Police break up exorcism at Eastern Pa. Home Depot

[left-of-center2012]

Police in Lackawanna County, Pa, broke up an exorcism in the lumber aisle of a home-improvement store Monday. Details are scarce on just what was going on inside the Home Depot on Commerce Drive in Dickson City Monday afternoon, but police were called around 3:26 p.m. to escort several people out of the store for “bad behavior,” WBRE/WYOU is reporting.

According to reports,
the exorcism was held for the trees that had been turned into lumber.

The police blotter item posted on the Dickson City police Facebook page says:
“3:26pm Commerce Blvd. Home Depot for disorderly people having an exorcism in the lumber aisle for the dead trees.
They were escorted out of the building.”

There is no indication the incident had anything to do with the price of lumber.
According to reports, no charges have been filed at this time.

https://triblive.com/news/pennsylvania/police-break-up-exorcism-at-eastern-pa-home-depot/

[mahatmakanejeeves]

1. The exorcists were made to leave? NT

[left-of-center2012]

4. They were 'cast' out

"Be gone from here !"

[obamanut2012]

5. Made to leaf

What saps!

[NurseJackie]

7. Budding criminals headed for a fall.

[Baitball Blogger]

15. That's what happens when you go against the grain.

[NurseJackie]

18. We wood know.

[ZonkerHarris]

49. You went out on a limb with that one

[NurseJackie]

57. Oh, leaf me alone. I'm just a budding comedianne.

[ZonkerHarris]

58. Stay positive then. Tell yourself "Yes, I canopy!"

[obamanut2012]

35. I need to branch out and think of better puns

[NurseJackie]

36. Yes... I'm pining for some too!

[NurseJackie]

37. If you think of any log-in and share them!

[NurseJackie]

38. Puns are very poplar among many people.

[NurseJackie]

39. Apparently, the Home Depot store needed to be spruced up!

[NurseJackie]

40. My puns are really bad, but I always enjoy acorny joke.

[PatSeg]

48. Ha, ha, ha!!!

[lagomorph777]

17. "Make like a tree and leave!"

[onethatcares]

32. you have

a warped sense of humor and I think you're barking up the wrong tree.

[lagomorph777]

33. Wooden you know it!

[redstatebluegirl]

2. Oh my gosh, I am truly concerned about the intellect of a vast group of Americans.

[Ilsa]

3. Exactly. Maybe they have brain-COVID.

This is truly the weirdest thing I've heard of in awhile where no people were hurt.

[redstatebluegirl]

6. I see some weird things down here where I live, but this one takes the cake.

[Ilsa]

8. At least they weren't hurting anyone, but

I wonder if another LEO would have shot them, though.

[Loki Liesmith]

9. The power of Lowe's compels you...

[Marrah_Goodman]

11. Lmao

[ZonkerHarris]

51. hahaha

[Tarc]

10. Sounds like a bunch of burnt-out "I took the brown acid" Woodstock hippies

Making one last go of it before hitting the retirement home.

[msfiddlestix]

26. hey, i resemble that remark.. no bashing woodstock hippies ok? :)

[48656c6c6f20]

12. They must have been board.

[milestogo]

13. Exactly how can you tell when the demons are gone from

a piece of lumber?

[lagomorph777]

20. When the cops come and haul them away.

[hatrack]

24. When it's perfectly square . . .

[Taylor Picker]

56. When you get a message from a higher plane.

[Aristus]

14. They threw them all out.

Twig and branch...

[left-of-center2012]

16. The police rooted them out

Leafing none behind.

[lagomorph777]

19. If you interrupt the exorcism, can't you get repossessed?

[lagomorph777]

21. "no indication the incident had anything to do with the price of lumber"

[Blue Owl]

22. "Where can I find a 360-degree neck swivel bearing?"

[Niagara]

23. "Bad behavior" is quite knotty.

[blugbox]

25. Did they send a splinter group over to Lowe's?

[GreatCaesarsGhost]

27. Jesus sent his disciples out 2 X 4

[Wicked Blue]

28. My sympathies are with the trees and the people doing the ritual

Remember the Lorax:

"I speak for the trees"

[left-of-center2012]

29. Will this branch off to other outlets?

[panader0]

30. When I was a contracted thinner in the Oregon forests, I cut down hundreds or more trees (small)

everyday. We cut the smaller trees to make room for the bigger trees to grow fast. Of course
those trees were eventually harvested for lumber by Weyerhaeuser. A friend from Az sent me some
peyote, and one evening while camping on my unit, I ate the peyote and felt that I could hear the trees
crying. I later returned to Az and went back to being a bricklayer, which involved only inanimate objects.

[onethatcares]

34. been there, done that

peyote in the forest...in Alaska. I watched the trees breath. 45 years later I still remember it.

[Midnight Writer]

47. When I was a kid mowing the lawn, I thought I could hear the grass crying out.

I got in trouble with my Dad, because I would refuse to mow and then, when forced to, I would cry. He thought I was being lazy, but I was convinced I was hurting living things with a death machine.

Once something like that gets in your head, it is hard to cast out.

[nolabear]

31. What a bunch of saps.

[berniesandersmittens]

41. Knotheads

[Towlie]

42. Wasn't there a Jim Carrey movie called Dumb and Lumber? (or something like that)

 
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[alphafemale]

43. Whaaaa? I'll check this out later. nt

[Buckeye_Democrat]

44. I hope they first considered the beams in their own eyes.

[Solly Mack]

45. My mind is obviously in the gutter.

Because I know a sure fire way to "exorcise" wood.

[lagomorph777]

50. Expel the demon seed?

[Carlitos Brigante]

46. Surprised no one in the thread yelled "The power of Christ compels you!!!" before me.... nt

[Politicub]

52. I love this headline so much.

[jmowreader]

53. That would have been an...interesting call to make to the store manager

"Hi Rich? You need to come to Aisle 27 right now. We've got a problem."

"What's the problem?"

"There are six people exorcising the spirits out of the lumber, man. Get down here quick, you got to see this."

"There are WHAT?"

"Just what I said, sir. Six people are holding some kind of weird religious ceremony in the lumber aisle."

Thirty seconds later...

"How come this always happens to me."

"To YOU? I found 'em first."

Somehow I think Rich Niemiec, the best store manager I ever worked for, would have enjoyed this.

[Hassin Bin Sober]

54. No wonder their lumber stacks always look like a game of Pick-Up-Sticks

They’re possessed.

I refuse to buy lumber from HD.

[lindysalsagal]

55. Some sap needs to sod off!

I tip my hat to:

#4 Made to leaf obamanut2012 9:31 AM
#5 Budding criminals headed for a fall. NurseJackie 9:34 AM
#7 That's what happens when you go against the grain. Baitball Blogger 9:48 AM
#15 We wood know. NurseJackie 9:52 AM
#18 You went out on a limb with that one ZonkerHarris 4:22 PM
#49 I need to branch out and think of better puns obamanut2012 12:32 PM
#35 Yes... I'm pining for some too! NurseJackie 12:38 PM
#36 If you think of any log-in and share them! NurseJackie 12:40 PM
#38 Apparently, the Home Depot store needed to be spruced up! NurseJackie 12:43 PM