Man arrested; deputies say he aimed banana at them

[Suzanimal]

Ya just can't make this shit up, smh.

http://i.imgur.com/sIjgiOz.jpg



GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. (AP) — A man is facing a felony menacing charge after two western Colorado sheriff's deputies say he pointed a banana at them and they thought it was a gun.

The Grand Junction Daily Sentinel reports (http://bit.ly/1rqFiVE ) 27-year-old Nathan Rolf Channing, of Fruitvale, was arrested Sunday.

According to an arrest affidavit, Mesa County deputies Joshua Bunch and Donald Love said they feared for their lives even though they saw that the object was yellow. Bunch wrote in the affidavit that he has seen handguns in many shapes and colors.

He wrote that Love was drawing his service weapon when Channing yelled, "It's a banana!"

The deputies say Channing told them he was doing a trial run for a planned YouTube video and he thought it would "lighten the holiday spirit."

http://news.yahoo.com/man-arrested-deputies-aimed-banana-them-014211145.html

[phill4paul]

Lucky he wasn't shot. STAY AWAY from these sociopaths.

[tod evans]

Boogity-boogity! :eek:

[GunnyFreedom]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HktV2yGtLv8

[CCTelander]

Can the calls for stricter "banana control" be far behind?

SMDH

[phill4paul]

At least it wasn't an fully automatic assault banana.

http://www.cookbookpeople.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/Black_Bananas.jpg

[donnay]

*SIGH* they must think the REAL world is a video world.


Banana Bomb

Object » linked to 12 games
The fruit of doom, it is very dangerous at close range. It explodes like the cluster bomb except does a lot more damage.
http://www.giantbomb.com/banana-bomb/3055-412/

[GunnyFreedom]

At least it wasn't an fully automatic assault banana.

http://www.cookbookpeople.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/Black_Bananas.jpg

http://reho.st/http://libertyunyield.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/zzzzAssault-Rifle-Because-I-Am-Black.jpg (http://reho.st/fullsize/http://libertyunyield.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/zzzzAssault-Rifle-Because-I-Am-Black.jpg)

[phill4paul]

http://reho.st/http://libertyunyield.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/zzzzAssault-Rifle-Because-I-Am-Black.jpg (http://reho.st/fullsize/http://libertyunyield.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/zzzzAssault-Rifle-Because-I-Am-Black.jpg)

Yes. Yes, it is.

[specsaregood]

I demand orange tips on the ends of all bananas from now on!

[Suzanimal]

I demand orange tips on the ends of all bananas from now on!

I don't think Occam's Banana's gonna go for that.


http://i.imgur.com/LCnWcPs.png?1

[phill4paul]

I don't think Occam's Banana's gonna go for that.


http://i.imgur.com/LCnWcPs.png?1

Oh. Oh, my. Lol. That is one of the funniest things I've seen around these parts in some time. Not enough plus rep in the world. Lol.

[brushfire]

http://worth1000.s3.amazonaws.com/submissions/181000/181098_603e_625x1000.jpg

[unconsious767]

The guy is from Fruitvale, and one of the cops is named Bunch? LOL

[presence]

A man from Fruitvale pointed a banana at officer Bunch and is facing felony menacing charges.
A man from Fruitvale pointed a banana at officer Bunch and is facing felony menacing charges.
A man from Fruitvale pointed a banana at officer Bunch and is facing felony menacing charges.

[oyarde]

These cops are mentally challenged . If you have to have them , maybe they could start somewhere other than the bottom of the gene pool .

[acptulsa]

http://reho.st/http://libertyunyield.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/zzzzAssault-Rifle-Because-I-Am-Black.jpg (http://reho.st/fullsize/http://libertyunyield.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/zzzzAssault-Rifle-Because-I-Am-Black.jpg)

That and you have a thing that goes up.


A man from Fruitvale pointed a banana at officer Bunch and is facing felony menacing charges.
A man from Fruitvale pointed a banana at officer Bunch and is facing felony menacing charges.
A man from Fruitvale pointed a banana at officer Bunch and is facing felony menacing charges.

Are you denying that a banana peel can fell the mightiest of law enforcement officers? A great many instances are well documented on film.

'Hollywood started when the Keystone Kops tripped over a well-placed banana peel.'--Jerry Lewis

[GunnyFreedom]

Reality is becoming a satire of itself.

[GunnyFreedom]

I don't think Occam's Banana's gonna go for that.


http://i.imgur.com/LCnWcPs.png?1
That is literally the funniest thing I have seen in ages...

[acptulsa]

These cops are mentally challenged . If you have to have them , maybe they could start somewhere other than the bottom of the gene pool .

Party pooper.


Reality is becoming a satire of itself.

It's the new tactic in the war on drugs. They're trying to make reality so bizarre we don't need drugs any more.

[GunnyFreedom]

It's the new tactic in the war on drugs. They're trying to make reality so bizarre we don't need drugs any more.

http://reho.st/http://www.motherjones.com/files/bush_mission_accomplished.jpg (http://reho.st/fullsize/http://www.motherjones.com/files/bush_mission_accomplished.jpg)

[JK/SEA]

geezus H who ha...i'm about ready to curl up into a fetal position and call it a day...this effin country is beyond Idiocracy...

[CPUd]

http://i.imgur.com/bM1TCA5.gif

[GunnyFreedom]

Spot price for potash: $287.00/mt

[Suzanimal]

:eek: An assault banana!


http://i.imgur.com/bM1TCA5.gif

[Suzanimal]

The cops need more training...


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=piWCBOsJr-w&feature=youtu.be

[pcosmar]

A man from Fruitvale pointed a banana at officer Bunch and is facing felony menacing charges.
A man from Fruitvale pointed a banana at officer Bunch and is facing felony menacing charges.
A man from Fruitvale pointed a banana at officer Bunch and is facing felony menacing charges.

that really needs a jury trial.

A Nationally televised Jury Trial.
accompanied by the Full Disclosure of how much it cost to bring this fanciful charge against the man.

Followed by a public hanging or the Prosecutor who brought those charges and billed the taxpayers.

[GunnyFreedom]

If hollyweird wrote this story, people could not suspend enough disbelief to make it successful.

[Occam's Banana]

h/t SeanTX: http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?463605-Cleveland-cop-shoots-12yo-boy-carrying-BB-gun&p=5714682&viewfull=1#post5714682

Man arrested after pointing banana at police
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/colorado-man-arrested-after-pointing-banana-at-police/
Crimesider CBS News/AP (27 November 2014)

A man is facing a felony menacing charge, because two Colorado sheriff's deputies say they thought a banana he pointed at them was a gun.

Nathan Rolf Channing, 27, was arrested Sunday, according to the Grand Junction Daily Sentinel (http://www.gjsentinel.com/news/articles/man-tells-deputies-aiming-a-banana-was-stunt-hes-j).

According to an arrest affidavit, Mesa County deputies Joshua Bunch and Donald Love said Channing pointed the fruit at them while crossing a street.

The deputies said they feared for their lives even though they saw that the object was yellow. Bunch wrote in the affidavit that he has seen handguns in many shapes and colors.

He wrote that Love was drawing his service weapon when Channing, of Fruitvale, Colo. yelled, "It's a banana!"

Yes, the man accused of pointing a banana at police is from Fruitvale.

And yes, one of the police officers he pointed the banana at is named Bunch.

And, no, we didn't make this up.

The deputies say Channing told them he was doing a trial run for a planned YouTube video and he thought it would "lighten the holiday spirit."

Any other ideas?

[Suzanimal]

http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?463771-Man-arrested-deputies-say-he-aimed-banana-at-them

[Occam's Banana]

How the hell did I miss this thread?

[SeanTX]

Cops routinely point loaded weapons at people -- like when they stopped all those people at an intersection in Aurora, CO after a bank robbery, they were pointing shotguns at kids.

However, that is not "felony menacing" .... :mad:

[Suzanimal]

How the hell did I miss this thread?

I dunno but you better put an orange tip on your banana.:p

[Dr.3D]

Well, I guess we can't disguise a pistol to look like banana and get away with anything.

[green73]

Maybe the cops read this forum. I mean, Occam is a deadly weapon of sorts.

[otherone]

Banana-proof vests for all our heroes!

[Occam's Banana]

I demand orange tips on the ends of all bananas from now on!


I don't think Occam's Banana's gonna go for that.

http://i.imgur.com/LCnWcPs.png?1

:eek: Another entry for the list of shenanigans of which I am disapprove ...


I dunno but you better put an orange tip on your banana.:p

Never! You'll have to pry my non-orange-tipped banana from my cold dead hands!

[Suzanimal]

Never! You'll have to pry my non-orange-tipped banana from my cold dead hands!

Was that a challenge?:p

[SeanTX]

Banana pointed at cops -- felony menacing. Cops point loaded shotgun and pistol at an innocent kid? Proper procedures were followed:

http://www.informationliberation.com/files/aurora-brutality1.jpg

[Cissy]

So, the government employees confronted idiocy by engaging in greater idiocy?

[Occam's Banana]

So, the government employees confronted idiocy by engaging in greater idiocy?

Circular Idiocy Continuum

[Henry Rogue]

First, school kids with pop tarts, now a man with a banana. What is the world coming to?

[Cissy]

First, school kids with pop tarts, now a man with a banana. What is the world coming to?

http://stream1.gifsoup.com/view/178902/banana-defense-o.gif

http://assets.diylol.com/hfs/b89/d9f/0be/resized/monty-python-meme-generator-and-that-my-liege-is-how-we-know-the-earth-to-be-banana-shaped-8c7561.jpg?1357017790.jpg

[Anti Federalist]

Man arrested; deputies say he aimed banana at them

http://news.yahoo.com/man-arrested-deputies-aimed-banana-them-014211145.html

GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. (AP) — A man is facing a felony menacing charge after two western Colorado sheriff's deputies say he pointed a banana at them and they thought it was a gun.

The Grand Junction Daily Sentinel reports (http://bit.ly/1rqFiVE ) 27-year-old Nathan Rolf Channing, of Fruitvale, was arrested Sunday.

According to an arrest affidavit, Mesa County deputies Joshua Bunch and Donald Love said they feared for their lives even though they saw that the object was yellow. Bunch wrote in the affidavit that he has seen handguns in many shapes and colors.

He wrote that Love was drawing his service weapon when Channing yelled, "It's a banana!"

The deputies say Channing told them he was doing a trial run for a planned YouTube video and he thought it would "lighten the holiday spirit."

[GunnyFreedom]

//

[Schifference]

We should all feel safer now. At least the police were not physically hurt. Obviously there could be emotional trauma to deal with.

[Suzanimal]

http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?463771-Man-arrested-deputies-say-he-aimed-banana-at-them&highlight=banana

[Origanalist]

"It's a banana!"

Lord save us.

[SeanTX]

Meanwhile, elsewhere in CO, in Aurora cops can point shotguns, rifles, and handguns at people (including kids) just for being in the vicinity of a bank robbery.

However, point a piece of fruit at cops and it's a felony. It just shows that they really are a higher class of citizens.

[morfeeis]

How do they know he wasn't offering the leo's a bite?

[TheTexan]

I know you guys are all making jokes, but this is serious business. Had that banana been a real weapon, such as an airsoft gun or a bb gun, an officer would have had no choice but to put him down.

And this decision happens in milliseconds. It has to -- or a cop could get hurt.

[TheTexan]

Dangerous job.

[newbitech]

how is it physically possible for these cops to arrest this man after he gave them the slip?

shenanigans.

[otherone]

how is it physically possible for these cops to arrest this man after he gave them the slip?

shenanigans.
I heard they peeled after him.


sorry

[jmdrake]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BmPrt_gn-eM

[Occam's Banana]

Shameless necro-bump.

(Also, the link to the story in the OP no longer works - but the one in this post still does.)

https://twitter.com/Occams_Banana/status/1706405736278859999
https://i.imgur.com/jQ8dmie.png