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Greek rioters use lasers against police
« on: December 16, 2008, 01:13:45 AM »
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1094892/Greek-rioters-use-lasers-police-violence-boys-death-continues-second-week.html

Greek rioters use lasers against police as violence over boy's death continues into second week

By Daily Mail Reporter
Last updated at 1:36 PM on 15th December 2008

Protesters in Athens targeted police officers with lasers yesterday as riots sparked by the police killing of a 15-year-old boy continued into a second week.

Although the intensity of protests has tailed off in recent days pockets of violence are still occurring and more rallies have been planned for this week.

Today, around 50 demonstrators hurled eggs at police outside the main Athens court, where a hearing took place for dozens of people arrested during Greece's worst riots in decades, sparked by the killing of Alexandros Grigoropoulos on December 6.
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Re: Greek rioters use lasers against police
« Reply #1 on: December 16, 2008, 01:17:27 AM »
Lasers?
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Re: Greek rioters use lasers against police
« Reply #2 on: December 16, 2008, 01:28:12 AM »
any mention of sharks?

or... ill-tempered sea bass?

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Re: Greek rioters use lasers against police
« Reply #3 on: December 16, 2008, 03:45:29 AM »
Lasers?

Thinking that if I saw being painted with a laser dot, it would be a gun sight. 

I would take cover and target back whomever using it.
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Re: Greek rioters use lasers against police
« Reply #4 on: December 16, 2008, 03:48:03 AM »
it looks like they're using those green high powered lasers!
super bad for your eyesight, lights matches!!!

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Quote from: RevDisk on April 06, 2012, 10:15:08 AM
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Re: Greek rioters use lasers against police
« Reply #5 on: December 16, 2008, 10:33:20 AM »
At least they can't shoot straight.

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Re: Greek rioters use lasers against police
« Reply #6 on: December 16, 2008, 11:17:10 AM »
Isn't he a little short to be a stormtrooper?
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Re: Greek rioters use lasers against police
« Reply #7 on: December 16, 2008, 11:20:07 AM »
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Isn't he a little short to be a stormtrooper?

Maybe he couldn't find a wookie suit.
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Re: Greek rioters use lasers against police
« Reply #8 on: December 16, 2008, 12:45:21 PM »
Obviously going down for felony possession of an EBR!

As to the OP, a laser from a crowd of rioters could make an LEO think gun, and make him/her run for cover, or it could be directed at the eyes, and at least temporarily blind the LEO.
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Re: Greek rioters use lasers against police
« Reply #9 on: December 16, 2008, 12:47:54 PM »
I would not blame a cop for shooting at the origin point of a laser, thinking it's being used for aiming.
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Re: Greek rioters use lasers against police
« Reply #10 on: December 16, 2008, 12:53:18 PM »
wouldn't blindness be considered "serious bodily harm"?
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Re: Greek rioters use lasers against police
« Reply #11 on: December 16, 2008, 12:55:23 PM »
I like how the article doesn't mention how the lasers were used.
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Re: Greek rioters use lasers against police
« Reply #12 on: December 16, 2008, 01:13:48 PM »
Quote from: MicroBalrog on December 16, 2008, 12:55:23 PM
I like how the article doesn't mention how the lasers were used.

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Protesters in Athens targeted police officers with lasers

depends on if thats a discription or just the reporter trying to be clever.
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Re: Greek rioters use lasers against police
« Reply #13 on: December 16, 2008, 01:38:32 PM »
I read that Greek police are PROHIBITED BY LAW from entering a college campus . . .  :police:

Guess where the rioters are re-grouping - gathering rocks to throw, demolishing buildings, assembling molotov cocktails - with NO police interference?

I suspect I wouldn't make a very good Greek cop . . . with my willingness to use lethal force against bomb-throwers, arsonists, and such.  ;/
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Re: Greek rioters use lasers against police
« Reply #14 on: December 16, 2008, 01:51:02 PM »
At the bottom of the page there are pictures, some of them show the green laser lights being used. http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/World-News/Greece-Athens-Braced-For-More-Violence-On-Day-Of-Shot-Teen-Alexandros-Grigoriadis-Funeral/Article/200812215175334?lpos=World_News_Top_Stories_Header_2&lid=ARTICLE_15175334_Greece:_Athens_Braced_For_More_Violence_On_Day_Of_Shot_Teen_Alexandros_Grigoriadis_Funeral

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I suspect I wouldn't make a very good Greek cop . . . with my willingness to use lethal force against bomb-throwers, arsonists, and such.  rolleyes

Yeah, you could shoot some of the people protesting the police state just like that neo-nazi cop did to Alexandros.  :mad:
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Re: Greek rioters use lasers against police
« Reply #15 on: December 16, 2008, 02:17:35 PM »
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Yeah, you could shoot some of the people protesting the police state just like that neo-nazi cop did to Alexandros.  angry

He wasn't protesting. He was attacking the police car with three dozen more of his buddies.

But even if the police were to track the kid in his house and shoot him in his peaceful sleep, that doesn't morally justify rioting.
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Re: Greek rioters use lasers against police
« Reply #16 on: December 16, 2008, 02:18:13 PM »
Quote from: freakazoid on December 16, 2008, 01:51:02 PM
Yeah, you could shoot some of the people protesting the police state just like that neo-nazi cop did to Alexandros.  :mad:

You mean the people "protesting the state" by burning stores in Athens and throwing firebombs AT police?

They should have been shot. I would have absolutely no problem shooting people doing that.

Someone throwing a molotov at human beings needs nothing more than a raised rifle and a three-round burst. That's how that's solved.
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Re: Greek rioters use lasers against police
« Reply #17 on: December 16, 2008, 02:28:56 PM »


This is a library.
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Re: Greek rioters use lasers against police
« Reply #18 on: December 16, 2008, 02:31:10 PM »
Was a library.

Nice. The leftist protesters are living up to the historical mythos of Alexandria.
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Re: Greek rioters use lasers against police
« Reply #19 on: December 16, 2008, 02:35:50 PM »
someone shining a laser light in my face might as well paint "shoot me now"  on his forehead  standing behind or close would be unwise
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Re: Greek rioters use lasers against police
« Reply #20 on: December 16, 2008, 02:37:41 PM »
Quote from: freakazoid on December 16, 2008, 01:51:02 PM
At the bottom of the page there are pictures, some of them show the green laser lights being used. http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/World-News/Greece-Athens-Braced-For-More-Violence-On-Day-Of-Shot-Teen-Alexandros-Grigoriadis-Funeral/Article/200812215175334?lpos=World_News_Top_Stories_Header_2&lid=ARTICLE_15175334_Greece:_Athens_Braced_For_More_Violence_On_Day_Of_Shot_Teen_Alexandros_Grigoriadis_Funeral

Yeah, you could shoot some of the people protesting the police state just like that neo-nazi cop did to Alexandros.  :mad:

We just had some (minor) riots in Augusta, GA, cause a cop shot a car thief. Who happened to be black. Never mind the guy was trying to run a cop over. Never mind the guy had guns on the seat next to him. Never mind the guy had a record. He wasn't going to do any harm to anybody.  :rolleyes:

Freakazoid, you are reminding me of the people who were defending that car thief. The car thief lived, but the idiots started rioting and burning *expletive deleted*it...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/stories/2008/12/16/met_504134.shtml
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Re: Greek rioters use lasers against police
« Reply #21 on: December 16, 2008, 02:43:08 PM »
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He wasn't protesting. He was attacking the police car with three dozen more of his buddies.

Um, no. He did throw a plastic water bottle at the car. Guess that is grounds for being shot right?

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But even if the police were to track the kid in his house and shoot him in his peaceful sleep, that doesn't morally justify rioting.

Except this isn't a riot, it's a protest. This is more than just a bunch of angsty teens throwing rocks and Molotovs. It is a bunch of working class people who have been slowly getting tired of the way things are there and who finally aren't going to take it anymore. It has become much more than about the murder of the kid.

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You mean the people "protesting the state" by burning stores in Athens and throwing firebombs AT police?

Oh noes, what if the people oppressing them get hurt?  ;/

Sometimes I really wonder which side the the American revolution you would of been on.

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We just had some (minor) riots in Augusta, GA, cause a cop shot a car thief. Who happened to be black. Never mind the guy was trying to run a cop over. Never mind the guy had guns on the seat next to him. Never mind the guy had a record. He wasn't going to do any harm to anybody.  rolleyes

Except that is nothing like the situation over there.
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Re: Greek rioters use lasers against police
« Reply #22 on: December 16, 2008, 02:45:30 PM »
Um, no. He did throw a plastic water bottle at the car. Guess that is grounds for being shot right?


but wait!  that would make his friend who was with him a liar. his version is different from that.
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Re: Greek rioters use lasers against police
« Reply #23 on: December 16, 2008, 02:47:30 PM »
Quote from: freakazoid on December 16, 2008, 01:51:02 PM
At the bottom of the page there are pictures, some of them show the green laser lights being used. http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/World-News/Greece-Athens-Braced-For-More-Violence-On-Day-Of-Shot-Teen-Alexandros-Grigoriadis-Funeral/Article/200812215175334?lpos=World_News_Top_Stories_Header_2&lid=ARTICLE_15175334_Greece:_Athens_Braced_For_More_Violence_On_Day_Of_Shot_Teen_Alexandros_Grigoriadis_Funeral

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There is only one cause to all this trouble; a sickperson was in possession of a gun!Only a sick person would want to carry and use a gun!There are no excuses.
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Re: Greek rioters use lasers against police
« Reply #24 on: December 16, 2008, 02:48:23 PM »
they seem to be using those green lasers, really bad :mad:
I would rather be shot then blinded.
I would shoot if they attempted that on me.
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