Hawkins woman allegedly fires at seven people, including children, for turning around in driveway

[Galraedia]

Source: Times News

ROGERSVILLE — A Virginia couple who took their five children on an outing at Bays Mountain Park Sunday afternoon were greeted with gunfire shortly after crossing the Hawkins County line in an attempt to take a scenic route home.

Oscar Scott of Rose Hill, Va. told the Times-News that he and his family decided to explore a scenic way back into Virginia through Hawkins and Hancock counties.

Almost immediately after crossing the Hawkins County line, however, they came upon Bays Mt. Road which runs adjacent to the Sullivan County line.

“We came around the side of the mountain and saw a road that turned to the right that said Bays Mt. Road,” Scott said. “We figured we’d take it and see if it came out at Bays Mountain Park. We got pretty far down that road and you could see where it turned into an old log road, so I put the vehicle in reverse to turn around.”

Read more: http://www.timesnews.net/article/9065260/hawkins-woman-allegedly-fires-at-seven-people-including-children-for-turning-around-in-her-driveway

[cosmicone]

1. When is she going to rescue people from an overturned SUV? n/t

[Tumbulu]

2. where is the like button DU?

[Mira]

4. On DU the "REALLY Like and makes me LAUGH Button" is called

DUzy

[Tumbulu]

58. Thanks- after all these years I finally get it! nt

[PatrynXX]

6. swear when I hear about George's rescue of whomever

I'm reminded of The Contender. someone intentionally drives off a bridge into the water. cept her windows were supposed to be open so William Petersen could rescue her. alas it turned out to be a setup and he was charged with murder

[trusty elf]

23. That would be a job for.....

ZIMMER MAN!

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[bravenak]

26. OMG!!!

I love this one.

[LiberalFighter]

46. Should give him a camel toe.

[ZRT2209]

3. yet another "responsible gun owner"

[Politicalboi]

5. She's just standing her ground

She must be the entertainment in that neighborhood. Old gun crazy granny. Fire, Aim, Ready.

[Helen Borg]

24. Seriously...

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If you are an elderly person and feel threatened by people walking outside or something, I can see that defense working...

[Chemisse]

30. Indeed.

Maybe she 'thought' she saw a gun in the car.

[wordpix]

36. maybe---but a carful of family turning around?

will not work for a defense unless you're a member of the scared shitless RW gunnut crowd

[crim son]

57. Ummm, according to the article

she wasn't alone on the porch... there were other people with her. She didn't feel threatened, she was pissed off.

[Brigid]

7. Other countries must think we're out of our minds.

Stories like this are just plain embarrassing.

[defacto7]

18. They do.

I travel a lot... and they do.

[Voice for Peace]

8. git outta my driveway!!

[PD Turk]

9. Arrested and charged

Arrested and charged with felony reckless endangerment, good! I hope they make it stick as a felony and lock her up for a good long time. As a convicted felon, she will no longer be able to legally possess a firearm, as it should be.

[Gman]

11. Yeah, but everyone else in the house can

she just can't have one in her name.

[PD Turk]

14. I worked with an ex felon

I worked with an ex felon and he wouldn't get near a gun for fear his fingerprints might be found on one. They had really put the fear of god in him about it, I hope they do the same with her

[Gman]

15. Well, that's all it would take to put him and her away.

But I can hear the deputy sheriff saying, "C'mon now Ms Ramey. You know you ain't supposed to shootin' at no people."

[Chemisse]

31. I'm betting this is exactly how it goes down.

Along with a modest fine.

I wonder if that family was black or hispanic.

[Helen Borg]

44. Good point there.

Probably, and probably the car was a little run down.

[Gman]

10. Seven counts of felony reckless endangerment and $1000 bail

I guess it's not like she's going anywhere.

[kestrel91316]

12. Let me guess: the people in the car just happened to be black and

the shooter just happened to be white?

[Comrade Grumpy]

13. There seems to be a disconnect between the charges and the bail set.

Seven felony counts of reckless endangerment...and $1,000 bail?

She's probably not too big a risk of re-offending...unless you end up in her driveway.

They could just charge her with one count of being an ornery old coot and shootin' at people.

I bet she ends up with a plea bargain to a misdemeanor and no or very little jail time.

[davidpdx]

17. I'd take it one step further and bet the charges will be dropped

It just wouldn't surprise me a bit if it happened. The locals stick up for their own.

[davidpdx]

16. Virgina, the new Florida

We're not for lovers, but we love shooting people.

[Leontius]

54. That would be a real funny line except it happened in Tenn.

[onenote]

55. The shooter and shooting were in Tennessee

The victim was from Virginia.

[Populist_Prole]

19. Shit like this happened in NC a few years back.

A tired, exhausted swimmer pulled himself up on a dock of some Lake Norman ( A cesspool, surrounded by the absolute worst conflation of yuppie maggots and rednecks ever ) home owner. Home owner confronts said swimmer with gun and forces him back in the water. Swimmer drowns. It really happened.

[Chemisse]

32. That is horrible!!

[Daemonaquila]

33. Good lordy.

Yet some people think that out country isn't losing its mind.

[SeattleVet]

20. Hawkins County - Rogersville is where my father grew up.

There was a jail scandal there a few years ago when an inmate jammed the lock on his cell, and he would go out and make a nightly beer run to the local convenience store for the other inmates, for several weeks until he got caught. Parts of that area are *very* rural (the road where my grandparents lived was finally paved past their house when I was 14 or 15... they got an 'inside bathroom' when I was 12, but we still mostly used the outhouse.) There were some areas that people just *knew* not to go to, since there were still some active "shootin' feuds" among some of the amateur distillers of corn-based alcohol products.

Lots of people in that area are extremely protective of their property, especially if they used to grow Burley tobacco and have switched over to that wacky-tobaccy that makes a lot more money nowadays.

[d_r]

28. yeah

I have family near Morrisburg and I lived there in third grade when my parents got divorced.

I'm not defending this in anyway, but folks who are thinking "neighborhood" haven't got the right picture in their mind. This was 4 miles down a one lane logging road with no other turn off. This is COUNTRY. Rural in a way a lot of folks don't have an image of.

At my grandmothers house you had to make sure you cleared the little frogs out before you brought in a bucket of water from the spring.

eta they were somewhere around here-

[KareBear]

34. Totally agree

Having grown up in the 70s and 80s in VERY rural WV I was shot at for riding my bicycle up the wrong holler road more than once. Granted I don't think they were shooting to HIT me, just letting me know I needed to get off their land.

I remember playing up on a mountain top in a field one day when I heard this buzzing sound, then another, then another. The old man who owned the field I was in was on the other ridge with his rifle, sitting in his rocking chair, on his front porch taking pot shots at me.

No one called the cops, no one freaked out, in fact no one thought this was anything out of the ordinary. That's a cultural divide that most people on DU will have had no exposure to at all.

Now I'm not saying this lady wasn't nuts. There really isn't enough information here for me to determine that, but I am saying that people could really misinterpret her actions.

[crim son]

59. A bullet hit the car.

She's nuts.

[jtuck004]

22. “During a field interview Mrs. Ramey openly admitted to shooting her rifle towards the vehicle

...because she has had a continuous problem with people tearing up her driveway,” Allen said.

So this will be a "neighborhood beautification" defense? Plant your ground?

Anyone wanna bet no jail time? The Aryans tried this crap over in Idaho a few years back. Lost their property and it bankrupted their ass when the Southern Poverty Law Center got involved. And those folks weren't even disturbing the gravel on their dirt road.

The article said several people were on the porch, yet no one had the presence of mind to take that .22 out of her hands. I wonder if they could be charged as accomplices...

[theHandpuppet]

27. There's a solution to that, Mrs. Ramey

It's called a gate. And it can be made out of dead timberwood, so it won't cost you. Hang a sign on it -- "Private Drive". Problem solved.

[VWolf]

35. Hell, just put a pair of traffic cones down.

Seriously, I can't see why anyone would be upset with people u-turning in their driveway. How much wear-and-tear could it possibly cause? And even if it causes a lot, so what? It's a fuckin' driveway!

[bowens43]

25. She should have been charged with seven counts of attempted murder

[SoapBox]

45. Ditto.

[UCmeNdc]

29. Lucky they are not a black family.

The police would have arrested the parents for trespassing.

[Blue_Tires]

40. +1000

[raccoon]

37. I wonder if this woman has dementia? Dementia + Guns = Not a good combination.

Something like this happened locally. Turned out the old coot who was the shooter had dementia.

[Blue_Tires]

41. I wonder if she's been conditioned to believe by the usual suspects

that any car she doesn't recognize is BIG GUMMIT rolling in to officially confiscate her guns, burn her bibles, throw out the junk food in her fridge, change light bulbs, and force her to rent rooms in her house to the queers, Ivy League intellectual jews and Al Sharpton

[brett_jv]

50. It's Hilary, comin' with a carload of Lesbian UN Stormtroopers ta enforce the New World Order

Or whatnot ...

[valerief]

52. No, just another gun nut with FREEDUMBS. nt

[Aristus]

38. "Turnin' in m'driveway? Yep, we don't cotton to that much 'round here. 'Specially fr'm no strangers,

now, ya hear? Na GIT, dangit! 'Fores Ah start shootin'!"

Jesus. The daughter of Yosemite Sam, maybe?

[mainer]

39. I live on a dead end. Tourists are ALWAYS turning around in my driveway.

Usually I just wave hello and they wave back. Never even occurred to me to shoot one.

[Kablooie]

42. A bullet hit the RUNNING BOARD? What the hey were they driving?

Sounds like something out of a Ma and Pa Kettle film.

[onenote]

56. 1999 Chevy Tahoe

Like this:

[Blue_Tires]

43. wow...not even six months removed from this:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022280156

[KittyWampus]

48. sadly, I remember that story.

[LiberalFighter]

47. Easy solution to her umbrage.

She should have the road widen so people can do a uee without doing it in her driveway.

Maybe the county could raise the road by her driveway by 20 feet. Just the county road. Not her driveway.

[toby jo]

49. We have roads like that around here - they need to put in turn-arounds.

[SoCalNative]

51. I know how she feels

If I had a quarter for every time some idiot used my driveway to turn around I could retire.

They're probably fortunate I don't have a gun.

[snooper2]

53. old white woman privilege

released on a fucking $1000 dollar bond-




Wonder what a black man in Miami would have been charged with/bond amount.

(Picking on Florida because as long as we keep them at the top of the page people aren't saying stupid shit about Texas LOL)

[crim son]

60. I used to live two doors down from Stephen King.

People would drive by his house, drive a bit more, and invariably would use our driveway to turn back and take another look. This happened several times a day during the summer, less often in the winter. And you know what? It didn't bother me.

[Zoeisright]

61. Oh look! Another responsible gun owner!

Until they're not.

As usual.