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oritteropo
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No problem.![](https://videosift.com/vs5/emoticon/tongue.gif)
You could fit a snow plough to the race car and push the camper van off the road
Thanks for the *quality![](https://videosift.com/vs5/emoticon/smile.gif)
In fairness to the race organisers, there was a slow car that he had to pass, and I think there might be safety concerns about having rally cars approaching camper vans with a 170km/h delta v...
chicchorea
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Cheers, hopes yours is filled with Turkey and football and pumpkin pie!
(Did I get that right? Those are thanksgiving things, yeah?)
HAPPY THANKSGIVING ! ! ! ! !
xxovercastxx
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Oops, fixed it thanks
"Anita" is spelled wrong in the title.
Fusionaut
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I've changed the embed.. thanks
why you no backup, @siftbot?
longde
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Happened across this while looking at avalanche videos
if you're interested,....
generally you wear a transceiver (sometimes called a beacon). Everyone wears one and it constantly transmits. If someone gets buried , the rescuers switch to search mode. Old transceivers just beeped faster as you got closer, but modern digital transceivers generally have a distance and direction readout. They're still only good for about 100 feet.
You have 15-20 mins to dig someone out before Bad Shit happens (oxygen depravation, etc). The digging itself takes most of the time, so finding them quickly is imperative. All of which assumes they haven't already died of trauma in the initial slide.
I thought RFID or GPS tracers would have eliminated the guesswork in finding skiers.
Sagemind
(Member Profile)
This might interest you
http://groundedparents.com/2014/04/15/teaching-your-child-to-talk-back-or-raising-the-young-skeptic/
Critical Thinking. One thing I try to teach my kids is how to think for themselves. Listen to what people have to tell you. Measure the facts and wonder if they make sense. Confirm facts, and then make up their own decisions.
If you filter certain facts from the thinking process, then your thinking comes out flawed and incomplete. How can kids not form solid thoughts if there are people out there stopping them from learning the basic building blocks of how things work?
Chairman_woo (Member Profile)
Have some points for that epic comment
But more than any of that it is a genuine fucking embarrassment to me that in the 21st century we still accept any member of our society declaring themselves our natural betters in law, or indeed the rest of us as being "subjects".
Zawash
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isn't that kinda the terrible channel?
When I get to 250 stars, I'll make a *sadness (or *sorrow) channel, and this video, amongst others, will be in it.
lucky760
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Amen brother. I just find the whole thing sad.
The guy obviously wasn't well. Maybe he was an asshole in life, maybe he just snapped one day. Either way, it would have been nice if he could have gotten the help he clearly needed.
And just for the record, part of that is to spare the cops. I disagree with artician and I don't think they'll rest easy after that.
My final thought: One mitigating factor with this specific happenstance in lieu of your general point is that this guy very obviously wanted to die and wanted those cops to kill him. He was apparently doing whatever he had to to get the cops to kill him.
Bottom line we can all agree on: it sucks.
lucky760
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Australia? AUSTRALIA??!? Them's fightin' words!
I'm in New Zealand (which I'm pretty sure I mentioned at least once in this thread).
And no, NZ police have had to deal with insane people the same as the US, although not on the same scale or frequency.
As for the gun issue, Australia did something about it, and there have been 0 gun massacres since.
The inextricable bedrock excuse is getting old. It's been over 200 years! Things change (slavery, for example).
Side note: I've just realized you're in Australia, and a very salient point worth mentioning is that you're probably thinking about how awful and "uncivilized" we are in America because you're comparing our police to yours, considering how much better your cops would be in a situation like this and how a fellow Australian criminal wouldn't deserve what these cops did.
It's possible you're just comparing our blood-thirsty cops to your more sensible, contemplative cops, but that you're forgetting to compare our blood-thirsty, cold-blooded, murderous cop-killer criminals with your more sensible, reasonable criminals. The cops here do things Australian cops might not do, but it may be because your cops don't have to.
Yes, it might help as it has in places like Australia for us to outlaw guns, however that won't ever happen because it's part of the inextricable bedrock used to found this great nation, so we have to do the best we can with what we have.
lucky760
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My point is that, yes, it's a tough situation, but maybe screaming at someone while pointing a gun at them is not the way to diffuse it.
Reality is not black and white. It's complicated.
Maybe if they'd gotten out of the car and said "what seems to be the problem here?" the whole thing might have gone down differently. Instead they went in gung ho and 20 seconds later, the guy is dead.
But you're right, we're going to have to agree to disagree on this. Will be interesting to see what the inquest says.
The problem is you're talking out of both sides of your mouth.
On the one hand you're saying you know how dangerous a guy with a knife is. That being the case, you know that as close as he was to one of the officers, he could have murdered the officer if the officer attempted anything other than to completely stop him (by killing him).
And on the other hand you're saying the officer should consider the guy's mental well-being. Okay, and do what about it, try to talk him into seeking counseling?
There is no such thing as "containing the situation" when "the situation" is a guy standing a very close distance to you with a knife and approaching. There's no talking to him, no tasing him, no tossing a net over him... there's nothing that will guarantee he won't stab you except shooting him.
Still on a third hand you're staying it's part of an officer's job to risk his life to deal with the threat instead of neutralizing it, but that you feel officers shouldn't gamble with their lives. Those two concepts are completely contradictory.
It's quite a thing to realize he's dead within 20 seconds of the police arriving, but everything about that has zero bearing on his killing. When a guy is approaching an officer with a knife within seconds of their arrival, he's not going to call out to the guy and bystanders to ask them if the guy was showing aggression to anyone else because why in the fuck would that matter. He's directly showing aggressive intent towards the officers themselves for goodness' sake! Nothing that happened before that matters.
If as a cop your life is in imminent danger, the guy's mental state, what he did before you arrived, what alternatives to a gun *might* stop him or "contain" him... NONE of that matters because THERE IS A GUY COMING TOWARDS YOU WITH A KNIFE. That's all the cops were thinking and that's all they needed to be thinking when they decided they had to to shoot him to have as close to a 100% chance of survival as possible.
To summarize: Guy approaches you menacingly with a knife, you. must. shoot. him, if you want to attempt to guarantee you're not going to die.
BUT
we can agree to disagree.
lucky760
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Just for the record I am well aware of how dangerous a knife can be. And no, I don't feel that police officers should "gamble with their lives".
I feel they should use the training they're supposed to have and the tools they do have instead of just shooting the guy.
Watch the video again. The police don't arrive until 1:20. Before that the guy is just standing around. People pass within feet of him and he doesn't show any aggression. He's dead 20 seconds later. 20 fucking seconds.
He was clearly mentally unwell, but they didn't even try to contain the situation.
If you really think that's acceptable.... well, once again, I'm just glad I live in a civilised country.
Finally a voice of reason. So very glad I'm not all alone on this. Thanks for chiming in.
It's such an obvious thing, but maybe only to people who are aware how dangerous a guy with a knife can be that nearby.
(But still, @ChaosEngine seems to be aware of that and still thinks the officers should be obligated to gamble with their lives.)
lucky760
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I get what you're saying, I just think the title reads as "homemade-drone video" whereas you obviously meant it as "amateur drone-video".
Apparently you can even get them to follow you down a track or mountain. Awesome bit of kit
I just got a GoPro myself and I cannot tell you how tempted I am to buy one of these
It's homemade because it's just some guy who bought a drone and flew it around composing professional-looking videos.
I wouldn't imagine he'd have to build a drone from spare parts and only record video inside his home for it to be validly considered homemade.
newtboy
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Don't even bother. It's like arguing with a conspiracy theorist.
Really. Seemed a simple question of which side of this you're on, one that you can't answer (apparently because to be on the side of what's obviously 'right' you have to be against the anti-Obama sentiment, which seems to be quite a quandary)
Really, you can't even take a position on the constitution? I just find that odd. I'll state clearly I'm for it, as the alternative is terrible.
I'm guessing the ' I don't know that the cop was anti-Obama.' is the 'joking' part of your reply? I'll just hope you aren't really that insanely intentionally dense.
It's totally a 'one against the other' here, the cop, angry at Obama, uses the misinformation talking heads gave him (that Obama has destroyed the constitution) as an excuse to not perform his duties and to actually do the opposite by breaking the laws and flaunting it on video.
Not everything is pro-this or against-that...but when you base your argument on ridiculous right wing pro-anger anti-Obama talking points and then use that false argument to shirk your legal duty and/or break the law, it is.
newtboy
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Bronze mothafucka!!
Congrats, down vote some bitches!!