After beating the tear gas with petroleum jelly; after holding off deputies with a shotgun; after shooting a police dog in the nose; the 51-year-old Ms. Allen must have decided shed had enough. She was immediately taken into custody by police, who will now ensure that the court-ordered psychiatric evaluation that started it all is finally carried out.
It has been an expensive and occasionally laughable standoff, but also a successful one. Concerned militiamen may now return to their homes.