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Heavily Armed Canadian Feared Elves, Made Death Threats on Facebook

By Eric Lipman

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That's the sort of headline you just kind of want to leave alone, floating pristinely on the page for all to ponder. But that's not what we do here, so enjoy the quick and dirty: Via Karl's Weird News (no, I don't know who Karl is) and CTV News, comes the tale of David Abitbol, a 28-year-old Montreal resident who appeared at a bail hearing on Wednesday, after having been charged with threatening -- on Facebook -- to kill certain former teachers and classmates. Police took these threats rather seriously, it seems, because Abitbol had a veritable arsenal of weapons in his house, including handguns, "high-powered rifles" and a .12-gauge shotgun. These weapons were properly registered, so let's give David the benefit of the doubt and allow him to explain why he felt he needed to be so "well protected." A man charged with uttering death threats on Facebook armed himself with high-powered weapons because he feared he was being stalked by elves, a Montreal court was told Wednesday. Quebec provincial police told David Abitbol's bail hearing that he told a friend on the Internet that his .12-gauge shotgun was just what he needed to kill the mythical creatures. Oh....

Full post as published by Legal Blog Watch on October 15, 2010 (boomark / email).