Man arrested on North Carolina A&T campus with a revolver, rifle, two shotguns, machete, blowdart gun, a chicken foot, stun gun and holy water

[essentialsaltes]

Students say they were uninformed after man arrested with dozens of weapons on North Carolina A&T campus​

According to court documents, Brandon James Bentley was charged on Sunday, March 26 with the following:

• Felony having a gun on educational property
• Felony having an explosive device on educational property
• Reckless driving
• Possessing a weapon on the educational property (not a gun)
• Driving with a revoked license
• Carrying a concealed gun

 

[HTacianas]

Students say they were uninformed after man arrested with dozens of weapons on North Carolina A&T campus​

According to court documents, Brandon James Bentley was charged on Sunday, March 26 with the following:

• Felony having a gun on educational property
• Felony having an explosive device on educational property
• Reckless driving
• Possessing a weapon on the educational property (not a gun)
• Driving with a revoked license
• Carrying a concealed gun

That is truly an odd collection.

 

[ThatRobGuy]

The chicken foot seems oddly out of place...

 

[Handmaid for Jesus]

Seems like he was intending to do some damage!

 

[Brihaha]

I thought CPAC was over?

 

[essentialsaltes]

They describe Bentley as being extremely agitated and that he was “terrified of being kidnapped by a religious cult he found through social media.” He allegedly said he had weapons to protect himself. The paperwork said that his wife said she “doesn’t know what he’s thinking.”

 

[Pommer]

They describe Bentley as being extremely agitated and that he was “terrified of being kidnapped by a religious cult he found through social media.” He allegedly said he had weapons to protect himself. The paperwork said that his wife said she “doesn’t know what he’s thinking.”

If North Carolina doesn’t have a “red-flag” law and he can prove his fears were “justified” (a large hill, to be sure), he might get his guns & stuff back?

 

[Bradskii]

The chicken foot seems oddly out of place...

If he ran off with it, would it be poultry in motion?

 

[bèlla]

Chicken Foot Talisman

Historically these are used primarily in Hoodoo, Voodoo, Wicca, Juju, and many other paths of Witchcraft. The purpose of the chicken foot is a mighty protection talisman. Since the chicken scratches backwards, the animal is removing a condition. They literally scratch & remove problems thrown at a practitioner.

The chicken foot is used as a ward of such to protect you and your belongings. They are traditionally red or black with the nails a different color. 99% of them are decorated with feathers, wrapped around with ribbon or twine. Some have decorative aspects like stones, shells, beads, and bells attached. This is a serious bang of protection! The black ones represent a “passive” protection and the red ones a more “aggressive” protection. One of the most widely used ways to have them are made with two feet crossed together and bound as one unit.

People hang them from their windows, above doors, in their car rear view mirror, and place them on their Altars. They protect from psychic vampires, dark energies, and from mere individuals wanting to cause harm to you.

~bella

 

[Hans Blaster]

Chicken Foot Talisman

Historically these are used primarily in Hoodoo, Voodoo, Wicca, Juju, and many other paths of Witchcraft. The purpose of the chicken foot is a mighty protection talisman. Since the chicken scratches backwards, the animal is removing a condition. They literally scratch & remove problems thrown at a practitioner.

The chicken foot is used as a ward of such to protect you and your belongings. They are traditionally red or black with the nails a different color. 99% of them are decorated with feathers, wrapped around with ribbon or twine. Some have decorative aspects like stones, shells, beads, and bells attached. This is a serious bang of protection! The black ones represent a “passive” protection and the red ones a more “aggressive” protection. One of the most widely used ways to have them are made with two feet crossed together and bound as one unit.

People hang them from their windows, above doors, in their car rear view mirror, and place them on their Altars. They protect from psychic vampires, dark energies, and from mere individuals wanting to cause harm to you.

~bella

Shockingly, it did not work and he got arrested. OK, not that shockingly.

 

[bèlla]

The headline reads like something right out of Babylon Bee. Where do you find this? ;-)

 

[ThatRobGuy]

If North Carolina doesn’t have a “red-flag” law and he can prove his fears were “justified” (a large hill, to be sure), he might get his guns & stuff back?

I'm guessing he probably has some other disqualifying factors in his past...given that his license was suspended.

And even if one has a squeaky clean record, a CHL permit (and not all of the other weird stuff he had on him), the very act of carrying a gun onto a college campus in that state is a violation of state law.

How Many States Allow Campus Carry? | Students for Concealed Carry

concealedcampus.org

So I think it'd be a stretch for him to get his guns back.

In reading through the list of campus concealed carry laws by state, this is an area of gun law where the states don't necessarily line up where people would assume they would.

NC is on the list of ones that explicitly prohibit it (along with California, Florida, New York, and South Carolina)

While states like Connecticut, West Virginia, Delaware, Kentucky, and Maryland have a more permissive policy.

And states like Mississippi, Oregon, Georgia, and Colorado have the most permissive campus CCW policies.

Strange bedfellows on that one... If you were to ask people on the street, I think most would assume all of the blue states would be lined up on one side, and all of the red states would line up on the other. Who'd have thought that a CCW holder in Oregon or Maryland would have more carry privileges than a CCW holder in Florida or South Carolina?

 

[dzheremi]

Who'd have thought that a CCW holder in Oregon or Maryland would have more carry privileges than a CCW holder in Florida or South Carolina?

As someone who went to college in Oregon (UO '09), this is not surprising to me. A not-insignificant portion of the state is very rural and quite conservative (it, like neighboring Washington state, was home to a big logging industry until only a few decades ago), at least in comparison to the obvious liberal exceptions like Portland, Eugene, and the handful of other places where people actually live on purpose.

 

[ThatRobGuy]

As someone who went to college in Oregon (UO '09), this is not surprising to me. A not-insignificant portion of the state is very rural and quite conservative (it, like neighboring Washington state, was home to a big logging industry until only a few decades ago), at least in comparison to the obvious liberal exceptions like Portland, Eugene, and the handful of other places where people actually live on purpose.

I'd heard that about Oregon, so I guess maybe that one wouldn't be a notable outlier.

It just seemed odd when I read through that list. Some states that have constitutional carry make it a felony to carry on a campus, while others who are strict in many other ways (like Connecticut and Maryland -- who won't even honor out of state permits) have a more lax policy on it.

 

[ozso]

The chicken foot seems oddly out of place...

Not at all. I once saw John Wick take out three assassins with a chicken foot.

 

[ozso]

The real question is, was that chicken foot registered?

 

[essentialsaltes]

The headline reads like something right out of Babylon Bee. Where do you find this? ;-)

I confess probably more than half of the stories I share here come from fark.com (probably not a site for the easily offended, but it does have a profanity filter in the comments section)

 

[Handmaid for Jesus]

I think they should give the man his chicken foot back!

 

[ThatRobGuy]

The real question is, was that chicken foot registered?

It depends on what kind of chicken it came from.

If it had foregrip on the wattles, retractable comb, and at the ability to deliver 60 pecks per minute, it could've been an attachment off of an assault chicken.

 

[Handmaid for Jesus]

It depends on what kind of chicken it came from.

If it had foregrip on the wattles, retractable comb, and at the ability to deliver 60 pecks per minute, it could've been an attachment off of an assault chicken.

It was for self defense!