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What's wrong with you? Why would you want to watch that?
Bud Dwyer flashbacks. Someone must find this video. I'm at work and really can't surf for it now. Must see. City council meetings are always recorded.
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Man kills self in front of City Council after zoning decision
CLARKSVILLE, Tennessee (AP) -- A business owner shot and killed himself during a City Council meeting Thursday night after members voted against his request to rezone his property, witnesses said.
Mayor Johnny Piper, third from left, talks with City Council members and others outside City Hall
Ronald "Bo" Ward, owner of Bo's Barber Shop, had told the council his business would go under if he couldn't get his home rezoned as commercial. After the 5-7 vote Thursday night, Ward stood and walked toward the council.
"Y'all have put me under. ... I'm out of here," he said before shooting himself in the head with a small handgun.
Fire and police officials attending the meeting immediately ushered the audience of about 50 into the hallway, where several people were sobbing.
At least one police officer is always on duty during council meetings, officials said. However, visitors are not required to go through a metal detector or any other screening.
"When a gun gets whipped out like that, someone is going to get shot, but I didn't know who," Councilman Bill Summers said. "You could've been right next to him, and I don't think you could have stopped that."
Mayor Johnny Piper said Thursday's council meeting would be the last held in that room.
Ward had said the rezoning would increase his property value, allowing him to secure a loan to offset debt he incurred when he expanded his shop.
Ward was well known for supporting soldiers from the nearby Fort Campbell Army post and was once recognized by its former commander, Gen. David Petraeus. His barber shop was often visited by media reporting on the local economic impact of thousands of soldiers with the 101st Airborne Division being deployed to Iraq.
"He treated soldiers like his own children," said George Heath, a longtime patron of Bo's Barber Shop and the Fort Campbell public affairs officer.
"If a soldier came in and said he needed a haircut but didn't have any money, Bo would cut his hair and tell him to pay him when he could."
In 2004, Petraeus, sent Ward a postcard during the division's first deployment to Iraq, thanking him for keeping his shop open during the deployment and "giving haircuts to children of our families."
What's wrong with you? Why would you want to watch that?
So you're telling me when you watch a movie and when somebody gets shot you close your eyes and ears?
Not when it's you!
i'm human. sorry, superhuman.
According to the Clarksville paper, video of the meeting does exist (including the suicide).
They say they will not release it, but I reckon it'll hit the web eventually.
, a FOIA might get its release.
Repeat after me: fake....real. fake....real. And no, I don't like to see suicides, even in a movie. You people are damaged.
so you're telling me when you watch a movie and when somebody gets shot....you believe it's real?
In movies they looks real....................I know it's not real, but with the advancement of techonolgy in the film industry deaths look incredibly real. Can anybody of you tell the difference? In fact, the deaths people watch in horror films make this suicide look pussy.
Exstatic you're a pussy.
Zombie is a redneck, that's all that has to be said.
Blizz isn't up to date.
I'll bet your searching YouTube every day for the Cho video. Freak.
WTF is Cho? I don't normally go around searching for movies of people dying, but in today's age violence/killing is pretty much in the media everyday, so most people my age are used to seeing that kind of stuff through a camera without being affected. I'd probably be shaken up if I saw that incident right infront of me.
Dwyer video: http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...27830708949101 (NSFW)
holy ....i can't believe no one did anything...that was just....wow...i'm speechless
What could they have done? It was pretty quick according to the Clarksville paper.
http://www.theleafchronicle.com/apps...72/1002/NEWS17
After Thursday's 5-7 vote was cast, Ward stood and walked steadily toward the council.
"Johnny (Piper), I know I can't speak," Ward said over the mayor, who was telling Ward the public comment period had ended.
"Y'all have put me under," Ward said, pulling out a small silver handgun. "I'm out of here."
A gunshot punctuated his sentence, and Ward fell at the feet of those sitting in the first row.
Ward appeared to have pulled the trigger with the gun in his mouth.
it looked like there was enough time for someone to have tackled him...in THIS video that is..didn't think that was real at first so i kept watching...that's just absolutely horrific. i hope the people that wanted to see it so bad and didn't think they'd be affected by it have fun with this one.
Are you happy now, E20? Got that "death jones" satisfied?
blizz, I think they said that they didn't know what he was going to do with the gun...was he going to shoot everyone, or what?
What is a death jones? If your talking about JB's video, I didn't watch it LMAO.
Oh, Dwyer... well, he was saying he might have been scared it'd go off on somebody else.
Watch the video, wasn't that bad. LMAO
It won't hit the web, just like the Steve Irwin video.
I think it just might.
As a video of a public meeting likely filmed with equipment purchased with public funds, I think a request for the video filed under FOIA (or whatever TN calls it) might be subject to release.
Poor guy
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