Steven Seagall drives tank into a house, killing a puppy. http://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkain/2011/08/31/actor-steven-seagal-sued-for-driving-tank-into-arizona-home-killing-puppy/ I used to be a Seagal AND a Sheriff Joe fan. Not so much anymore...
Holy fuck! I figured this was a typical news reporter "it's big and armored so it must be a tank" moment. It's still not a tank (M109 self-propelled howitzer) but, in this case, I could see where the uninitiated could make a mistake like that.
Umm...why in holy hell is Steven Segal allowed to be in on police business at all??? Let alone allowed to drive the howitzer and participate in the raid! In fact, wouldn't his participation be grounds for throwing out any case they had?
Yea, he's been involved in this for quite a while, reality tee-vee and all that rot. His participation with these guys just ads a bit of taint to it all imho.
I thought he lost his reality TV deal after those rape allergations awhile ago. I kinda wish it stayed lost, for the poor puppy's sake.
Wait... I totally understand that the Sheriff can appoint anyone he wants to the Posse, but wasn't Seagal's show based out of Louisiana? I was under the impression he'd been a Reserve Deputy with that Office for more than a few years. That show was a hoot. All he ever talked about was Kung Fu and everything he did related to it. Example: Did you see how I reached over and buckled that seatbelt? We learned to do it that way back at the Dojo because it made my ultra tacti-cool maneuver more deadly. You could tell that the Deputies would just roll their eyes.
Hell, I'm not sure where he operated out of, it may well have been Louisiana, but for all intents and purposes, it was not worth watching. If it paid the bills... I pretty much have put him in a class with Dog the bounty hunter which I dispise right long with anything WWE related.
A fucking M-109? Jesus H Christ. Please tell me that the main gun does not work (155mm artillery shells).
I actually typed out a long post wondering about how he managed to get hold of such a thing, but then Google tells me how and why: Since that thing apparently doesn't have an engine, I'm guessing the "tank" referenced in the OP was probably an M113 (Arpaio has at least one of those). Yeah, the article is from Cannabis News, but their source back then seemed pretty legit. Plus, everything in the article seems plausible to me.
If your women and dogs are too fat to be able to run away from the tub of lard known as Steven Seagal then hiding them is kind of besides the point. Val Kilmar could outrace Seagal at this point, though I'd prefer not to see visual evidence of that fact.
Oh yeah, by the way, I remember this incident (the puppy-killing incident described in the OP). That took place TWO BLOCKS FROM MY HOUSE. That guy is a fucking liar. No one killed any puppy. In fact, I don't think that dude even HAD any dogs.
Reminds me of something I read a few years ago. It said the War on Drugs would grind to halt if everyone knew how many dogs are shot and killed by authorities on drug raids. Because (don't know if this is true) SWAT teams ROUTINELY kill dogs when they approach a structure where people are suspected of shipping and handling drugs. Both to prevent the obvious possiblity of being bitten and to keep the dogs from barking and sounding an alarm.
