Scouts find bag of guns while cleaning up

[Omaha Steve]

Source: Omaha World Herald

LEXINGTON ­— A cleanup project by Lexington Boy Scouts turned up more than just a bagful of trash Sunday night as one Scout pulled a sack of firearms from the pond next to the Dawson County Museum.

The Lexington Police Department responded to a call at 6:54 p.m. Sunday from Troop 88 Scoutmaster Bo Berry. Scout Dakota Wigstone and his father, Mark Wigstone, were part of a cleanup project at the pond. The boys were using a hook attached to a pole to reach the trash around the edge of the pond when Dakota located the bag.

Inside was an assortment of firearms.

FULL story at link.



Read more: http://www.omaha.com/article/20120627/NEWS/120629774/1707#scouts-find-bag-of-guns-while-cleaning-up

[ashling]

1. At first I thought

they were cleaning up the scout hut.

[Scootaloo]

2. Now there's a basis for a system of government n/t

[hack89]

8. Doesn't the lack of a watery tart concern you? nt

[Scootaloo]

15. Don't repress me! n/t

[hack89]

16. "Some lovely filth over here!" nt

[onehandle]

3. One of the many ways that gun culture adds to gun crime.

Not securing your hoard of death tools.

[RitchieRich]

4. ????

They were not misplaced, they were not used by responsible citizens.
Normal gun owners keep them in a safe.
Someone or some organization used them for some heavy stuff then dumped them.

[harmonicon]

5. That's just speculation. I think, more likely, this kid is a modern day King Arthur.

Suck it, Excalibur. You've been replaced by a bag o' guns.

[RitchieRich]

7. wonder what the reporting requirements are?

Sure it depends a lot on the date of manufacture.
If they were inoperable and not used in any crimes, I could weld them into one hell of a cool sculpture. Thinking "Game of Thrones" style Kingly chair. -or, steampunk robot, or a bad-future My Pretty Pony.

[uh clem]

18. One of the great things

about being a gun lover is, when one of them does something stupid or criminal with a gun, the other gun lovers reclassify them to keep their reputation clean.

[RitchieRich]

20. The same applies to the far Left

[bongbong]

26. LOL

You're thinking of repigs, who now say chiimpo (ex-president Cheney's assistant) wasn't a "real" conservative.

[4th law of robotics]

11. Huh? What crime occurred here?

And it's unlikely they were usable.

/most experts agree that storing guns under water is not ideal.

[Javaman]

12. A buddy of mine is a Viet Nam vet...

When on patrol they would sometimes uncover bags full of Ak's. They all had been heavily greased then dropped in the river.

after a bit of cleaning, they all fired perfectly fine.

[4th law of robotics]

17. Well yeah, an AK47 would be just fine

they were *designed* to be treated like shit.

[ManiacJoe]

31. The key phrase there being "heavily greased".

Proper preservation steps make all the difference in the world.

[RitchieRich]

22. ....crime occurred? :

I'm going to answer this under the assumption that its not a joke.

Finding a bag of guns in the water is suspect like... like... Michael Jackson applying to Kids-R-Us...no, like... finding a sales receipt for a large wooden box, a stick tied to a string, and toys, at Michael Jackson's house.

In other words, one can reasonably assume that something very bad happened prior to the discovery.

[4th law of robotics]

23. I was responding to a post

that equated finding a bag of guns in a lake to another gun crime due to our culture or some such thing.

[RitchieRich]

25. This site still confuses me.

Which is... terribly difficult.

[LanternWaste]

35. Different opinions often do that to people.

Different opinions often do that to people.

[RitchieRich]

38. I was joking about the branches of the comment structure

My level of interest in conforming to the Far Far Left is similar to what I feel for the Far Right. Did you feel a little burn of hypocrisy as you wrote that?

[RitchieRich]

39. I'M HERE!! I'M POLICALLY MODERATE!!! GET USED TO IT!!!

[-..__...]

13. "Hoard of death tools"?

Where and how do you people come up with this shit?

[bongbong]

27. Pig tools

These are the kinds of things that repigs drool over.

[ileus]

28. If guns are death spewers you've posted pictures of Death Blowers....

[RitchieRich]

33. "BugZapping Light Saber"

in one end put:
2 bugzappers, one light saber, and a guy who likes to build stuff.

out the other side:
frightened extremists.

[4th law of robotics]

34. What's the first one called?

That looks pretty useful.

[petronius]

36. It's a nail puller. Or, according to the Dead On tools catalog,

The Exhumer

[4th law of robotics]

37. Cool site

[slackmaster]

6. Asshole thieves

[iamthebandfanman]

9. thats not a nice thing

to say about the scouts..
im sure if you call them, theyll give them back
lol

[demwing]

10. @ first glance, I read this as SCOTUS finds a bag of guns

which would have been a very interesting story

[BlueIris]

21. Jynx! nt

[demwing]

40. Ok, I owe you a coke

[Blue_Tires]

14. Those came from that other government sting operation

"Bi and Curious"

[BlueIris]

19. I misread this as 'SCOTUS finds bag of guns while cleaning up.'

Actually had me thinking, "Damn; people are leaving all kinds of crap in government buildings these days."

[LanternWaste]

24. Difficult to be surprised when I realize...

Difficult to be surprised when I realize that the U.S. is consistently the number one manufacture and consistently in the top five purchaser of small arms in the world.


"When a country decides to invest in arms, rather than in education, housing, the environment, and health services for its people, it is depriving a whole generation of its right to prosperity and happiness. We have produced one firearm for every ten inhabitants of this planet, and yet we have not bothered to end hunger when such a feat is well within our reach."
-Oscar Arias Sanchez-

[ileus]

29. Sad end to someones fine collection.

[Archae]

30. What I'd like to know is how long they were underwater.

Milwaukee police just found a car with Minnesota plates in a river, it had been there at least 30 years.

[ManiacJoe]

32. Less than a year.

Stolen during a "burglary of a Lexington residence in August 2011."