Woman gets her TV repaired by Best Buy

[fbrdphreak]

The Best Buy repairman had come several times to fix the woman's television. But still on Friday he could not get it to work.

So, officials say, the woman pulled out a .38-caliber handgun loaded with hollow-point rounds and told him: "You're not leaving until the TV is fixed."

Marlene Anne Bagnall, 44, of 1523 Davenport Drive was later arrested on charges of aggravated assault and false imprisonment.

Bagnall's husband told a sheriff's deputy she was diagnosed with a mental disorder for which she takes medication. She left the county jail early Saturday on $10,000 bail.

Bagnall told a deputy that she became enraged when the repairman, 58-year-old John Meyer, could not fix the television. She said she retrieved the gun from the glove box of her car in the garage, walked back into the living room and pulled the gun out of its case, a sheriff's report said. She denied pointing it at the man.

The repairman escaped unhurt after he got a Best Buy clerk on the phone to promise Bagnall a new television. She seemed pleased and allowed him to leave, he told a deputy. Afterward, he called the Sheriff's Office.

"John advised in his 30 years in retail he has never experienced such a thing and is glad to be okay," the deputy reported.

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ROFL

 

[thechinesehero]

HAHAHAHAA

 

[Sluggo]

Its good to know that a mentally unstable person had a gun handy in the glove box of her car.

 

[virtuamike]

Booo for not shooting.

 

[jdiddy]

LoL!!

 

[Evadman]

It happens more than you may think.

 

[poopaskoopa]

In the state of NC, you are actually asked if you're insane or something similar when applying for a pistol purchase permit, IIRC. They also ask several other questions to which you'd answer "no", if you actually want to buy a handgun.

 

[rh71]

hollow point too ? geeez

 

[blodhi74]

LoL!!

 

[b0mbrman]

I wonder if she still got the TV

 

[aplefka]

Originally posted by: b0mbrman
I wonder if she still got the TV

 

[booger711]

thats fvcked up

 

[Pepsei]

title should be fix to replaced, and I doubt that they would do it thou.

 

[Demon-Xanth]

If that's what it takes to get service from Best Buy, where's the link to contribute to her bail fund?

 

[Red Dawn]

She was probably pissed because she couldn't watch Dr. Phil

 

[kyparrish]

As a technician who makes in-home visits....this is kind of scary.

 

[Amused]

Um, the title is misleading.

She never got her TV fixed.

 

[geecee]

Umm, don't shoot the messenger, err, repair guy...

 

[jalaram]

Originally posted by: Amused
Um, the title is misleading.

She never got her TV fixed.

Agreed.

Besides, I'm not sure how it's funny to be on the business end of a gun with hollow points. And, in the hands of someone with a mental disorder.

 

[Albis]

at least best buy followed up on their no lemon policy

 

[Aharami]

Originally posted by: rh71
hollow point too ? geeez

dunno what that means

 

[Argo]

Originally posted by: Sluggo
Its good to know that a mentally unstable person had a gun handy in the glove box of her car.

My thoughts exactly.

 

[globalcitizen]

Originally posted by: Aharami

Originally posted by: rh71
hollow point too ? geeez

dunno what that means

bullet shatters on impact, causing more trauma and harder to get out.

 

[Amused]

Originally posted by: globalcitizen

Originally posted by: Aharami

Originally posted by: rh71
hollow point too ? geeez

dunno what that means

bullet shatters on impact, causing more trauma and harder to get out.

It doesn't shatter, it mushrooms/pancakes. When it does, it increases it's size (up to double). This makes a larger wound channel and exit wound.

http://www.answers.com/topic/hollow-point-bullet

 

[Vic]

Bagnall's husband told a sheriff's deputy she was diagnosed with a mental disorder for which she takes medication.

Why is being a psycho an excuse to commit violence in our society? Of course, she's got a mental disorder, she pulled a gun on the fsckin TV repairman. Duh. Mentally stable people don't do that kind of thing. Now she should go to jail.