Larry Harris had to come all the way to Texas from Arizona (okay, so it’s just a border but it’s a wide border) to run three National Guard vans in a convoy off the highway out in far west Texas. The truck were transporting Covid-19 vaccines to Matador, Texas.

Larry did some damn fancy driving to run them off the road and then spun his truck around and got out with a gun. He told them he was a police officer and wanted to inspect the vans. All 11 guardsmen were being detained by Larry when the Idalou police department responded to the situation.

They don’t have a staff psychologist at the Idalou police department but the officer on the scene said that Larry “appeared to be mentally disturbed.”

It does not appear the vaccines were what Harris was after, officials said. He told police that he thought people in the vans had kidnapped a woman and child, Williams said.

Thank goodness that someone drove by and thought maybe one kinda rickety old guy holding 11 national guardsmen at gunpoint might be odd even if it is Texas.

The vaccine got to Madador and Larry is staying in jail for the night with legal problems.

There are at last half a dozen versions of this story online. They all tell the same basic story but with different highlights.

Thanks to everybody for the heads up.