Althouse: "A state employee was arrested on suspicion of endangering safety with a dangerous weapon Thursday in relation to an argument over a balloon in the Capitol."

July 28, 2011

"A state employee was arrested on suspicion of endangering safety with a dangerous weapon Thursday in relation to an argument over a balloon in the Capitol."

"Dane County District Attorney Ismael Ozanne could not be reached to say how long it would take to decide whether to charge the employee. The charge the Capitol Police are recommending is a misdemeanor."

22 comments:

rhhardin said...: Balloons are victims, not counting the Hindenberg ("For God's sake close cover before striking").

I don't know if they allowed cutlery on the Hindenberg.; 7/28/11, 7:21 PM
traditionalguy said...: You see the trouble we have caused by these no smoking rules.

15 years ago this swordsman would have popped her balloon with a lit cigarette.

No mess, no bloody hands and no Crime.; 7/28/11, 7:21 PM
The Crack Emcee said...: "A state employee was arrested on suspicion of endangering safety with a dangerous weapon Thursday in relation to an argument over a balloon in the Capitol."

"Dangerous weapon"? YEAH RIGHT.; 7/28/11, 7:26 PM
mesquito said...: Madison, Wisconsin, surely supplies enough passive-aggressive bullshit for the whole damn hemisphere.; 7/28/11, 7:27 PM
Carol_Herman said...: It's like getting news from Osl0o. Glad they can keep busy.

I guess the state worker was wrong to take a knife with him to work?

Then, of course, there's the DNA evidence going against him.

Is this what is called a tempest in a tea pot?; 7/28/11, 7:36 PM
rhhardin said...: Endangering safety would be something like mocking the people in charge.

Safety would be made ridiculous.

It would no longer work. It's in danger.

Engangering a balloon carrier is another matter, but they'd have to prove that.

Apparently if you surround your charge with enough gas then nobody notices that the units are wrong.; 7/28/11, 7:52 PM
edutcher said...: When balloon knives are outlawed...; 7/28/11, 7:54 PM
Heart_Collector said...: Get a fuckin life.; 7/28/11, 7:56 PM
TosaGuy said...: So what does an anti-walker person have to do get charged by the Dane County DA? Let's start a pool. I'll go with 1st degree murder downgraded to a disorderly conduct citation.; 7/28/11, 8:01 PM
Chuck66 said...: You popped my balloon. I'm gonna tell mom. Maaaaaaaaaaaaa. He took my balloon!!; 7/28/11, 8:03 PM
Trooper York said...: I bet that guy was wishing that Meade was filming him then?; 7/28/11, 8:04 PM
Chuck66 said...: Seriously, do Madison wackos realize how stupid they look when the popping of a balloon is the headline right now? That they are throwing a fit over the death of a balloon. Good fucking god. There is mass starvation in the horn of Africa. Norway just had 80 people murdered by one guy. There is a drought of Biblical scale in Texas. The nation is trillions of dollars in debt and may go broke.

The headlines in Madison? "Balloon popping creates scandel".

(For the record...I am commenting on the general population making a big deal of this, not Althouse blog covering the brewah.); 7/28/11, 8:10 PM
Heart_Collector said...: The emergence of ballon fetishes lately in porn circulation is disturbing...

How does that start...

Akward.; 7/28/11, 8:12 PM
Mary Beth said...: Paid leave and he doesn't have to get balloons off the ceiling.; 7/28/11, 8:23 PM
Paul said...: Aw geeze....

Can't these people get with it?

I read of babies drowning in swimming pools, little girls being kidnapped (or worse), robberies, murders, and these yo-yo's worry about a employee popping balloons with a, what, knife of some sort?

There really are some criminals out there, but this guy was not one.; 7/28/11, 8:57 PM
William said...: Paradox alert: The protestors who are protesting for the rights of state workers deny the balloon popping rights of a state worker.; 7/28/11, 10:17 PM
el polacko said...: why do californians get all the grief about being loony when there is stuff like this going on in wisconsin ?!; 7/29/11, 2:53 AM
Curious George said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 7/29/11, 8:08 AM
gerry said...: How m much lighter-than-air-gas is inside the skulls of Madison citizens?; 7/29/11, 8:08 AM
Curious George said...: The solution to the balloon problem.; 7/29/11, 8:13 AM
Monkeyboy said...: One of the things my parents taught me early was "don't make extra work for other people." Apparently the protesters never learned that.
You can do things in the aftermath of this. Realize that your narcissism affects actual blue-collar workers or continue to think that the world revolves around you as martyr to the cause.
It's obvious from the news article which one the left in Madison has chesen.
I'd hate to be a janitor, stockboy or waitress in that town.; 7/29/11, 8:22 AM
purplepenquin said...: How many of thousands (millions?) of $$$ does the WiGOP estimate it costs to clean up a popped balloon?; 7/29/11, 12:11 PM