Rainbow man trys to pay for beer with rock, leaves briefcase
Feb 20, 2015 14:06:55 GMT -5
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Post by King Ghidorah on Feb 20, 2015 14:06:55 GMT -5
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Tallahassee police have arrested a man following a bomb scare at the Fourth Quarter Bar on Wednesday.
TPD says they've arrested 24-year-old Jared Simpson after he left a briefcase inside of Fourth Quarter Sports Bar and led patrons to believe it was a bomb.
The Big Bend Regional Bomb Squad later determined the briefcase along with a backpack in Simpson's car to be safe.
According to witnesses, Simpson tried to pay for a Bud Light using a rock as tender. When the bartender told Simpson that she wouldn't accept a rock as payment, he said that he would pay her in other ways and threw a ripped-up dollar bill at her.
Wittnesses say Simpson then left the bar and came back in wearing a gray suit. When bartenders told him that he had to leave if he couldn't pay his tab, he left again and returned with a briefcase. He then set it down and said "anyone who goes near this will die," before running out of the bar.
When police apprehended Simpson at El Jalisco across the street. He was asked what was in the briefcase and he replied "maybe a bomb or a baby" and smiled, according to TPD.
Police say Simpson also sang a song he made up about how he is a "rainbow man" and wouldn't comply with law enforcement requests. When asked additional questions about the briefcase he told police "I am my own master, I answer to myself, no police have the right to ask questions."
A retired law enforcement officer at the Fourth Quarter told police that Simpson initially walked in using crutches and told the retired officer that he had been "shot up in war."
When the retired officer asked him what branch he served in, Simpson responded "if I tell you, I have to kill you."
Police say that after Simpson was read his Miranda Rights and was sitting in the back seat of the car when he took out three large screws of the pastic seat and managed to get his handcuffs from the back of his body to the front
Tallahassee police have arrested a man following a bomb scare at the Fourth Quarter Bar on Wednesday.
TPD says they've arrested 24-year-old Jared Simpson after he left a briefcase inside of Fourth Quarter Sports Bar and led patrons to believe it was a bomb.
The Big Bend Regional Bomb Squad later determined the briefcase along with a backpack in Simpson's car to be safe.
According to witnesses, Simpson tried to pay for a Bud Light using a rock as tender. When the bartender told Simpson that she wouldn't accept a rock as payment, he said that he would pay her in other ways and threw a ripped-up dollar bill at her.
Wittnesses say Simpson then left the bar and came back in wearing a gray suit. When bartenders told him that he had to leave if he couldn't pay his tab, he left again and returned with a briefcase. He then set it down and said "anyone who goes near this will die," before running out of the bar.
When police apprehended Simpson at El Jalisco across the street. He was asked what was in the briefcase and he replied "maybe a bomb or a baby" and smiled, according to TPD.
Police say Simpson also sang a song he made up about how he is a "rainbow man" and wouldn't comply with law enforcement requests. When asked additional questions about the briefcase he told police "I am my own master, I answer to myself, no police have the right to ask questions."
A retired law enforcement officer at the Fourth Quarter told police that Simpson initially walked in using crutches and told the retired officer that he had been "shot up in war."
When the retired officer asked him what branch he served in, Simpson responded "if I tell you, I have to kill you."
Police say that after Simpson was read his Miranda Rights and was sitting in the back seat of the car when he took out three large screws of the pastic seat and managed to get his handcuffs from the back of his body to the front
