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Today's idiot brought to you from Normal, IL
Posted: Wed Jan 07, 2009 11:37 am
by atxgun
http://www.pantagraph.com/shared-conten ... iaid=19819
Robert Sylvester jumps a highway media after waving his gun at police on of I-55/74 in Normal, Illinois, Monday, January 5, 2009. Sylvester was shortly shot by police. He is a suspect in the robbery of Check 'n Go at Market and Hinshaw Streets in Bloomington, Illinois, police said. The suspect fled with an undisclosed amount of cash. Sylvester led police on a high speed chase from Lexington to I-39 before he stopped on I-55/74 just north of Normal Community West High School in Normal. Sylvester was listed in critical condition at a Bloomington hospital (AP photo, The Pantagraph, David Proeber)
Re: Today's idiot brought to you from Normal, IL
Posted: Wed Jan 07, 2009 11:41 am
by agbullet2k1
Cheetah?
Also, finger off the trigger, dude.
Re: Today's idiot brought to you from Normal, IL
Posted: Wed Jan 07, 2009 12:09 pm
by TexasRedRock
At least he wasnt able to shoot any Brothers in Blue. Maybe in jail he can study some gun safety.
Re: Today's idiot brought to you from Normal, IL
Posted: Wed Jan 07, 2009 12:15 pm
by Purplehood
He grew up watching too much TV. I bet he makes a poster of that pic and hangs it proudly in his prison-cell.
Re: Today's idiot brought to you from Normal, IL
Posted: Wed Jan 07, 2009 12:21 pm
by bpet
Doesn't he know that cigarette could kill him?
Re: Today's idiot brought to you from Normal, IL
Posted: Wed Jan 07, 2009 12:23 pm
by stroo
I lived in Normal for a couple of years. Doesn't this guy look a little old to be robbing convenience stores? Maybe he just never learned.
Re: Today's idiot brought to you from Normal, IL
Posted: Wed Jan 07, 2009 12:42 pm
by ProudNativeTexican
The cig is classic.
Re: Today's idiot brought to you from Normal, IL
Posted: Wed Jan 07, 2009 1:22 pm
by cowboymd
Nice to see photo's taken that can help justify the shooting, instead those that are usually taken to bust the LEO's
Re: Today's idiot brought to you from Normal, IL
Posted: Wed Jan 07, 2009 2:14 pm
by Jason73
TexasRedRock wrote:At least he wasnt able to shoot any Brothers in Blue. Maybe in jail he can study some gun safety.
He wont be studying anything in jail, he is taking a dirt nap......
NORMAL, Ill. — A man suspected of robbing four banks died several hours after being shot by police following a high-speed chase around Normal in central Illinois.
Re: Today's idiot brought to you from Normal, IL
Posted: Wed Jan 07, 2009 3:11 pm
by OverEasy
Is it just me, or does that guy in the picture look like our "Longtooth"?
Has anybody seen Longtooth lately?
I'm sorry LT! I was bored and feeling a little froggy today.
Your friend, OE
Re: Today's idiot brought to you from Normal, IL
Posted: Wed Jan 07, 2009 4:05 pm
by DoubleJ
OverEasy wrote:Is it just me, or does that guy in the picture look like our "Longtooth"?
Has anybody seen Longtooth lately?
He's got the Denim thing down. but if it were LT, he'd be sportin' a 1911!
Re: Today's idiot brought to you from Normal, IL
Posted: Wed Jan 07, 2009 4:12 pm
by Jeremae
And you would
never see LT with his finger on trigger as he jumped a barrier
unless he was actually firing at a target.
Re: Today's idiot brought to you from Normal, IL
Posted: Wed Jan 07, 2009 5:13 pm
by TimmyD
Bloomington - Normal.....My hometown. I grew up there, and graduated from Illinois State University which is near where this happened.
I guess he didn't know that it is illegal to have a loaded gun in his car and on his person in Illinois? Fortunately, the law abiding citizens in the immediate area were not confronted by this nutball, because they can't carry to protect themselves.
Just another reason I live in Texas!!
TimmyD
Re: Today's idiot brought to you from Normal, IL
Posted: Wed Jan 07, 2009 5:53 pm
by TexasVet
Re: Today's idiot brought to you from Normal, IL
Posted: Wed Jan 07, 2009 6:00 pm
by nuparadigm
agbullet2k1 wrote: ...
Also, finger off the trigger, dude.
Not only that, but the
wrong part of his finger is on the trigger.
