BOSTON (Reuters) - A Maine attorney who released information in 2000 about President George W. Bush's drunken driving conviction was arrested on Tuesday after he dressed up as al Qaeda leader
Osama bin Laden and waved a fake gun at traffic.
Police in South Portland, Maine, arrested Thomas Connolly, 49, of Scarborough, Maine, and charged him with criminal threatening. He was released on bail, local officials said.
Lt. Todd Bernard said the police department received calls about a man wearing Middle Eastern garb and a bin Laden mask and carrying fake dynamite standing along an interstate highway. When police arrived, they saw Connolly holding a gun.
The gun was also fake; the article continues to say that Connolly was "trying to protest a planned change in local tax rules."
"I didn't expect to be arrested," he said. "Obviously I touched a post-9/11 nerve."
What? In what world could this possibly have been a good idea? Even pre-9/11, when nobody had ever heard of Osama bin Laden, I should think carrying fake dynamite and waving a gun at traffic would be a stupid thing to do.
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