I Was Pulled Over By Cops for carrying an UMBRELLA!
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Haha, thats awesome. Maybe they thought you were the Penguin. Ya know, with the tommy gun umbrella...
Thinking you had a sword I might be able to understand, but an assault rifle? Were you carrying it in a way that would add to that impression?
Based on the thread title, I figured there was a 95% chance that this was about some neckbeard getting stopped for carrying a toy-sword umbrella and a 5% chance that this was one of the legions of legitimate complaints about ridiculous police force tactics/policies. Occam's Razor ftw I guess.
As someone else pointed out, I don't see what the police did wrong here. They got a report that you were carrying an assault rifle and they sent out reasonable force to investigate. Blame the people who reported it. However, because the simple answer is usually the right one, I can't help but imagine the OP hiding behind his neighbor's hedge pointing the umbrella like a gun at passing cars. We are, after all, talking about a person that thought a toy-sword umbrella was cool.
Here's your new thread title: "Man gets stopped by police for carrying umbrella designed to look like weapon."
As someone else pointed out, I don't see what the police did wrong here. They got a report that you were carrying an assault rifle and they sent out reasonable force to investigate. Blame the people who reported it. However, because the simple answer is usually the right one, I can't help but imagine the OP hiding behind his neighbor's hedge pointing the umbrella like a gun at passing cars. We are, after all, talking about a person that thought a toy-sword umbrella was cool.
Here's your new thread title: "Man gets stopped by police for carrying umbrella designed to look like weapon."
"lol, dem cops so stoopid sayin i haz teh gun lololol!!1!"
"That man murdered 5 people and the police did nothing! WON'T SOMEBODY THINK OF THE CHILDREN?!"
Or as I like to call it: fucked if they do, fucked if they don't. I'd rather hear the first one all the time though, as opposed to the second.
"That man murdered 5 people and the police did nothing! WON'T SOMEBODY THINK OF THE CHILDREN?!"
Or as I like to call it: fucked if they do, fucked if they don't. I'd rather hear the first one all the time though, as opposed to the second.
I have a theory...he's actually the greatest assassin whose ever lived, and one of his failed targets noticed the trademark Assault Rifle Umbrella and decided to call the Authorities before he launched a one man war against the local mafia in a bloody battle that'd go down in history!
It wasn't the police's fault. SOMEONE reported him to have been carrying an assault rifle.PureChaos said:
As for OT: I still want a secret service umbrella - I seen it on TV, there's one specially made out of some kind of titanium frame, with stab-proof fabric. They had a guy put the umbrella between two tables, and he was JUMPING up and down on the umbrella, and all it did was bend a bit under his weight... Oh and the thing is entirely windproof - like the brolly I have; the weathershield is layered into two sections that allows wind to pass through it so you don't get retarded inside-out umbrella when the wind blows.
THAT is an umbrella you can kill someone with - or at least beat someone half to death with.
Just trying to keep my tone casual (my rule - forum is a place where people mix and get loud, be easygoing, talk like you do in the real world, avoid abbreviations); I'm trying to not offend by using an easygoing tonePureChaos said:
(it's subtle, but you'd be surprised one out of place word can change the way someone feels about something) but obviously that had the opposite effect on you XDI wouldn't use that in a more... official document.
Well... it could be worse. Look at the Wikileaks video that shows a guy carrying a camera on a tripod and a US military helicopter gunned him and his friends down. And then when a van came to help the wounded they shot up the van too. And it had kids inside. So being asked about something which could be misinterpreted as a weapon is not that bad.
i know you were just pointing out an observation, no offence or anything was taken by it. i've been here for....3 years(?) and so far only 1 person has managed to slightly offend me. i didn't mean anything by my reply, either. that's the problem with written stuff, tone can be hard to read...get it, 'read'...i won't give up my day job!SIXVI06-M said:Just trying to keep my tone casual (my rule - forum is a place where people mix and get loud, be easygoing, talk like you do in the real world, avoid abbreviations); I'm trying to not offend by using an easygoing tonePureChaos said:
I wouldn't use that in a more... official document.