While you were watching the superbowl in person...

[joboo]

This dude was scoping you...locked and loaded.

http://ddq74coujkv1i.cloudfront.net/SB-images-2.jpg
http://cache.deadspin.com/assets/images/11/2012/02/31ac2f1b5632ef1aea29b7eaaf1807a7.jpg (http://deadspin.com/5883203/this-looks-like-a-fortified-snipers-nest-at-the-super-bowl)
http://www.policeone.com/mass-emergency-response/articles/5047321-Photos-of-snipers-nest-at-Super-Bowl-circulate/

[midnight rambler]

Some 'scary moozlem' living in a mud hut is a piker compared to the pros.

[TheNocturnalEgyptian]

Increased resolution and 1 extra pic of the rifle in this post:

http://gold-silver.us/forum/showthread.php?22927-Thought-Provoking-Photos-(Now-Stickied...)&p=515284&viewfull=1#post515284

[Glass]

Why is the screen in reverse? you know like ambulance?

And the best place to be is clearly right underneath that guy.

[mightymanx]

Why is the screen in reverse? you know like ambulance?

And the best place to be is clearly right underneath that guy.

I am sure he is just one of 4-6 up there at various points

[Glass]

I am sure he is just one of 4-6 up there at various points

cool. So I wonder what type of event they are expecting. What would be the criteria to take someone out? You stand up and start popping people or you suicide bomb the place? Not much point snipering that. It's clearly a pointless exercise. Was the "president" there? Maybe other important people who could be open to a hit, kind of lincoln style.

[lapis]

I was wondering about that too. It's awfully chilling to think about.

[midnight rambler]

cool. So I wonder what type of event they are expecting. What would be the criteria to take someone out? You stand up and start popping people or you suicide bomb the place? Not much point snipering that. It's clearly a pointless exercise. Was the "president" there? Maybe other important people who could be open to a hit, kind of lincoln style.

If everyone was scanned for weapons a la TSA style upon entering, WTF are they thinking? Yet another signpost of the ungodly culture of death and destruction - violence for violence sake. This is how Communists think - it's for the greater good. Welcome to Orwell's 1984.


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

[gunDriller]

Maybe other important people who could be open to a hit, kind of lincoln style.

you mean, like, Madonna ?

[mamboni]

So having a loaded rifle pointed at me or you or our kids is not a hazard? You say the chance of the rifle misfiring is remote. But you never asked me for my consent to do this. Perhaps I would not attend any event with such surveillance. And if there is an accident and a spectator is shot, perhaps killed, in error, there's nothing that can be done about it as the government is sovereign and cannot be sued. We truly are nothing but expendable cattle to this occupying government in Washington.

[Buddha]

How the mighty have fallen.

[palani]

Suppose they checked those assassins to make sure they were not off their meds that day?

[iOWNme]

If you read the comments on the story and follow the links this is supposedly an advertisement photo for a company selling Tri-Pods for sniper rifles.....

???

[midnight rambler]

Suppose they checked those assassins to make sure they were not off their meds that day?

What if they were ON meds (e.g. Prozac)??

[midnight rambler]

If you read the comments on the story and follow the links this is supposedly an advertisement photo for a company selling Tri-Pods for sniper rifles.....

???

What better endorsement?? "As used at the Super Bowl..."

[k-os]

The Sniper Bowl!

[lapis]

If everyone was scanned for weapons a la TSA style upon entering, WTF are they thinking?

That's right, I had forgotten they do that (since I never go to see any sporting events).


The Sniper Bowl!

*Giggle*

I followed all the links in the original story to this site (http://deadspin.com/5883203/this-looks-like-a-fortified-snipers-nest-at-the-super-bowl). Some of the comments gave me the creeps.

This Looks Like A Fortified Sniper’s Nest At The Super Bowl


Some photos with no backstory are making the rounds, showing what appears to be an Indianapolis police sniper checking out his post in the rafters of Lucas Oil Stadium in the hours or days before the Super Bowl, a post that would be manned when the game began. Yes, we know there's nothing surprising about trained marksmen working the biggest sporting event of the year. We also know it's pretty damn cool to see what the Super Bowl snipers are working with. It's standard operating procedure to have an invisible law enforcement presence at any high-profile event, let alone one with the attendance and attention the Super Bowl receives. And remember, there are all kinds of politicians and other assorted rich people around. You never know what could happen, though the imagination conjures up increasingly insane and horrifying scenarios, and also the criminally underrated Black Sunday. It's just never a bad idea to have a sniper rifle around.

It's no secret that the Super Bowl is staffed by sharpshooters. "We've got a lot of places for snipers in here," (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPYjhz7w8R8) Jerry Jones enthused to CNN about Cowboys Stadium before last year's Super Bowl. In 2009, Ashton Kutcher noticed (and filmed) a pair of them across the street. (http://www.accesshollywood.com/ashton-kutcher-spots-the-super-bowl-snipers-february-01-2009_video_984161)

We're actively trying to figure out where these photos came from and for what purpose they were taken. They've started to circulate on Facebook, and ** we found them posted on a 4chan board (http://boards.4chan.org/sp/res/18633644),** though it's impossible to tell where they originated. But the details are right: the IMPD patch, the end zone design (http://www.flickr.com/photos/mermaidlisa/6831812847/), the giant Roman numerals on the glass (http://www.flickr.com/photos/mermaidlisa/6831799691/) of Lucas Oil Stadium. So we're labeling them "plausible" and will update when we can trace them back a little further.

UPDATE: Here's more on the photos (http://deadspin.com/5883525/those-super-bowl-sniper-photos-are-real). They're 100 percent real.

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**I'm glad to see that they sometimes post useful things on 4chan.

[vacuum]

So what scenario would you need a sniper for?

[steyr_m]

I am sure he is just one of 4-6 up there at various points

Yeah, I was thinking the same thing. And as another poster said -- which situation would require a sniper? The US is a f'ed up country.

I like your new avatar, btw.