Coupon leads Crawfordville woman to pull gun on Walmart employees

[Saviolo]

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Source: ABC news

Wakulla County sheriff's officials say a Crawfordville woman pulled a gun on Walmart employees after they said she couldn't use an internet coupon.

The incident happened on Friday, March 1. The woman, now identified as 61-year-old Mary Frances Alday, reportedly began verbally abusing the female employee who told her she couldn't use the coupon.

Officials say that didn't stop her -- she went to her car, pulled out a gun, and walked back into the store. She reportedly began waving it at the victim and three other employees who had joined the investigation.

Alday was later arrested during a traffic stop at East Ivan Road and Wakulla Arran Road. During the arrest process, officials say Alday refused to follow the commands of Sgt. Danny Harrell during the traffic stop.

Read more: http://www.wtxl.com/news/wcso-coupon-leads-crawfordville-woman-to-pull-gun-on-walmart/article_6a547512-84f1-11e2-a483-0019bb30f31a.html

[SCVDem]

1. Did she buy the gun at WalMart?

Wouldn't that be special?

[southernyankeebelle]

26. Oh my

[no_hypocrisy]

29. My first thought too.

Shame on me . . . . .

[Angry Dragon]

52. yes

[dbackjon]

2. If she had been a minority and refused to do that, the cops would have gunned her down.

[athenasatanjesus]

21. Also the comment section would be half full of claims that it's normal behavior for x minority.

[Skittles]

3. sounds like she needs a mental health evaluation

I'm thinking more is going on that gun nuttery

[EC]

4. So why does she have a gun?

She obviously has a problem with anger management.

[Kolesar]

19. Why do all the vandals and poachers in my town have a gun?

They just do.

[tularetom]

40. Pretty hard to be a poacher if ya don't have one

It may even be in the job description.

[quakerboy]

43. Traps?

I could be wrong, but I would imagine that poachers would prefer to set dozens or hundreds traps and then just go out to pick up their prey, as opposed to having to go out and hunt each one down individually

[Iggo]

22. How dare you?!?!?!

She was a law-abiding gun owner...

...right up until she wasn't, that is.

[onehandle]

5. Guns are tools. This is exactly what guns are for. Conflict resolution.

Mind your own business, Libruls!

[slackmaster]

6. Guilty.

[Teamster Jeff]

7. That's what I call Extreme Couponing

[lib87]

32. I'll Say!

[Zoeisright]

8. Another day, another

"responsible" gun humper abusing Precious.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

9. OVER THE LINE!!!!!!!!!

[Tempest]

10. So much for an armed society being a polite society

Can we finally put that lie to rest?

[frylock]

11. lessee here; armed, uncooperative with police, and still alive..

didn't even need to click on the link to know this woman is white.

[Tempest]

12. They're throwing the book at her

Alday faces four counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, one count of battery, one count of battery on a law enforcement officer, and resisting arrest with violence.

[catbyte]

27. That they'll probably plead down to disturbing the peace

Perhaps I am too cynical?

[Shrike47]

13. What good is a gun if you can't use the damned thing?

[Bandit]

36. That statement is eerily similar to the one Sec of State Madeline Albrite said about our Military.

What good is having such a magnificent military if we can't use it....

[Whoopdedoo]

14. With a mug shot like that

I can keep the crows off my lawn!

[Enrique]

15. stand your ground

[Thinkingabout]

16. Another bad person with access to guns, this is not going to turn out well until more guns are out

Of the hands of crazy gun nuts. I wonder if she is a card carrying member who loves the TP.

[Pterodactyl]

17. Lock her up and throw away the key!

[TheOther95Percent]

18. This Link Provides More Detail and the Police Report

This woman had a concealed weapons permit too.

The police officer used a taser on her twice.

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/walmart-coupon-gun-threat-578543

[Robb]

30. That can't be! CCW holders are the bestest most responsiblest of all shooters!!

[TheOther95Percent]

31. Darn tootin! This woman needs that CCW to make sure she doesn't get overcharged at garage sales too!

Besides, she had a coupon! Dammit!

She had a Second Amendment White, I mean Right, to menace all those employees over denying her a buck off some crap.

[frylock]

41. CCW holders are the salt of the earth..

kings among men.

[tomm2thumbs]

20. Probably a coupon for bullets.... IRONY?

Me thinks so

[silvershadow]

23. I'm pretty sure the second amendment was designed for just such a use. Coupon voiding might require

waving a gun around to show u mean business. That woman needs help.

[Grins]

24. One of those "well regulated militia" people...

Obviously, one of those members of that "well regulated militia" people we hear so much about.

[jsr]

25. She almost saved a dollar

[Saviolo]

28. You owe me a new monitor.

Yeah, I laughed out loud at that one.

[B Stieg]

33. There is nothing more dangerous...

...than a righteous white person in possession of a firearm.

[slackmaster]

34. "Righteous?" I think she's just crazy, and ugly.

Your gratuitous reference to race contributes nothing of value to this discussion.

[TinkerTot55]

45. Mr. / Ms. B Steig is right.....

...in that white people flashing guns around often get the benefit of the doubt.

No sane person of color would attempt that, unless they were suicidal. It's hard enough not getting pulled over for DWB.......

However, your comment that she is "ugly" is uncalled for and "contributes nothing of value to this discussion."

[Bucky]

35. I blame commercials using phrases like "Prices that blow away the competition!"

This is obviously the root of the violence here. I also call on the Florida legislature to pass legislation authorizing all retail cashiers to carry firearms and take gun safety and markmanship classes. Cashiers will keep on getting weapons brandished at them until they learn to stand their ground against dangerous shopping elements in society.

Okay, I'll just come out and say it. Consumers in this society have a sense of entitlement, as if they're the whole reason retail stores even exist. This is nothing but another form of politically correct liberal fascism. Stores are there for the people who built them, the job-creators, the banker-investors who heroically create jobs for society so that, one day, these cashiers can fulfill their American dream and become megamall owners themselves.

But the liberal elitists with their consumer protection laws and product safety regulations are destroying, destroying I say!, America's stores. They're practically turning our stores into shooting galleries with their liberal activist judges and tofu. Now, I say, it's time for America to fight back and take our stores back from these dangerous consumers. So when Florida passes the "Cashier Self-Protection ACT"--already helpfully written by the American Legislative Exchange Council so our poor overworked state legislators don't have to waste time writing or reading this heroic bill--we can finally celebrate freedom in America again.

This law will allow cashiers to proudly service their customers while keeping their weapons already drawn and leveled at the customers in line (that way the lazy, stoned, takers won't be able to get the drop on them, should they decide to start shooting. These cashiers are our First Baggers. When America shops, they're there for us. It's time for us to be there for them. Support ALEC and this law. Remember, guns don't kill people, coupons kill people.

[LuckyLib]

47. Excellent rant! LOL!

[RickFromMN]

49. Yes. Excellent rant. I don't think I'd want to go in a store with armed cashiers.

By the way, I wonder if the store will put up a no guns allowed sign and will such a sign do any good.

[Historic NY]

37. Well that gives "People of Walmart" a whole new category for pictures.

[and-justice-for-all]

38. Prime example as to why guns laws need to be tighter..nt

[slackmaster]

39. What the woman did is already highly illegal

There are some problems that no conceivable law can fix.

[frylock]

42. the woman was a CCW holder..

perhaps the requirement for that should be revisited and tightened up a bit.

[harkonen]

44. The Coupon...IT BURNS!!!

[WooWooWoo]

46. to be fair, it was a coupon for a gun holster

[muntrv]

48. But....but an armed society is a polite society. Wayne LaPierre says so.

Therefore it's true.

[Bucky]

51. Hey, would it kill ya to be polite?

Arguably so.

[Heathen57]

50. Yep, she really needs to

carry a gun around. Hey, NRA! This is your supporter, still think we don't need some kind of regulation?

[47of74]

53. When I worked at Wally World

One time there was this woman who went absolutely nuts towards a cashier because of a disagreement over the price of an item. After a few minutes of verbal abuse towards the cashier - an older lady - the supervisor gave the woman the item at the price she wanted and to GTFO. Anyways this nut called the store back about 1/2 hour later and told the cashier that she better check her house because it was on fire. The cashier's house was OK. The kicker. This idiot paid for her crap with a check - complete with NAME, ADDRESS, and PHONE NUMBER on it so the cops had a pretty easy time tracking her down. And the manager told her to stay out of the store.

[pinto]

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