Ben Carson: I got held up once at Popeye’s — but I told the gunman to rob an employee, instead

[book_worm]

Ben Carson has been bragging all week that he would charge head-on at gunmen, if he ever encountered one — and now he says he actually has been faced with that threat.

The Republican presidential candidate said Thursday morning that he had a gun drawn on him while visiting a Baltimore fried chicken restaurant, reported The Hill.

“I have had a gun held on me when I was in a Popeye’s organization,” Carson said on Karen Hunter’s Sirius XM Radio program.

So what happened when Carson allegedly faced just such a threat? He directed the gunman’s attention to an employee of the fast food restaurant.

“I just said, ‘I believe that you want the guy behind the counter,’” Carson said.

http://www.rawstory.com/2015/10/ben-carson-i-got-held-up-once-at-popeyes-but-i-told-the-gunman-to-rob-an-employee-instead/#.VhaZnzIVe80.facebook

[GoneOffShore]

1. Ah Carson, we hardly knew you.

Ben Carson...brain surgeon? Are we certain he isn't a retired proctologist, one who believed in self-examination, as in sticking his head up...ahem, cough.

[loyalsister]

20. Ben Carson Shattering Stereotype About Brain Surgeons

"WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)—Brain surgeons, long burdened with the onerous reputation of being among the smartest people in the world, are expressing relief that the Republican Presidential candidate Ben Carson is shattering that stereotype once and for all."

http://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/ben-carson-shattering-stereotype-about-brain-surgeons-being-smart

[GoneOffShore]

22. It's certainly not rocket surgery.

[shenmue]

2. What a jerk

[jaysunb]

3. Why are you eating that unhealthy shit, Doc ?

I think you're bullshitting.

[sub.theory]

4. But, but, but...

I thought you'd have went all Chuck Norris on the gunman, Ben. What happened?! Did you choke? Don't you laugh in the face of death? Wouldn't you have shown him who's boss? I'm so confused!!!

[Liberal_in_LA]

5. Is this from the Onion?

[Fred Sanders]

6. One leading candidate suffering from dementia and another from religious disease and another

from liar's fuzzy tounge.....it should be a landslide for Democrats if the mass media would ever get around to confessing their sins hiding the extremism of one party and give up the dream of the riches promised by CU and the GOP permitting the windfall by blocking all election finance reform.

[Liberal_in_LA]

7. Ben Carson Suggests Holocaust Would Have Been Less Likely if Jews Were Armed

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/ben-carson-suggests-holocaust-jews-armed/story?id=34349693

[pnwmom]

13. If Ben had been at the Holocaust he would have said, "I believe you want the rabbi."

[Person 2713]

8. When I was in a Popeye's organization?

[winstars]

16. What should we possibly think about why he talks like that??? He is fucking crazy.

[DawgHouse]

24. He is so odd.

[City Lights]

9. What a guy!

Ugh.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

10. Sounds like he figured he was being mistaken for an employee.

[freeplessinseattle]

11. Now that takes a certain kind of courage! eom

[Stardust]

12. Classy, Carson.

[Octafish]

14. Now THAT's Republican.

True Conservatives are cowards.

[joshcryer]

15. He went on CNN and said that was "different" from a mass murderer.

Since he could "read" the mindset and the situation and just knew the guy was looking for quick cash.

Because we've never ever heard of a gun store robber murdering the cashier and other people in the store. It's never happened before.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

17. Ben Carson is all about blaming the victim.

The Jews should have all defended themselves with guns in Germany in the 1930s.

The people who lived in Pompeii when the volcano erupted should have outrun the lava. (((Seriously)))

He acts like everyone is supposed to bounce bullets off their chests like Superman.

[solar Max]

18. ROFL

You simply cannot make this shit up!

[eShirl]

19. And he admits it?

Wow.

[Capt. Obvious]

21. He swarmed the gunman

with cowardice.

[Javaman]

23. I am now convinsed that the man is a sociopath. nt

[LisaL]

25. Using his own logic, he was supposed to rush the gunman and remove his gun.

Instead he directed this gunman to an innocent employee.

[KT2000]

26. I was in a disorganized Popeye's once

it took forever to get the order. They eventually went out of business.

[moondust]

27. So brave.