Denver PD in long, tense standoff with 8" tall toy robot

[midnight rambler]

And then ultimately blow it up. What a bunch of fukcing maroons.

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2010/12/02/article-1334983-0C523C19000005DC-565_634x437.jpg

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1334983/Denver-police-blow-suspicious-toy-robot-stuck-post-render-safe.html#ixzz174mxWWG3

[Joe King]

One of the comments on the page pretty much sums up their stupidity.



If you think it's a big enough bomb to damage the bridge support its attached to, you DON'T detonate it.........

Since it's unlikely to contain sufficient explosive to do such damage you CAN detonate it, but why bother setting a charge (thereby PUTTING a little 'bomb' on the bridge support.....) when you can just disrupt it (in fact obliterate it....) with a couple of well-aimed shotgun rounds..........

Those police officers were either dumb, or just wanted an excuse to play with their toys.

Or possibly both. :D

[midnight rambler]

Think of the mentality it takes to do something so bone-headed. Don't you feel safer now?

[vacuum]

It was only 8" tall? thats like the same height of a sheet of paper laying on its side.

[keehah]

Should the government ban glue, or toys, or both?
::)

[Mouse]

adsf

[drafter]

I still think that a hundred empty paper bags placed strategically around the country on the same day could litterally bring this country to a standstill as bad or worse than 9/11. That's just how crazy paranoid this country has become. We might as well give up because this country is left with nothing but bedwetters and thumbsuckers.

[Greenbear]

According to Denver Police Spokesman Matt Murray, a civilian called the police at 3.27pm to report the presence of the toy near the junction of 20th and Wazee streets.

'It was cemented in. That's odd,' Murray added.

Hope the civilian called the police from a pay phone a ways from home! Wearing gloves.

[keehah]

Robot or Rabbot!

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/7/73/ATHF_Rabbot.jpg/250px-ATHF_Rabbot.jpg

http://livingwithanerd.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/aqua-teen-remember.jpg

[Joe King]

Should the government ban glue, or toys, or both?
::)

Both, of course.

I mean, that is the only logical choice, right?

[gunDriller]

I still think that a hundred empty paper bags placed strategically around the country on the same day could litterally bring this country to a standstill as bad or worse than 9/11. That's just how crazy paranoid this country has become. We might as well give up because this country is left with nothing but bedwetters and thumbsuckers.


true.

"According to Denver Police Spokesman Matt Murray, a civilian called the police at 3.27pm to report the presence of the toy near the junction of 20th and Wazee streets.

Police cordoned off the area and wouldn't let bystanders within 100 yards of the robot as they sent in their very own robot to examine the object, thinking it might be a bomb.

Eventually, at around 5.30pm, a bomb squad officer dressed in a protective suit used remote explosives to destroy the white toy, blowing it apart.

Afterwards, Murray admitted the incident was 'a whole lot of nothing' but said his force's actions towards the tiny robot were necessary to 'render it safe'.

'It was cemented in. That's odd,' Murray added.

So far police have not been able to ascertain who put the robot on the pillar or their motives for doing so."


it would not be hard to entirely consume the resources of the DHS with a bunch of ... toy robots glued to transportation infrasture ? one person with a tube of superglue and a budget for cheap toys from the Salvation Army - or a thousand persons ...

the message being, not that anyone who participates is a threat to anybody, but that, to the DHS, you're not making us safer, you're wasting our money, we don't need you.

[mrnhtbr2232]

Actually I think people are onto something here. Harmless things placed about to tie up the man is the flip side of all this insanity. It sounds like civil disobedience at its finest.

[MAGNES]

In a SHTF situation when they start rounding people up for camps, etc

Put your army out, some toys, to guard roads, etc

Get a remote control car and strap an empty small box to top,

drive it on the road towards the gestapos vehicles

the clowns in charge are a paper tiger afraid of their own shadow

[keehah]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvKW00vTuB4

[Awoke]

In a SHTF situation when they start rounding people up for camps, etc

Put your army out, some toys, to guard roads, etc

Get a remote control car and strap an empty small box to top,

drive it on the road towards the gestapos vehicles

the clowns in charge are a paper tiger afraid of their own shadow




They would sh*t their pants if you drove this little toy up to them.

It's an RC car with a camera and a Microphone on it, based on a video game.

In the video game it is an explosive, and that's what it's supposed to look like. Imagine the panic attack? HA!


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