SWAT Team Takes Out 107 Year Old Man

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  1. Tuckerfan

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    Because, apparently, gramps was crazy and shooting at them.
    Here's why the town is called "the most dangerous little town in America."
    More at the link.
     
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    Well...at least he died like a man.

    It was that, or catapult himself into a crocodile pond.

    :salute:
     
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    Going out in a blaze of glory at 107. At that age, what's left to do?
     
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    I'd want to make it to 110 first :bailey:
     
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    By 107, you'll become impatient.
     
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    107. If he were a Vulcan he'd be only middle aged. Maybe barely.
     
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    Did he at least take any of the mafia with him?
     
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    Not as much fun as it sounds actually. :brood:
     
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    oldfella1962 the only real finish line

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    BTW I wonder if the "distraction device" they threw into the bedroom was an 18 year old hooker? :drool:
    That's what they do to Hugh Hefner :hail: when he gets cranky and dangerous.
     
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    I used to have to drive through Pine Bluff on the interstate on the way to Little Rock.

    They have signs along the interstate with messages like

    "Penitentiary Area: Do Not Stop for Hitchhikers".

    I've always had two questions:

    1) Who picks up hitchhikers anymore? Didn't that go out in the 70s?

    2) Aren't the bad guys supposed to be INSIDE the prison? If the prison is doing its job, there should not be any inmates hitchhiking anyway.
     
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    Just yesterday a young girl at my work was telling me about her adventures hitch hiking around the country with a friend at the age of 16 a couple of years ago.
     
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    There's a porn film there somewhere.
     
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    Well at least the guy died with his orthopedic boots on! :jayzus:

    BTW - nobody from WF suggested that the SWAT team should have just shot out the spokes on his wheelchair?
     
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    [SNARKY COMMENT]

    Come on! I'm middle-aged and if you leave me alone for an hour or so, I'll fall asleep. How long would it have taken to wait out a 107 year old man? He's gonna fall asleep if he gets still for, like, thirty seconds!

    [/SC]
     
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    Man, 107.

    Think about that.

    The guy was 29 when the Great Depression began, 35 when Pearl Harbor was bombed, and 63(!!!) when the moon landing happened.
     
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    That old man would have been no match for a leather jacket.
     
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    YES! Nailed it! :hail:
     
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    and again death is a "guirky guip" on wordfarce

    love it:backhug:
     
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    Did the swat team bump-fire? :ramen:
     
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    They could have launched a bunch of marbles into there, then when he stepped on them, slipped, fallen, and broken his hip he could have been taken into custody easily.
     
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    Funny you should say that. I've always wondered why rioters/protestors don't do this. There might be an impenetrable line of riot shields and batons, and the stupid protestors launch their rage and try to get past.....the riot shields and batons. Why not just change levels and have the protestors sling bags of marbles at the cops' feet then when they go down outflank them? Or even throw the marbles at a high arc into the cops? They can't rush into the cops straight on because then they would also fall on the marbles.
     
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    Callie Suthorn would agree.

    A character in some Battletech novels. An outstanding unarmed fighter, she was known for being able to take down battlemechs without even an obvious weapon.

    Her character once said that "good footing is like a drug to most fighters" so she specialized in fighting where footing was terrible. And eliminating that advantage for opponents. On tactic was when she was confronting hostiles to drop a large bag of very small, steel ball bearings on the floor where it would rupture and the bearings would spread out.
     
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    I figure it is a "macho" thing too.

    Charge a line of baton wielding, shield carrying police-cool.

    Throwing marbles-wimpy.
     
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    Flounder agrees!
     
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    The cops were, once again, blood-thirsty murderers. They couldn't wait out a 107-year old man???? No, they had to rush in guns blazing just to prove how many they were.

    I'm just sorry the crazy old geezer didn't take a few of them with him.
     
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  27. Sean the Puritan

    Sean the Puritan Endut! Hoch Hech!

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    That's true. A crazy old man shooting at cops isn't to be taken as a serious threat.
     
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    Getting shot at ain't no thang. :ramen:
     
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    Dayton woulsd make a great cop!
     
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