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2005-08-07 Home Front: Culture Wars

Life Imitates Art: Specifically, Reno-911

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Posted by Anonymoose 2005-08-07 09:48|| || Front Page|| [11131 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Gawd, this guy was an idiot.

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2005-08-07 11:02|| 2005-08-07 11:02|| Front Page Top

#2 But an entertaining, idiot, Mike!

They ought to give him a few points in court just for providing the cops with such major laughs. ;-p

Posted by Barbara Skolaut">Barbara Skolaut 2005-08-07 11:27|| http://www.ariellestjohndesigns.com]">[http://www.ariellestjohndesigns.com] 2005-08-07 11:27|| Front Page Top

#3 He didn't figure on the police having 300 Watts of Power. (3mA x 100,000 Volts)

Posted by Anonymoose 2005-08-07 11:36|| 2005-08-07 11:36|| Front Page Top

#4 5 years seems a bit steep - throwing swords and other medieaval weaponry *up* the stairs is unlikely to hurt anyone too much, and he does seem like a candidate for "Americas Dumbest Criminals"...

Posted by Tony (UK) 2005-08-07 11:48|| 2005-08-07 11:48|| Front Page Top

#5 Keyword is BASEMENT.

Posted by Shipman 2005-08-07 12:19|| 2005-08-07 12:19|| Front Page Top

#6 I think the correct protocol in such circumstances is for the officers in attendance to pour a large couldron of boiling oil into the basement. After all, stun guns were outlawed and deemed unchivalrous weapons by Papal decree throughout Christendom following the unGodly and shamefully stunning inflicted by the Walloons on the Aragonians at the Battle of Renard's Lake in 1347...

Posted by Bulldog ">Bulldog 2005-08-07 12:26|| 2005-08-07 12:26|| Front Page Top

#7 There used to be a guy who walked the Capitol Hill section of Seattle in a leather halter with a sword carried in a sheath on his back.... known to one and all as "Fred the Pretentious".

Posted by Philet Whereter8174 2005-08-07 15:48|| 2005-08-07 15:48|| Front Page Top

#8 Stun gun? Hell, a flurry of shotgun bean bags would have been funnier. Only one and a half thumbs up for the cop's performance in this stand off. The comic element was half hearted and lacking.

Posted by mmurray821 2005-08-07 17:04|| 2005-08-07 17:04|| Front Page Top

#9 Basement?

Was this his Mom's basement?

Posted by OldSpook 2005-08-07 18:52|| 2005-08-07 18:52|| Front Page Top

#10 Was his web browser opened to Slashdot too?

Posted by Sock Puppet 0â Doom 2005-08-07 19:05|| 2005-08-07 19:05|| Front Page Top

#11 OS is hard to fool.

Posted by Shipman 2005-08-07 19:10|| 2005-08-07 19:10|| Front Page Top

#12 Too bad he wasn't a fighting Celt. That would've been really funny.

Posted by Pappy 2005-08-07 19:57|| 2005-08-07 19:57|| Front Page Top

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