3 edits | Sounds more like it was his Cable being disconnected ... ... that triggered the outburst. And besides he had a history of shooting things up:
»www.joplinglobe.com/joplin_metro···topstory
Police Chief Carl Francis said the wife of Walter Hoover, 70, walked to the police station a couple of blocks away and reported that her husband had been drinking, was angry with a shut-off of his cable service, and had gotten his guns out.
The police chief said Hoover’s possession of such a powerful weapon, coupled with information obtained from his wife that he had been in a similar standoff with police on a previous occasion in another Missouri town Sounds like it was more about his cable TV being shut off. No mention in this local news story about a DTV converter.
Looks like Cable One is the Cable TV provider in that area.
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Sammer
join:2005-12-22
Canonsburg, PA | Yes the headline is misleading because it was a digital cable converter that he could not get to work. |
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hga
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Not in Joplin, not brief.... They may have spelled his name correctly but they don't seem to have gotten much else of substance correct:
It wasn't in Joplin, but in the small town of Webb City right outside of Joplin (the Joplin SWAT team was called in since they were available).
His wife reported the problem (she walked a block to the police station), and the standoff was 2 and half hours, not what I'd call brief.
And as has been noted there's no indication it was DTV related, although that's entirely possible. But not necessarily likely given how mush else this story disagrees with all the local media reports I've seen (this is from the other end of the state and adjacent Illinois).
Ah well. |
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| Did you happen to catch a view of the perp ? Did he look and talk like Cletus ? |
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KearnstdElf WizardPremium
join:2002-01-22
Mullica Hill, NJ | reply to fAcEtIOUs
Re: Sounds more like it was his Cable being disconnected ... im guessing he didnt pay his bill on time and went into soft disco.
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 Fluker
join:2005-04-07
West Lafayette, IN | I think it could be read to say that his cable had been shut off and he was trying to get an over the air dtv converter to work.
It's too ambiguous to know for sure.. |
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