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  • COPS: Live in 3D

    ...from the comfort of my bedroom window.

    Got a little excitement in my neighborhood Sunday night. Some nutcase decided to rob his next-door nieghbor at knife-point, and retreat to his apartment after the robbery.

    So from around 7PM until the wee hours of the morning, the police had the complex cordoned off while the SWAT team tried to coax the guy out. The apartment this guy had holed up in is literally right accross the street, less than a football field away. I could hear when the police started firing tear gas into the apartment, it was so close.

    Needless to say, it is kind-of surreal to see your apartment building on the news being covered live.

    They did finally get the guy alive in the early morning hours. They arrested the dufus in his own bathtub, with a damp towel wrapped around his head.

    BONUS FUN: The onsite TV newscaster had to cut away when the wind shifted and he got a facefull of teargas. It didn't look like he enjoyed it.

    BONUS STUPID: My nieghbors decided all this was great fun, and sat out in their lawnchairs to watch. You know, within the line of fire if nutcase had decided to start shooting? I decided to stay inside, as I hadn't washed my "Innocent Victim" shirt yet.
    The Rich keep getting richer because they keep doing what it was that made them rich. Ditto the Poor.
    "Hy kan tell dey is schmot qvestions, dey is makink my head hurt."
    Hoc spatio locantur.

  • #2
    OK, so he robs his next-door neighbor and then takes a shower? And then wraps a towel around his head? (Since when do dudes do that?) Wow.
    "Is it hot in here to you? It's very warm, isn't it?"--Nero, probably

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    • #3
      Quoth Food Lady View Post
      OK, so he robs his next-door neighbor and . . . then wraps a towel around his head? (Since when do dudes do that?) Wow.
      It's a technique inmates learn in prison to ward off tear gas attacks.

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      • #4
        Yeah, the towel was most likely to defend against the tear gas. You can do something similar to reduce smoke inhalation if your house is on fire.

        It always kind of amuses me (and boggles the mind) to hear about criminals too stupid to keep from being found out immediately.

        When Hubby was on a mission in Venezuela, he and his companion were robbed at gunpoint by a pair of guys. These guys had walked across a divided highway style road to get to Hubby and companion, escorted them back across said highway to an alley to rob them (thanks to being poor missionaries and knowing the good hiding spots, the muggers got very little, though one took Hubby's handkerchief, which still confuses Hubby to this day), and then let them go. Hubby and his companion were standing in the median, wondering what they should do next, when two local police pulled up on a motorcycle.

        See, turns out the muggers had chosen to commit their crime less than a block away from a police station. Someone had seen them walking across the highway with two young men in dress shirts and ties and told the cops. So Hubby and his companion direct the police down the alley and were thinking that this was all kind of interesting.

        Then they found out one big difference between American police and Venezuelan police. A gunshot rang out moments after the police disappeared down the alley. Turns out the muggers were still there going over their loot, and one of the police had shot out the older mugger's kneecap to keep him from running.
        "Enough expository banter. It's time we fight like men. And ladies. And ladies who dress like men. For Gilgamesh...IT'S MORPHING TIME!"
        - Gilgamesh, Final Fantasy V

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        • #5
          My old neighborhood was getting to be like that just before I bought my house and we moved. A bunch of kids were smoking weed in somebody's attic and one of them shot another...somebody set a guy's car on fire one night...lots of other fun times...
          When you start at zero, everything's progress.

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          • #6
            I talked to the site manager last night. She said the police fired 21 tear gas shells into the apartment, leaving holes in the wall each time. The place was trashed, and the smell of teargas is still so strong that none of the matainance guys can stand to work in there for long. Looks like it will be awhile before they get the place cleaned up.
            The Rich keep getting richer because they keep doing what it was that made them rich. Ditto the Poor.
            "Hy kan tell dey is schmot qvestions, dey is makink my head hurt."
            Hoc spatio locantur.

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            • #7
              Quoth Geek King View Post
              I talked to the site manager last night. She said the police fired 21 tear gas shells into the apartment, leaving holes in the wall each time. The place was trashed, and the smell of teargas is still so strong that none of the matainance guys can stand to work in there for long. Looks like it will be awhile before they get the place cleaned up.
              It took 21 shells to flush him out? Good gravy!
              "Enough expository banter. It's time we fight like men. And ladies. And ladies who dress like men. For Gilgamesh...IT'S MORPHING TIME!"
              - Gilgamesh, Final Fantasy V

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              • #8
                Quoth Kogarashi View Post
                It took 21 shells to flush him out? Good gravy!
                Nope, they still had to go in after him. Arrested him in the bathtub.
                The Rich keep getting richer because they keep doing what it was that made them rich. Ditto the Poor.
                "Hy kan tell dey is schmot qvestions, dey is makink my head hurt."
                Hoc spatio locantur.

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                • #9
                  My theory is that he took a shower, thinking it would help him make a clean getaway.





                  Oh come ON, people! How had that not been said yet?
                  By popular request....I am now officially the Enemy of Normalcy.

                  "What is unobtainium? To Seraph, it's a normal client. :P" -- Observant Friend

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                  • #10
                    Because it was so horrible, seraph.
                    "Is it the lie that keeps you sane? Is this the lie that keeps you sane?What is it?Can it be?Ought it to exist?"
                    "...and may it be that I cleave to the ugly truth, rather than the beautiful lie..."

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                    • #11
                      Quoth Kogarashi View Post
                      When Hubby was on a mission in Venezuela, he and his companion were robbed at gunpoint by a pair of guys. These guys had walked across a divided highway style road to get to Hubby and companion, escorted them back across said highway to an alley to rob them (thanks to being poor missionaries and knowing the good hiding spots, the muggers got very little, though one took Hubby's handkerchief, which still confuses Hubby to this day), and then let them go. Hubby and his companion were standing in the median, wondering what they should do next, when two local police pulled up on a motorcycle.
                      Oh geeze. Li'l Bro is at the MTC right now learning Spanish and then probably late August or early September he's headed for Baranquilla, Colombia. If anything like this happens to him, I don't want to know about it for a long time. If ever.

                      Although, the two worst groups of people to try to rob are missionaries and college students. Neither ever have money.
                      I am no longer of capable of the emotion you humans call “compassion”. Though I can feign it in exchange for an hourly wage. (Gravekeeper)

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                      • #12
                        Heck, this was the scene out side of my old apartment last year.

                        Cops: Vermont 3D

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                        • #13
                          Quoth Seraph View Post
                          Oh come ON, people! How had that not been said yet?
                          Some punishments are too too cruel and unusual.
                          I am not an a**hole. I am a hemorrhoid. I irritate a**holes!
                          Procrastination: Forward planning to insure there is something to do tomorrow.
                          Derails threads faster than a pocket nuke.

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                          • #14
                            Seraph, that was awful. XP

                            Quoth jedimaster91 View Post
                            Oh geeze. Li'l Bro is at the MTC right now learning Spanish and then probably late August or early September he's headed for Baranquilla, Colombia. If anything like this happens to him, I don't want to know about it for a long time. If ever.

                            Although, the two worst groups of people to try to rob are missionaries and college students. Neither ever have money.
                            There's a reason his family didn't tell his grandmother until he was safely back home in the States.

                            And that was the other thing. Most people in Venezuela knew what the missionaries looked like and knew they had no money, and thus the missionaries felt pretty safe in the bad parts of town where the gringo businessmen wouldn't dare set foot. Yet this pair of yahoos felt it worth it to mug a pair of missionaries for a couple of bolivars, a watch, and a pocket handkerchief (yes, really).
                            "Enough expository banter. It's time we fight like men. And ladies. And ladies who dress like men. For Gilgamesh...IT'S MORPHING TIME!"
                            - Gilgamesh, Final Fantasy V

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                            • #15
                              Quoth Geek King View Post
                              BONUS STUPID: My nieghbors decided all this was great fun, and sat out in their lawnchairs to watch. You know, within the line of fire if nutcase had decided to start shooting? I decided to stay inside, as I hadn't washed my "Innocent Victim" shirt yet.
                              Did you ever get that shirt washed yet?

                              And if you come across an "Innocent Bystander" shirt in pink, it's probably mine.
                              Human Resources - the adult version of "I'm telling Mom." - Agent Anthony "Tony" DiNozzo (NCIS)

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