shitty: cops tv crew member shot by police in a way, i'm surprised it took that long for something like that to happen. focus: discuss other "i'm surprised it didn't happen sooner" or "how did they not see that coming" events. alt-focus: discuss the tv show cops.
cop's inner monologue: "nope... we should not have done that... we really should not have done that..."
really, really surprised this hasn't happened sooner. i enjoy alaskan state troopers better because the entire show is them giving shit to harmlessly drunk eskimos.
focus: too soon for this? 9-year-old girl accidentally shoots instructor with uzi as an avid target shooter, i think both her parents and the instructor were beyond irresponsible here. i mean, what could go wrong by putting a fully-auto submachine gun in a little girls hands? even i would have a hard time controlling a gun like that. virtually the same thing happened in 2008 too, except the poor 8-year-old kid accidentally shot himself instead. alt-focus: cops was one of my favorite shows growing up. i don't know if the allure came from my parents attempting to ban my siblings and i from watching it or that awesome theme song, but man there is no entertainment like watching a k9 unit track down white trash after a good foot chase.
i get the gun might look real but sound? a pellet gun over a real gun? did i miss some advancement in pellet gun technology that makes them boom like a real boom stick? alt focus: best cops episode bar none has to be when they picked up the two paint huffing mexicans behind the mcdonalds dumpster. the dudes are so high they are giggling at each other as the cops lift them. they had been squatting there during there paint huffing binge. best anti drug episode ive ever seen.
cops are trained for those situations but when the gun is pointing at you and you're full of adrenaline, that seems like a risk not worth taking. and with a well placed or just plain lucky shot, a high-powered pellet gun can kill someone. not likely, but possible.
or cleaning up moose that were hit by cars. seriously, though, the wildlife officers on that show are crazy brave... dealing with potential poachers and grizzly bears in the middle of nowhere where their bodies could be lost forever. the people in alaska are more dangerous and unpredictable than the wildlife.
i kill raccoons at 50 yards with a break-action .22 pellet gun, and it sounds like a .22 short. and it's as accurate as fuck. i have no doubt that i could do serious injury to a person with it if i wanted. if a dude is robbing some place and posturing like it's a real gun, and then turns it towards cops, that's real enough to justify getting shot as far as i'm concerned. the only people who think otherwise are armchair quarterbacks.
ow no im not blaming the cops for reacting like they did at all, pointing a gun at the cops is a quick way to bite the dust. ive just not shot anything outside of one higher power air rifle i own and it is nowhere near even near a .22lr in terms of sound.
it won't have the same long-distance "boom" of a .30-06 or anything, but it could easily be confused with a rimfire rifle firing, especially in the heat of the moment.
they also make pellet guns up to a 45 or 50 caliber and they use them to hunt semi large game. it makes a bloody fucking mess too. cops is still my favorite reality show of all time. placing a knee on the skull pressing it into the sidewalk and unnaturally bending their arms behind their back almost to the point of a shoulder dislocation while yelling, "stop resisting!" i have a partial chub just thinking about it. i think there was a hooker sting operation in tampa where the cop was dressed as a clown. great fucking times watching that shit while getting obscenely stoned.
dewercs comes from one of the first cops episodes i ever saw, they were trying to arrest a guy on a warrant and could never get him at home, the detective called him and said his name was frank dewercs from some electronics store and told him he won a tv in a raffle and wanted to deliver it. the police pull up in a van with a huge box and the guy comes running out and says hey i am they guy who won the tv. they cuff him and put him in the back of the car and the cop says by the way dewercs is screwed spelled backwards.
they then stepped up the game and sent out a bunch of "you won tickets to spring training, just come on down to 555 warrant street to collect", and they got 25 or so guys with warrants to a strip mall looking place, had them "sign in" with id, moved them into a room decorated like it was an nfl/radio show giveaway, and while they were all laughing at their good luck, a team of about 10 cops came in and arrested the lot of them. then there were the classic trojan horse plays, where they were selling shit out of the back of vans/trailers, only to have a bunch of swat-wannabes come charging out from behind a fake wall in the van. those were the best.
cops is not only the best reality show ever, it's the only one (besides "studs") that doesn't suck. there's nothing like watching a bunch of stupid degenerates and the criminals that they chase. i used to think the show was fake, thinking "there is no police department that would let somebody that fat and disgusting go on platoon." not only is that true, but apparently it's a pre-req to get hired these days.
some are virtually indistinguishable from the real deal unless you're up close, so i can't blame them. multiple people with airsoft guns have been shot by cops before this. i heard on the radio this morning from a lieutenant with the mn state patrol that they only have to pass their physical exam once to enter the force, and that's it. maybe that explains why another memory of cops is all the heavy breathing and gasping for air on foot chases?
usually it's the camera crew (you know, the dude running with the 40 lbs of gear) that is waiting for the cop to catch up. hilarious. then there are a few times when the crew puts their shit down to help the cop who's getting their asses handled to them. but nothing is more funny/sad than the "tough" female cops who gang up on a single guy and basically have no physical control over the suspect at all.
this isn't true. years ago i was up in alaska for work for a week with the alaskan state troopers and they had to deal with two shootings and a young girl being molested all committed by drunken native alaskans. the poverty and alcoholism up there is scary.