Sure you can, the asshole who sucker punched an innocent person.

Being angry doesn't give you the right to be violent toward unsuspecting bystanders.

Oh, the memories. We used to make this stuff (in small ~gram quantities) and paint it on door knobs and such, waiting for unsuspecting victims to com along.

Pro tip, never ever replace the fluid with alcohol (for more rapid drying), and then try to store the stuff long-term. The alcohol -will- evaporate, and the bottle -will- explode. It's the fastest way to sober up that I've ever found.

It's astonishing to me that they wouldn't welcome these people with open arms to help protect their 'customers', just with a waiver so that they aren't responsible if you use the drugs you test. It's not like anyone thinks not having the testing available stops anyone from using the drugs, right? It just makes it more dangerous. In fact, some of the people in the video said they now won't be doing the drugs they had purchased (although at least one said he was going to go sell it to some other unsuspecting person...the jackass) so in a small way it stops drug use.

No, a police dog is a dog. A tazer is a tool. (I could have made a terrible joke there, but will refrain)
I understand that humans being more 'valuable' than 'animals' (as if we aren't animals) is the normal way of thinking, but you make the knee jerk assumption/implication that they are the only options, either let a dog attack a dangerous armed person that WILL hurt/kill the dog or do it manually and be hurt yourself. There are MANY other options always available that don't involve releasing the unsuspecting dog into harms way. Most don't even involve deadly force. It would NEVER be proper to let the dog attack a known armed threatening person instead of using one's brain to deal with the danger in a safer manner, but that is what you've said you would do.
As a society, we have partially reversed the thinking that 'humans are more important than animals'. That is shown by the creation of many 'preserves' that stop people from farming/hunting on land to save animals, and that ends up killing some people (through starvation, malnutrition, etc). So while your statement is usually correct, people do usually consider humans more valuable than animals, as an absolutist statement it is wrong. That kind of thinking has put us in a position where the food chains are being broken because we only thought about humans (and not very thoroughly).

I'm sorry to hear about your cat, it's a terrible thing to have to help them go, but often the right thing for them. :-(

Your comments were "a dog is a tool" and "If I were tasked with taking a person with a machete into custody, I would be happy to have a dog take a chance over a person risking their life." Both show a complete lack of concern for the dog, or even thought for it as a living, thinking, feeling being. The latter also shows a propensity to put the unsuspecting dog in far greater danger rather than accept a manageable danger themselves. In your scenario, you could easily disarm 'Machette' with your Taser, firearm, car, other officers, etc. with minimal or no danger to the officers, only more time taken, but you say you would send in the dog to get sliced. I find that terrible and not the words of someone that truly cares for the animal.
EDIT: " I would be happy to have a dog take a chance over a person risking their life." really translates to 'I would be happy to have a dog risk their life over a person taking a chance.'...and I and others find that thinking uncaring and irresponsible towards the living, feeling being (your tool) who's care and welfare you took responsibility for.
You are quite correct, I could never be a cop. I don't have the mentality to constantly tell others what to do (and insist they follow my directions), or to deal with the drudgery of writing people tickets, paperwork, etc. I could not dehumanize people I think are criminals daily and treat them like the inhuman scum they 'are'. I would have too hard a time enforcing laws I disagreed with, and I would fear that dealing with people at their worst would make me think the worst of all people, and so cause me to treat them all like the awful criminals they are (in my mind), making me a douchebag with authoratah. I don't want to be that in any way.
I feel like being a cop is a truly hard job that screws with one's mind. Again, why I think therapy on the job should be mandatory.
Honest discussion is never a waste of time.

I can't stand all these pricks nowadays whose only "talent" is to fuck with innocent people.

Like that new video fad called The Knockout Game where people record themselves walking up to unsuspecting strangers and punching them in the face in attempt to knock them out (but occasionally killing them instead).

Or that desperate loser who stages getting stabbed in front of passersby just for giggles.

Fucking hilarious.

Congrats Dan, on yer wife's priceless reaction-Memories made, marital bliss intact-

NOw that you've graduated, here's another prize-winner to try on unsuspecting diner patrons:

Crowded diner after 2 a.m. works, but best is Sunday after church, packed with families whilst you and your chums are having breaky..

Play with your fork while interacting with your pals by poking yourself with it, waving it about, scratching with it, etc. While you do this, folks will start to observe your slightly skewed table manners.
Get your friends attention with a "Hey guys, check THIS out.."(at this point an adjoining table will have at least one nosy woman watching you like a hawk)

Cupping a couple of maraschino cherries and a single-serving creamer in your hand, place fist up to eye and pretend to stick the fork into your eye at the same time puncturing then squeezing the creamer in your fist and sending bits of cream and maraschino cherries jetting-out (friend across from you is wearing white T-Shirt, as a backboard), all the while with no reaction from you or your friends...

You know you've done it right if at least 3 women of different parties from adjoining tables scream simultaneously and possibly piss their pants.

Works great as well for scaring the living shit outta little kids under the age of 7.

All you guys that jumped on the fake bandwagon are idiots. It is clearly a setup prank on an unsuspecting sales guy. Bravo to the Pepsi Team for a great prank.

So Not Fake.

It was a complete set up and prank - The salesman was NOT in on the prank. I'm going to call this REAL!!

"...But the incident wasn’t as spontaneous as it appeared. According to the owner of the car dealership where the video was filmed the setup started long before Steve met Gordon. It was also reveled that the actual car used didn’t belong to the dealership.
Jeff Gordon and Pepsi MAX go to a car dealership where a disguised Jeff Gordon takes an unsuspecting car salesman on the test drive of his life. #GordonTestDrive
Pepsi MAX & Jeff Gordon Present: "Test Drive"

“We started early in the morning,” dealership owner Wayne Troutman said in an interview with the syndicated show ‘RightThisMinute’. “Probably 6:30 in the morning that they did that video and they were there until dark that night. They supplied the car it was a very high performance car since they knew they would be going with some special tricks with that one."

Troutman praised his unknowing salesperson Steve.

"He did a great job,” Troutman said. “He fell right in to it and a lot of his reactions were very realistic because they were. Once he realized he'd been punked he settled down, but he was really hot when he came back in as you could see from the video. In fact he actually went out on another normal ride with Jeff.”

In fact Troutman added that Gordon himself had a great deal of involvement with the project.

"Jeff had a lot of input in this,” he said. “Not only to the car that was selected to the disguise to the…he actually tried to ahead of time pick the salesman he thought would be the best one to try to pull the prank on. We actually loaned Jeff a 1998 Chevy Venture Van to ride in so he looked like he was another normal North Carolina redneck."
http://www.examiner.com/article/what-happened-behind-the-scenes-of-jeff-gordon-s-pepsimax-prank?cid=rss

My gut feeling is that the "witnesses" in this are actors too. This is a viral video with the tag for a movie (hitting theaters today, btw...) at the end. I would think that pulling a stunt like this with real unsuspecting citizens would result in actual heart attacks, physical injuries, assaults upon one or more of the actors, plus numerous calls to the police. I believe that every aspect of this is staged.

I never understood the live thing. There are videos on here of People eating live fish and other wriggling seafood of sorts. I never understood the fascination with it still having an active brain... I eat animals that are dead, if I was going to be eaten i'd want an unsuspecting bolt to the head, not just twitching and splayed on a plate. I do not get the thought behind culture like that.

I disagree. No one expected the prank to succeed in any matter. You can't go around afraid to do anything simply because someone might have a bad day over it. If you complain at a cafe that you got the wrong order, you may unsuspectingly cause the person who made the mistake to get fired. An innocent mistake can have consequences, but you can't go around second guessing everything. This was a simple prank that got out of hand with an unforeseeable and horrible outcome. No one's to blame

Also, no one would ever simply commit suicide over just this. There would have to have been other issues in her life and this was perhaps just the trigger.

False.>> ^00Scud00:

Well, I suppose that is better than just handing it off to some other unsuspecting schmuck.

Well, I suppose that is better than just handing it off to some other unsuspecting schmuck.

>> ^UsesProzac:

Oh my goodness, lost it when they put the bonnet on him! This made my day!


And that genuinely makes me smile

What about "pranks"? I'd love to see that channel come into existence..it is a fake situation that appears real to the unsuspecting victim..