Re: But We Knew This

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An excellent Friday story!


Posted by: Mooseking | Link to this comment | 07-29-16 11:46 AM
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Can't wait to go to Sweden.


Posted by: nosflow | Link to this comment | 07-29-16 11:54 AM
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Have you planned out what you're going to do to get yourself arrested?


Posted by: peep | Link to this comment | 07-29-16 12:02 PM
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In other foreign (to you) police news, apparently UK police fired their guns 7 times last year.


Posted by: nattarGcM ttaM | Link to this comment | 07-29-16 12:40 PM
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Each?


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 07-29-16 12:41 PM
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I assume an inquiry is to be held?


Posted by: Mossy Character | Link to this comment | 07-29-16 1:23 PM
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She told the paper that she would have intervened "even if she were naked".

Okay then. *fans self*

(I'd make a joke about going off to Stockholm to start my pickpocketing career but actually that hold she has him in looks really painful, I doubt it's worth it.)


Posted by: Lord Castock | Link to this comment | 07-29-16 1:42 PM
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I'm assuming Halfordismo will involve lots more of this sort of thing.


Posted by: togolosh | Link to this comment | 07-29-16 2:44 PM
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All of them, in total. In 'taking comments literally' mode. There are only about 5500 trained to carry
guns, though. So, one shot per ~800 person years.


Posted by: nattarGcM ttaM | Link to this comment | 07-29-16 3:27 PM
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However appealing disarming the police here, as Tim Burke advocates, would be, it'd be wildly unpopular and lead to a huge spike in gun sales and vigilantism.


Posted by: idp | Link to this comment | 07-29-16 3:46 PM
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Statistically, it's better than even odds I've shot at seven people this year.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 07-29-16 3:48 PM
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MPD used to stand on the roof of one of the government buildings and shoot at the clock face on the tower of City Hall. Poignantly small potatoes nowadays, of course.


Posted by: Natilo Paennim | Link to this comment | 07-29-16 4:39 PM
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Every little bit helps the a Second Amendment.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 07-29-16 5:17 PM
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However appealing disarming the police here, as Tim Burke advocates, would be, it'd be wildly unpopular and lead to a huge spike in gun sales and vigilantism.

UNLESS we had the Swedish Bikini Team as our cops, in which case it would be super popular, and awesome.


Posted by: R Tigre | Link to this comment | 07-29-16 5:17 PM
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"... and when the Swedish Bikini TeamPolice Force showed up, it got somewhat better."


Posted by: MHPH | Link to this comment | 07-29-16 5:43 PM
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Weird, my work blocked the link. (It blocks very little - this site never, so probably not keyword-based.)


Posted by: Minivet | Link to this comment | 07-29-16 5:49 PM
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That is weird. It's not explicit at all.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 07-29-16 6:15 PM
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Meanwhile, in other "things sure are different in Scandinavia" news...


Posted by: Salty Hamhocks | Link to this comment | 07-29-16 7:00 PM
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Tim Burke is comically stupid in his police related writings. Repeat his nonsense at your peril.


Posted by: gswift | Link to this comment | 07-29-16 7:27 PM
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18: Woah. An international altitude potlatch.


Posted by: dalriata | Link to this comment | 07-29-16 8:26 PM
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Not really favored by the local indigenous community, per the penultimate paragraph, though, so "potlatch" may not be the best characterization.


Posted by: teofilo | Link to this comment | 07-29-16 10:44 PM
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18. Apparently can't be done because against the second amendment of the Norwegian constitution or some such.


Posted by: chris y | Link to this comment | 07-30-16 3:08 AM
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FWIW I experienced some enlightened Europe today. Hooray!


Posted by: SP | Link to this comment | 07-31-16 6:09 AM
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Are you saying you took off your shirt?


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 07-31-16 6:33 AM
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22: The right to keep and bear tarns?


Posted by: foolishmortal | Link to this comment | 07-31-16 7:59 AM
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25 is genius.


Posted by: Minivet | Link to this comment | 07-31-16 8:10 AM
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