Rantings of the sanest person in the room gets SEAL tossed in mental ward
Swamper sends us a link to The Blaze which describes the experience with the New York Police Department of one SEAL;
Twenty-nine-year-old Shaun Day was on a leave from his duty as a Navy SEAL duty when cops nailed him for running a red light in Manhattan, New York on Thursday.
NYPD officers searched Day’s pickup truck and found a 9mm semiautomatic pistol and three magazines full of ammo.
During the arrest, police claim Day was babbling incoherently and repeatedly claimed that he was an elite Navy SEAL with “top- secret clearance,” but was unable to provide any documentation for police.
I’ll admit that I have doubts about anyone who tells me they’re a SEAL these days, but a rubber room at Bellevue seems a bit extreme. But, given the insanity of the news out of NYC these days, Day was probably the sanest person in NYC on that day with or without PTSD.
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I wouldn’t go on about “top secret clearance” even if I had it, but yeah, hey Navy SEAL, and turns out he was. I’d be suspicious of the babbling part. SEALs end to be quite outspoken. Oh, and please explain, unless this 9MM was in plain sight (which it wouldn’t be) why would you search a vehicle for simple traffic stop?
I’m starting to suspect some of the comments from officials (?) on this one. It seems like a CYA situation. It seems like “babbling incoherently” would trigger a suspicion of DUI/DWI, but there is no mention of a charge to this. Something is certainly amiss. Maybe it’s the reporting. *shrug*
@1- might have picked him up on DWI. He probably told them about the gun and the mags, thinking he was doing right (you’re supposed to inform officers if there are any weapons in the vehicle), but got the hammer dropped on him because NYC sucks. The “incoherent babbling” could have been him trying to convince the officers not to arrest him.
Anyone…even a SEAL…who carries a POW into the People’s Republic of NYC, and get’s pinched has no one to blame but themselves.
You’ve got to understand the operational environment.
Don’t want to be unarmed? Then don’t live/visit where the government does not recognize the 2nd Amendment and denies their citizens and visitors the right of self defense.
Dontcha know a SEAL doesnt have to follow laws like mere mortals, especially when off duty and running red lights in a busy city because theres never vehicles going the other way to run into.
Why wasnt he carrying an ID card? oh thats right Secret SEAL was on a Mission from god. Dumbass NYC Flatfoots should have known that between donut runs, right?
Yeah thats it.
#5 I’m with you I’m getting sick of all the SEAL jedi shit. About 12-15 years ago it was SF, that were the Superheros though, so we’ll see if it lasts. I have never has a problem with the existence of operators but frankly the cult of Special Ops has gotten way outta hand in the last 30 odd years.