Officer I Swear I Am Not Dazed and Confused

Sometimes I just don't understand what's going on. What exactly did this guy do wrong, beyond driving drunk? He's got some kind of connection to the military and he's collecting some weapons. And? What's the problem? Guy sounds enterprising to me is all.

When I'm "dazed and confused" I'm more inclined to zone out on Jimmy Page bowing that guitar, but if this guy is dazed and confused with his handguns and his knives who am I to judge? Live and let live baby. Nothing wrong with that. Why the media/police bias against the heavy metal thing? Zeppelin had other things going too, right? Maybe we need to get past using Zeppelin songs to label what some people view as deviate behavior, and we should make some effort to really understand each other? Huh? Yeah!

But it's that damned drunk driving that sinks so many otherwise great guys. Like Mel Gibson. It's a shame. This guy was such a menace to society that they released him on his own recognizance. And I'm fine with that. Ramble On brother!

In an embarrassing security breach at the Florida military base where U.S. Central Command is headquartered, a man masqueraded as a top military aide to procure housing on the base, where he stored a large weapons cache in his home, The Smoking Gun has learned.

The brazen scheme was discovered last year by military investigators only after Scott Allan Bennett, 39, was arrested for drunk driving at an entrance gate to MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa.

At the time of his bust, a “dazed and confused” Bennett was carrying a concealed, loaded handgun, and his vehicle contained a second loaded gun, seven knives, a machete, a collapsible baton, mace, a stun gun, ammunition, a sling shot with BBs, and a box of throwing stars, according to a Tampa Police Department report and a criminal complaint filed last month in U.S. District Court.

Bennett, pictured in the mug shot at right, was released Tuesday on his own recognizance following a court hearing. Charged with making a false statement, he is scheduled for an appearance later this month at the Tampa federal courthouse. Prosecutors and military officials have, not surprisingly, done nothing to publicize the case against Bennett, the details of which were discovered by TSG.

[The Smoking Gun]