Posted on 05/11/2009 12:48:00 PM PDT by RLM
Authorities said a 15-year-old boy playing "cops and robbers" with a toy gun was shot and wounded by a Los Angeles County sheriff's deputy who mistook it for the real thing.
(Excerpt) Read more at cbs2.com ...
Stop or I'll shoot!
but instead he pointed it at deputies.
Or turned to look at whoever shouted.
As I read this I am thinking of how the grunts on the ground dubbed the “new” M-16 a “Matty Matel” back in the day.
I'm as anti-gun as the Brady Bunch when it comes to toy guns. My kids are not allowed to play with toy guns, not even allowed to touch them. [Real guns are a different story - my kids are allowed to shoot for real any time they want to, although they need my permission and supervision each time they shoot. The penalty for a safety violation? A one year "time out" from all shooting, to wait for them to mature enough that they can handle firearms safely.]
Where in the human anatomy is the Palmdale located, LOL? The CBS headline writer needs some basic grammar lessons.
I thought those toy guns are supposed to have a neon orange “plug” at the end of the barrel so cops could know it was a toy. Maybe the kid took it out.
My twin grandsons have a few of these guns that they’re only allowed to use on my 33 acres. They love them, but they can’t take them back home to Santa Clara for exactly this reason.
Sure glad the kid will recover.
Wow. As someone that played “cops and robbers” or simply “guns” as we called it when I was a kid, I recall it being decidedly less lethal even with more realistic looking toy guns.
The cops always say they were drawn on first. Hmm..
Maybe it was an older heirloom toy, although those are not difficult to retrofit with orange plugs.
“15-year-old boy playing “cops and robbers”
My 12 year old son does not play that anymore.
In my day our toy guns were shiny and fit in frilled holsters that matched our cowboy hats and absurd gloves we were convinced every cowboy wore on the range.
Right below the Isles of Langerhans?
Could have been airsoft. I have an MP5k that you’d swear was real from anything beyond arms length distance.
I actually know one idiot who thinks M-16s were actually made by Mattel.
No sense trying to educate that mutt.
“Where in the human anatomy is the Palmdale located, LOL? The CBS headline writer needs some basic grammar lessons.”
I parsed it. From what I can tell the sentence is correct, but I ain’t no grammarian. I think a better way would have been Palmdale Deputy shoots teen carrying toy gun.
If I recall correctly the reason it was called that was because when the rifle was first fielded Mattel actually produced the plastic components (like the butt stock). Of course that was before my time so perhaps someone could clear the air on that military rumor.
I don't think the harm itself comes from playing with toy guns, I think that it comes from doing so in an innapropriate place (ie somewhere other than the backyard).
I was thinking the same thing,15 and still playing cops and robbers. I was thinking girls, fishing , girls,girls,
I was thinking the same thing,15 and still playing cops and robbers. I was thinking girls, fishing , girls,girls,
You obviously don't know much about Palmdale. South Central Los Angeles mitigated their drug/gang problem by paying families of gang members to move to outlying cities like Palmdale. Palmdale now has one of the worse gang/drug problems in the state.
A 15-year old points a gun at you and you don't fire at your peril. Many of these 15-year olds are not children by any measure other than age. They are street wise and dangerous.
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