His defenders claim he carried the metal pipe "to communicate and also to protect against stray dogs!"
Must be a new form of sign language requiring specifically a metal pipe and for which wood or fiberglass rods would not work. And ditto for non-lethal wood/fiberglass rods to chase away stray dogs.
My guess is many anti-cop FReepers would have been much more upset if he succeeded in hitting a dog with a lethal metal pipe than if he succeeded with a cop.
“Must be a new form of sign language requiring specifically a metal pipe and for which wood or fiberglass rods would not work. And ditto for non-lethal wood/fiberglass rods to chase away stray dogs”
If you had a fishing rod the cops would say they mistook it for a gun...and skate.
I stand by my previous comment.
But, when it comes to dogs...
We recently had a stray, not quite adult American Staffordshire Terrier decide to adopt us. Amazingly powerful dog. Affectionate as heck to us, but very territorial with anyone else, so we had to give it up to a lady with obvious great training skills.
If that dog came at you — you’d better have something better than a metal pipe on hand, or be very strong and awfully dang good with said pipe. Because if you don’t bash in that dog’s hefty skull with a perfect 1st swing, that pipe ain’t gonna do ya’ no good.