Florida Pastor Hit With $200,000 Bill For Koran Burning Event

[fallstuff]

Florida Pastor Hit With $200,000 Bill For Koran Burning Event

GAINSVILLE, FL --
City leaders want Terry Jones' church to pay up, for all the extra security his Koran burning controversy caused.

Terry Jones grabbed national headlines when he said he would burn copies of the Koran on September 11-th. That sparked protests and outrage around the world.

Gainsville police said there were more than 200 officers were on duty last weekend patrolling the church, the University of Florida football game and "soft targets" like the mall. Another 160 sheriff's deputies were also working because of the planned protest at Dove World Outreach Center.

The cost for all that extra security, totaled about $200,000. Gainesville City Manager Russ Blackburn wants the church to pickup the tab, but said he doesn't know if the city has legal authority to force them to pay up

Link:
Florida Pastor Hit With $200,000 Bill For Koran Burning Event | WSPA
Pastor who threatened to burn Korans told to pay police bill - Telegraph

 

[CardSharp]

Serves the moron right.

 

[bandit]

Florida Pastor Hit With $200,000 Bill For Koran Burning Event

GAINSVILLE, FL --
City leaders want Terry Jones' church to pay up, for all the extra security his Koran burning controversy caused.

Terry Jones grabbed national headlines when he said he would burn copies of the Koran on September 11-th. That sparked protests and outrage around the world.

Gainsville police said there were more than 200 officers were on duty last weekend patrolling the church, the University of Florida football game and "soft targets" like the mall. Another 160 sheriff's deputies were also working because of the planned protest at Dove World Outreach Center.

The cost for all that extra security, totaled about $200,000. Gainesville City Manager Russ Blackburn wants the church to pickup the tab, but said he doesn't know if the city has legal authority to force them to pay up

Good step, the bigot should be made to pay for his publicity stunt, in a lawful way. Won't be burning even wood in his house for a long time.

 

[CardSharp]

Good step, the bigot should be made to pay for his publicity stunt, in a lawful way. Won't be burning even wood in his house for a long time.

God will provide

 

[Chinese-Dragon]

Serves the moron right.

Good step, the bigot should be made to pay for his publicity stunt, in a lawful way. Won't be burning even wood in his house for a long time.

Very well said.

If you're willing to commit to an action, you should bear the consequences of that action.

 

[Water Car Engineer]

ouch......$200,000...what a loser

 

[DESERT FIGHTER]

Next step..... SHOUT OBAMA IS A MUSLIM!!

 

[Capt.Popeye]

HaHa, LOL!
Now let that guy put "HIS MONEY WHERE HIS MOUTH WAS". Chances are his congregation will have to foot the bill for his Blah-Blah.
Clown.

 

[siegecrossbow]

Poetic justice is really the best kind .

 

[fallstuff]

HaHa, LOL!
Now let that guy put "HIS MONEY WHERE HIS MOUTH WAS". Chances are his congregation will have to foot the bill for his Blah-Blah.
Clown.

A few years ago this guy took cash out of the Church property and bought personal properties worth $650,000.00

An article in Thursday’s Gainesville Sun states that Terry Jones (who just cancelled his planned burning of the Quran) owns a number of properties in the Gainesville area, but the article did not have financing information on the properties. I have searched the public records in Alachua County and found mortgage records that are a close match to the information the Sun produced on purchase records. In addition, I found mortgage records on the Dove World Outreach church property itself that show a large mortgage being taken out on the church property just 27 days before the first residential property was mortgaged in Jones’ name. These records create the impression that Jones used the mortgage of church property to fuel the purchase of a large amount of residential property in his own name.

Here is the information in the Sun:

The Joneses or their corporation, TS and Company, own six properties in the Gainesville neighborhoods of Pineridge and Phoenix, purchased between March 2006 and August 2007 for a combined total of $647,500. Financing information was not available. In addition, Terry and Sylvia Jones bought a home in Slidell, La., in January 2007 for $303,900. They also own a condo in the Paradise Island Towers Condo on Treasure Island, which was bought before Jones’ first wife died.

Terry Jones’ Real Estate Buying Spree Started 27 Days After Mortgaging Dove World Property | The Seminal