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• earlyagain Posts: 7,928 Senior Member

  April 2019 #2

  Sounds like the SWAT standoff was a social media event to remember.

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• breamfisher Posts: 13,993 Senior Member

  April 2019 #3

  Is Eobard Thawne his actual name?

  I'm just here for snark.

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• tennmike Posts: 27,457 Senior Member

  April 2019 edited April 2019 #4

  breamfisher said:

  Is Eobard Thawne his actual name?

  Uh................yeah. That's his real name!

  Not to be confused with the supervillain from the twenty-second century, otherwise known as Professor Zoom and the Reverse-Flash, is a fictional supervillain appearing in comic books published by DC Comics.
  

  
  

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• breamfisher Posts: 13,993 Senior Member

  April 2019 #5

  Perzactly!

  I'm just here for snark.

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• tennmike Posts: 27,457 Senior Member

  April 2019 edited April 2019 #6

  The story DOES have the feel of an April Fool's joke, but it isn't. Maybe his parents had a weird sense of humor and read DC comics?
  

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• Bigslug Posts: 9,615 Senior Member

  April 2019 #7

  Remember a few years back when someone called in the "names" of the flight crew of the Korean Air crash to the news as "Sum Ting Wong", "Wi Tu Lo", and "Ho Li ****" and it made it on the air?
  
  I suspect something similar.

  WWJMBD?
  
  "Nothing is safe from stupid." - Zee

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• Teach Posts: 18,428 Senior Member

  April 2019 #8

  How many 8 X 10 color glossy photographs did they take?
  

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• tennmike Posts: 27,457 Senior Member

  April 2019 #9

  Gawd! All y'all guys bustin' my chops! Sweet Jaysus, here's the police report from the local paper arrest report.
  

  
  

  http://www.dailypostathenian.com/police_reports/article_93363f83-2a64-54c4-9071-14e99c6b63e5.html

  
  

  
  

  • Eobard Thawne, 28, of 901 Eastanallee Ave. Apt. 8, Athens, was arrested and March 30 by the Athens Police Department and charged with evading arrest, resisting stop/frisk/halt and a warrant for official misconduct and theft up to $1,000 out of Meigs County. He was being held on $3,000 bond and faces a date in General Sessions Court on April 1.
  

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• Gene L Posts: 12,702 Senior Member

  April 2019 #10

  Why is this in the 2nd Amendment forum?
  

  Concealed carry is for protection, open carry is for attention.
  

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• breamfisher Posts: 13,993 Senior Member

  April 2019 #11

  Gene L said:

  Why is this in the 2nd Amendment forum?
  

  Also the political forum. And since most police threads here go political...

  I'm just here for snark.

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• tennmike Posts: 27,457 Senior Member

  April 2019 #12

  Gene L said:

  Why is this in the 2nd Amendment forum?
  

  The fool cop absconded with a firearm not his. That makes it a 2A issue because 'the government illegally confiscated a firearm from a citizen', and that also makes it political. So there!

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• Gene L Posts: 12,702 Senior Member

  April 2019 #13

  It's a theft, not a 2nd Amendment issue.  He acted illegally, it was a theft not a seizure.  I'm not surprised you're confused about basic Constitutional law, just wonder if you are expressing a bias toward law enforcement...actually, I don't wonder, I know.
  

  Concealed carry is for protection, open carry is for attention.
  

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• tennmike Posts: 27,457 Senior Member

  April 2019 #14

  Gene L said:

  It's a theft, not a 2nd Amendment issue.  He acted illegally, it was a theft not a seizure.  I'm not surprised you're confused about basic Constitutional law, just wonder if you are expressing a bias toward law enforcement...actually, I don't wonder, I know.
  

  Cop was a 'government employee'. He, in fact, confiscated a firearm and violated the law and the Constitution he swore to uphold and defend. Do you deny this? His actions were all 'under color of law'. Do you also deny this? It became an illegal act 'according to law' when he failed to turn in the firearm and see that it was returned to the owner involved in the wreck.
  

  Here's a refresher:

  Amendment IV

  The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.

  I'm gonna go WAY out on a limb and assume you can understand common English language and understand the bolded part of that Amendment. But I won't hold my breath.

  
  

  And if I decide that it belongs in 2A/Political then I'll put it there, and the Moderators can move it if they disagree. They have that power and I accept it. As to what YOU think about where it should have been, that means around 10E-1,000,000 to me. I don't answer to you; go steal some kids candy and investigate the theft.
  

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• Gene L Posts: 12,702 Senior Member

  April 2019 edited April 2019 #15

  It wasn't a confiscation, it was a theft.  Your motives are clear in this instance.
  

  Concealed carry is for protection, open carry is for attention.
  

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• Fisheadgib Posts: 5,797 Senior Member

  April 2019 #16

  Gene L said:

  It wasn't a confiscation, it was a theft.  Your motives are clear in this instance.
  

  
  Mike's motives are perfectly clear, that everyone should be held accountable for their actions and when a common "theft" occurs under color of law, it's more than a common theft. Stealing from the public that an officer is sworn to protect and uphold the law for is a good bit beyond a common theft. An officer on duty picked up a citizens property at an accident scene and you try to spin it to sound like a kid stealing a piece of candy at a store and anyone that thinks differently is biased against LEO's. This propensity to protect crooked cops is what causes a distrust or negative bias towards LEOs to begin with.

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  For my point of view, cpj is a lot like me

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• Teach Posts: 18,428 Senior Member

  April 2019 #17

  Get out your earplugs, folks- - - - -I can hear the LEO choir tuning up to sing another verse of the "Cops can do no wrong" song! 
  

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• Gila Posts: 1,908 Senior Member

  April 2019 #18

  And I can see another thread being deleted... 

  No good deed goes unpunished...
  

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