Posted on 02/04/2009 11:37:43 AM PST by LibWhacker
Police scrambled eight patrol cars filled with armed officers after a man in his 50s pointed a toy ray-gun at a baby and said 'Pow, Pow'.
The man, who has not yet been named, was arrested earlier today after he approached the baby and its mother with a 'silver ray-gun' which lights up and makes a buzzing noise when the trigger is pulled.
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They should come down hard on the store that sells the toy guns.
“He’s a Looney”
Not very smart to point anything that even remotely looks like a gun at someone.
The UK had better start issuing real weapons to their populace - who will soon have to use them on (fill in the name of the religon of “peace”).
It’s hard to take a country seriously when the headline has to specify that the police in question were armed.
It’s a toy. The guy was evidently trying to give the chap a chuckle. What idiots.
I guess playing cowboys and Indians are going to take it in the shorts in the brave new world.
The UK is soooo screwed.
I’ve long taken the position that the fundamental right of self defense... and the enumerated right to keep and bear arms should apply to what ever the common weapon of the day are... and thus will apply to ray guns in the future.
Thus gun responsibility should apply to ray s too!
"DROP IT OR WE'LL BEAM YOU TO THE BRIG!"
Moms peer pressure each other into believing that they are bad people if they let their kids play with toy guns. When I speak to friends who are moms of young kids I will hear them talk abot how upset that they were that they took their son to a playdate and the other kid had a toy gun! Horrors! I feel like telling them to just get them some dolls and complete the process of forcing them to play like little girls.
But this mom takes it to a whole new level...
How dare this man upset a mother.
To the dungeon with him.
One has to wonder if she described it as a space alien, or man with a weapon call.
I’ll grant you, if there was more to the story, he may have indeed posed a bigger threat than it seems here.
Certainly a huge overreaction, but something is way wrong with a man in his 50s who’s cruising the sidewalks with a toy ray gun and abruptly pointing it at tots in strollers and saying “pow, pow”. Should have summoned the “men in white coats” instead of the SWAT.
We need a reality check:
Rare early 60s tv commercial for Mattel’s Tommy Burst submachine gun detective set.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=aMqd5EQXD-g
That’s a keeper.
Reality, in the liberals rubber room, doesn’t intrude.
Too bad they weren't imitation police.
England has gone insane.
I guess the cops felt they had to justify going on the call.
I think the woman who made the call should be arrested for making a crank call.
The man should sue her for harassment.
Especially since most everyone in the world is insane like yourself. Back when people had some sense in addition to vertebrates, this would have been a non issue.
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