Kansas City Police Fire at Backfiring Van

[Ben]

Oops.
(I say that lightly only because no one was injured or killed).

http://www.kansascity.com/2010/11/12/2425221/kc-police-fire-at-backfiring-van.html

[Nick1911]

Huh.  I drive through there when we go for lunch sometimes.

Thankfully, no one was hurt.

[cambeul41]

Windows of the police car were apparently shot out by the officers as they exited the patrol car.

 

[Regolith]

 

From reading the comments, it looks like the police officers shot through their windshield at the van before getting out of their vehicle.   

[Doggy Daddy]

From reading the comments, it looks like the police officers shot through their windshield at the van before getting out of their vehicle.   

Officer Laurel and Officer Hardy?

DD

[vaskidmark]

It's for officer safety.

Why bother trying to figure out what real gunfire sounds like, if you are all ready psyched up on adrenaline because the dispatcher told you someone said shots were fired?  First loud noise gets a magazine dumped in the feneral direction - even if it mean using that tactical blow-your-own-windows-out-before-you-exit-the-vehicle technique all the gun boards are touting nowadays.

Roll towards a shots-fired scene and "When the officers got to the area they saw a white van parked on Gregory and pulled up near it."  This must be another of the new gun board tactical training tips.

Bonus points to KCMOPD for reducing training expenses to $5.95/month (that's the budget price for dial-up service from the local cheetoes-munching provider, no?).

To round this out, I'm amazed they did not issue a few citations for defective equipment.

stay safe.

[Tallpine]

If you've ever watched a Disney movie, you know that The Bad Guys usually drive a backfiring van 

Except it's usually dark blue instead of white ... 

[MillCreek]

Shooting through your own windshield before exiting the vehicle.  I can only imagine what that is going to do to your hearing.

[HankB]

There's probably a city lawyer combing through the law, trying to find some legal theory to hold the van owner responsible for the gunfire, the bullet holes in the police car's windshield, damage to the officer's hearing, and the cost of the rounds expended.

After all, it's not their fault that they opened fire on a backfiring van . . . it could have been an attack.

And they got to go home at the end of the shift.



(Did I need to include the [sarcasm][/sarcasm] brackets?)

[De Selby]

This makes me think of  that last scene from "Burn After Reading"..."$#@*@, what did we learn?  I guess we learned not to do it again.  @#@$#$ if I know what we did"