“I don’t always bring an umbrella to work, but when I do, I get cuffed.”
SAN MARCOS, CA – A SWAT team was deployed and a university campus was locked down when someone suspected that a man carrying his umbrella was actually carrying a firearm.
The breathtaking overreaction occurred at California State University San Marcos (CSUSM) on the rainy Wednesday morning of August 20th, 2014. Staff member Bill Craig, who has worked for the university for 17 years, was walking across campus to his office with his folded-up umbrella.
A paranoid campus busybody spotted Mr. Craig and assumed that his black umbrella was a rifle. The ignorant individual called the police to report a non-police officer bearing arms.
At 9:00 a.m., an order to ‘shelter in place’ was issued, and students and staff members hunkered down as heavily armed police officers descended upon the campus.
‘Immediately… the doors [were] locked and then they took all the chairs and all the tables and barricaded the doors,’ said student James Collins to ABC 10 News. ‘People were kind of freaked out and you could tell that there was a nervous tension.’
San Diego County Sheriff’s deputies – toting rifles of their own – spotted Mr. Craig, who matched the description of the ‘gunman,’ and quickly ‘disarmed’ him of his umbrella.
This post was published at Police State USA on August 30, 2014.
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