Crazed Gunman Checklist
Two handguns. Check.
Holster for fast action to scare people and shoot them faster. Check.
Clothes that won’t get caught or slow one down as they seek more targets and avoid getting shot themselves. Check.
Giant disproportionate tits to distract male aggressors. Ch…wait, what?
When police spotted a gun-wielding suspect lurking in the shadows of a suburban front room, their response was swift.
Armed officers burst into the house, shouted at the owner to lie on the floor, and ordered him to surrender his weapon.
But efficiency turned to embarrassment when the “gunman” turned out to be a life-sized model of the video game character Lara Croft, complete with trademark outsized pistols.
Computer shop owner David Williams, 42, had taken the dummy home to put it up for sale on the auction site eBay.
As the source of the confusion dawned on all concerned, it might have been the moment for an apology from the police.
Instead, however, Mr Williams was taken to the cells and held for more than 13 hours before being released.
He is now on bail for a suspected firearms offence, and Lara Croft remains impounded as evidence.
Let’s talk about the many ways that this simply isn’t right. On the other hand, it’s the UK, let’s save our breath, point and laugh while sitting back and wondering how long they will last until government hired nannies arrive to hold everyone’s hands throughout their entire lives…
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I would have impounded her too… twice.
I would have impounded her too… twice…
Bitter brings us this tragic story about UK police mistakenly raiding a man’s home, then arresting him because he caused the police to mistakenly raid his him.When police spotted a gun-wielding suspect lurking in the shadows of a suburban front……
“Giant disproportionate tits”
Does…not…compute…
It’s the sort of thing we’ve grown to expect from the UK.
I still maintain that the little island of Great Britain has become a bit inbred over the last few hundred years.
As Bitter predicted, half the four comments preceding were “Well, that’s just the UK.” Bah.
Up to a point, proper police work. But once they realised they were confronting a mannequin with fake weapons, things went bad: the only charges I can see even being suggested are of the “suggestive” and “attractive” nuisance variety, certainly not “a suspected firearms offence”. But then, I am not Mayor of New York City either.