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mrokern
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Post subject: Mutual Tasering... Posted: Mon May 19, 2008 8:25 am |
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Ok, so it's not quite a gun...but we don't have a "stupid less-lethal stuff" subforum.
http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/05/19/colora ... index.html
cnn wrote: It wasn't exactly pistols at 30 paces, but police say a security company supervisor and a restaurateur shot each other with Tasers in a "bonehead" confrontation over parking.
Officers said neither man needed medical attention after the Saturday confrontation, but Harvey Epstein, co-owner of Mamacitas restaurant, was arrested on suspicion of felony menacing and using a stun gun.
A police report said Epstein and Casey M. Dane, a supervisor for Colorado Security Services Inc., were arguing over a metal boot that one of Dane's guards had clamped on a wheel of a van parked behind Mamacitas.
Dane told police he was afraid Epstein was going to hit him with a 2-foot-long pair of bolt cutters. Epstein told police he had only tried to remove the boot with the bolt cutters and hadn't threatened anyone with them.
Epstein told police Dane put his hand on a holstered pistol and threatened to shoot him. Dane told The Associated Press by telephone that he did put his hand on the holstered pistol but never threatened to shoot Epstein.
Both men drew Tasers.
"They shot each other," Police Sgt. Pat Wyton told the Camera newspaper. "It was just kind of a bonehead deal."
The guard claimed the van, owned by a Mamacitas employee, was on property he was hired to patrol. The van owner denied that.
Epstein, 36, told the AP in a phone interview Sunday he took out his Taser only after Dane pointed his at him and his mother, who was also outside. Epstein also said Dane repeatedly told him he was a police officer and that failing to comply with his orders was a federal offense, allegations that Dane denies.
I don't know why, but the mental picture of two guys tasering each other at the same time seems really funny to me.
-Mark
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DeanC
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Post subject: Posted: Mon May 19, 2008 8:33 am |
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Reminds me of an early Simpsons episode.
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VikesFan
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Post subject: Posted: Mon May 19, 2008 9:31 am |
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Lemme get this right. Dane (the mall ninja) is accused of brandishing (hand on holstered gun is brandishing in this situation) and impersonating a police officer, and the other guy gets arrested?
There must be more to the story than meets the paper
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chunkstyle
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Post subject: Posted: Mon May 19, 2008 2:03 pm |
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Boy, you couldn't buy entertainment like that.
_________________ "The right of citizens to bear arms is just one more guarantee against arbitrary government, one more safeguard against the tyranny which now appears remote in America, but which historically has proved to be always possible." - Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey, 1960
"Man has the right to deal with his oppressors by devouring their palpitating hearts." - Jean-Paul Marat
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joelr
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Post subject: Posted: Mon May 19, 2008 3:03 pm |
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With any luck, the security camera caught the mall ninja boasting on tape. (A boastful mall ninja? Whoda think that?)
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SultanOfBrunei
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Post subject: Posted: Mon May 19, 2008 3:16 pm |
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DeanC wrote: Reminds me of an early Simpsons episode. If by early you mean 9th season. The Cartridge FamilyWiki wrote: Homer treats the gun as though it were a toy, casually carrying it into the Kwik-E-Mart, firing bullets to retrieve items from the roof and shooting dinner plates as if they were clay pigeons. Finally, after a near fatal accident at the dinner table...
(This episode of the simpsons is to guns what "Don't do what Johnny Dont Does" is to knives. ) Wiki
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DeanC
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Post subject: Posted: Mon May 19, 2008 5:33 pm |
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Nope: There's No Disgrace Like HomeQuote: When standard methods prove useless in civilizing the family, Dr. Monroe resorts to shock therapy and wires the Simpsons to electrodes. Soon the whole family is sending shocks to one another. This causes blackouts throughout the city.
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SultanOfBrunei
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Post subject: Posted: Mon May 19, 2008 6:34 pm |
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Nope is right, that post should have gone into the revolver as backscratcher topic. My bad.
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dismal
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Post subject: Posted: Mon May 19, 2008 8:05 pm |
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Quote: Epstein also said Dane repeatedly told him he was a police officer and that failing to comply with his orders was a federal offense, allegations that Dane denies.
Even if the ninja was a officer, failing to comply with his order isn't a federal offense, is it?
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Hunter07
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Post subject: Posted: Mon May 19, 2008 8:15 pm |
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Either way, it's funny that these 2 dumbasses managed to zap each other at the same time.
I'd almost pay good money to watch that in person.
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SultanOfBrunei
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Post subject: Posted: Tue May 20, 2008 7:26 am |
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dismal wrote: Even if the ninja was a officer, failing to comply with his order isn't a federal offense, is it?
Some sort of terrorism charge maybe?
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Tex
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Post subject: Posted: Tue May 20, 2008 7:33 am |
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-snorting morning coffe-
This could be a new way to settle disagreements on the house floor for congresscritters!
"Veto, just try to veto Mr. President."
"Madame Congresscritter I challenge you to a duel."
_________________ In life there are wolves and sheep. Thank God for the sheepdog.
"I disagree with what you say, but I would fight to the death for your right to say it." Voltaire
"I may not be allowed to eat the apples any more, but strolling through the orchard is certainly pleasant." Chunkstyle
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mrokern
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Post subject: Posted: Tue May 20, 2008 9:13 am |
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Tex wrote: -snorting morning coffe- This could be a new way to settle disagreements on the house floor for congresscritters! "Veto, just try to veto Mr. President." "Madame Congresscritter I challenge you to a duel."
I'd watch a hell of a lot more CSPAN, that's for sure!!!
-Mark
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