This is one of the best and weirdest stories you are likely read today.
You may recall some previous stories about an abortion clinic in Rockford, Illinois (See here and here).
Well, we have a new one. But this one has a twist!
Pro-lifers have tried to offer options and counseling to those entering the clinic. They have been previously mocked and harassed for their efforts. Recently, the clinic took to trying to drown them out.
The abortion clinic set up a radio boom box blaring a local radio station so that the pro-lifers offers of help could not be heard. This has been going on for weeks.
So the other day, the radio station that was being used to drown out the pro-life message turned the tables on the abortion clinic. With the radio blaring, the station took a call from one of the pro-lifers and allowed for the activist to explain what was happening.
Then the DJ Doug McDuff, taken aback at what was happening, used to the blaring radio to his advantage chanting “God bless pro-lifers, God bless pro-lifers, God bless pro-lifers!”
Needless to say, when the workers at the abortion clinic heard the pro-life message blaring over their own radio, they freaked.
This is where the story gets weird(er). Not content to stop blaring the radio, the landlord of the abortion clinic stood by the radio boom box with a chainsaw. A chainsaw! Any time he feared that the radio station might say something pro-life, he would rev up the chainsaw to drown out the radio.
Insane! (see vid of the chainsaw in action below!)
A huge CMR thumbs up to radio station WNTA and DJ Doug McDuff. And thanks to Jen Raiche for tipping us to the story!
July 12, 2010 at 5:05 pm
Chainsaw gives new meaning to term "Abortion Mill".
Oh no, that's not scary at all. He ought to just put on a "Michael" hockey mask too "Get your abortions here! Come bring me your babies!" Bzzrrrr bzzrrrr! That'll bring 'em in. To quote Bugs Bunny, "What a maroon!"
July 12, 2010 at 5:36 pm
There's a volume dial on the boom box. Couldn't have he just used that? On the other hand, it's LOL-hiliarious that he'd use a chainsaw to drown out the boom box like that.
July 12, 2010 at 6:18 pm
I thought the same thing as Jimbo when I saw this. Praise Jesus this guy is an idiot, I'm sure there has been more than one woman who freaked out and walked away 🙂
July 12, 2010 at 6:31 pm
Sadly, the MSM will probably spin this as – "Local business man provoked to employ creative means to deter protestors",… or some such malarky.
Ahhh… "Music(al saws) hath charms to soothe a savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak." – or disturb the whole freakin' neighbourhood.
And disturbed the neighbours should be. Can any of the neighbours now say they don't know what's going on next door?
July 12, 2010 at 6:53 pm
The DJ's conversion proves just how God can reverse things just like that. So, there is cause for joy and optimism – even if the face of Obamacare.
July 12, 2010 at 6:57 pm
I wonder why they didn't just change the station?
July 12, 2010 at 7:43 pm
So he just keeps a chainsaw lying around in case he needs to…?? What a wackjob!! But since he kills babies for a living, I guess it's not really a stretch…
July 12, 2010 at 8:12 pm
"I wonder why they didn't just change the station?"
Would they really be in the abortion industry if they were smart enough to think of that?
July 12, 2010 at 11:48 pm
I'm not an expert in copyright law, but I'm pretty sure that playing a radio broadcast over loudspeakers to be heard by the public constitutes copyright infringment, which can incur not only civil liability, but criminal penalties.
July 13, 2010 at 12:38 am
What a beautiful dilemma! The abortion mill owner is discouraging his own customers. If he stops, the pro-lifers will get to be heard. I hope the pro-lifers wear ear protection.
July 13, 2010 at 2:00 am
And this is what they call letting women make an autonomous decision…
July 13, 2010 at 8:59 am
Sometimes, being a European reader of many an American blog, I find my eyebrows unable to rise quite as high as I would like them to 😉
However, I wish pro-lifers in Scandinavia, for example, would show the same tenacity and vigour in proclaiming the sanctity of life…
July 13, 2010 at 4:53 pm
Flexo, since when did that stop abortionists?
July 14, 2010 at 3:20 am
Why doesn't a pro-lifer call the cops for noise disturbance and when the pro-abort cop comes and says the man has the right, let the cop know, tell his Capt, the pro-lifers might come with 5 chain saws the next day for a jamming session.
July 14, 2010 at 5:38 am
Flexo, since when did that stop abortionists?
Well it might when the radio station's lawyer sends them a cease and desist letter.
July 14, 2010 at 3:00 pm
lawyers….
The guy with the chainsaw is crouching down RIGHT NEXT TO THE RADIO!!
Hello?! When he hears pro life sounds he could turn it down, off, or to another station right? But he wasn't smart enough to think of "volume knob". Instead he thought – I know! CHAINSAW!
I can just see this dingbat trying to keep his kid from watching a "bad scene in a movie". I would just use my hand to cover his or her eyes. What we he do, behead the kid?
Oh yes… That IS what he would do.
July 17, 2010 at 2:24 pm
In between this story (the chainsaw/radio) and your last story about Jesus being arrest. The clinic owner and his supporters had egged a priest car and put homemade bumper stickers on the priest's car that read "I rape children". That story can be read on Fr. Z's blog. The bumper sticker and egging took place May 2010.