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3 radio stations offer exchange Shoes for Guns
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3 radio stations offer exchange of athletic shoes for firearms
By Pedro Ruz Gutierrez | Sentinel Staff Writer
Posted July 27, 2002
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PHOTOS
Sneaker seeker. (ROBERTO GONZALEZ/ORLANDO SENTINEL)
Jul 26, 2002
Joseph Woodall on Friday parted with his stepfather's old shotgun.
Woodall, 28, never fired it and will not miss it. Especially after an 18-year-old shot him and fractured his right femur with a similar weapon in a shooting on the Cady Way Trail last month.
"I have no use for guns now," said Woodall, who joined dozens of other Central Floridians to take advantage of the annual 104.1 FM (WTKS) Real Radio guns-for-shoes exchange. Woodall, a former digger for a BellSouth subcontractor, took a size-12 Skechers pair home.
Parents and their children and other gun owners who drove from as far as Deltona, Leesburg and Sanford to the Citrus Bowl walked away with Nikes, Reeboks and other brands donated by Just for Feet and also bought with a $23,000 radio campaign.
Monsters of the Midday Host Russ Rollins said the WTKS crew was thrilled with the turnouts, considering a year in which Sept. 11 has increased gun ownership.
A total of 440 weapons, some of them BB guns, were collected in a couple of hours in simultaneous events in Orlando, West Palm Beach and Macon, Ga.
The gun swap, however, was canceled in Fort Myers because the Lee County Sheriff's Office refused to go along with the no-questions-asked policy.
At the Citrus Bowl, Orlando police disabled 244 weapons, including handguns, rifles, sawed-off shotguns and other rusty, inoperable relics.
Serial numbers, where possible, were entered into police records for possible matches against unsolved crimes and stolen-gun reports, Sgt. Joe Fernandez said.
Ray Heileman, a Deltona mental-health therapist who works with abused children, brought his .20-caliber Marlin rifle on his day off because he doesn't want the rifle around his daughters, ages 14 and 8.
"Dad needs a new pair. Maybe I'll get some basketball shoes to start playing again," said Heileman, a 46-year-old Navy veteran who retired from Orlando's defunct Naval Training Center in 1994.
Pedro Ruz Gutierrez can be reached
at pruz@orlandosentinel.com or 407-420-5620.
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/orl-locgunsforshoes27072702jul27.story?coll=orl-news-headlines
"If cowardly and dishonorable men sometimes shoot unarmed men with army pistols or guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary and gallows, and not by a general deprivation of a constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878
By Pedro Ruz Gutierrez | Sentinel Staff Writer
Posted July 27, 2002
Email this story to a friend
Printer friendly version
PHOTOS
Sneaker seeker. (ROBERTO GONZALEZ/ORLANDO SENTINEL)
Jul 26, 2002
Joseph Woodall on Friday parted with his stepfather's old shotgun.
Woodall, 28, never fired it and will not miss it. Especially after an 18-year-old shot him and fractured his right femur with a similar weapon in a shooting on the Cady Way Trail last month.
"I have no use for guns now," said Woodall, who joined dozens of other Central Floridians to take advantage of the annual 104.1 FM (WTKS) Real Radio guns-for-shoes exchange. Woodall, a former digger for a BellSouth subcontractor, took a size-12 Skechers pair home.
Parents and their children and other gun owners who drove from as far as Deltona, Leesburg and Sanford to the Citrus Bowl walked away with Nikes, Reeboks and other brands donated by Just for Feet and also bought with a $23,000 radio campaign.
Monsters of the Midday Host Russ Rollins said the WTKS crew was thrilled with the turnouts, considering a year in which Sept. 11 has increased gun ownership.
A total of 440 weapons, some of them BB guns, were collected in a couple of hours in simultaneous events in Orlando, West Palm Beach and Macon, Ga.
The gun swap, however, was canceled in Fort Myers because the Lee County Sheriff's Office refused to go along with the no-questions-asked policy.
At the Citrus Bowl, Orlando police disabled 244 weapons, including handguns, rifles, sawed-off shotguns and other rusty, inoperable relics.
Serial numbers, where possible, were entered into police records for possible matches against unsolved crimes and stolen-gun reports, Sgt. Joe Fernandez said.
Ray Heileman, a Deltona mental-health therapist who works with abused children, brought his .20-caliber Marlin rifle on his day off because he doesn't want the rifle around his daughters, ages 14 and 8.
"Dad needs a new pair. Maybe I'll get some basketball shoes to start playing again," said Heileman, a 46-year-old Navy veteran who retired from Orlando's defunct Naval Training Center in 1994.
Pedro Ruz Gutierrez can be reached
at pruz@orlandosentinel.com or 407-420-5620.
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/orl-locgunsforshoes27072702jul27.story?coll=orl-news-headlines
"If cowardly and dishonorable men sometimes shoot unarmed men with army pistols or guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary and gallows, and not by a general deprivation of a constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878
Comments
Hey, if guns for shoes is such a great idea, I've got a BUNCH of extra shoes I'd like to send down there and they can send me one of those nice assault weapons for each pair. Apparently, that's an eminently fair exchange, right? Right! I'm gettin' my big box o' shoes ready to mail to the radio station today! And boys, I EXPECT results!
- Life NRA Member
"If cowardly & dishonorable men shoot unarmed men with army guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary...and not by general deprivation of constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878
BTW: What is a .20-caliber Marlin?
Better to have and not need, than need and not have.
- Life NRA Member
"If cowardly & dishonorable men shoot unarmed men with army guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary...and not by general deprivation of constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878
- Life NRA Member
"If cowardly & dishonorable men shoot unarmed men with army guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary...and not by general deprivation of constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878
Because I know for a fact that in some countries it's entirely common to see some dirt-poor farmer who lives in a shack, and is willing to go around without shoes so he can afford a gun to protect his family. One is a luxury, the other is a matter of life and death.
But of course, that kind of an image cant be tolerated because it interferes with the colossal liberal fantasma-trip that the idiots running this program are on.
Edited by - Bullzeye on 07/29/2002 18:28:28
Actually, the real travesty is that some poor fool amy have traded away a gun with real value (just what was the stepdad's old shotgun anyway? An auto 5?) for shoes that can be bought on clearance for a song. How many destitute old widows have been tricked into giving away their husband's gun collection to a bunch of anti-gun activists just to "keep them off the streets and out of the hands of children?"
If one is willing to get rid of a good gun for a pair of shoes- I say he/she doesn't deserve to have it in the first place, and they are the type I don't want to have guns.
Just hope those shoes will allow them to run fast in an encounter.
Ravens and Jennings get Flip Flops.
Remember...Terrorist are attacking Civilians; Not the Government. Protect Yourself!
NRA Lifetime Benefactor Member.
I've got a couple boat anchors. I won't trade em for those shoes made in some sweat shop by Habeeb or Kwazeemo on the edge of oblivion. I'm surprised these liberal radio stations haven't thought of the sweat and tears Habeeb and Kwazeemo have put into those Nikes, Reeboks, and
Converse.
Can you imagine Kwazeemo sitting at his sewing machine at the end of a twenty-three hour work day and he still can't get the guy with zebra tail to fan fast enough the knock the flies off his face. These guns, no matter how depleted should be sent to Habeeb and Kwazeemo and their respective countrymen. By doing so they can rid themselves of the greedy politicians in their country who are constantly getting their palms greased while Habeeb and Kwazeemo labor in sweat shops for one denari or whatever a day.
Just think of how much Habeeb and Kwazeemo could improve their plite if they only had some of those .20 caliber/guage hybrids instead of sewing machines and Goodyear rubber.