The Glade 4.0

http://thedailyattack.com/2011/06/29/ma ... ke-photos/

Ooops....

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"Life isn't divided into genres. It's a horrifying, romantic, tragic, comical, science-fiction cowboy detective novel. You know, with a bit of pornography if you're lucky."
— Alan Moore

I can't find the link to the news story where I read the details, but apparently the story here is that one officer had unloaded the car at the amory, and left the rifle on the trunk.

Another officer got in the car without realizing the rifle was there. Drove to a nearby starbucks (where this picture was taken) and went inside for a coffee, came back out and drove off.

Somewhere along the way, a witness flagged down a bicycle officer, who radioed to the officer driving about the rifle.

I can't vouch for the validity of that story. I read it on one of the local Seattle news sites, so take it as you will..

OMG that evil assault weapon could have spontaneously gone off and killed every pre schooler within 2 miles!

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A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself. ~ John Stuart Mill

Hannibal - mine does that so regularly its how I set my watch.

I mean what other purpose can they have its obviously an evil black rifle because it has one of those "shoulder thingies that goes up" (which is supposed to mean a barrel shroud).

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"...but there exists also in the human heart a depraved taste for equality, which impels the weak to attempt to lower the powerful to their own level and reduces men to prefer equality in slavery to inequality with freedom." - De Tocqueville

I see how a pistol grip, flash suppressor and bayonet lug causes these things to go off without any outside influence. California is safer for banning those features. Now if they can just get people to stop shooting jet lines out of the air with 50 Cal's.

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A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself. ~ John Stuart Mill

Yeah dern dem muzzleloaders.

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"...but there exists also in the human heart a depraved taste for equality, which impels the weak to attempt to lower the powerful to their own level and reduces men to prefer equality in slavery to inequality with freedom." - De Tocqueville

Oh wait .50 ae
or .50 beo
or .50 bmg?

Maybe they were mistaken and its .416 barret?

Oh who knows.

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"...but there exists also in the human heart a depraved taste for equality, which impels the weak to attempt to lower the powerful to their own level and reduces men to prefer equality in slavery to inequality with freedom." - De Tocqueville

And neither of you thinks an assault rifle just hanging out on top of an illegally parked police car is a problem?

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Buckle your pants or they might fall down.

I believe they are more mocking those who only feel safe with the fire arms are in the "possession" of the police.

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"Life isn't divided into genres. It's a horrifying, romantic, tragic, comical, science-fiction cowboy detective novel. You know, with a bit of pornography if you're lucky."
— Alan Moore

This thread is full of fail...

What I want to know is how it didn't slide right off the car as soon as he started driving.

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"Hysterical children shrieking about right-wing anything need to go sit in the corner and be quiet while the adults are talking."

Maybe he's a really careful driver. It sounds from Midgen's story that he didn't have to go far.

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Buckle your pants or they might fall down.

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A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself. ~ John Stuart Mill

Magnetic plate on the thing that holds in in easy storage spaces?

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Darksiege
Traveller, Calé, Whisperer
Lead me not into temptation; for I know a shortcut

I doubt it. That would mean you'd need to pull against the magnet whenever you wanted to get it. Every gun lock I've ever seen in a police car is mechanical.

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"Hysterical children shrieking about right-wing anything need to go sit in the corner and be quiet while the adults are talking."

yeah, I was not being very serious, but in the D20 future game I play that is how I keep my weapons on my mecha.

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Darksiege
Traveller, Calé, Whisperer
Lead me not into temptation; for I know a shortcut

/facepalm

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Holy shitsnacks!