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hummingwolf) wrote2003-03-18 04:00 pm
hummingwolf) wrote2003-03-18 04:00 pm
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Forget Iraq, there's a guy on a tractor! Now it's a partially submerged tractor 'cos he drove it into a pond. Good thing we don't have cherry blossoms yet, or he'd be scaring away lots of tourists.
Dwight Ware Watson, the man engaged in a marathon standoff with law enforcement on the Mall, said today that he has explosives but does not intend to harm anyone. He said he came to Washington on a "mission" to get a message to the American public that he and other tobacco farmers are being forced out of business by unfair government policies.
"I'm going to get my message out or die trying," he said in a telephone call to The Washington Post from Constitution Gardens, where he drove a tractor into a shallow pond at 12:30 p.m. Monday.
Oh, the article says he's against the war with Iraq too, so I guess it's not entirely Iraq-unrelated.
ABC news version of the story.
Dwight Ware Watson, the man engaged in a marathon standoff with law enforcement on the Mall, said today that he has explosives but does not intend to harm anyone. He said he came to Washington on a "mission" to get a message to the American public that he and other tobacco farmers are being forced out of business by unfair government policies.
"I'm going to get my message out or die trying," he said in a telephone call to The Washington Post from Constitution Gardens, where he drove a tractor into a shallow pond at 12:30 p.m. Monday.
Oh, the article says he's against the war with Iraq too, so I guess it's not entirely Iraq-unrelated.
ABC news version of the story.