A Florida resident is free on bail after being arrested for threatening to shoot city officials if they increased property taxes.
The Daytona Beach News-Journal reports Rodd Westpfahl was charged with written threats to kill or do bodily injury when he made a most on a Facebook page related to the city of Holly Hill, Florida. Westpfahl wrote online that if the Holly Hill city commissioners tried to “jack up my property taxes,” he would “personally march down there and gun them all down.”
Police were notified about the posting and visited Westpfahl at his home, where he claimed he was drunk when he wrote the message and added that he did not own guns and did not know how to use firearms. After he was arrested, he claimed that he thought his comments were covered under the free speech provision of the First Amendment.
Westpfahl is currently free on bail and his Facebook account is no longer online.
Photo courtesy of Holly Hills Police Department.
While this is no joking matter, at least that’s one way of getting your Facebook account deleted.