Beach man robbed during gun sale in Newport News

[OakRidgeStars]

Take note of where the buyer and seller had agreed to meet. Does anyone else see a problem here, besides the obvious problem of what was allegedly a premeditated robbery?

The 23-year-old man planned to sell a .45-caliber gun to the buyer in the parking lot of Magruder Elementary School at 1712 Chestnut Ave.

http://hamptonroads.com/2012/09/beach-m ... wport-news

[concretefuzzynuts]

Total fail.

[SHMIV]

.... Ummm....

I don't even know what to say about that.

[SilentServiceVet]

I was stationed in Norfolk and for a period of about 6 months, my sub was in drydock at Newport News Shipbuilding. There are parts of Newport News that are ... decent ... but most is not. I would've been skeptical of the deal from the start.

[Mindflayer]

Yeah, Newport News? Lived there a long while. I'd only agree to meet in the mall or at a Starbucks.

[TacticalMom]

So many things wrong with this.

If you take risk and are not smart about your surroundings well...

I am sorry for him he got robbed. However, he was not smart, and why the hell at an empty school.

My two cents.

[Riposite]

well the big warning sign of course is the fact it is illegal n Virginia to have a handgun on school grounds (except inside your car for a valid permit holder)
so I am not so sure I am unhappy this guy didn't get the gun -sounds like he might of been akin to the guy who shot himself at hooters in the long run.

[Rich]

Another reason to be wary of selling firearms to random people you dont know...not counting the obvious mistakes he made.

[wylde007]

well the big warning sign of course is the fact it is illegal n Virginia to have a handgun on school grounds (except inside your car for a valid permit holder)

Please re-read §18.2-308.1 and pay special attention to exception "vi" below subsection "C".

[dorminWS]

.... Ummm....

I don't even know what to say about that.

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It only requires two words:

dumb. ass.

[BHG1978]

School lot about as smart as courthouse lot

Should have met up in the police station parking lot



at shift change

[SHMIV]

.... Ummm....

I don't even know what to say about that.

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It only requires two words:

dumb. ass.

Yeah. Those words came to mind, but I feel that those two words aren't quite accurate enough. It still paints the situation to be more positive than what it actually is.

It kinda reminds me of my ex-girlfriends younger brother. When he was arrested for stealing from a high security storefront, released on bail, then re-arrested for stealing from another high security storefront an hour later, I didn't know what to say to him, either. So I just shook my head at him, then smacked him upside the head. Really hard. In front of his mother.