Thursday, July 28, 2016

Lunch Break (7/28/16): NC GOP becomes laughingstock for umpteenth time this year

Posted By on Thu, Jul 28, 2016 at 11:30 AM


The North Carolina Republican Party has found itself in the spotlight for all the wrong reasons yet again. Following vice-presidential hopeful Tim Kaine's speech at the Democratic National Convention, the person in charge of the state GOP's Twitter account made a quick judgement that proved miserably wrong.

In a typical show of Republican moralism gone wrong, a tweet from the official North Carolina Republican Party account (@NCGOP) tried to call out Kaine for wearing what they thought was a Honduras flag pin on his lapel in lieu of an American flag. As was quickly noted by reporter Ben Amey who works with WNYT in Albany, New York, the pin was actually a Blue Star Flag, also known as a Service flag, worn to honor his son, a Marine set to deploy to Europe soon. A quick Google search shows that the Honduran flag looks nothing like the Blue Star Flag, and has five stars outlines in blue, as opposed to one outlined in red. The tweeter was quick to delete the tweet when called out by Amey, but it's the internet, soooo….

—————

CMPD detectives have released a series of photos (below) depicting two men believed to have robbed a man at an ATM machine on Idlewild Road last Friday night. The victim told officers he was taking money out of the ATM in the early morning hours on Saturday when he was struck across the face then kicked by one of the suspects. Another suspect attacked the victim's friend who was standing nearby. The first suspect picked up the money that was lying on the ground and the two fled on foot. Anyone with information concerning this case or the suspects is asked to call Crime Stoppers at 704-334-1600. 
click to enlarge unnamed.png
unnamed-2.jpg












—————

WSOC reporter Dave Faherty tweeted a video (below) of an attempted robbery that happened overnight at a gas station in Conover in Catawba County. In the video, the suspect — who is with a friend — make things awkward when he nonchalantly pulls a gun while paying for a blue drink that Faherty said was Mountain Dew. The clerk hesitates so the robber is forced to leave the counter to stop another customer from leaving the store. He then returns to the counter with the customer and his friend and continues to make demands, but yet another customer enters the store, making the robber antsy. According to the Catawba County Sheriff's Office, he left the store shortly after the video ended with nothing but his Mountain Dew. Hope he was thirsty. 


Tags: , , , , , , , , , , ,

Pin It
Submit to Reddit
Favorite

Comments

Subscribe to this thread:

Add a comment

Creative Loafing encourages a healthy discussion on its website from all sides of the conversation, but we reserve the right to delete any comments that detract from that. Violence, racism and personal attacks that go beyond the pale will not be tolerated.

Search Events


www.flickr.com
items in Creative Loafing Charlotte More in Creative Loafing Charlotte pool

© 2019 Womack Digital, LLC
Powered by Foundation