Denver taxi driver mistakes Italian gun manufacturer exec for terrorist, calls police.

[TheMightyFavog]

http://kdvr.com/2013/05/18/cab-driver-mistakes-italian-gun-executive-for-terrorist-calls-police/

An executive with a prominent gun manufacturer is on his way back to his native Italy after a taxi driver mistook him for a terrorist on Saturday.

Daniele Perazzi took a cab to the Colorado Gun Collectors Association trade show at the Denver Merchandise Mart around noon.

He had seven shotguns at the time and apparently the guns scared Perazzi’s cab driver who called police and told them he’d just dropped off a terrorist.

(snip)

Perazzi is president of the Italian company Perazzi shotguns. The company is known for making hunting and sporting models of shotguns.

So much idiocy in one story....

[alcibiades_mystery]

1. Wattaya mean "mistakes?"

Gun manufacturers are terrorists.

[madokie]

2. Better safe than sorry is what I think

[Swamp Lover]

3. I see no mistakes.

I remember an incident right after 9/11 when a waitress at a restaurant overheard a middle eastern man speaking on a cell, trying to hire someone to "bring it down". The waitress reported the terrorist threat, he was detained and questioned until they released him after he was able to prove that he was trying to hire someone to bring his car down to where he had been traveling.

A man with a bunch of guns is much more a credible threat. Three cheers for the attentive cabbie.

[mwrguy]

4. He is a terrorist

He just sows terror in a highly profitable manner.

[Robb]

5. Didn't happen.

http://www.9news.com/rss/story.aspx?storyid=337390

Here's Fox31 finally retracting the story:
http://kdvr.com/2013/05/22/woman-fabricated-tale-of-italian-gun-exec-being-questioned-after-terrorist-claim/

[reformist2]

6. Wow, what a black eye for that reporter.

If you read the retraction, it appears the reporter didn't really have two sources. He only had one source, and then another person that just confirmed he had been told the story by the first source.

[Enrique]

7. the original story has all kinds of red flags

taken into question by "law enforcement", strangely vague, eh? and no mention of an attempt to get comment from "law enforcement" whatever that was. Also does not give the lawyer's name. Why? Since when do lawyers want anonymity?

I just wish the story remained long enough for the RWers to run with it.