reminds me about a story of a local woman I recently read about.
TUCSON, Ariz. - LAWFUEL - The Law News Network - A federal jury has found Mary Elizabeth Schipke, 47, of Oracle, Ariz., guilty of Threatening to Use a Weapon of Mass Destruction. The case was tried before U.S. District Court Judge John M. Roll starting on August 9, 2005 with the guilty verdict delivered on August 12, 2005. The evidence at trial showed that on October 15, 2004, Schipke walked into the U.S. Post Office in Oracle, Ariz. and threatened to blow it up with a bomb.
(bold mine)
http://lawfuel.com/show-release.asp?ID=3948
Well, what actually happened was that she got into a dispute with one of the employees and said, "God, I pray a bomb falls on your stupid, fucking head!"
After being convicted of the charge in 2005 she ended up serving 4 years in prison.
It seems that the charges have to do with her previous convictions, which is also a weird story.
Ok, so it seems that the woman is pretty crazy, which isn't a crime. She believes that "the government is out to get" her and has been very vocal about this as well as other strange things, which is why the post office was so willing to prosecute, regularly having to deal with her causing shit.
OK, so she was being investigated by CPS because of this stuff. For some reason this caused the police to put her under surveillance and tap her phone(?) at which point its then reported that she "made calls to several militia groups" and these unidentified militia groups then showed up at her trailer to engage in a "stand-off" with the SWAT team that had now been sent in. At that point she allowed officers into her home where conflicting accounts say she drew a weapon or she had a gun holstered and then officers removed her child into CPS custody and the "militia group" disbanded without incident (although apparently an unknown person fired a flare into the sky), and she received a charge of assault and threatening an officer...
Still, seems a bit much, would you agree?