Fun With Guns: Rental Car Edition
Okay, so you’re a supermodel princess married to a famous quarterback. You go get a rental car at the Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport and then return it two hours later for another car.
There was just one problem: she forgot to grab her AR-15.
The vehicle was subsequently rented by a New York woman and her daughter, but they drove it for two days before spotting the bag that contained the weapon. Alarmed, the woman’s daughter quickly jumped out of the vehicle to get away from the weapon.
Lauren Tannehill is the supermodel wife of Miami Dolphins quarterback Ryan Tannehill.
No laws were broken.
She’s blonde, y’all. And apparently ready to shoot your butt.
Thanks to AggielandLiz for the heads up.
And she didn’t miss her AR-15 for two days, after leaving it unsecured in a rental car? That’s gross negligence and proof of unfitness to own a firearm. Weapon should be confiscated & destroyed, and her record marked with “Do not sell firearms to this woman.”
As for the scared kid…that’s sad, really. It’s not going to bite her, when not in the hands of a supermodel football player’s wife. I think everyone should know enough about firearms to know that if you don’t pick them up and wave them around, or stick them down your pants–if you just don’t touch them–they’re not going to do you harm. The important thing with “found” firearms is to make sure no one else grabs them and does something dangerous with them…ideally, give them to law enforcement who should (with all firearms found unsecured in cars, dumpsters, fields, etc.) destroy them.
1Yep. Just another responsible gun owner.
1) did she call the rental company to check the car?
2) did she call the police to report her missing cannon?
3) did she call her insurance company to report it lost?
4) can she find her way home from the corner store?
Coach should ban her from team events because she’s irresponsible. She might shoot a ref for reaching for a flag. Can you imagine what might happen if she ever suspected her husband was having an affair?
Good Grief.
2JJ, you are right about the stupid, but I take exception on the blond remark. She’s obviously a bleached blond. Natural blonds, like me, are smart, rational, mostly pleasant people who know better than to own an AR-15, much less leave one in a rental car.
3I’m not fond of blond stereotyping, although I still love some of those who indulge in it!
🙂
I’ll be honest. When I first read this story……. it was hard to figure out. Tannehill is an Aggie. So, is this another Aggie joke….????
Or….is this another story about one more “dumb blonde Super Model”???? Albeit one with that obviously feels the need to carry around an assault rifle.
Just wonderin’
4Another example of treating a gun like a toy.
5Since the weapon was missed when the car was turned in by Tannehill how do we know it was not missed before when the car was turned in by the previous renter before Tannehill? I have rented cars quite a few times and the rental company always gave the cars a good”looking over” when I turned them in.
6Supermodel. Assault rifle. C’mon people, be nice. Everybody knows an AR-15 goes with anything. The perfect fashion accessory. And the bullets make great earrings!
7She got confused and thought she had an unwanted child and decided to leave it in the car so someone else would take it in. This is what happens when abortions are outlawed. Only idiot fake blondes will leave guns in rental cars.
8EPO: Don’t know if the “idiot fake blonds” was for my sake, but I thank you anyway!!
9LOL!
Lorrain in Spring-accordsing to the Sporting News,Tannehill called the rental agency but wouldn’t tell them what they left behind,so the agency apparently didn’t take them seriously. The gun was under the folded down back seat which is why it was not noticed right away.
Ms Jan,It certainly wasn’t aimed at any of JJ’s clientele. Lauren Tannehill looks like she needs her hide tanned. Her face it turned just ghostly,turned a whiter,shade of pale. 🙂
10Are we all really sure that was her AR-15?
She doesn’t strike me as the type to pick up such a weapon. AR-15 is a “to whom it may concern” sort of thing. She strikes me as more direct, more like a Remington 700 bolt action caliber 308 with a 3×9 Bushnell IR scope. Course I could be wrong. My little bride likes my 12 gauge. Go figure!
11I betcha the rental car folks will scan returned vehicles a lot more carefully for awhile now.
12Wow, Ryan! You allowed her out of the house without a keeper? Its all on you, fella!
13El Gunno is registered to Ryan Tannehill. Cost 2 grand. If I owned something that cost 2 grand I’d damn sure remember where it was 24/7.
14They didn’t find it when they cleaned the car. Hmm….
15e platypus onion, things that go gohmert in the night, registered to Ryan. Maybe the Bambi is not certified to carry?
Mama, and all the ladies present, I do apologize for what might appear to be a sexist remark. If I offended anyone, I apologize again. My promise is that I love women, especially my wife, and Lauren offends me on behalf of women. It’s just that stupid and Republican is not something I can reconcile with the women I know. I am a lucky guy.
16@ Marge #12- Among the first questions that ought to be asked is what was this twit doing with a semiautomatic rifle in a rental car in the first place then the rental company can start wondering about why it wasn’t found during the turnaround.
17OK. Pick pick pick, but this drives me crazy. Few models are super models, gracing international covers of Vogue, Harpers and their equivalents. They are the extraordinary few, and football tart is not in that league. She has the all-American Beach Boys California girl look, and here’s where I invoke the terms Barbie and cookie cutter. Of course I googled her, and she is a former Texas A&M cheerleader, who loves to shoot guns. Classy. As I tell everyone, mostly men, when they see women like her: if the head was disembodied, hair pulled back, you would see that the sum of her features, is basically boring, often wouldn’t even qualify as attractive, especially if that yellow hair color was instead brunette or dish water. Unfortunately eyes glaze over when presented with the entire package which includes a dynamite body below the neck, and the [usually] blonde hair. Elegance and sophistication are nowhere to be found, but who’s looking?
I’m wondering when she’ll produce an error, er, I mean heir.
18“Oh look,hubby bought me flowers,again. That means I’ll spend the weekend with my legs in the air.” “What’sa matter,hon? Don’t you have a vase?”
19Clarification: Aggies don’t have cheerleaders. They have yell leaders. Traditionally that role has always been held by men and I don’t think that has changed.
A bio I found of Lauren lists her as a “cheerleader.” I’m going to assume it was in high school or junior high. It certainly was never at A&M or it would have listed “yell leader.”
Further, she graduated in 2010 with a major in Communications, confirmed on the Aggie alumni site. It might not be engineering (my major), but you don’t get out of A&M with ANY degree without a brain cell or two to rub together.
I admit to be ashamed to call anyone a fellow Ag who would leave a gun behind, call to report a missing item, and refuse to say what was left behind. If nothing else, it was a huge safety issue.
Then again, our Governor was both an Ag and a yell leader. I don’t think much of him, either, and told him as much in a letter when he held the Ethics Commission budget hostage last spring.
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