Choose Your Weapon Carefully

You just can’t make stuff like this up, even if you were crazy.

It seems that Pennsylvania law enforcement officers shot some chainsaw wielding moron 13 times yesterday.

“ Henkle, 40, allegedly struck Trooper Michael Hartzel in the shoulder, lower back and buttocks with the saw. The trooper was treated for minor injuries at a hospital and released."

"Henkle called 911 early Monday and said he was having a heart attack, but when police and an ambulance arrived, he was outside the house with the chain saw running, said Capt. Kenneth Hill, commander of the state police barracks at Wyoming.”

I know that I often get confused trying to decide whether to spend my afternoon cutting firewood with my new Stihl Chainsaw as apposed to having a Myocardial Infarction.

“About 10 state and local officers formed a semicircle around Henkle and ordered him to drop the chain saw, but he revved the saw and refused to put it down, Hill said."

"Police said they used pepper spray, then fired when Henkle lunged at Hartzel.”

Needless to say Mr. Henkle a.k.a. ”Paul Bunyan” was killed in the process.

He obviously had been watching too many video games or “Conan the Barbarian” sword wielding movies to be stupid enough to take on ten guys with 9 mm pistols.

In a follow-up interview after being released from the hospital for treatment of his injuries, Trooper Hartzel reported that the big blue Ox “Babe” was quite a tasty feature at the Policeman’s Benevolent League cookout…..

Sorry…just kidding ;-)