Ok, look, we’re not exactly sure what’s going on here, but some shit has just gone down in Medford — and it involves 24 police and SWAT vehicles, an ax, and a man who requested that Kiss 108 FM play some Insane Clown Posse.
NBC Boston reports, via Universal Hub, that police took a man into custody Monday (July 10) afternoon after a tense two-hour standoff inside the parking lot of the Kiss 108 studio in Medford. The man was arrested around 4 p.m., but not before going to the iHeart radio station earlier in the day and telling a secretary they needed to play “My Axe” by ICP.
The man brandished what has been described as an ax (no word if it was actually a Juggalo hatchet), and that’s when police were called in.
The man returned to his car, and after a standoff in which he rammed a police vehicle and tossed the ax at law enforcement officials, the man was arrested “after emerging with his hands up from a car that had been surrounded by police vehicles,” reports NBC, which adds that the suspect “was taken away on a stretcher.” He allegedly had “several knives inside the car and was also seen drinking beer” in the vehicle.
On Twitter, @theSmudgiestCat gave a detailed rundown of the standoff from a different part of the same building. Read his account and watch his Periscope below.
— smoochacha (@theSmudgiestCat) July 10, 2017
WELL THAT WAS FUN LOL
— smoochacha (@theSmudgiestCat) July 10, 2017
So many meetings cancelled because of that ahahaha
— smoochacha (@theSmudgiestCat) July 10, 2017
SO. No idea how that all started, we just suddenly got an email from the facilities guy telling us to not go out the back door
— smoochacha (@theSmudgiestCat) July 10, 2017
due to "a police situation" in the parking lot… of course we all ran to the windows to watch because it's a Monday and we're bad people.
— smoochacha (@theSmudgiestCat) July 10, 2017
And then 24 police/state/SWAT/DHS vehicles and their many armed occupants later, a very drunk person got out and was arrested.
— smoochacha (@theSmudgiestCat) July 10, 2017
I can't believe that at one point he managed to get out with beer in hand, drink some, dodge a taser and/or beanbag, get back in, and close
— smoochacha (@theSmudgiestCat) July 10, 2017
the damn window, AND a cop failed to smash open the window with a hammer, AND he sat there for like 90 min drinking more beer.
— smoochacha (@theSmudgiestCat) July 10, 2017
Oh also he called Kiss108 (in our building, same floor) requesting an ICP song about axes & when they didn't he tossed an axe out the window
— smoochacha (@theSmudgiestCat) July 10, 2017
Followed by a small portable shovel after a few minutes
— smoochacha (@theSmudgiestCat) July 10, 2017
AND NOW I HAVE TO TRY TO FOCUS ON WORK WHAT THE FUCK
— smoochacha (@theSmudgiestCat) July 10, 2017
But man, what can we take away from this?
Personally, I'm thinking about how that dude was hella lucky he was white. POC? Dead in seconds.— smoochacha (@theSmudgiestCat) July 10, 2017
Also: don't drink and drive thx
— smoochacha (@theSmudgiestCat) July 10, 2017