December 4th, 2009
On JeremyBell.com:
If you happened to be walking by my office last night, you may have noticed a little police activity. A co-worker said she saw at least 6 SWAT, 2 uniformed officers, 2 undercover and a chopper in the air. I’ve since been told that the surrounding streets were blocked off with five cop cars in total, two ambulances, and a dozen cops all taking positions of cover around the office.
Ya, I’m a little embarrassed to say this was all for me, as last night I got arrested by the SWAT team because of a Lego gun.
(It was in Canada.) Go read the whole thing.
What I find most interesting about this, even more than the idea that SWAT arrived to deal with a guy with a Lego gun, is the fact that someone had to call it in in the first place. It apparently was a guy in a neighboring apartment who could see in the office building window.
December 4th, 2009 at 4:49 pm
wow. just… wow.
December 5th, 2009 at 2:50 am
The guy who wrote the post kept going on and on about how the Lego gun looked realistic. “Legit” is how I think he put it.
I suppose it does, if the only time you have ever seen a gun is in a pixilated video game.
December 5th, 2009 at 6:36 am
I have a Lego Glock kit I bought! It has a working slide and trigger!
December 7th, 2009 at 10:43 am
Uh, he had a fake gun in a private office and somebody called the police? I hope nobody looks in my window Friday afternoon after I return from the range and start cleaning real guns.
December 8th, 2009 at 1:07 am
I read about this over on Fark. Pretty retarded situation all around. Police do love to call in their SWAT teams, though. Have to prove their worth somehow.
My only question was, isn’t it legal for at least SOME people to own handguns in Canada? How did they know, from a tip from a peeping Tom, that this guy wasn’t allowed to own a handgun? Wouldn’t a knock at the door and a negotiator have been a better way to start out, rather than just sending in the shock troops?
At least it makes California look relatively better =(
December 8th, 2009 at 11:45 am
Tee Hee. This reminds me of the time I was jumped by a half dozen unmarked cop cars. Ok, set your time machine for 1989. I was sitting in the desert outside of an AF base near the end of the runway, taking photos of the airplanes as they land. There was a minor highway near by and I guess someone called in, that “someone was beside the road holding an UZI”… well when you have a black 300mm lens (with a 2x converter) it sort of looks like the hand grip of an UZI. Anyway being in Tucson and in the 80′s they show up and we all had a good laugh. I did have to give him my name and drivers license but only because he said it would make his paper work easier. Fun Times.
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