China Posted August 6, 2004 Share Posted August 6, 2004 Stupid lawyers.:doh: Workers Scurry for Cover in BB Battle By Bill Bryan Of the Post-Dispatch 08/02/2004 Marietta Young peered out the glass door of her office at an unnerving sight. Pacing in the hallway of the upscale office building in west St. Louis County, just a couple of feet away, was a man wearing a blue shirt and holding a pistol. "I didn't know what to think, but it was scary," said Young, a receptionist for the Tom James Co., a clothier. "At one point he stopped and peeped at me." Young hid under her desk and asked her boss to call the police. Other people in the building had also spotted the gunman Friday afternoon and called for help as well. St. Louis County police rushed to the scene, ready for a violent confrontation. Officers arrived to find six to eight women hiding in cars, in closets and under desks at the three-story brick building at 12101 Woodcrest Executive Drive, just off of Olive Boulevard, west of Interstate 270. Some told police they had seen two men with handguns. As police searched, they were met by Melinda Hagaman, who works at a business in the building; she told them not to worry. "I knew it had to be the lawyers from down the hall," she said in an interview Monday. "They had done this before." Police said they discovered that two lawyers who work in the building apparently had engaged in a BB gun fight with each other. Police arrested one of them, Gary K. Burger, 37, and booked him on suspicion of flourishing a dangerous and deadly weapon, a felony. Police have not yet sought formal charges from the prosecutor's office. Burger refused to talk to the officers, police said, but the BB pistol, which they said looks like a real gun, was seized. Police had been unable to locate the other lawyer, and he has not been arrested. But a case against him will be presented to the prosecutor at the same time as the case against Burger, said a county police spokesman, Officer Mason Keller. Neither lawyer was available for comment Monday. Hagaman said she had sought out Burger later Friday and told him that police were looking for him. She said he left and then returned and talked with officers. Burger specializes in personal injury, auto accidents, workers' compensation and medical malpractice cases. Hagaman, 25, said she immediately knew what was going on Friday because she got caught in a crossfire between the BB-fighting lawyers about a month ago. "I was outside on a break and I got shot in the finger and shoulder," she said. "Boys will be boys, but I was mad," she said. "I grabbed one of their guns and shot back at them." Hagaman did not appear to still be angry when interviewed Monday, but she said she can understand why others panicked. "I can see where somebody could get freaked out, seeing the gun," she said. "That's understandable." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stu Posted August 6, 2004 Share Posted August 6, 2004 How many of you use to do this as kids to put and end to the "I shot you"/"No you didn't" debates when playing "army"? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Destino Posted August 6, 2004 Share Posted August 6, 2004 Originally posted by Stu How many of you use to do this as kids to put and end to the "I shot you"/"No you didn't" debates when playing "army"? And now we know why paint ball was invented. "I shot you biatch and theirs a big orange spot on your @ss to prove it!" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stu Posted August 6, 2004 Share Posted August 6, 2004 Originally posted by Destino And now we know why paint ball was invented. "I shot you biatch and theirs a big orange spot on your @ss to prove it!" Admittedly safer, but somehow just doesn't have the primitive charm of the BB wars. How I lament progress. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larry Posted August 6, 2004 Share Posted August 6, 2004 Originally posted by China Police arrested one of them, Gary K. Burger, 37, and booked him on suspicion of flourishing a dangerous and deadly weapon, a felony. Police have not yet sought formal charges from the prosecutor's office. Anybody think this is a rational allocation of taxpayer money? I'd think the prosecutors office is hitting the books right now, trying to find something rational to charge the guy with. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Montilar Posted August 6, 2004 Share Posted August 6, 2004 If the frigging morons had hit themselves in the eye, maybe they'd learn. Unfortunately they'd likely hit an innocent bystander and not each other. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thiebear Posted August 7, 2004 Share Posted August 7, 2004 They can probably get prosecuted under some terrorism law.. The 6-8 women hiding under desks and such fearing for their lives due to all the office shootings? 2 million down the drain but if they can get 2 terrorist or 2 lawyers off the streets the end justifies the means Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SkinsBry Posted August 7, 2004 Share Posted August 7, 2004 Originally posted by Destino And now we know why paint ball was invented. "I shot you biatch and theirs a big orange spot on your @ss to prove it!" Unless you know how to wipe, sliding into a bunker is a good way. Not that I do it, I'm an honest paintballer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skinned Posted August 8, 2004 Share Posted August 8, 2004 I am just in disbelief that there are 2 grown men, not to mention lawyers, running around the workplace with guns (who cares that they are BB guns). Were they summers? :laugh: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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