Thursday, July 10, 2008

Like a GFW Neighbor, State Farm is There

About 2,000 employees spent almost two hours Thursday afternoon in the lower level of the company’s corporate headquarters at Veterans Parkway and Washington Street after a passer-by reported seeing a man with a “long gun” outside the building.

Police eventually determined the person actually saw a custodian holding what probably was a pipe.
See, he probably wasn't wearing an official-looking uniform, because then the cattle wouldn't have stampeded...

[Via RCB]

4 comments:

GunRights4US said...

"Wall said nearly 50 Bloomington police officers were at the scene along with about three dozen total from McLean County sheriff’s police and Normal police."

It never ceases to amaze me how many cops can be gathered together when something goes down.

But the standard refrain at budget renewal time is: "We need more cops on the street!"

Kent McManigal said...

gunrights4us- Those thugs can't spend ALL their time in donut shops, ya know.

Anonymous said...

GFW? Don't know what that is.

Let's review all this. Someone
supposedly saw a "long gun", an
error in selected prerecorded
emergency messages sent two thousand people to the basement, and 50 or more armed men found their way to the scene directed by authorities.

The State Farm mgmt and Police all aver to have been "pleased" with
the episode, and the Assistant Chief of Police thinks that it was good practice for a "high stress situation. all the best, cycjec

Anonymous said...

GFW = Gun Fearing Wussy

Glad to help.

Carry on...