Off-Duty Officer Who Drew A Gun On Snowball Throwers, What's On Your iPod?

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"Killing in the name of"

I can't lie though every time one of the kids indignantly yells "it's a fuckin snowball fight!" I start laughing really hard

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drawing a gun on you for that louis

snow, "informer"

Don't bring a gun to an internet argument!

The irony is, minutes later that intersection was blown up by a terrorist using the snowball fight as cover.

Anyway.

Agalloch - This White Mountain On Which You Will Die

Just Snow Balled you for that.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXJemMbUFYU

Did someone hit his delicate Hummer with a snowball?

motorhead - "overkill"
the fall - "touch sensitive"
minutemen - "little man w/ a gun in his hand"

When I was in grade school we had a snowball fight at our bus stop and one girl got hit in the side of the head and started crying. The next morning her cop dad came and flashed his badge and gun at us and said we were going to jail for hitting his daughter. We were fucking 7!!

"Anti-war protesters???" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xVVEwTiybiE&annotation_id=annotation_848362&feature=iv

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The really stupid thing is that his Hummer got stuck in the snow, which really underlines the pointlessness of these vehicles in a "chocolate teapot" kind of way.

At least you guys have freedom of speech to yell "it's a fuckin snowball fight!", "fuck you pig" etc, doing that will get you arrested for public order violations very quickly here.

Where?

A friend of mine got arrested (in the U.S., North Carolina) for cursing. It was a pretext, but still, it happened.

Snow Patrol, "The Last Shot Ringing In My Ears"

amazing headshot 45 seconds in!

xxpost oh well never mind then, I'm in the UK where it is illegal to swear in a public place, I guess it varies by state there?

NC is pretty backwards in some ways and these cops were just looking for an excuse. I've never seen it happen otherwise.

Snow White & The Seven Dwarves, "The Silly Song"

it is illegal to swear in a public place

No it isn't. There are other laws you might be breaking though.

A friend from Delaware tells me that her mom got pulled over for speeding and she called the cop an asshole. According to the cop, calling a cop an asshole is perfectly legal as long as you're not shouting it, in which case it is considered threatening behavior.

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Then what about that case where a police officer overheard 2 kids talking to each other and one of them swore and they got a caution for public order? That was over a private conversation even! And on those Cops type shows they're always nicking people for swearing.

In fact I was told by a police officer friend of a friend what the different classes of public order offences they'll do you for depending on what you say - like "you're a fucking wanker" is section X, "fuck off" is Y and "I'm gonna fucking do you" is section Z (obv the last one counts as threatening behaviour or whatever)

According to the cop, calling a cop an asshole is perfectly legal as long as you're not shouting it, in which case it is considered threatening behavior.

Here is the thing, though. In the short term? The person with the discretion to decide whether you're shouting/threatening is the person you're calling an asshole. I mean, lots of things are perfectly legal, but it's always within the police officer's discretion to characterize what you're doing as one of those things or not.

And in the long term? Even if someone else decides what you were doing was legal, or just so minor that it's not worth bothering about, it's not as if you get anything out of it, or the officer suffers. So unless you're content to spend like half a day getting arrested and processed and consider that just a normal part of life, like rain or traffic, there are a lot of "perfectly legal" things that you're sort of not allowed to do to/around cops (unless they're nice and patient, which many are, or unless you're pretty confident you'd be too much hassle and paperwork to bother with).

I mean basically if a police officer feels like arresting you, they can, full stop. They have basically unchecked power to make at least a few hours of your life really scary and annoying.

Totally true. The asshole-caller was a nice white lady, so she was pretty safe.

LOL at "It's snowing! You gonna shoot the fuckin' sky?"

Re that FOX News video above about "anti-war protestors," I'm surprised they didn't jump on TEH EVIL MUSLIN CONSPIRACY.

The snowball fight was the brainchild of Yousef Ali, a 25-year-old former Apple Genius and aspiring "rock star" who is forging a career in media and technology.

I'm most drawn to the latter half of that sentence. Does it really take a social networking genius to imagineer a fucking snowball fight these days?

Next week I'll be utilising Twitter to organise a piss up in a brewery.

Volume 10 - Pistol Grip Pump
Mission of Burma - That's When I Reach For My Revolver

Happiness is a warm gun

why don't we do it in the road

somebody's gonna get their head kicked in tonight

"Basically, I used a lot of my social media promotions techniques and on Twitter to really push this thing pretty big," Ali said. "I pretty much did this consistently until about 5 in the morning Saturday, so it was almost like 11 hours straight staying in my apartment working on this stuff."

Millie Pulled a Pistol on Santa

A snowball fight basically started the American Revolution, so yeah, snowball fights can be a threat to the powers that be.

Then what about that case where a police officer overheard 2 kids talking to each other and one of them swore and they got a caution for public order? That was over a private conversation even! And on those Cops type shows they're always nicking people for swearing.

Not to get into a beef here but they should have appealed because that sounds like bullshit to me, maybe there was more to the story? There is so specific law against swearing in the UK (there might be by-laws as there might be local laws in the US, there are some crazy by-laws about). Nabisco is right though if the police really want to arrest you they can probably find some law (behaviour likely to lead to a breach of the peace is a good one for instance) to do it. But, contrary to popular opinion (and cop shows), the police do not spend all their time looking to arrest people for breaches of decorum.

As a for instance see this story on local news headlined as "OAP arrested for swearing" when it was nothing of the sort (and extra lolz at the dramatic reconstruction of someone ringing a doorbell).

There is also the time-honoured comedy bit where man goes to court for calling cop a wanker, dude's lawyer gets cop on stand and is like 'Officer, if you've ever had a date with Mama Fist your case is dead so under oath, please, are you a wanker?'

"No sir, I have never heard of the woman"

LOL at "It's snowing! You gonna shoot the fuckin' sky?"

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