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Anyone ever buy a car from this d-bag at Jones-West Ford?

http://www.rgj.com/article/20090902/NEWS/90902052

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A 33-year-old former car salesman learned the hard way Wednesday that you can’t get away with threatening to kill your arresting officers and their families.
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Washoe District Court Judge Brent Adams ordered Robert Adam McGuffey to spend at least two years in prison before he is eligible for parole on two felony counts of intimidating a witness for trying to get out of a drunken driving arrest.

Adams sentenced him to two consecutive terms of 1 to 3 years in prison.

A jury in July took less than two hours to find him guilty of the charges that stem from a May arrest by Nevada Highway Patrol troopers. McGuffey’s string of threats to the troopers were captured on video in a patrol car. He told one trooper “I hope you are a quick draw...you won’t be the first cop I’ve killed...you won’t be the last.”

McGuffey was a salesman at Jones West Ford and said he would use his connections there to sabotage NHP vehicles that are serviced at the business, and to find out where the officers and their families lived and shopped. His blood alcohol level at the time of arrest was .11 percent, while the legal limit is .08 percent.

During Wednesday’s sentencing, Pueblo, Colo., police officer William Doyle testified that in March of 2000, he stopped McGuffey for drunken driving. McGuffey, he said, told him he was going to find his family and “kill your bitch-ass wife and rape your kid...Pueblo is a small town. I will follow you home and kill your whole (expletive) family. You better just pull over and let me go.”

Chief Deputy District Attorney said McGuffey had been arrested four other times for felonies, and that all had been pleaded down to misdemeanors with a lenient punishment. “Today, there was judgement,” Hahn said.

McGuffey apologized for his behavior, which his lawyer has said were “empty threats.”

Officers also testified that in January 2008, officers responding to his home for a domestic violence report had to shoot him with a Taser gun because he was resisting arrest.

This just confirms what we all thought... Car dealers are crooks... :)

Hahahaha what a clown. Although, instead of paying for his ass to sit in the unemployment hotel for 2 years, I'd rather see him caned in public for each episode.

Sounds like a lovely human being.

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...which his lawyer has said were “empty threats.”

"I'm going to kill your bitch-ass wife and rape your kids" is an empty threat?

If you don't carry it out, then technically it's an empty threat.

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Originally Posted by cody (Post 139271)

If you don't carry it out, then technically it's an empty threat.

No, and empty threat is one where you do not have the means, ability, and/or possibility/potential of executing it. It has nothing to do with actual execution. Threats by definition lack execution, that is why they are threats, not acts.

I think it could also be a threat you have no intention of carrying out, which seems more likely what the lawyer meant.

And you can certainly make a threat and then act upon that threat. Acting upon the threat doesn't change the fact that it was initially a threat. Threats are often threatening... ;)

Yeah. Can't is empty, didn't is not.

"I'm gonna kill you with this gun in my hand>" = not empty threat

"I'm gonna use my telekinetic powers to launch you off the planet where you will explode in the vacuum of space, Total Recall style." = empty threat

I guess I meant any reasonable person should expect to take a threat like that serious. Its not like he said "I'm going to bazooka you right in the face with a stegosaurus."

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Originally Posted by Nick Koan (Post 139280)

I guess I meant any reasonable person should expect to take a threat like that serious. Its not like he said "I'm going to bazooka you right in the face with a stegosaurus."

I think we all agree with you except maybe Cody, or he is arguing semantics with me which is usually Scott's job. :)

I think everyone is right.

http://neurosybir.net/nkoan/images/requisition.jpg

You are technically correct. Which is the best kind of correct.