Paranoid Survivalist Sought in Montana Manhunt

[Appaholic]

Montana manhunt FBI agents, in a helicopter from the Montana National Guard, land at the Lumberjack Saloon west of Lolo, Mont., Monday, June 13 to join in a manhunt for David Burgert, a former militia leader in northwest Montana. Burgert allegedly led law enforcement officers on a car chase Sunday and shot at them before escaping into the woods. Burgert is on federal and state probation, and once led the roght-wing militant group called Project 7. (AP Photo/Missoulian, Linda Thompson)

LOLO, Mont. (AP) — Former militia leader David Burgert has found a perfect location to carry on his private battle with law enforcement officers: a remote corner of the Rocky Mountains on the Montana-Idaho border that is heavily forested and lightly populated.

The hunt for Burgert, 47, moved into its fourth day Wednesday with no sign of the practiced survivalist whose mother said he slipped into paranoia after repeated run-ins with Montana law enforcement.

Court documents and interviews with law enforcement officials painted a picture of a well-armed "bully" who became convinced a decade ago that authorities were out to get him.

Burgert is being sought for attempted homicide and probation violations after authorities say he fired a handgun at two Missoula County sheriff's deputies during a confrontation Sunday about 25 miles west of Missoula.

http://www.blueridgenow.com/article/201 ... na-manhunt

[grizzaholic]

It happens from time to time. Nothing to worry about.

[Appaholic]

This was in our local paper....the picture caused some flashbacks....

[Grizalltheway]

Probably in Idaho by now. They can keep him.

[Grizalltheway]

This was in our local paper....the picture caused some flashbacks....

Didn't get a wet sensation down there, did ya?

[grizzaholic]

This was in our local paper....the picture caused some flashbacks....

Shut up. You are talking out of your ass now. You don't remember a damn thing that night.

[grizzaholic]

Probably in Idaho by now. They can keep him.

They either won't catch him, or he will die in a shootout with the cops over lunch.

[Appaholic]

This was in our local paper....the picture caused some flashbacks....

Didn't get a wet sensation down there, did ya?

...that would explain the funny look on the hot German co-worker's face as I walked out to the production floor....

[Appaholic]

Probably in Idaho by now. They can keep him.

They either won't catch him, or he will die in a shootout with the cops over lunch.

[Appaholic]

This was in our local paper....the picture caused some flashbacks....

Shut up. You are talking out of your ass now. You don't remember a damn thing that night.

Thank god....well, except for the Stormie.....

[Appaholic]

Looks like they called off the search....bet he head's to Polebridge...excellent baked goods....

[grizzaholic]

I am not absolving him of what he has done now or in the past, but when he went to trial, and later prison, the government tried to put a bunch of other charges on him that were either dismissed or couldn't be verified on him and his "group".

Am I saying he is a nut, probably, but don't believe everything you read in the paper.

[Grizalltheway]

Rock the fuck on!



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[OpieGSU]

I am not absolving him of what he has done now or in the past, but when he went to trial, and later prison, the government tried to put a bunch of other charges on him that were either dismissed or couldn't be verified on him and his "group".

Am I saying he is a nut, probably, but don't believe everything you read in the paper.

Montana. Where losers go to have an armed standoff.

[Grizalltheway]

I am not absolving him of what he has done now or in the past, but when he went to trial, and later prison, the government tried to put a bunch of other charges on him that were either dismissed or couldn't be verified on him and his "group".

Am I saying he is a nut, probably, but don't believe everything you read in the paper.

Montana. Where losers go to have an armed standoff.

Georgia. Where cousins ain't just for kissin'. Also sodomy.

[OpieGSU]

Montana. Where losers go to have an armed standoff.

Georgia. Where cousins ain't just for kissin'. Also sodomy.

Montana, where men are fat, and sheep are scared.

[Grizalltheway]

Nice try, numb nuts, but the durty south takes the cake (and donuts, pie, fried chicken, etc) when it comes to fatties.

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[AZGrizFan]

I am not absolving him of what he has done now or in the past, but when he went to trial, and later prison, the government tried to put a bunch of other charges on him that were either dismissed or couldn't be verified on him and his "group".

Am I saying he is a nut, probably, but don't believe everything you read in the paper.

Montana. Where losers go to have an armed standoff.

Baltimore. Where drunk, bipolar losers go to practice law.

[citdog]

Nice try, numb nuts, but the durty south takes the cake (and donuts, pie, fried chicken, etc) when it comes to fatties.

http://www.cdc.gov/obesity/data/trends.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

opie is not Southern.

[Ivytalk]

Has anyone seen polsongriz lately?

[grizzaholic]

Has anyone seen polsongriz lately?

I have seen Pols before. I have had beers with Pols before. I have witnessed Pols at lunch before. I can tell you, this guy is no Pols.

[grizzaholic]

Hey guys, no sense in degrading every fucking thread that Opie posts in, into a shit talking smack-athon. Lets try and stay remotely on topic.


FUCK, Andy leaves and thread hijacks go up. Just don't make sense.

[ODUsmitty]

If police have constantly been after him for some time, is he really paranoid?

I'd recommend looking in the old, rat-infested, abandoned mine just outside of town. That's where Rambo hid out.

[clenz]

Where's expandos been lately? This sounds like something that he would do, doesn't it? Think about it, boththink the government is out to get them, both seem to have trouble fitting in with normal society, and for all we know expandos could be quite the outdoorman so that he can live off the land when he needs to avoid the government when "his time comes"

[Wedgebuster]

I think the cops are about 0-3 on successful man hunts in the wilderness around here, I can remember two of 'em where they had dog teams, swat teams, helicopters and the whole show out there thinking they had the villian(s) pinned down, only to find out they were nowhere in the area, in fact usually in town somewhere.

Most famous man hunt in our area was the Earl Durand episode. Also known as "The Tarzan Of The Tetons" Earl had used his supreme hunting skills to poach a couple elk for a couple starving families back in the depression days. Game was scarce then because everybody was hungry. He gunned down a game warden that came after him, then a couple sheriff's deputies that came after him later.

They thought they had him pinned down in the Beartooth Mountains when at the same time he was robbing the First National Bank in town, some 70 miles to the east of the Beartooths.

He was wounded while exiting the bank by a local boy with a 30-30, and then finished off execution style by the bank president at the time.

My Bro-In-Law now owns the historic bank building, which still shows bullet marks from the shootout that took place that day.