Village People Cop To Be On 'America's Most Wanted'

Bay City News via KTVU ^ | 4:00 pm PST December 22, 2005 | Bay City News

[Maximus_Ridiculousness]

A man who helped make famous the songs "YMCA" and "In the Navy" will soon be featured on the television show "America's Most Wanted," after failing to appear in a San Mateo County courtroom for his sentencing in October, according to San Mateo County Deputy District Attorney Steve Wagstaffe.

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Willis was found to be in possession of 3.23 grams of cocaine and a loaded .45-gauge, semi-automatic handgun, according to the district attorney's office...

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...also charged with violating his probation from a 2003 incident in which he was found in possession of 4 grams of cocaine.

[Maximus_Ridiculousness]

You can't make this stuff up.

[null and void]

.45 gauge. *sigh*

[Billthedrill]

Whoa - anyone who can carry a 45-gauge handgun is nobody to be messed with.

[Paleo Conservative]

[msnimje]

What caliber of person who writes such an article?

[Maximus_Ridiculousness]

That must be his 45 gauge.

[cryptical]

45 Gauge? About the size of a M79.

Heh.

[Bogolyubski]

A 45-gauge semi-automatic handgun! Hmm, I wonder what a 45-gauge works out to be in caliber? At least it's somewhat better that the Atlanta MSM types in the wake of the Brian Nichols rampage, who described his captured Glock-22 as a 40 mm. handgun!! I can't even imagine the recoil would be on a 40mm Glock - a real hand cannon! Those cartridges must cost 5 dollars each. Oy!

[gaijin]

[Maximus_Ridiculousness]

It's fun to stay in a J - A - I - L...

[geopyg]

I'm thinking its a Colt 45.

[Larry Lucido]

Whoa - anyone who can carry a 45-gauge handgun is nobody to be messed with.

LOL!

But wouldn't a larger gauge mean a smaller pellet? May not have that much of punch at all.

Reminds me of the dialogue between Jerry Seinfeld and George Costanza in the back of a police car.

"That's probably a 12 gauge."

"Yea, makes the 11 gauge look like a popgun."

[Tonysgirl]

Would'nt HE be considered the "VILLAGE IDIOT" now?....lol

[Nasty McPhilthy]

Damn! I thought my 'ol 10 gauge was a bad muther.

[RichInOC]

"They...want...you...they...want...you (in the county)..."

[ElkGroveDan]

Willis was found to be in possession of ... a loaded .45-gauge, semi-automatic handgun,

I guess that's the weapon of choice for a "macho-man".

[Nasty McPhilthy]

10,12,20,16,28....

Yep, your right.

[DocRock]

".45-gauge, semi-automatic handgun,"

.45 inches... the average diameter size of a typical anti-gun reporter's brain.

[BikerTrash]

But wouldn't a larger gauge mean a smaller pellet?

No. A numerically "larger" gauge means a smaller bore diameter on shotguns. It is based on the number of lead balls it takes to make a pound, (12 - 12 gauge balls makes a pound, 20 - 20 gauge balls makes a pound), etc. The exeption is the .410 shotgun which is the bore diameter in inches.

[Nasty McPhilthy]

10,12,16,20,28....

[Maximus_Ridiculousness]

.45 inches... the average diameter size of a typical anti-gun reporter's brain.

EXACTLY!!!

[BikerTrash]

...or even "exception"...

Sheesh!

[null and void]

Gauge is the number of lead spheres the diameter of the bore that it would take to weigh one pound.

The smaller the diameter, the more lead spheres, and the higher the gauge number.

A .45 gauge would be (and I'm guessing here) about 2-1/2" to 3" diameter.

[Billthedrill]

But wouldn't a larger gauge mean a smaller pellet?

Size doesn't matter. It's how (snicker!) you use it...

[NJ_gent]

"a loaded .45-gauge, semi-automatic handgun"

Be on the lookout for a man with every bone in his right hand, wrist, arm, and shoulder completely shattered.

[Larry Lucido]

LOL! Numerical sequences have always been a problem for me, too.

I'm not sure I ever want to fire a 10 gauge, btw.

[Larry Lucido]

Thanks.

[Larry Lucido]

So the 1-gauge would be a pretty bad-ass weapon, I take it. :-)

[BikerTrash]

A 1 gauge would be fairly bad-assed...yep.

FWIW:

10 gauge = .775 inch, 12 gauge = .729 inch, 16 gauge = .662 inch, 20 gauge = .615 inch, 28 gauge = .550 inch.

[Maximus_Ridiculousness]

A .45 gauge handgun

[Nasty McPhilthy]

From left to right: 10, 12, 16, 20, 28, .410

[umgud]

I've fired an 8 gauge. It was turret mounted and was used to shoot material buildup (goobers) off the interior walls a rotary kiln used to dry pulp. I was doing some construction services at a pulp plant and saw a trash bin with huge fired shells. I asked the operator what he used them for. He showed me and let me shoot it. It was a blast. BTW, a 12 gauge shell will easily fir inside the empty 8 gauge shell.

[Nasty McPhilthy]

Damnitboy!

[Bogolyubski]

(Yes, I figured that was what it really was, too. I was just making a comment on the complete ignorance of the average MSM "journalist" about firearms.)

[beaver fever]

The Indian was the only non gay member of the Village People.

Just thought I'd add that.

[Jrabbit]

He should have been arrested for that stupid song a long time ago......

[BikerTrash]

I'm not sure I ever want to fire a 10 gauge, btw.

If you can handle a 3 inch magnum load in a 12 gauge, you can probably handle a 10 gauge just as easily. The reason for this is most 10 gauge guns are heavier than twelves, (be warned, not all).

As always, the amount of pain inflicted on both ends of any given firearm depends on projectile weight and velocity/powder charge.

[Maximus_Ridiculousness]

The Indian was the only non gay member of the Village People. Just thought I'd add that.

Wow! I never cease to be amazed.

[King Prout]

what the hell is a ".45-gauge, semi-automatic handgun"???

using the gauge system of bore calibration, where the gauge is the number of rounds required to equal one pound of shot...

that'd make each shot from a ".45-gauge" equal about 2.2 pounds or one kilogram.

what the HELL is this thing? a 30mm cannon???

< /sarcastic analysis >

boy it'd be nice if reporters knew $#!+ from Shinola.

[beaver fever]

Here's another one for you.

He didn't know the Village People was a gay group until he signed on to the recording contract.

He was mighty pissed when he found out but he couldn't get out of the contract.

It sucks to be an attractive, talented, hetero Indian in San Fransisco.

[King Prout]

oh, you saw it too ;)

[Maximus_Ridiculousness]

Your knowledge of the Village People is beginning to scare me. :P

[King Prout]

the gauge system is an inverse measure.
a 10ga is larger than a 12ga which is larger than a 20ga

# in gauge used to mean the number of rounds it required to add up to one pound of projectile or shot.

a ".45-gauge" (that is POINT-45-gauge) would come out at 2.222222lbs or about one kilogram of shot.

I think thewre used to be little mortars called "punt guns" used to blow whole flocks of birds out of the air which could have been called ".45-gauge" (though in reality sub-1ga cannon were given multiple-zero gauge designations... 00, 000, etc IIRC)

[TEEHEE]

If this guy is one of the original Village People, it's amazing that he's even alive.

[Richard Kimball]

Maybe it was just a 12 caliber.

[Nasty McPhilthy]

http://www.pottymouth.org/humor/shinola.html

[King Prout]

"repels aliens"

roflmao

[beaver fever]

I got all my information here from other posters.

[Maximus_Ridiculousness]

FReeper University.

[rolling_stone]

So what caliber of mild steel will a .45 gauge handgun penetrate?