Two deputies unloaded their guns into their own car while trying to shoot a suspect handcuffed in the back seat. They thought they heard gunfire. It was an acorn falling onto the car. Somehow, the man in the backseat was uninjured.
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I live under a big oak tree and have heard some very loud acorns that I honestly might have mistaken for a middle-distance gunshot had I not been aware of what oak trees do. Never been tempted to empty a mag INTO MY OWN CAR though.
Our first home had oak trees and the falling acorns sounded like freaking bombs sometimes. I can easily see mistaking one for a gunshot. I can't see unloading my gun into a threat that I haven't even located and confirmed. "Be sure of your target and what lies beyond..."
Yeah. I have oak trees and a sunroom. Sometimes I think I might have heard a .22LR a couple of blocks away or a 9mm several blocks away, then I remember it's acorn season. I don't go shooting the neighbors.
When I am in Mexico for business trips, I usually see a televised soccer game or two. It is almost comical they way they fall on the ground, writhe in agony, get up and resume playing seconds later.
The old range wisdom was that there are two things cops can't do, shoot or drive. Hence the bulletstorms around civilians and don't even look at their vehicle accidents. They also don't like wearing seat belts.
I contend that roughly half the cops in this country are in no way suited to the job, and should, instead, have all dangerous objects (and situations) removed from their reach...
It's because they're literally the people too dumb to be able to do any other job. They're the high school bullies that we all knew and that somehow, against all odds, graduated with a GED, but probably only just.
When he falls to the ground and unleashes a second uncontested volley of bullets while laying sideways, you can tell he thought he was going so Beast Mode. Sad to take that moment away from one of our Boys In Blue 🫡🫡🫡
