This is what we have come to

The only part of this incident I don't agree with is taking the guy in to custody, even if he was released. Unfortunately, we live in an age where people are going to have to be vigilant and report suspicious activity. But, in this case, I think the cops could have investigated on the spot and let the guy go...

"The People of Wal-Mart" strike again. Why was the innocent man taken into custody? Obviously the person who called in has a real problem since they are hallucinating, so why weren't they taken into custody instead?

The scary thing is the article wrote it up as if everyone did the right thing when obviously someone over reacted big time. Whats next a car backfires and it must be gunfire! What happened to filing a false police report and wasting tax payers money?

I read this too. In fact I still have the page open in a tab because I was eventually going to get around to posting about it. Thankfully, you posted and now I can just respond instead, which is much easier. My first reaction was one of disbelief. So many things made me take pause. Such as, how erratically can you behave in your truck? There's usually not a lot of room in there. Why wouldn't the "helpful citizen" look a bit more carefully before jumping to conclusions? Why did the first policeman that the helpful citizen alerted take a second look before calling in the whole force? The truth is that this hapless shopper was treated to the "see something say something" propaganda while in one of those interminable check-out lines in WalMart. After an hour of this (lines are always at least an hour long) the brainwashing was complete, and the customer proceeds to the parking lot, seeing something, and then saying something. Somewhere in WalMart a child is crying, an elderly woman is panicking and dozens of customers are eyeing the now-locked doors with concern. Is there a terrorist attack in Electronics or is this the sequel of Stephen King's 'The Mist'? Somewhere in the parking lot is a guy who's probably having a fight with his girlfriend, cell phone to his ear, gesticulating and talking excitedly. The next thing he knows, his truck is surrounded by armed police officers and he's being ordered out onto the ground. Although he's done nothing wrong, he is taken to the police station for questioning. He uses his one phone call to call his girlfriend but she won't take his calls anymore, not since he hung up on her using that lame "I'm surrounded by the SWAT team" excuse. I think that online shopping is the only answer. We live in a world where people have just become too afraid and paranoid for liberty to survive. They are afraid to be free. Why isn't the media accusing the DHS of fear-mongering the way they accuse anyone opposed to this administration of doing?