Yes, I would go peacefully. I would film the encounter. I would be respectful. I would tell the officers how they are violating my rights. I would contact media outlets, maybe become an activist and I would certainly have my day in court - maybe the ACLU or some similar organization will help.

I'm not sure what sort of Rambo delusions you have, but reality has long shown that any of the above options have a better (admittedly imperfect) track-record of protecting the rights of citizens.

Again, other than a few rare outlyers, the vast majority of people that decide to take up arms against the state end up dead or in jail. Nothing gets solved, public opinion typically favors any fallen officers, and your local SWAT team has just a little more incentive to buy bigger guns.

But go ahead, Rambo, come out guns a'blazin and let me know how that goes for ya.




>> ^Buck:


So if they come for you for real or imagined crimes you will go peacefully. Just like a typical sheep.

That dog is such a prick. Was hoping the tiger was gonna swat him one nicely

My cat, "Goat", once caught a possum nearly twice his size on the other side of the fence by grabbing his tail. When the arm came under to swat at him, he grabbed that, too. By the time I got to him, Goat had both front paws dug into the opossum's forearm, back paw pinning down a rear leg (also from under the fence), and a tail in his mouth, pulling with all his strength to pull that beast to his side.

When I finally was able to pull him off, the opossum was wedged tightly under the boards to the concrete and couldn't get out. I had to get a shovel to pry the boards up so her could escape. And he just lumbered off without much of a hurry.

Listen carefully....that tower of a man that inspected the firearm is a member of the SWAT team.

Not your average beat cop.

>> ^legacy0100:

There are actually two issues here.
The obvious one is that the city isn't paying for the damages, then there's the less obvious issue of her parenting.


Kind of harsh. It's completely possible to be a good parent, and have a child who is accused of stealing.

But yes this really doesn't make the city of Renton look good. I've got to remember never to move there.

This reminds me of a story I read where 4 chan like people call the police and use various techniques to describe what is happening with the end goal of getting a swat team to show up at a target's house and do what they do. I think they referred to it as "swatting" someone. It's scary that small municipalities (and large ones) have swat teams that would fall for this and even scarier that they have them to begin with. We need more Andy Griffith style bobbies or Mounties or something. Get rid of these assholes in swat who are using those techniques to create their own law. Just go knock on the fucking door! Or send a robot to knock on the door! Christ.

>> ^legacy0100:

I was actually referring to the woman's parenting job as her son was being raised, not her responsibility as a parent currently when he is all grown up.
The argument I'm making is that she's done a shitty job raising her son, hence why he's being chased by DEA agents. This is different from what you guys have pointed out which is that her responsibility as a parent stops once the child becomes an adult and makes his own decisions.
She has no control over her son's individual will as an adult, hence she is free from the blame of her son's criminal activity. But the original argument of her being a shitty parent still stands. The role of parent has an enormous impact on the child's cognitive development and their career choice. And at the end of the day she must live with the fact that she has raised a criminal.


That's a very absolute view on the world which is rarely made up of absolutes when it comes to people. Her son might just be a shithead, or her son might not have been the guy they were looking for thus no conviction/arrest.

They send the SWAT team for _suspected thieves_ now? What the hell?

>> ^Porksandwich:

So, if he's not convicted of the crime they raided the house for, I don't think the city has a leg to stand on. And if he is, they have to prove how they came up with probable cause to do what they did on that place...especially when there was no one killed or known threat/issue in the house to be immediately dealt with.
Four hours of destruction seems like someone has a bit of a hard-on for any reason to use their toys outside of practice.


That's what I don't understand. What did this kid do? Why did they think they needed to barge in guns ablating like that? I mean, maybe knock first? Surround it for a while, whatever, but you don't need to open up with the tear gas.

i like to think of the wiper blades as an uncoordinated robot trying to help out by attempting to catch/ swat the hail stones away.

"Don't worry master i will protect you! Derp!"

Wow, finally.

Military and SWAT teams have been using bonephones for decades. About time we got this tech for consumers.

Photo radar has absolutely nothing to do with speed enforcement. It is like swatting your dog on the nose 2 weeks after he pooped in the house. There is no corrective action when the event occurs. Where there is an actual manned speed trap there is usually a measurable drop is speeding and collisions. But they decided it was too expensive to have actual cops do the work, so they switched to random covert surveillance by automation with 30 day notification.

I usually get 1 photo radar ticket a year. Each time I get one, I cannot figure out where it happened or what was going on when it happened. Did I learn anything from it? Nope. I certainly wasn't intending to speed when it happened.

I've always found down-voting videos after they've had a chance to sift to be the best policy.
In reply to this comment by Skeeve:
I just have to downvote for this guy's stupidity.

Police are there to uphold the laws. Period. If you have a problem with the laws, make an effort to change them, don't try to convince police not to uphold them. Hold police accountable, by all means, but to argue that they shouldn't uphold a particular law is beyond ignorant.

One of the most horrible things I can think of is having a society where the police decide which laws they want to uphold or not.

>> ^dannym3141:

What a poncing posh twat. Obama should have give it a vigorous backhand and swatted the smug bastard across the nose.
Gonna have to go watch some artist taxi driver to cheer me up


See what he's saying about Camerface today, would you?

What a poncing posh twat. Obama should have give it a vigorous backhand and swatted the smug bastard across the nose.

Gonna have to go watch some artist taxi driver to cheer me up