Cowboys and Gear Queers
Posted on 04/19/2014 6:19:28 AM PDT by Sam's Army
Lakeland Police SWAT team officers looking for stolen motorcycles tried out their newest technologies Friday evening while serving a search warrant on a house in South Lakeland.
Police said detectives have been investigating motorcycle thefts in Polk, Hillsborough and Orange counties.
After conducting surveillance and gathering information for a judge to sign a search warrant, LPD called in its SWAT team to execute the warrant at a house on Empress Way in the neighborhood near Kelly Recreation Center, Sgt. Mike Lewis said.
"We did not know if anyone was inside and we had information that the persons involved were armed," Lewis said. "It was a safety issue."
It was an opportunity for police to see how well their newly acquired Lenco BearCat armored vehicle would perform. City commissioners last year approved the purchase of the 22,000-pound bullet-resistant vehicle to replace a 1967 armored vehicle. The BearCat features new technologies, air-conditioning, cameras and seating for 12 officers instead of six.
On Friday, the SWAT team drove the BearCat down Lakeland streets and onto the front lawn of the house. The officers crouched behind and inside the vehicle, unsure of what was inside the house.
The officers used tactical maneuvers to blow out the front windows, leaving curtains lying in the yard, and they gained entry into the attached garage.
After more than an hour of searching, officers cleared the house. No one was inside, Lewis said.
"(The vehicle) completely revolutionizes things because we can bring cover up to a location," Lakeland Police Lt. Mike Spade said. "We went on the assumption that someone could be armed in the house. We needed to be safe."
Detectives were searching the house Friday night.
Lewis said, so far, about 30 motorcycles across Polk, Orange and Hillsborough counties have been identified as stolen. No one has been arrested.
Hey Swat, you are IDIOTS and we are laughing at you.
Just call in threats that are at the limit of the gas tanks... As fuel costs increase maybe they will demand better cafe standards for their weapons of oppression
Sorry chief, we’re all out of XXL and XXXL flak jackets!
And the owners of the house will have to file a law suit against the municipality to be recompensed for the damage the raid caused; that is, if they can afford to pay their lawyer and win their suit .
“probably found a roach in the home so that will justify all this.”
The photo was taken in the daylight, so Periplanata was doubtlessly undercover inside the house, awaiting night. From the photo, it appears there is a different species of roach. While it is similar to the common German Roach, these are far larger than the German Roach and heavily armed.
I therefore conclude they must be Nazi Roaches.
They musta been afraid they would flush them there motocickels down the toilet and get rid of the evidence.
Or something.
The increasingly overkill method of our authorities.
These guys should ideally be guarding our open borders.
Great post, the Russkies just didn’t have the second Ammendment and unlike the horse lines of the boys in Bunkerville neither did they have the balls to fight for it...
Lets note for this discussion that our g-men with guns aimed at the cowboys said “we’ll shoot” if u advance and then the cowboys said a prayer and advanced anyway and the g-men retreated.
When their knocking at your door, it’s too late, our forefathers understood that...
Let us thank the cowboys for reminding us all of that fact!
Police may be safe but, “What about the public?”
Lookit the Fat Blimp Gear Queers.
Time for TANK TRAPS instead of fencing.
Tactical Bacon is better crispy.
“Those fellows in the photo look like they’re just itchin’ to protect and serve the public!”
A SWAT call out works better than Viagra
Just in case there's an outbreak of "Clive Bundy peasants" in the area?
Well, you know what happens when you assume something. It make an ass of u and me .
"Now let's go shave our heads and bond in our latent homosexual workout room while we de-brief each other."
-The Lakeland Florida Police Department comment on such a day.
Cowboys and Gear Queers
Warrants should require the judge who issued them to be on the scene as part of these paramilitary assaults, no-knock raids, dog shooting, grandpa beanbagging, flash bangin, steroid rage fests.
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