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Bar Hopeful Planned Super Bowl Massacre

Posted Feb 8, 08 12:42 PM CST in Crime & Courts,  US    Most Popular

(Newser) – A would-be bar owner was so angry over being denied a liquor license  that he nearly shot up the Super Bowl, the AP reports. Toting an assault rifle and 200 rounds of ammo, John Havelock got all the way to the the Super Bowl parking lot before he thought better of the blood-soaked “econopolitical confrontation” promised in an 8-page rant sent to local media.

"I will not be bullied by the financial institutions and their puppet politicians," Havelock wrote. "I will test the theory that bullets speak louder than words." He ultimately confessed to his parents, broke down in tears, and turned himself in. Local officials said neighbors had shot down the castle-themed bar he proposed. “They’d heard he wanted to call his place ‘Drunkenstein’s,’” a city spokeswoman explained.

Source Associated Press

University of Phoenix Stadium, host of Super Bowl XLII. Would-be bar owner Kurt William Havelock got within site of the stadium before changing his mind and turning himself in.   (Wikimedia Commons)
For John Havelock, not getting a liquor license was almost worth starting an "econopolitical" revolution over.   (Shutterstock)
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