I'm ootl, what's the with the acorn?
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A pig mag dumped into his police cruiser when an acorn fell on its hood cause they thought it was a gunshot. There was someone under arrest in the back of said cruiser.
Then his partner mag dumped into the same cruiser as well when nutbag kept insisting he was hit.
The partner at least asked "where where!?" a few times, but she still just empted a magazine into the same car a handcuffed, unarmed suspect was locked up in.
Luckily both shitbergs couldn't aim for shit and missed the guy with like 30 rounds.
Solid photoshop to the bottom frame 👏
The only good thing to come out of this is that the cop quit. I hope he’s billed for the damage to the car anyway.
Guarantee he'll be back on the force in another town by next year.
That’s the funny part, he missed his car!
Edit: Apparently he did hit the car.
I heard he missed the person, but he missed the WHOLE ASS CAR?
Edit: watched the video, he definitely hit the car
Oh damn guess people told me some bogus info. Glad he missed the person at least!
That's nuts.
Uh... the gun has a silencer on it?
While that nut musta been LOUD!
That is extremely nice attention to detail that Pam is wearing a police uniform.:-)
The movies get silencers very wrong... It would be a bit louder than the acorn and sound much different (or about the same volume if the vehicle is really well soundproofed). The officer should have known immediately that it wasn't from inside the car. If it was a downtown area where stray bullets are an actual threat, I might have gotten down and scanned the area for danger, maybe radioed the possible stray bullet and assessed vehicle damage after a couple minutes. And that's just common sense, I have no real training whatsoever. But literally any kid who's gone squirrel hunting knows better trigger discipline than that.
Exactly this. Like, nobody is blaming the officer for being scared upon hearing a gun-sounding noise, that's just common sense that they should be actually, but to empty the mag at... what? Without knowing what the target was? Or did he legit think that it was his car that was the threat?
That said, it's surely a tough job, especially for the pay and the danger. Which is all the more reason to train them at least up to the level of a kid going squirrel hunting?
That said, it's surely a tough job, especially for the pay and the danger. Which is all the more reason to train them at least up to the level of a kid going squirrel hunting?
Cops doesnt even break the top 20 for the most dangerous jobs in the US. Pizza delivery is more dangerous, and they dont get guns/vests/tanks/training/SWAT/etc. They also sure as fuck dont get the pension or huge OT pay, and abikty to break laws without consequence.
Most cops dont even fire their gun in their career. This guy fired it at a suspect fully in his care, that he had searched, handcuffed and put in a locked cage in the car. He didn't fire it once, he fired it at him a dozen times, and convinced his partner to do the same. They both shot at a man in their care and custody dozens of times because of a tree nut.
Okay but you are using "facts" and "data" there.:-)
While in their defense, that nut was scawy, and they got their fee-fees huwt.
I totally failing to understand all the acorn references. What is going on.
Pam would be a cop.
No she wouldn't. She doesn't have an aggressive bone in her body. Too timid.
Exactly why she craves power and gets off on assaulting innocent black people when on the job. Don't shoot the messenger!
Why the fuck would a cop do this??
Oh, Florida. That checks out.
nuts?
cop almost killed a man because an acorn fell on the patrol car, just to make sure you're up to date on the state of the US.
There is russian version with paper cup from 2019.
I think some of y'all have never had a nut or anything drop on top of your car before, but it absolutely can sound alarming enough to, in the context of a high stress situation, be interpreted by your brain as a potential shot in the same way a busted engine can.
To be clear, I think this is far more likely than most people are willing to understand, and this gets lost in the 'all cops bad' narrative.
Let's say you're absolutely 100% correct. Does that mean that claiming that you've been hit, diving onto the ground, and unloading a full clip at a handcuffed individual inside your own vehicle is the appropriate immediate response?
I was shot at once, and in the moment, you're not sure that you haven't been shot. Sometimes you can be in shock and not know because of adrenaline, it's a real thing. It's hard to explain how things happen in the moment.
I was once on a second story and watched the trees jump into the air, only understanding after a few seconds that what happened was the floor collapsed and I fell to the ground. Life doesn't afford the ability to process things well when they happen quickly.