Wonkette
Meet, Chris Daggett, the hidden third candidate running for governor of New Jersey. Oh but get this: He made the silliest mistake ever the other day when he went to return his rental Acura and forgot that he left his loaded gun in the car. Cupholders! The gun apparently belonged to his driver, a retired state trooper, and “Daggett’s spokesman, Tom Johnson, said the candidate was not even aware of the gun having been in the car.” Daggett has been far, far too busy tending to his gratuitous consonants collection and secretly running for public office to notice any loaded firearms. [NJ.com]
When questioned by reporters, Daggett responded defensively, “Look, I went home with the waitress, the way I always do. How was I to know she was with the Russians, too?”
Daggett didn’t realize that it was New Jersey’s “Take your Gun to Work Day”.
Daggett!! That’s what I always say.
Daggett, according to NJ101.5 Radio, has an interesting proposal to lower our property taxes, which is to start taxing Nail Salons.
gurukalehuru: How about: sounds very cloak and daggett??
In his defense, he was headed to a town hall meeting on health care reform.
AP reports he did take the cannolis.
Who names their family after a Battlestar Galactica dog?
Acura?!?!? That’s what Hitler drove around in, y’know.
That body in the trunk was totally there when I rented it, too.
Johnny Zhivago: The poor bastard is doomed, everybody knows “manicurist” is Vietnamese for “Death Ninja”. No wonder his driver is carrying a gun as he low balls his way around the state in a late model sub compact, I would too if I had them bitches hunting me.
In Daggett’s defense, Paulie had called in sick, so Fredo was driving.
Oddly enough, the eight-ball and sex toys have gone missing.
To be fair, he only caries the gun in his car so he can use it to hammer on random engine parts when it won’t start.
Johnny Zhivago: Don’t forget the 20% sales tax to be applied to hair gel and vodka+red bulls. The recession kept the North Jersey fist pumpers close to home, and they swarmed the shore this summer. We could have dropped the state income tax, lost the tolls on the GSP and Turnpike, and eliminate property taxes… The Jersey shore is a victim in all of this and we deserve reparations.
loquaciousmusic: Upon hearing news of the incident, Daggett’s campaign manager is reported to have said, “The shit has hit the fan.”
It’s New Joisey, fer fuck’s sake.
Nobody with any serious hope of a political career goes around without a firearm.
Think McGreevey and his lubed and loaded gun, fer instance.
One might think it would be hard to “forget” such an important and potentially embarassing fashion accessory as a handgun. One would be wrong. Happens to me occasionally, but never in a rental!
Johnny Zhivago: Ah, the old “tax the demographic that wasn’t going to vote for you anyway” trick. If it helps covert candidate Dagggetttt, I’ll start printing my own campaign material: Operation Soak the Rich!
And here it looked like this guy was the only NJ candidate without serious ethical issues and car-related fuckups. Well, he should still be able to siphon enough votes from the fat guy to ensure Corzine’s reelection.
In New Jersey, handing over a rented car with someone else’s loaded gun in it will probably result in felony charges.
/not kidding
//I carry, but not in NJ
//wait, this isn’t Fark?
user-of-owls: So long Muddy Waters and so long Howlin’ Wolf.
krustysfather: Yes NJ is in fact insane on the subject. I tried to buy a BB gun in a NJ store - they asked me for my license.
Yeah, and we all know what rhymes with Daggett, amirite? Fuckin’ maggot, feeding off the feces of Jersey.
Apparently the gun isn’t the real travesty in this story… it’s the fact that Daggett was in one of them unMerkin Acuras that has everybody at NJ.com in such a lather.
x111e7thst: You can put an eye out with one of those things.
“That’s my car gun. My house gun is already in the house, so please return my car gun to the glove compartment.”
To be fair, the retired state trooper was not even aware that Daggett was in the car, or that he was running for governor, or that he is alleged to have been driving this possibly fictitious character anyplace.
“Is that a gun in your car or are you just happy to see me?”
How then do you suggest an upstanding Christian white male protect himself from Newark and them felonious rabbis? Garden state, my ass. It’s a GUARDIN’ STATE BETCHEZ!
This has all been one big misunderstanding. The gun actually belonged to Jayson Williams’ chauffeur.
krustysfather: Seriously? In Arkansas all rentals come equipped with loaded weapons. For poaching deer, you see? Only problem is you have to return the car with just as much ammunition as it had when you picked it up, else they charge outrageous fees. Like $5 a round. And wouldn’t you know there’s never a gun store between here and the airport.
I like the image of a chauffeur-driven Acura. But I have trouble believing an ex-cop forgot he left the house that morning with his gun.
Top 10 signs you need a new driver
10. Leaves gun in rental car.
Having worked in both the Rental Car business (tagentially) and the hotel business, I will say this: You will not believe the shit some people leave behind.
Sadly, this is the guy that the state’s biggest newspaper endorsed, for the ethics, you know. And in the NJ governor’s race totem poll of awful car things, leaving a gun in it is pretty low on the list (vs, say, Christie turning the car into a lethal weapon instead of just leaving one inside).
This guy is running for governor of new Jersey?
http://fc01.deviantart.com/fs13/f/2007/043/4/b/Daggett_Esfuziante_by_Guilherme_Briggs.jpg
No wonder he’s angry!
Lascauxcaveman: So THAT’S what happened to my pancreas!
Hello, Ramada Inn?
Lascauxcaveman: Examples, you big tease!
Those rental ponies:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7IpEnsdXwFM
“…far, far too busy…” she nags.
It’s apparently a little-known law that every man, woman and child over the age of 18 must carry a loaded gun in New Jersey. Oh, and corrupt, embezzling mayors, state assemblymen, rabbis and businessmen, too.*
*Humor qualifier: That’s not a stereotyped, offensive GOP comment, but a reference to a recent New Jersey corruption bust that did indeed arrest mayors, assemblymen, rabbis, and businessmen on various corruption charges.
Big deal, I have dozen machine guns and a flame-thrower or two that I am not even aware of.
CaiteeCruelle: yeah, let’s have your top 3 at least…
ChernobylSoup v2: Gun store? You mean you can’t buy ammo at the 7-11? What kind of socialist police state is Arkansas?
V572625694: You have one of those “ATF should be a convenience store not a federal agency” t-shirts, don’t you?
Some car rental chains don’t actually provide you with guns. See if I ever use Hertz again.
That might Hertz his chances of winning.
Sounds like he had Budget security.
I guess that’s why they call it the Guardin’ State….
I got more, I’m here until noon
“far, far too busy tending to his gratuitous consonants collection” oh, Juli, you’ve truly made my day with that bit. You are on a rocket ship to the top of your profession with such troubling insights. Thank you. Now if only Ttomm would reveal his middle name…
thefrontpage: Your amongst people who regularly keep up on their news, so no disclaimer is required, O Que?