Ohio man charged with ramming into White House perimeter to leave political graffiti

[Ignostic?]

http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/201...e-house-perimeter-to-leave-political-graffiti

This is a close friend of mine. I suppose I probably won't be seeing him for a while now. We disagreed on a lot of things, but dude had passion. I like passionate people. He took it a bit far this time. I don't understand what exactly his goal was with doing this. I'm probably on some government list now due to association, so I'm a bit annoyed. Makes we wonder how many other people out there might be ready to snap.

 

[Reason]

Dictionary definition of counterproductive...

 

[RickyJ]

He is lucky to be alive. You can spray paint the lawn in photoshop much easier and legally, no need to actually spray paint it.

 

[Mani]

So he just linked "Don't tread on me" during his attempt to slam his vehicle onto white house grounds and spray paint it?

 

[Ignostic?]

Yeah, he definitely wasn't thinking straight. At least there wasn't any violence involved. The ammunition in his car is probably because he worked as an armed security guard and just likes to make sure he's prepared for whatever. He was a damned good security guard. Lived to protect people. Most of the knives in the car were probably for giving away to girls for self defense, which he did on a regular basis along with teaching them how to use it. There was at least one girl that claimed to have used a knife Joe gave her to scare away a would be attacker.

Joe is definitely a bit nutty. He put up a Youtube video rant before he did this, but I didn't get more than 30 seconds into it before deciding I didn't want to watch it, so I'm not going to link to it here. Instead I'll post this video I made with him in it.



So that's the guy that tried to run his Jeep through White House security. The sword in that video is very likely one of the "machetes" found in his car. It's a replica from the movie, "300". He liked that movie a little too much.

 

[Ignostic?]

I should also mention that I had no idea he was going to do what he did.

 

[Reason]

I sorta feel like this should be in hot topics

 

[Ignostic?]

I sorta feel like this should be in hot topics

I wasn't really sure where to post it, so I went with what seemed the most vague category. I'm also not really sure of what "hot topics" is supposed to be for. I wouldn't care if somebody wanted to move this post.