I Was Pulled Over By Cops for carrying an UMBRELLA!
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Are you joking? On my way home tonight...90 people were killed by umbrellas disguised as katanas like yours. XD
Aaaah the police, sometimes they make me laugh, others despair.
I think I'll go with the former tonight. XD
Aaaah the police, sometimes they make me laugh, others despair.
I think I'll go with the former tonight. XD
Those umbrellas, they be dangerous. As ridiculous as that is, it's nice to hear of A) people reporting someone they think to be suspicious or dangerous and B) the cops actually, y'know, responding.
Maybe you were reported because you were holding it in a particular way that made it kinda, sorta, not really look like an assault rifle?
Maybe you were reported because you were holding it in a particular way that made it kinda, sorta, not really look like an assault rifle?
Assuming there is no embellishing in the OP, the cops are at fault, not the people who called it in.Kris015 said:
Not sure if we've all heard of the 2nd Amendment, but it protects the rights to bear arms. I.E. It's legal to walk down the street with a rifle or pistol in your hand, as long as you're not pointing it at people, or shooting it, obviously.
Now, there ARE limits on the types of guns you can own. Fully automatic weapons (either rifle or pistol) have stricter rules, and are often illegal, but a cop would have no reason to assume rate of fire, if all he had were random anonymous reports. There are also laws regarding concealment, but that was obviously not a factor here.
Really though, there's no way anyone familiar with rifles would make that grievous of a mistake. If anything, the katana umbrella (note: the one being held in the picture is the tanto variety, approx half length) resembles a bolt-action Winchester, or some such. There's just not enough "meat" on the thing to pass for any common assault rifle (m-16, AK-47, Steyr aug) And, as covered above, that's legal.
TL;DR : Shenanigans @ OP
No not at all, I don't know what world you think you live in but the shit you pulled and have the nerve to whine about on the internet about very likey could have gotten you shot. It would have been one of those stories we see once in a while where someone when confronted by the police pulls out a mobile phone and points it at the police for a joke then gets shot. Or someone says they have a bomb in their luggage for a joke...and get shot, then everyone says that once in a while we need a bit of bleach in the gene pool and humanity isn't missing anything big.WOPR said:
You carried around something that is designed to look like a concealed weapon. Someone rightly calls the police and the police are told someone is walking around in the street with a concealed weapon. The police turn up and see you have a long black thing hidden in an umberella, they will think gun.
I'm not ragging on you for no reason, I'm trying to make you realise that you could have been shot for doing what you did and the police would have been well within their rights if you had turned the umberella towards them. Police don't take chances. I mean you must have known what you were doing, didn't you have a voice inside your head saying this is something wrong?
If you didn't have that little voice then instead of coming onto the internet to whine about being rightyfully called on being in the wrong, you need to take some time and think about consquences before you do things because luckily you were not hurt but it could have been a very, very difference end.
Thats clearly an assault rilfe. I mean katana. I mean unmbrella.
Really though I'm not suprised they treated the situation like you had a real weapon. The one time a cop doesn't take it real they get killed.
You could have stuck an umbrella top on a katana and really had a weapon. The idiot who thought a katana was an assault rifle is really stupid.
Really though I'm not suprised they treated the situation like you had a real weapon. The one time a cop doesn't take it real they get killed.
You could have stuck an umbrella top on a katana and really had a weapon. The idiot who thought a katana was an assault rifle is really stupid.
But that's kinda the point, isn't it? From a distance, it ISN'T particularly obvious it's an umbrella, especially if it's the golf umbrella.WOPR said:
The instant I saw the thread on the homepage I KNEW it'd be talking about that fucking stupid katana-umbrella. I don't know why you'd want such a pants-on-head retarded object anyway, they're not cool.
Yeah and my hat is a f***ing cruise missile! Honestly, people can be morons. Which reminds me of a joke.
A man tears off all of his clothes and runs down the street firing an uzi and waving a machete. An innocent bystander manages to escape into a phone booth and ring up the police.
POLICE:Hello, what is your emergency?
BYSTANDER:There's a naked man outside!
It sounded funnier when I heard it.
A man tears off all of his clothes and runs down the street firing an uzi and waving a machete. An innocent bystander manages to escape into a phone booth and ring up the police.
POLICE:Hello, what is your emergency?
BYSTANDER:There's a naked man outside!
It sounded funnier when I heard it.
Well, I don't know what to say. If someone reported a guy walking down the sidewalk carrying an assault rifle, of course they are going to investigate that. And of course they are going to ask you to put your hands on your head and whatnot while they check to make sure if you actually have any weapons or not. It's for your safety as much as theirs: if you have your hands on your head and are doing as they say, they aren't going to mistake you making some move as you going for a weapon. And if they don't think you're going for a weapon, they aren't going to shoot you. Not really overkill; from what you said it doesn't sound like they made you lie facedown on the ground or something, you make it sound like you were standing.
I find it odd that someone thought it was an assault rifle, though. When you said it was a katana handle and showed the picture, I thought that someone would have said you had a katana. But assault rifle? Okay...
This is why I'd rather have a nice colored umbrella without a fancy handle than the one in your picture, though. Nobody in their right mind would think this was a weapon, unless they watched way too much Batman Returns or something. [http://www.sz-wholesale.com/uploadFiles/upimg3/23-quot--CLASSIC-UMBRELLA17018.jpg]
I find it odd that someone thought it was an assault rifle, though. When you said it was a katana handle and showed the picture, I thought that someone would have said you had a katana. But assault rifle? Okay...
This is why I'd rather have a nice colored umbrella without a fancy handle than the one in your picture, though. Nobody in their right mind would think this was a weapon, unless they watched way too much Batman Returns or something. [http://www.sz-wholesale.com/uploadFiles/upimg3/23-quot--CLASSIC-UMBRELLA17018.jpg]
Unlucky OP but just roll with it it's not the policeman's fault that people are dumb.
I've been stopped and searched 3 times so far in the UK under the "anti-terroism legislation". Clearly my backpack full of textbooks, pens and notes is far more dangerous than I realised. If I only figured out which one of those the police were scared of I could make a killing selling it tocriminals honest gentlemen who dislike the law.
Edit- Checking it out from a difference it wouldn't be too hard to mistake it for an assault rifle. People often see what they are expecting rather than what is actually there this increases over distance as the brain tries to fill in visual gaps with things it is expecting to see in that space.
Tell me those assault rifle grips don't look like sword handles.
I've been stopped and searched 3 times so far in the UK under the "anti-terroism legislation". Clearly my backpack full of textbooks, pens and notes is far more dangerous than I realised. If I only figured out which one of those the police were scared of I could make a killing selling it to
Edit- Checking it out from a difference it wouldn't be too hard to mistake it for an assault rifle. People often see what they are expecting rather than what is actually there this increases over distance as the brain tries to fill in visual gaps with things it is expecting to see in that space.
Tell me those assault rifle grips don't look like sword handles.
I've been tempted to get one of those umbrellas. But decided not to because people might mistake it for a concealed sword.
I don't think the police were unreasonable, they have to take claims like that seriously, and they can never know when some random yobbo will be carrying a gun. I understand that they don't have any real choice in the USA, where guns are so common.
I'm more surprised that people claimed you were carrying an assault rifle, rather than a sword. That just doesn't make any sense.
I don't think the police were unreasonable, they have to take claims like that seriously, and they can never know when some random yobbo will be carrying a gun. I understand that they don't have any real choice in the USA, where guns are so common.
I'm more surprised that people claimed you were carrying an assault rifle, rather than a sword. That just doesn't make any sense.
Dude something similar happened to me. Except the cops were actually pretty nice about it. I was walking to a party with an obviously toy rifle. It had a big yellow barrel and some moron called the cops on me. they drove past me to take a quick look then pulled up to have a quiet chat. we all laughed at the stupidity of the situation and they gave me a lift to the party to make sure there were no further calls.