Texas, Sit Down and Shut Up
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.
Arizona doesn’t border Texas
1sounds like he might be a ‘Q’ believer
2I’d have thought three vans worth of national guards would have at least one gun? You know, for defense or something?
3Larry, just doing his bit to support President Biden’s call for gun safety legislation.
Many people have suggested insurance companies as a tool in regulating gun safety. Yep. Act the fool like Larry and whatever company insures your weapon may pass on your details to the company insuring your vehicle, too. Behind them may be your home insurance agency to remove your kitchen knives. But Larry? Unless they remove your more common/harmless cutlery such as butter knives, forks and spoons, they may cut off your electricity in the interest of keeping you safe from yourself the next time you have one of your hold my beer moments.
Let the actuary tables assess Larry and others like him as to the “rights” to bear arms.
4BillR … re: national guard and guns.
Why would you think national guard units doing transport duty in Texas would need weapons?
They probably don’t carry weapons while carrying out a search and rescue after a hurricane, either.
For what it is worth, virtually ALL military bases on US soil are gun-free zones. Those who need a weapon for some purpose stop at an armory and check it out.
5First time I can recall New Mexico referred to as “just a border but it’s a wide border.”
Not wide enough, apparently.
6That was supposed to be a joke. I failed. Again.
7That was supposed to be a joke. Didn’t work.
8got the joke on 2nd read
9s. @ 2: Yup, makes you wonder if he thought they were delivering small children to pizzarias all over the southwest.
10Hahaha! My farmer relatives live in the suburbs of lovely Cone, Tx, which is on the outskirts of the larger metropolis of Idalou! I’ll have to ask them about this
11The military is very particular about not giving free access to weapons for twenty- year old young men.
E.G., see recent events in Boulder, CO.
12As a former resident of Matador, Texas, I have to say that this is literally the first time I have ever seen the name of that little town mentioned in any news story. It’s not even as big as Cone.
13JJ, you didn’t fail. It was very funny. People in New Mexico might take exception, but I liked it. It’s like we in Alaska refer to Seattle…well, never mind.
14Damn Big Government, getting in the way of Libertarian Larry’s god given Freedumb!!!
15At least his future is secured as now Fox ‘Hate’ News will hire him as a political consultant, Ammon Bundy will task him to bring the snacks at the next anti-government militant meeting and Louie Gohmert will rant quote him on the House floor.
AK Lynne @13 – we in New Mexico refer to mistakes or jokes like this to be yet another example of “one of our fifty is missing” stories.
16“ he thought people in the vans had kidnapped a woman and child”
Just a simple case of mistaken identity, by a person with a gun who believes it takes 3 vans to kidnap 2 people.
17I expected Texas to have enough crazy without needing to import from Arizona.
I mentioned the story to my spouse … and her first assumption was the person stopping the NG vans would be “Florida Man.”
The other thing which occurred to both of us … why does it take 3 vans to deliver vaccines to Matador, TX. I was curious enough to go look: “Its population was 607 at the 2010 census.” And a more recent estimate is 799. Data USA says “a population of 805 people.” Just how big are the syringes in Texas?
18Population increase a third in a decade? There must be something unusually attractive there.
Is this one of those rarish examples of a no-nonsense country constable out performing the big city bulls?
19Another mentally unstable character with a gun and a pickup. This is not surprising. Wonder if he was also hearing voices.
20P.P., too funny!
21That the Guards weren’t armed suggests there’s no black market yet for covid vaccine. So that’s something.
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