October 6th, 2009
Held at gunpoint
I’ve been out tonight trying a new experience & meeting some new people. Nothing to do with the job or people in the job. Sometimes it’s just nice to chill out with people you don’t know.
Anyway, as I’ve just got back, I don’t have time for a deep & meaningful post, so here’s another vid. Luckily, there is no chance of this ever happening in the UK, yeah right.
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Stuart says:
What the hell kind of marksmen are they? To fire about 15 shots and miss with every single one of them?
October 7th, 2009 at 12:37 am
SoCal says:
Well, they are Texans. They’re probably better shots during the day. (I hope.)
Nonetheless, he was caught and sentenced to life in prison, so there’s something.
October 7th, 2009 at 3:59 am
copper bottom says:
marksmen that are faced with a deadly threat….
easy to hit a target- not so when its firing back….
October 7th, 2009 at 5:49 am
Oi says:
One day, the slow-footed, turtle-moving telecommumication provider we are cursed with, will get an affordable broadband system way out to where I hang my hat.
I am keeping a list of all those who place video clips on their sites, and when the happy day arrives, I am going to bombard them with inane requests to replay every video they have ever placed up there where I cant watch them!
October 7th, 2009 at 6:33 am
boy on a bike says:
Handguns are terribly inaccurate at ranges above about 10 feet. Plus he would have been firing into dark woods at a moving target.
I say arm them with miniguns. That would solve the problem.
October 7th, 2009 at 11:40 am
Jabadaw says:
What hopeless shooting! I hear you cry!
Just think of the adrenaline coursing through that officer’s blood. Facing a life threatening situation his instincts just took over. Many people would have frozen with fear or tried to run away. But it takes a special kind of person to put that uniform on and go out on patrol.
A fallacy of the ‘Old Wild West’ was the gun fighters and the so called ‘fair’ duals and show downs depicted in films. Most fights ended up with the bullets missing the dualists. Or men being ‘bushwhacked’ and shot in the back.
Now you know why.
October 7th, 2009 at 2:49 pm
Tony F says:
To shoot a pistol accurately, you need to use both hands. On a range at 25 meters it’s easy to hit a card sized target….
On the other hand, 15 rounds would help to put off return fire and obviously it did.
October 7th, 2009 at 5:38 pm
Retired (Northern) Sgt says:
Imagine that incident in this country.
1. The cop would have been sacked for shooting at someone running away.
Campaign in the Daily Hate to totally disarm the police. Compensation to the victim for his terrifying ordeal at the hands of the police.
2. At the most a minimal jail term for the offender,certainly not life (which over there will probably mean inside for at least 20 years). Owing to the trauma he suffered more likely a community order.
October 7th, 2009 at 6:52 pm
Hogday says:
Running without authority was always severly punished. A gun into an officers throat and then off on his toes? Nah, I’ve no problem with opening fire to prevent him returning fire at me. I’d rather live to argue that one than do the good old British thing and `be fair`, giving him the chance to get his one lucky shot off that sods law says would hit me between the eyes. At Hungerford, Michael Ryan was shooting randomly, who lived or died was totally at his twisted whim. Looking at it with hindsight, he should have been shot on sight, no warning necessary as he was too dangerous and too heavily armed to be givin the slightest chance to shoot first.
October 10th, 2009 at 1:10 pm