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On 2003-03-10 20:50, chihawk wrote:
Hope you enjoyed the diversion and hope your faith in humanity wasn't shaken any more than it already had been.
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What faith in humanity? Although the heart that legless vet displays could rekindle it. I'd better go watch whatever the Fux network is putting on TV tonight to crush that spark of humanity that's threatening to flare up.
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| Posted: 11-Mar-2003 06:07 Post subject: RE: Several stories of Human stupidity |
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This could be submitted to the Darwin Awards
Madrid, March 11
There was a report of a robbery in a roadside bar-bordello in the outskirts of Madrid. A Guardia Civil car came to the scene, and after finding out there were five robbers armed with pistols in the bar, they asked for reinforcements. Several patrol cars promptly surrounded the locale.
The robbers were intimated to surrender peacefully with a loudspeaker, but they defiantly fired the guns at the agents. These returned fire, shooting dead two of the robbers, and wounding another.
Here's the catch... the robbers were "armed" with pistols that shoot *BLANKS*, yeah, those handgun replicas that look like the real thing and fire blanks.
How stupid you can be?
NOTE: Unlike in the US, shoot outs are rare in Spain, and unlike US policemen that empty a magazine into a suspect, Spanish police make a single warning, and if the suspect fires back, usually only one shot suffices to put him out of action. The Guardia Civil is traditionally known for its good marksmanship, wich makes this incident even more of a folly.
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| Posted: 11-Mar-2003 20:39 Post subject: RE: Several stories of Human stupidity |
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Ummm....that's not that stupid, IMO. I happen to own a Airsoft handgun that fires 6mm plastic bb's and is impossible to tell differently from a Beretta M9. I don't think they would of waited to check for bullet holes in their cover before they began shooting back, since they're all still alright and especially considering their "elite" status according to you. Human instinct points toward's self-defense in this one, and they followed procedure with the warning and everything. As for the gripe with just wounding one and not even hitting two others, well, everyone has a bad shot once in a while, there's too many intanigbles that come into play to make a judgement on that one anyways. The other two, knowing they were completely and royally screwed, surrended themselves. What's the point your trying to make with this one?
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| Posted: 11-Mar-2003 20:57 Post subject: RE: Several stories of Human stupidity |
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I think he was trying to say that the people with the fake guns were idjits for getting into a shooting match with police armed with real weapons. Although I could be wrong?
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| Posted: 12-Mar-2003 08:17 Post subject: RE: Several stories of Human stupidity |
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Exactly Alexander.
The moral of the story was: how stupid you have to start a firefight with *a toy gun* being outnumbered and outmatched?
Ares, sorry, you got it completely backwards. Do I express myself so badly in English? I thought it was obvious! 
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| Posted: 12-Mar-2003 15:48 Post subject: RE: Several stories of Human stupidity |
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On 2003-03-12 08:17, Vampire wrote:
Ares, sorry, you got it completely backwards. Do I express myself so badly in English? I thought it was obvious!
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It was 
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| Posted: 12-Mar-2003 18:20 Post subject: RE: Several stories of Human stupidity |
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*blink* oh...my...God *smacks self* Now that I re-read the article, I took that completely backwards. I was having kind of a bad day, and I took it to mean you were ragging on the police for that.
wow. It's not that you expressed yourself poorly, the structure of it was flawless. I just seriously dropped the ball.
*insert confused and embarrased-looking emoticon here*
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| Posted: 12-Mar-2003 21:45 Post subject: RE: Several stories of Human stupidity |
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On 2003-03-12 18:20, Ares wrote:
*insert confused and embarrased-looking emoticon here*
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OK
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| Posted: 13-Mar-2003 17:29 Post subject: RE: Several stories of Human stupidity |
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Where can I find the keystrokes for all those extra emoticons?
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| Posted: 13-Mar-2003 20:40 Post subject: RE: Several stories of Human stupidity |
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Or, you can hit the link above that says FAQ. It's in there as well.
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