Seen on the street in Kyiv.

Words of Advice:

"If Something Seems To Be Too Good To Be True, It's Best To Shoot It, Just In Case." -- Fiona Glenanne

“The Mob takes the Fifth. If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -- The TOFF *

"Foreign Relations Boil Down to Two Things: Talking With People or Killing Them." -- Unknown

“Speed is a poor substitute for accuracy.” -- Real, no-shit, fortune from a fortune cookie

"If you believe that you are talking to G-d, you can justify anything.” — my Dad

"Colt .45s; putting bad guys in the ground since 1873." -- Unknown

"Stay Strapped or Get Clapped." -- probably not Mr. Rogers

"The Dildo of Karma rarely comes lubed." -- Unknown

"Eck!" -- George the Cat

* "TOFF" = Treasonous Orange Fat Fuck, A/K/A Dolt-45,
A/K/A Commandante (or Cadet) Bone Spurs,
A/K/A El Caudillo de Mar-a-Lago, A/K/A the Asset., A/K/A P01135809

Wednesday, September 26, 2012

Give the Philly Cops Rubber Guns, Please

By now, you've heard that a flight attendant for Republic had her revolver in her purse when she went to work. The TSA found it and a Philadelphia cop tried to unload it.

Then all sorts of hilarity ensued:
Transportation Security Administration screeners saw the gun, described as a .38 caliber Smith and Wesson Airweight revolver, and notified a Philadelphia police officer. ... The gun discharged when the officer tried to put the safety on, according to MyFoxPhilly.com.

Christ on Roller Skates, how brain-damaged do you have to be to do that? A S&W Airweight has two frigging controls: The catch that you slide in order to open up the cylinder and the trigger. The trigger pull on an Airweight has never been described as being light. It's not supposed to be. The only way that a modern double-action revolver goes off is if somebody pulls the trigger.

Which is what that cop had to have done.


4 comments:

w3ski said...

One would think a number of other options should have surfaced to the TSA cop, especially being obviously unfamilier to the weapon.
Unfortunately .....
Stupidity rules it seems.
w3ski

BadTux said...

If I recall this is an enclosed-hammer revolver for concealed carry where the hammer is never cocked, i.e., double-action only. In other words, even if there wasn't a trigger block to keep the hammer from hitting the bullet if the trigger isn't pulled back, it'd be impossible to set it off unless you, well... pulled the f'ing trigger.

Safety? On a revolver? (Face palm indeed!)

w3ski said...

Sometimes I am so dense and gullible. This fool wasn't trying for a safety position, if he didn't understand revolvers, how did he know it wasn't On safe already?
He was just some cowboy/kid who couldn't keep himself from pulling the trigger on this "toy" gun he found.
The "safe" comment was just covering his stupidity.
Plain old stupid weapon handling. Guy should find a line of work away from guns.
w3ski

BadTux said...

Philly cop, btw, w3ski. My guess, w3ski, given that the guy was on airport duty, was that his superiors thought they already *had* found him a line of work away from guns. Because Philly is a rough town. If someone is on airport duty, either that someone a) has juice, b) is so dumb that no precinct captain will accept him in his or her precinct, or c) both. My guess in this case is on the (c) else he would have already been fired for (b).