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I was sitting at my table at the gunshow yesterday, and things were pretty dead.
So I was watching my good buddy across from me make a sale, and feeling pretty jealous.
His table was about 10' right, and 10' across the isle from me, "kitty corner" I guess...
Anyway I had a great view of his "costumers" left hand... which was holding a large silver folding knife...
as my buddy was helping said man with a purchase, the guy had slyly picked up a ~$300 ZT folding knife from the table, and I watched as he replaced it on its box with a similar color/size item with skillful slight of hand, all while talking to my buddy and making a purchase at the same time.
He had the knife palmed in his left hand and he held it at his side for a minute then slipped into his left coat pocket.
I was a little confused at first.. not sure of what I was seeing. Maybe he was buying the knife? He did just hand over some cash... So as he was walking away I called my buddy over and asked if he bought that knife...
Then the fun started.
He hadn't got far, but when confronted he denied everything... Security came over and started questioning. He acted very offended, and asked who claimed they saw him take it, and about 6 fingers pointed at me from across the room...
Dude marches over to me and asked what I think I saw... I said "I saw you put a silver knife in your pocket"... I even gave him an out and said "maybe you picked it up and mistakingly put it in your pocket out of habit.. I used to do it with lighters back when.."
"Nope" he said, and started walking away..
My buddy had sold him $150 worth of stuff, and the people he was with spent 10x that at the table next to him, so he started to question me...am I sure I saw what I saw?
So now I'm looking like a bad guy, but know what I saw.
The guy had walked off and was all the way to the far corner of the building(a security guard following closely behind just in case)when Puallup PD came over...
I told the officer what I saw, and he went down and made the guy empty his pockets... only knife in his pocket was a black auto...which is illegal in WA.
But... security found the knife on the corner table in a bargain bin that the guy just happened to be looking through a minute earlier.
To make a long story a little shorter...
He went to jail, and come to find out he was scamming his "friends"(turns out his boss) out of money too. He had talked them into letting him build a high end AR10 and had taken thousands from him and had nothing to show for it.
So a stupid decision to steal a knife likely just cost him his gun rights, his job, and his freedom.
Not only did he steal, he was carrying an illegal knife. It's stupid and I don't like WA knife laws, but I follow them anyway.. but in my book there is no lower deed than stealing.
Mygrainman to the rescue!
So I was watching my good buddy across from me make a sale, and feeling pretty jealous.
His table was about 10' right, and 10' across the isle from me, "kitty corner" I guess...
Anyway I had a great view of his "costumers" left hand... which was holding a large silver folding knife...
as my buddy was helping said man with a purchase, the guy had slyly picked up a ~$300 ZT folding knife from the table, and I watched as he replaced it on its box with a similar color/size item with skillful slight of hand, all while talking to my buddy and making a purchase at the same time.
He had the knife palmed in his left hand and he held it at his side for a minute then slipped into his left coat pocket.
I was a little confused at first.. not sure of what I was seeing. Maybe he was buying the knife? He did just hand over some cash... So as he was walking away I called my buddy over and asked if he bought that knife...
Then the fun started.
He hadn't got far, but when confronted he denied everything... Security came over and started questioning. He acted very offended, and asked who claimed they saw him take it, and about 6 fingers pointed at me from across the room...
Dude marches over to me and asked what I think I saw... I said "I saw you put a silver knife in your pocket"... I even gave him an out and said "maybe you picked it up and mistakingly put it in your pocket out of habit.. I used to do it with lighters back when.."
"Nope" he said, and started walking away..
My buddy had sold him $150 worth of stuff, and the people he was with spent 10x that at the table next to him, so he started to question me...am I sure I saw what I saw?
So now I'm looking like a bad guy, but know what I saw.
The guy had walked off and was all the way to the far corner of the building(a security guard following closely behind just in case)when Puallup PD came over...
I told the officer what I saw, and he went down and made the guy empty his pockets... only knife in his pocket was a black auto...which is illegal in WA.
But... security found the knife on the corner table in a bargain bin that the guy just happened to be looking through a minute earlier.
To make a long story a little shorter...
He went to jail, and come to find out he was scamming his "friends"(turns out his boss) out of money too. He had talked them into letting him build a high end AR10 and had taken thousands from him and had nothing to show for it.
So a stupid decision to steal a knife likely just cost him his gun rights, his job, and his freedom.
Not only did he steal, he was carrying an illegal knife. It's stupid and I don't like WA knife laws, but I follow them anyway.. but in my book there is no lower deed than stealing.
Mygrainman to the rescue!
