BrokenArts on 2/5/2010 at 22:12
Quote Posted by Swiss Mercenary
Three years ago, here, two kids were loading their gear in their car out on their driveway, so naturally a good Samaritan called the equivalent of Canada's SWAT.
Why does that not surprise me. I wonder how often it has happened.
rachel on 2/5/2010 at 23:09
Well you gotta be extra careful when you carry these: always in bags, unloaded, safety on, and all that. You should never carry them in the open if you're not in a dedicated area, especially airsoft replicas as they look especially realistic.
Obviously, it's basic common sense but there are idiots everywhere.
Fingernail on 3/5/2010 at 08:32
Yeah, and the police make mistakes everywhere occasionally too - there was a guy here shot for carrying a "shotgun" that turned out to be a lump of wood.
dj_ivocha on 3/5/2010 at 09:13
Quote Posted by Swiss Mercenary
Three years ago, here, two kids were loading their gear in their car out on their driveway, so naturally a good Samaritan called the equivalent of Canada's SWAT.
Is that a bad thing? If you carry around what is basically an indistinguishable replica of a real gun, then you should expect it to be treated as a real gun by others.
What if those kids really were loading real guns in their car but the good Samaritan thought "oh, it's probably just paintball guns" and the kids ended up robbing a bank and shooting 10 people in the process? Or something.
37637598 on 5/5/2010 at 05:03
Quote Posted by dj_ivocha
What if... probably just... Or something...
Maybe if possibly by a long shot, the cops thought the paintball markers were guns pointing at them as they approached causing them to shoot and kill the terrorist kids who were so non privately having fun. It's a fog, I know, but there is danger in reporting before examining, although maybe the person doesn't even know what a hopper is, and thought it was a giant laser charging mechanism. I guess some people still don't know anything about anything past 1985 except what they see on star trek or wheel of fortune.
SubJeff on 5/5/2010 at 08:09
Talk sense ffs. Better still think about your post and edit it to make sense.
june gloom on 5/5/2010 at 08:40
Street? Are you using speech to text again?
Muzman on 5/5/2010 at 08:49
Appropriate pic of Mike from Spaced there. The same kind of thing happened to Nick Frost once when he took an MP5 prop home to practice with, didn't flash it around or anything, but the barrel must have been peeking out of his bag. The Flying Squad or whatever jumped him in his backyard when he was practicing field stripping it with his eyes closed.
The reponse varies so much it's hilarious. I've been on short film shoots with some proper metal replica M16s and AK47s. In broad daylight in the city. People just look and walk on by; "Oh yeah, guys in balaclavas with assault rifles. Probably nothing". In Sydney they'd get the cops to shoot your ass.
Volitions Advocate on 6/5/2010 at 05:32
My father in law used to work at an Ammunition factory and went to Toronto for some sort of gun nut/law enforcement expo. They had a bunch of replica m16s and ak47s and mp5s and such at their booth. Apparently somebody was running around at night stealing a lot of these replica guns and they didn't have any locked safe or anything for them at the expol. so they decided they had to take them back to the hotel with them to keep them safe. He said they walked from the conference center, took the subway, and walked into their hotel in downtown toronto with these things hanging 3 or 4 off one person. He said nobody said a word to them and they never saw a single policeman... all they got was hotel security knocking on their door once they got in and asked if everything was alright.
I don't know when this was, but today they would've made it barely 100 metres down the street before having 5 cars pull up on them and all the cops with guns brandished.
37637598 on 6/5/2010 at 07:17
Quote Posted by 37637598
Maybe if possibly by a long shot
Pointing out that the whole foundation of the above statement was based on what if.
Quote Posted by 37637598
what if the cops thought the paintball markers were guns pointing at them as they approached causing them to shoot and kill the terrorist kids who were so non privately having fun.
Sarcastically saying that the kids aren't in the wrong for openly packing up their gear in plain sight, and that if a cop pulled up to the scene because someone reported the kids, there could just as well be a tragic mishap. Cops shoot people all the time because they 'think' someone is holding a gun, or pointing a gun-like object at them.
Quote Posted by 37637598
It's a fog, I know, but there is danger in reporting before examining, although maybe the person doesn't even know what a hopper is, and thought it was a giant laser charging mechanism. I guess some people still don't know anything about anything past 1985 except what they see on star trek or wheel of fortune.
This is pretty self descriptive, I'm referring to the people who call the police for such things as being old or extremely ignorant to not recognize the giant plastic hopper bubble above the paintball marker. Maybe some people just honestly don't know what paintball is and have never seen a paintball gun. My basic point was that there is no true 'better' choice, whether or not you call the police someone could get hurt.
