We told you last week about this bizarre incident in which an anti-gay heckler screamed taunts at a Democratic fundraiser at a home in suburban San Diego and then called in a noise complaint that led to a crowd of middle aged Dems being pepper-sprayed and two carted off to jail -- with a canine unit, more than a half a dozen police cars and a helicopter called in to boot.

So why did junior law man Marshall G. Abbott flip out and start shooting pepper spray in peoples' eyes and call reinforcements like he was involved in some sort of gang shoot out?

According to the preliminary report, he felt 'threatened' by the small crowd of middle- and retirement aged Democrats at the fundraiser and whipped out the pepper spray. All I can say is, thank God this doofus didn't reach for his gun. He reported also suffering "several scratches and minor swelling on both of his arms." But presumably he could have gotten those while throwing the hosts to the floor in restraint holds to place them under arrest.