Lynchburg Area - OC reports

[jmelvin]

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OCed at Domino's Pizza off of Ward's Rd. while waiting for my pizza to get finished tonight.

In an unfortunate event that hasn't had any reporting here yet, we apparently lost 8 of our local residents today to some murderous dirtbag who shot some folks out in Appomattox and even managed to tag a VSP helicopter and cause it to leak fuel and forced its landing. The last I heard the police have the guy holed up in the woods somewhere. Maybe the POS will make a dumb move and never make it out of those woods alive.

 

[mrt6812]

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I read there were over 100 officers on that case. I haven't read much into detail just skimmed an article but this is unbelievable. I talked to my mom who lives near Lexington, about an hour south on 501 and she didn't mention it, must've not known about it.

 

[kenny]

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The last has not been said on the Appomattox situation. The subject is in custody and I am sure the antis will have a few more logs when all is said and done.

 

[nuc65]

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The person of interest surrended a little after 7 am this morning.

 

[jmelvin]

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OT here: mrt6812, if you go south on 501 out of Lynchburg you'd be in South Boston in about an hour. You have to go north to hit Lexington.

Just making sure you don't get lost next time you go see the mom unit.

 

[mrt6812]

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haha, oops. I guess I was thinking of going to Lynchburg instead of coming from it.

 

[jmelvin]

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So mrt do you live here in Lynchburg now? Did you happen to come to our open carry dinner in January? If I haven'tyet met you I hope too!

 

[mrt6812]

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no, i'm from Lexington but I'm in Greensboro, NC right now at school. I'm still a resident of Va though and when I get my permit (money's a little tight now) it's going to be from Va. I would OC but I don't even have a firearm yet. Well, I have a little .22 revolver but I'm not carrying that. I might move to the Lynchburg area after school's over to finish up my martial arts training.

 

[nuc65]

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I did carry yesterday and while standing in my front yard a city police drove by, but I don't think he saw me or my piece.

I also recieved this email (I haven't had a chance to check the veracity of it) which is the kind of post we don't hear enough about:

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I usually check the veracity so thanks to grapeshot but if I had a daughter I would want her to have that kind of spunk.

 

[Grapeshot]

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nuc65 wrote:

I did carry yesterday and while standing in my front yard a city police drove by, but I don't think he saw me or my piece.

I also recieved this email (I haven't had a chance to check the veracity of it) which is the kind of post we don't hear enough about:

No cigar - work of fiction. Can't believe this one is still making the rounds.

http://www.snopes.com/politics/crime/homeinvasion.asp



Yata hey

 

[jmelvin]

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OCed at Robin-Alexander's Restaurant in downtown Lynchburg and had a tasty dinner this evening. The wife and I then headed over to Wally World and the only issue we had there was with the door person asking for our receipt despite having just checked out only a short distance from the door and carrying all of our items with us in a Wal-Mart bag. I started to just bypass the doorman, but the wife stopped and showed the receipt anyway. I don't think this will happen twice. I shall proceed on through the doors, henceforth.

 

[nuc65]

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Carried in CVS and Walgreens no issues. Along the Blackwater Creek trail and Krogers.

 

[nuc65]

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After some thought I've decided to post a comment here. A little off topic but this thread isn't being used at the moment...


I've thought about the issue of the police confiscating or holding a weapon during a traffic stop. It is my opinion that outside of an arrest that this is a major violation of ones rights. It is a fundamental right to bear arms (2nd amendment and article of VA constitution) just like a search and a seizure the right to bear arms should not be interfered with. Taking a weapon for officer safety outside of an arrest, RAS, or probable cause is a direct interference and violation of the right to bear arms. The LEO cannot search and seize based on officer safety, cannot perform other actions that violate fundamental constitutional rights. The officer safety gamut violates ones constitutionally guaranteed rights.

 

[Grapeshot]

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nuc65 wrote:

After some thought I've decided to post a comment here. A little off topic but this thread isn't being used at the moment...


I've thought about the issue of the police confiscating or holding a weapon during a traffic stop. It is my opinion that outside of an arrest that this is a major violation of ones rights. It is a fundamental right to bear arms (2nd amendment and article of VA constitution) just like a search and a seizure the right to bear arms should not be interfered with. Taking a weapon for officer safety outside of an arrest, RAS, or probable cause is a direct interference and violation of the right to bear arms. The LEO cannot search and seize based on officer safety, cannot perform other actions that violate fundamental constitutional rights. The officer safety gamut violates ones constitutionally guaranteed rights.

WOW - deserves a entire separate thread to reopen that issue.

It has been thrashed pretty heavily, but I don't have a link right at hand - use the search function.

In any event, the place to challenge this is not at the side of the road. Make it known that you are not consenting to seizure of your property voluntarily - take indicated action after the fact.

Yata hey

 

[jmelvin]

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OCed on Sunday at the Blue Dahlia for lunch and the dude with the rude-ish comments from the weeks before was a perfect gentleman the entire time. Of course no issues as always. OCed that night at Texas Roadhouse with no issues again.

OCed tonight at The Neighbor's Place where one of our favorite servers has now returned from Florida with his family after a not-so-successful attempt at moving the family to Destin. We were elated to have him back as he really adds some much needed personality to the place. Also OCed at the local Wally World and had no issues at all there either.

 

[nuc65]

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I don't know if he was OCing but I somehow doubt it...

http://www.wset.com/news/stories/0110/700189.html?ref=rs&
cmpid=rss_news_700189

Lynchburg, VA - A Lynchburg man is facing charges after police say he tried to rob three people Tuesday night.

Officers say a woman told them a man tried to rob her and then beat her with a pistol, around 10:00 p.m. near 19th and Fillmore Streets.

Police say they arrested Rodney Brown about an hour later, after another man and woman also reported being robbed at gunpoint.

Brown is facing multiple charges, including three counts of robbery and one count of malicious wounding.

 

[nuc65]

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[Grapeshot]

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nuc65 wrote:

Can you say invasion of privacy, violation of rights, RAS, probable cause or gestapo? The entire problem is that the police don't seem to be able to restrain themselves to lawful detention hence the "officer safety" catch-all phrase applied indiscriminately.
Garrett bill to aid police falters http://www2.newsadvance.com/lna/news/local/article/garrett_bill_to_aid_police_falters/23556/#When:05:04:22Z
RICHMOND — A bill the Lynchburg Police Department wanted the General Assembly to approve, to help it investigate street crimes, didn’t get past its first subcommittee hearing Wednesday.
Sponsored by Del. Scott Garrett, R-Lynchburg, the bill would have allowed officers to require people to identify themselves if they are detained lawfully “under circumstances that reasonably indicate that the person has committed” or may commit a crime.
Under current law, people can refuse to give their names during on-the-street questioning.
Two legal questions emerged about the bill (HB 1049) during a hearing in the Courts of Justice committee of the House of Delegates.
Del. Morgan Griffith, R-Salem, said he thought the bill could increase chances the state could be sued for damages if a detained person were to be charged with a violation that, later, was proven not to have been a crime.
Three prosecutors on the committee, including Del. Ben Cline, R-Rockbridge, said they doubted that the bill met constitutional requirements. Cline said he could envision circumstances where the bill could violate someone’s Fifth Amendment protections.
Griffith, the House majority leader, said he felt the bill was constitutional and told Garrett, “you did a good job presenting it,” but he was worried about possible civil penalties against the state.
It was Garrett’s first time presenting a bill to a General Assembly committee.
The committee voted to “lay the bill gently on the table,” meaning that Garrett could try to revise it.
Garrett said afterward that he would ask the prosecutors if they could recommend new language for the bill, but its future was in doubt.

He vants to zee zour paperz, NOW if zou pleaze. :uhoh:

Yata hey

 

[jmelvin]

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The sad thing is that many locals touted how wonderful Garrett would be over Shanon Valentine, the conservative (from what I've read of her) Democrat that he replaced. Introduction of a bill like this doesn't make me very glad to see him in office instead of her.

 

[jmelvin]

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OCed at Logan's Roadhouse, then Wally World and finally at Foster's Fuel down in Rustburg. No issues at any of them.