rules.

"I didn't expect to be arrested," he said. "Obviously I touched a post-9/11 nerve."

Days before the 2000 presidential election, Connolly released information about Bush's 1976 drunken driving conviction.

The Bush campaign said Democratic "dirty tricks" were behind the disclosure that at age 30 Bush had been arrested for drunken driving in Kennebunkport, Maine, pleaded guilty, paid a fine and had his license suspended for 30 days.

Connolly, a Democrat, ran for governor in Maine in 1998.

South Portland, Maine, is located about 100 miles northeast of Boston.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061101/...ne_binladen_dc

:) Can see them getting all senstive about the gun tho.

no humor anymore :)

If only waving a gun at traffic were funny.

i'm a huge advocate for personal liberties.. but um, he had a gun (that turned out to be fake). it had nothing to do with the costume.

obviously there is some spin to every media story, but if he didn't comply with the cops immediately when they asked him to put down the weapon.. i'm sure that didn't help his case as far as getting charged goes.

I didn't expect to be arrested

After waving with a gun... what an idiot :1orglaugh ..And he is a lawyer? :Oh crap :Oh crap :Oh crap :Oh crap :Oh crap :Oh crap :Oh crap

interesting.is he idiot or what?

Another piece of shit Democrat

What a re-re. Must be one of Dubya's inbred cousins. :1orglaugh :1orglaugh :1orglaugh

"and waved a fake gun at traffic", end of story.

Looks like he is a bad lawer :(

Fake gun.. definitely N O T a good idea.

To bad they did not shoot him

lol what a twat you wave a gun at traffic and you deserve to be taken down, fake or not.

I got a flyer in the post today, along with some Slayer concert tickets...the back of the flyers said they were printed by the 'saudi bin laden group' I was like... errr... do i chuck this away or will some FBI guy slam me and arrest me as it hits the bottom of my wheelie bin.

No sign of the FBI yet... ;)

I think everyone is too crazy about guns.. If the US population didnt have so many, we would have been taken over by now, that I can guarantee. Not by some outsode source though, from the inside! :2 cents:

Right now, I just wanna see what that man really looks like with that notorious halloween costume. :)

Hey do whatever ya want but how fuckin stupid can you be to wave a friggin gun fake or not hes lucky his ass didnt get shot !!

This crazy bastard is lucky he wasn't in the south. A good ole boy would have run him over with his pick up, taken a rifle from his gun rack and made sure that stupid shit was dead. The article said he had fake dynamite too. What an asshole!!!!

Lol sorry but i find that pretty funny

he's lucky he did it in a liberal part of the country

Crazy anyone?

the gun was a stupid, stupid idea. he should have been waving a model plane or something

is there a law in wearing that dress? what if it's holloween? :1orglaugh

New rule:

Halloween in an occasion to not be expressed publicly.

Just ask Bill Maher:winkwink:

Too late to edit, "is", not "in", lol:glugglug

I love misleading thread titles on GFY.