Fruitvale Man Arrested For Pointing a Banana At Officer Bunch

Hey, You want a piece of this! (Yes, on my cereal please)

No, those are not stream-of-consciousness lyrics, that is a suitable headline for this very real story.

Nathan Rolf Channing, 27, (Fruitvale, Colorado) was arrested Sunday, according to the Grand Junction Daily Sentinel.

According to an arrest affidavit, Mesa County deputies Joshua Bunch and Donald Love said Channing pointed the fruit at them while crossing a street.

The deputies said they feared for their lives even though they saw that the object was yellow. Bunch wrote in the affidavit that he has seen handguns in many shapes and colors.

Pointing things at the police is far from brilliant, as the C-BS story points out, but I have to ask– if he had pointed his banana at female officers would he have also been charged with sexual assault?

Seriously…

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Side note: Google “Banana gun” when you’ve got a moment and check images.

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Steve is a long-time New Hampshire resident, an award-winning blogger, and a member of the Board of Directors of The 603 Alliance and the National Heritage Center for Constitutional Studies. He is the owner of Grok Media LLC and the Managing Editor, Executive Editor, assistant editor, Editor, content curator, and more (yes, there's more) at GraniteGrok.com. Steve is also a former board member of the Republican Liberty Caucus of New Hampshire, the Republican Volunteer Coalition, and has worked for or with many state and local campaigns and grassroots groups, and is a past contributor to the Franklin Center for Public Policy.

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