I dunno, in the right hands an umbrella could bring down a helicopter.
Posted on 03/22/2013 5:07:26 PM PDT by markomalley
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The usual success rate for BugMeNot...zero.
Frightening.
“Playful and theatrical by nature, Di Marzo gestured his umbrella toward the helicopter.”
Up until that point, even if he had been carrying a rifle he would have been legal. (Well, not sure about riding the bus.) But open-carry in Washington is legal as long as you aren’t doing it in a “threatening” manner. Of course threatening to me is a lot different than to some liberal weenie that would probably want someone SWATed for having a BB-gun slung over their shoulder.
Worked out at a nuclear facility, and the folks told us NOT to goof around in any manner. They told the story of a crew of contractors out in some far reach of the site, and one guy pointed his rake handle at a small helicopter as it flew by. A few minutes later two attack helicopters were on either side of the workers, with speakers telling them to lay on the ground and wait for security vehicles.
A friend of mine went into a drugstore here in San Francisco wearing his NRA cap. He walked into an aisle and came upon a woman walking toward him. She had a grade-school age daughter in tow.
The woman spotted the cap and a look of horror crossed her face. She grabbed the kid and in a frightened voice said, “Let’s get out of here before someone gets hurt.”
In Livermore, california, the site of the old Livermore Radiation Lab - now the LLL, the local cops are on the alert for strange behavior.
They have a strange rule that someone who walks diagonally across a parking lot at night is under suspicion. It happened ta friend of mine who worked at Livermore lab with highest security clearance and walked diagonally across a hotel parking lot at night coz there was few cars there.4 police cars immediately surrounded him; they threw him to the ground and threw him in jail after checking his ID. His wife had to come and bail him out for trespassing $500 bucks. After that he never walked anywhere in Livermore.
I dunno, in the right hands an umbrella could bring down a helicopter.
Anybody that over reacted on this should be jailed for 30 days and then take classes to properly identify threats and risks
Anybody that over reacted on this should be jailed for 30 days and then take classes to properly identify threats and risks
“The guy innocently pointed his umbrella at a police helicopter. He’s damn lucky to be alive.”
Imagine if he was shot? It sounds like they already had the laser on him...
Come out with your burrito where we can see it!
Gee, I hope no terrorists read this kind of stuff and realize how easy it would be to manipulate the system and virtually lock down an entire city and all of its first responders.
Yes, but I would venture that any number of FReeper women would say those are definitely the right hands!
No, never heard of that book.
It wasn’t even a full-size umbrella. It was a 15-inch model.
Was it a sawed-off umbrella? Or maybe an assault umbrella with a collapsible stock?
I think you might enjoy it.
Thank you. I will keep my eye out for it.
now that I think of it, it would be cool if I had a functioning umbrella that *really* looked like an evil “assault” weapon.
Maybe the forestock opens into the umbrella, for instance.
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