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It’s a phrase few Americans ever have the occasion to say: “I’m really getting pulled over by a tank right now.”
The reasons why the Florida man said it are just as eyebrow-raising as the fact that he was pulled over by a “tank” in the first place.
The whole encounter was captured on video.
The Gainesville Sun reported Monday on the story of 23-year-old Lucas Jewell, a self-professed Navy veteran and Gainesville City Commission candidate, who was pulled over by sheriff’s deputies in an armored personnel vehicle after a University of Florida football game Saturday.
At first, Jewell thought he’d been pulled over just because he’d made an obscene gesture at the cops.
But the deputies had an additional reason.
“It appeared that the young lady [in the passenger seat] was giving you fellatio,” one told Jewell.
For his part, Jewell was in disbelief.
“I was surprised…that we needed tanks to drive down our streets,” he said, explaining that he’d made the rude gesture because he didn’t approve of police militarization. “I thought this was a safe community, I didn’t know we were in Iraq.”
“That’s an armored vehicle, not a tank,” one of the deputies responded. “You were in the Navy and you think that’s a tank?”
When deputies instructed Jewell to spit out his sunflower seeds they told him not to spit on them.
It’s a phrase few Americans ever have the occasion to say: “I’m really getting pulled over by a tank right now.”
The reasons why the Florida man said it are just as eyebrow-raising as the fact that he was pulled over by a “tank” in the first place.
The whole encounter was captured on video.
The Gainesville Sun reported Monday on the story of 23-year-old Lucas Jewell, a self-professed Navy veteran and Gainesville City Commission candidate, who was pulled over by sheriff’s deputies in an armored personnel vehicle after a University of Florida football game Saturday.
At first, Jewell thought he’d been pulled over just because he’d made an obscene gesture at the cops.
But the deputies had an additional reason.
“It appeared that the young lady [in the passenger seat] was giving you fellatio,” one told Jewell.
For his part, Jewell was in disbelief.
“I was surprised…that we needed tanks to drive down our streets,” he said, explaining that he’d made the rude gesture because he didn’t approve of police militarization. “I thought this was a safe community, I didn’t know we were in Iraq.”
“That’s an armored vehicle, not a tank,” one of the deputies responded. “You were in the Navy and you think that’s a tank?”
When deputies instructed Jewell to spit out his sunflower seeds they told him not to spit on them.
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