Silver Valor

[osoab]

Henrico police officer receives Silver Valor Award (http://www.timesdispatch.com/news/latest-news/henrico-police-officer-receives-silver-valor-award/article_abc64018-4308-11e3-b1c2-001a4bcf6878.html)



“He had a blank look,” Anderson recalled after he accepted the highest award to be given today at the 24th Annual Valor Awards and Ceremony. “He was very disheveled. His hair was just in every direction.”

The man apparently was pointing a cellphone at Anderson, but in that split second, Anderson said he had to think about his own safety and the safety of those around him on the morning of Sept. 9, 2012, at Three Chopt Road and Patterson Avenue.

“I believed it was a gun 100 percent,” Anderson said. The man had led Anderson on a pursuit before their encounter, and Anderson said he had been told the man likely was armed with a handgun. After the incident, a gun was found in the man’s vehicle.

The man was shot in the arm and survived.


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[ShortJohnSilver]

So the lesson is, "comb your hair" and "have a colorful case on your cell phone so it can't be mistaken for a gun".

"The man was shot in the arm and survived" = the cop was a) a moron b) a lousy shot.

[Dogman]

The guy in the Pict, if he used a comb would/could be called a "ping" in the military. Because that is the sound that would be made by the hair as it was combed. Each hair would make a pinging sound.

Mistaking a phone for a gun?

Yea, right, and no pun intended and "pigs" can fly also....



Another military definition of "ping" is, "The supersonic sound of hair, growing".

[osoab]

So the lesson is, "comb your hair" and "have a colorful case on your cell phone so it can't be mistaken for a gun".

"The man was shot in the arm and survived" = the cop was a) a moron b) a lousy shot.

c) all of the above.

[Hitch]

Is this story a joke?

[osoab]

Is this story a joke?

In a way, yes. It occurred and the cop is a joke.

[Hitch]

In a way, yes. It occurred and the cop is a joke.

I never thought it possible to get an award for shooting a guy with a cell phone. I didn't get any awards for not shooting turds who actually had guns, nobody got hurt. Guess that doesn't matter.

[osoab]

I never thought it possible to get an award for shooting a guy with a cell phone. I didn't get any awards for not shooting turds who actually had guns, nobody got hurt. Guess that doesn't matter.

Officer Doughnut was afeared.

[midnight rambler]

Common practice for state actors to get a promotion and/or a raise* when they fuck up.

*or at least a paid vacation

[osoab]

Common practice for state actors to get a promotion and/or a raise* when they fuck up.

*or at least a paid vacation

Maybe that is why we are seeing more of it. Paid vacations...