Author Topic: Awesome.. stupid and life changing, but awesome (Read 10778 times)

Bogie · « **Reply #25 on:** April 21, 2009, 05:48:55 PM »

Sk8er boy wanna show off for buddies? Fine. He should rapidly learn to choose a better way.

Are they on drugs maybe? PCP? Meth? Personally, just to be safe, I'd advocate whackin' him back with a baton or sap, but that's just me. Taser would be just fine too. If someone, even in their low teens, walks up and hits me, well, I'm an old fat man... If I get in a fight, I'm going to be hurtin' for certain, maybe with debilitating long term injuries, or even dead. I'm going to use everything in my power to either get away, or take down my assailant. And take them down hard, so that I don't have to worry about a second try.

Gewehr98 · « **Reply #26 on:** April 21, 2009, 05:50:30 PM »

Fisty,

I'll take this one from a LE perspective.

Personally, I'd have had the taser ready to go because if the little @&%*er was willing and ready to throw a flying sucker punch out of nowhere, why would he stop at just one hit?

That's without understanding the motives for him doing so, and/or whatever response he was hoping to get out of his fellow gaggle there. Was it an invitation for a free-for-all once he initiated it? Was it done on a dare? What were the details of the dare? 1, 2, 3 punches, or maybe a kick in the groin as the flag for more actors to join?

There's an old saying, "Never bring a knife to a gun fight." Sucker-punch me, and I may not shoot you (nor should I unless I think the attack is bad enough on my person to warrant it), but you'll certainly know you won't get a second chance, and you'll definitely know you've been subdued and apprehended for that wonderful little display of Darwin's Finest Rule.

RocketMan · « **Reply #27 on:** April 21, 2009, 05:51:31 PM »

Quote from: 41magsnub on April 21, 2009, 02:02:24 PM

I was hoping for some taser action :(

Was I the only one to read that as tongue-in-cheek? Seriously, folks.

Strings · « **Reply #28 on:** April 21, 2009, 06:07:48 PM »

No, you weren't. Some awfully tightly wrapped folks 'round here lately...

Thylacine · « **Reply #29 on:** April 21, 2009, 06:21:10 PM »

Quote from: digitalandanalog on April 21, 2009, 03:14:12 PM

Ah yes. Those who bemoan big government tyranny are suggesting the cops should do whatever they like to stupid kids...especially if it includes tasers.
Lots of double speak at APS these days.
The only reason I return is that some of you have a sense of logic. The rest are the very disturbing indeed.

Is there anyway to 'Ignore a User'?
~~It is this kind of drivel that~~ ........ (This is better left unsaid.)

Gewehr98 · « **Reply #30 on:** April 21, 2009, 06:25:33 PM »

We don't have that function in the Simple Machines software.

The staff is working on the sysadmin and owner to upgrade to software that will.

Strings · « **Reply #31 on:** April 21, 2009, 06:27:23 PM »

Cool! I've been wanting to out that Gewehr guy on... errr... nevermind...

Balog · « **Reply #32 on:** April 21, 2009, 06:30:06 PM »

Quote from: Strings on April 21, 2009, 06:27:23 PM

Cool! I've been wanting to out that Gewehr guy on... errr... nevermind...

He's in the closet?!?!

castle key · « **Reply #33 on:** April 21, 2009, 06:31:07 PM »

Quote from: RevDisk on April 21, 2009, 02:41:58 PM

Any indication why? Was the kid normal looking, scumbag looking or crazy looking?

Running up and punching anyone that is armed without any cause should considered Darwin baiting.

I am really offended by this post. Rather than ask if the kid is normal looking or crazy looking or scumbag looking, I think you need to consider the upbringing of this youngster. After almost 24 years as a street cop, I would never have such thoughts. I am trying to determine what I have done personally to cause this misdirected youth to lash out at society in an anti social manner.

Please try to be as open minded and liberal thinking as I am. After all, in this new era of hope and change, perhaps we can all hope for a future free of such narrow minded thinking, and change to be more accepting of this young man's divergent view of organized society.

If any non normal, scumbag, or crazy reader thinks this is a serious opinion and takes me to task for it, please review the definition of sarcasm.

Gewehr98 · « **Reply #34 on:** April 21, 2009, 06:31:14 PM »

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He's in the closet?!?!

Eww.

Perd Hapley · « **Reply #35 on:** April 21, 2009, 06:41:28 PM »

One day, when this young man is about to turn his life around, he will be gunned down by trigger-happy cops who should have peacefully shot the gun out of his hands. Seems like they don't teach that simple maneuver in cop school anymore.

castle key · « **Reply #36 on:** April 21, 2009, 06:44:42 PM »

Quote from: fistful on April 21, 2009, 06:41:28 PM

One day, when this young man is about to turn his life around, he will be gunned down by trigger-happy cops who should have peacefully shot the gun out of his hands. Seems like they don't teach that simple maneuver in cop school anymore.

I was actually taught that technique, however my handicap is that I am a lousy shot. When I was assigned to the Horse Unit, I always went to the broad side of the barn to practice prior to qualifications.

Uncle Bubba · « **Reply #37 on:** April 21, 2009, 06:56:54 PM »

Quote from: castle key on April 21, 2009, 06:44:42 PM

I was actually taught that technique, however my handicap is that I am a lousy shot. When I was assigned to the Horse Unit, I always went to the broad side of the barn to practice prior to qualifications.

Don't feel too bad. A buddy of mine at Infantry School would've been better off being inside the barn while trying to hit the broad side of it.

Leatherneck · « **Reply #38 on:** April 21, 2009, 07:20:06 PM »

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When I was assigned to the Horse Unit,

Well. I don't feel like the old man of the APS anymore.

You were a cop before cars?

TC

Strings · « **Reply #39 on:** April 21, 2009, 07:24:43 PM »

Sorry, typo. Although it reads FAR funnier that way, so I'm leaving it...

castle key · « **Reply #40 on:** April 21, 2009, 07:27:26 PM »

Quote from: Leatherneck on April 21, 2009, 07:20:06 PM

Well. I don't feel like the old man of the APS anymore.

You were a cop before cars?

TC

When I was assigned to the dinosaur unit........

Perd Hapley · « **Reply #41 on:** April 21, 2009, 08:36:01 PM »

So the dinosaurs had evolved by then. Guess you're not as old as Art Eatman.

cassandra and sara's daddy · « **Reply #42 on:** April 21, 2009, 09:02:26 PM »

If I ran up and socked a cop for no good reason I'd wanna be in jail.

man the beating that woulda got me would still be scabbing and it was mom that woulda delivered it. great example of why i couldn't be a cop. the kid woulda rode the lightening. i suspect he was too stupid to learn much but some of his friends might wise up from seeing that

K Frame · « **Reply #43 on:** April 21, 2009, 09:34:08 PM »

"It is not the job of the police to punish. That is for the courts."

That needs to be said again and again and again.

Bigjake · « **Reply #44 on:** April 21, 2009, 10:19:53 PM »

I'm still holding out for an explanation as to why I'm now a sadist....

I can live with being a latent sociopath, but a SADIST? come on.. Kid had the Taser coming, and got off easy.

Bogie · « **Reply #45 on:** April 21, 2009, 10:41:59 PM »

Thing is, I remember a mellower time... You could let your kids out to play, they could walk -miles- home from school, safely, and you could leave your cars and homes unlocked.

Of course, back in that time, the dreaded concept of "street justice" often reared its ugly head.

IMHO, the kids probably egged the one kid on, because they KNEW nothing overly nasty would happen to him. And now he's a big man among his peers.

In 1973, if some kid had tried that in my home town, when he got out of the hospital, he'd be washing the jail floors...

MicroBalrog · « **Reply #46 on:** April 21, 2009, 11:01:25 PM »

You know, had the police officer tased (tasered?) the kid and the liberals came to criticize that, people'd be condeming them for second-guessing a police officer because they weren't there. Yet here people are also second-guessing a police officer. He was there, and decided he was not being seriously attacked and this didn't warrant a tasing. Maybe he did it for a reason?

Nitrogen · « **Reply #47 on:** April 21, 2009, 11:04:23 PM »

As the resident card carrying ACLU member (at least one taht admits it) as well as one that gets really bent out of shape when cops abuse their authority in the slightest little bit...

...I'd be right there with many other folks waiting to see the kid taken down forcefully and/or tazered.

Those entrusted to help assure our safety shouldn't get a free pass, but they also shouldn't be expected to take any more physical abuse than the rest of us, either.

Balog · « **Reply #48 on:** April 21, 2009, 11:47:04 PM »

I don't think anyone is harshing on the cop for not beating his ass: they are just saying if he had it would've been ok.

Perd Hapley · « **Reply #49 on:** April 22, 2009, 01:28:09 AM »

Quote from: MicroBalrog on April 21, 2009, 11:01:25 PM

Yet here people are also second-guessing a police officer.

First of all, who is second-guessing him? Where?

Secondly, there is second-guessing and there is second-guessing. Not all second-guessings are created equal.

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Author Topic: Awesome.. stupid and life changing, but awesome (Read 10778 times)