Take the damn shot!
Posted on 09/25/2020 7:15:01 PM PDT by nickcarraway
A neighbor called sheriff’s deputies on some rabid Tampa Bay Lightning fans who were screaming, “Shoot! Shoot!" as they watched Game 3 of the Stanley Cup final on TV Wednesday night.
The call prompted several Hillsborough County sheriff’s deputies to show up at Devon Garnett’s apartment door. He and two friends had gathered to watch the game at Garnett’s Radius Palms apartment.
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“So they came to the door and thought there were guns in the house,” Garnett, 26, told the Tampa Bay Times. “We’re like, ‘Nope, we’re just screaming for Steven Stamkos.’”
(Excerpt) Read more at clickorlando.com ...
Sounds almost like a Florida man story.
So it was a mass shooting.
That’s hilarious. What does it mean when the pitcher gets six strikeouts? KKK KKK. Isn’t that redundant?
I take it she wasn’t filling out a score card.
Take the damn shot!
Ain’t that the truth!
Wow. Totally crazy.
As a nation, we have become insane.
Wow, now that is truly idiotic.
“K? FRiend?” LOL!
Hey Blondie You know what you are? Just a dirty son-of-a-b-!
911 dispatcher: “what is your emergency?”
Every KAREN: “I just heard someone say “Shoot””.
911 dispatcher: “Umm, ... what ?”
Every Karen: “I just heard someone yell” Shoot, Shoot.”
911 dispatcher: “ok, miss, I’ll have SWAT on the way.”
This kinda shit gets people killed; and on the news if the colors are correct.
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Arrest and charge the fatheads for false reporting.
This virtue signalling MUST STOP!
Alternate History:
If the NBA playoffs went differently, this story would be taking place in Toronto during a Toronto Raptors playoff game, with the fan also yelling “Shoot! Shoot” and the caller having no idea that there WAS an NBA, much less that a Canadian team was far into the playoffs.
“If we was gonna shoot somebody, occifer, that nosy neighbor would know it!”
DANG!
Why were the doofus fans yelling at the TV in the first place? There aren’t really little tiny people in there playing hockey. The people who are actually playing hockey CAN’T HEAR YOU.
It was huge fun for us, we would get very animated, so when I read this story, I understood completely.
If you heard us, with Fred Cusik on the television in the background...us screaming at the television
FRED CUSICK: (in a low voice) Wesley...coming out of his own end...over the blue line, into the zone...
US: AHHH! AHHHH! GOOOO!
FRED CUSIK: He passes it over to Bourque...
US: SHOOT! SHOOOT! SHOOOOOOOOT!
FRED CUSIK: (speaking faster at a higher pitch)...Wesley breaks for the net...
US: AHHHH-AHHHHHH-AHHHHHH
FRED CUSIK: (shouts) ...pass from Bourque! Wesley breaking in on Roy...
US: SHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOTTTTT!
FRED CUSIK: ...Wesley shoots...IT'S HIGH AND OVER THE NET!!!!!!!!!
US: GAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH!
I have no doubt in my mind that anyone who didn't play or watch hockey who might have been a house over with the windows open might well think, with the sound of screaming, and "SHOOOOOOOT! SHOOOOOT!" followed by guttural sounds of anguished human strangulation, might well think there was a bloodbath going on next door!!!!
I can completely see that.
I thought this was normal behavior for televised sports....hockey, football, basketball, soccer, etc.
Heck, my friend even does it when watching The Price is Right.
Before I married my wife, we were in a long-distance relationship, and I was taking her to my mother’s house. When I parked on the side of the house, my quiet, mild, Canadian girlfriend heard “You think you’re the tough guy! I’ll show you the tough guy!” (sound of fist hitting a hard surface). “Oh yeah? How about That?!” (Boom!), continuing in that vein.
She was sure that the loud, angry men inside would surely come to blows.
“Oh, that’s just my brother Johnny, Uncle James, and Cousin Tommy. They’re playing Pinochle.”
She married me anyway.
If “Shoot” triggered a neighbor, next yell something like -
“He’s been slashing him all night. Let em fight it out.”
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