Nutjob fired, shows up at work with a stick, arrested
A story from the Associated Press tells the tale of 20-year-old Kyle Kovac who was fired from his job at Northern Manufacturing Inc. in the Erie Industrial Park in Ohio. Later he showed up on the property dressed in camouflaged clothing carrying a knife, an air pistol and a stick;
Kovac, of Fremont, has been charged with two counts each of aggravated menacing, inducing panic and carrying concealed weapons. He was also charged with one count of possession of criminal tools.
The Toledo Blade says that they found another knife in his car along with “an Airsoft pistol with a suppressor attached”. So, the dude was 20 years old and I’m guessing that he wasn’t an honorably discharged veteran, and since he didn’t have a real gun, probably not a gun owner or he would have brought that instead of the Airsoft toy. So clearly, his erratic behavior had nothing to do with any military service or the fact that he was a gun nut – so can we blame society and the culture for producing these little creeps yet?
And of course, the media is making a mountain out of this young mole hill, all of the articles are headlined that he was “armed” or came “with a weapon” which is essentially true, but not in the way they want you to understand it.
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Suppressed airsoft gun? lol what?
So if I get tossed out of a bar with a folding knife in my pocket I suppose I’d get similar media treatment. (add to that “crazed veteran with PTSD”) And generally speaking, do airsoft shooters really have “suppressors?” I mean we’re talking about a removable plastic tube with an orange tip here.
Also sounds like it’s time to put limits on airsoft mags. He could have put dozens of eyes out without reloading, when a smaller mag/hopper could have limited him to just 10…
Anyone know what an airsoft supressor suppresses? Was the stick hardwood? Was it loaded? He was smart to have a back-up knife with him in case the first one jammed. But, then, the idiot left it in his car! It was a big one, they reported. That’s a great way to describe anything. “Well, it was big, large in fact.”
Was it an Assault Stick?
The NRA is already putting together a press release recommending that citizens always have a pair of sunglasses handy to counter possible eye injury in the case of a wild airsoft gunman.
For those not familiar with weapons and/or airsoft, an airsoft weapon would be pretty frightening. And while we might argue about the danger of airsoft, there is no questioning the danger of a knife. (I’m assuming, of course, it wasn’t a tiny little pocket knife with nail clippers, or something equally unoffensive.)
And I don’t wish to be abrasive but — it isn’t hard to frighten sheep. The kid with the airsoft knew it.
@5-that was my first thought also
What? A stick? How big was it? Was it freshly cut? Did it have BRANCHES? (very dangerous!) What kind of stick?
Wait!!! Did he steal Gandalf’s walking staff? I only ask, because my quarterstaff, (used for medieval quarterstaff matches where two guys try to beat each other to a pulp with staffs) which I dearly love, is still in its place behind my bedroom door.
Inducing panic with an Airsoft pistol? Maybe howls of laughter, but meh.
Had he used the stick to assault someone, it could properly have been called an assault weapon. As it is, the stick is only a potential assault weapon. Just like the ball point pen I was using earlier today.
Is it just me, or are the crazies just coming out of the woodwork more and more? There’s no full moon until later in the month.
PSD!!!
From what, who knows, just about everyone and their siblings these days claim PSD for every damned thing in life, military or not.
The concept of PSD has been cheapened no doubt.
You can get some work done with a nice piece of hardwood…of course based on that mug shot he looks like a f$cking idiot….so this outcome is not all that surprising…going to jail for being a moron…
I do like the “military style” camouflage comment in the Toledo article…because “sportsmen style” camouflage doesn’t sound as menacing neither does “urban outfitters bubble” style camouflage….
… i actually know him.. the worst part is .. he probably meant no harm.. he has had that camo coat since 8th grade.. and he just always had that stuff in his car
Was it a poo stick?! Never underestimate a stick with poo on the tip. You can chase a guy for hours with a poo stick.
PSD from all that modern warfare? I mean its the same as those “drone” pilots, right?
Did the stick have a branch that looked like a broom stick attachment? Maybe it was painted scary black?
Suppressed Airsoft. What’s next, registering nerf guns with barrels under 16 inches with the ATF?
camouflaged, I guess it didn’t work that well.
I liked #5 comment, “Was it an Assault Stick”?
only if it was full auto.
@19
It oculd have been an assault stick even without full auto capability… did it have a place to mount a rocket launcher?
Sticks must be banned! Do it for the children!
I’ve been watching the news for about two hours now. I have yet to see any response from the white house indicating they will begin introducing stick registration bills, universal background checks on stick owners, or even regulating the length of sticks to be maintained below 10 inches.
But wait, sticks come from trees, trees are manufacturing sticks that anyone and everyone can get to! We need to ban trees ASAP, they aren’t doing background checks on people who get their sticks! Trees can’t be trusted, so they all must be arrested and put behind bars for their disregard for human life because of the sticks they just release willy nilly to anybody.
The left is just so hypocritical, they want to punish law-abiding citizens and let trees run free…
@21 – The only problem is, this country has a BIG PROBLEM with trees. They’re everywhere, and almost everybody has access to them. I think the natural reaction would be that the U.S. Forrest Service start cutting down and burning all the trees. If you need wood to build something, you have to get a permit first.
Other than that, doesn’t Ohio have fairly reasonable gun laws (i.e. conceal carry)? The dude is lucky someone didn’t blow his ass away before the cops showed up.
The subject was wearing military style clothing and that in part caused a panic.
I can see it now, we will be defending the military here in the future with comments like, “the subject was not wearing military style clothing. The particular style used in the offense was a duck hunting pattern.”
Betcha … the clothing will come underfire …
THAT’S IT, WE NEED TO HAVE STRICT STICK CONTROL LAWS!!!!
i drew a stick man once,,i wonder if that makes me a worse,kinda, domestic terrorist now since i’m also a vet?
It’s the fault of the clothing he was wearing. Criminals should required to have a license to wear or own clothing. Regular inspections, too, as to what kind of clothing they have. Criminals are widely known to have a hankering for clothing of all kinds.
We should definitely ban clothing for criminals.
if you ban their clothes,,then they can’t wear their shorts at the knees! yikes!! my eyes are bleeding out on that visual
.. actually its a walmart jacket
@26
He was probably wearing cargo pants. Cargo pants are just assault clothing and should be banned… nobody needs that many pockets.
Good ‘ol “possession of criminal tools,” the catch-all Ohio felony charge for stickin’ it to people.
“Fo’ Shizzle!” I dress up like that with my grandkids who dress the same and we go play airsoft games.
I have been known to dress this way and go run vermin and pests out of the barn and stable.
It was the “ASSAULT CLOTHING” he was wearing and maybe the knife.
“If one cannot now legally pick up sticks then how will we as a nation with forest be able to pick up sticks?”
Now we won’t even be able to play that child’s game Pick-Up Sticks.
The kid is not a violent kid, the area he lives in, everyone wears camouflage, and everyone hunts, shoots and carries knives. Maybe we should ban “redneck” neighborhoods. That and trees, as someone suggested, for leaving assault weapons all over the ground.