OT: I just caught some punk

[sachmo]

Originally posted by Puke:
toy guns are a real good way to get shot by people with real guns. including cops.

True story following...

When I was in high school, we had a school wide watergun game. It was supposed to take place off of school grounds, so we had to get people at home, or at work, or wherever. Anyway, I went out an bought one of those water machine guns. It looked exactly like a real Uzi. In those days, they didn't make them out of orange and yellow pLastic. So we went over to this kids house and ambushed him. We were driving back to my house in the back of my friends Samuari (no top) squirting signs and each other in the car. Next thing we know there is a police car behind us. They pull us over, and we hear a loudspeaker telling us to drop our weapons! Obviously, I did as I was told, and thought they were just giving us a hard time until I see one of the cops come up next to the car with his gun pointed at my friends head! Then I became aware that the second officer was pointing his pistol at MY head!

Needless to say, the watergun was trashed the very next day.

It was creepy.

[TerranC]

Originally posted by Intimidator:
Sorry, but about the pepper-spray. You are WRONG !!
When I served in the Dutch Navy, We had some riot training. And all of us had to be hit with that stuff......
Believe me I was out of action for nearly 20 minutes, the only thing I was able to do was to put my head in a bucket of water..........Hell, even when I write this down, the memory of it starts my eyes to water again.......

Inti,

That's if you manage to get hit straight in your eyes. If it happens to hit the assailant's skin, with CIVILIAN class pepper spray (3 million scoville units compared to law enforcement class pepper sprays which rank at 5 million scoville units), it'll just give him irritated (albeit very irritated) skin.

Stun guns though, I heard that if you managed to hit your target in the right place, it can cause convulsions and even death? Did I hear that right or is that just hearsay?

[Loser]

Originally posted by TerranC:
Stun guns though, I heard that if you managed to hit your target in the right place, it can cause convulsions and even death? Did I hear that right or is that just hearsay?

Every fe weeks theres another story in the news about some fool getting hit with a Taser(tm) and dieing.

And then their stock goes up.

No joke.

[Azselendor]

Tasers that the police are supposed to have aren't supposed to cause death. The ones that cause death are a model with a higher power rating and typically people who die from tasers have undiagnosed heart conditions.

[Thermodyne]

To change the topic a little, I was at a party where some people were putting on a collar for some invisible fencing, not many of them walked over the wire. But there was this one air head that was not phased in the least. He actually seemed to like it!

[ June 20, 2004, 03:01: Message edited by: Thermodyne ]

[Jack Simth]

Different people are affected by electricity in different ways - I'm told that, as a joke, one of my grandfathers used to put his hand on the tractor's sparkplugs, while the engine was running, and ask someone to hand him a wrench. People started throwing wrenches at him after the first few times they got a taste of the voltage.

[Atrocities]

The problem today I think is that the courts are in the business of making money and that directly puts them in conclift with what they were design for; administering justice.

So it is more cost effective for a cop to sight someone with money for speeding then it is to bust a drug house where they will have to PAY to have it cleaned up.

If the courts are in the business of making a profit, then justice is no longer blind and it all comes down to the mighty buck.

How much justice are you willing to pay for. In this case none. It is not my job to bust the drug house, all I can do is keep reporting it, and do what I can within the law to protect my stuff from theft.

Today I put up four signs along the road, they all read; This property is monitored by survlance video.

I wonder if that will have an effect.