I am adding a new “label”, I think I’ll just call it “IDIOT” because that is the first word that came to mind when I heard this story…http://www.lowellsun.com/breakingnews/ci_12498996
Police detain restaurant patron who flashed gun
By Robert Mills, rmills@lowellsun.com
LOWELL — Police quickly flooded the downtown Monday night after someone reported an intoxicated patron had flashed a handgun inside the Village Smokehouse steakhouse on Middle Street.
Shortly before 10 p.m., more than a half-dozen police cruisers sped into the heart of downtown. Moments later, Officers Charles Pappaconstantinou and James DeMaio found the man walking down Central Street, near Warren Street, with the gun still in his hand.
They detained him, and after a quick witness identification procedure was conducted, Eric Burke, 31, of Burlington, was arrested for assault with a dangerous weapon (gun).
It turns out the gun was a black BB gun, but it looked like a real handgun.
Burke was still being held Monday night because a bail commissioner had not yet set bail.
Police said Burke flashed the gun while inside the restaurant, and that employees got him out of the building and called police. Police said restaurant employees reacted just as they should have.