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Stormtrooper Arrested

Posted by Soulskill on from the they'll-be-back-and-in-greater-numbers dept.

Kexel writes: Nope, not an April Fools joke. A forty-year-old man in Massachusetts bought a Stormtrooper outfit, and then walked through a neighborhood near a school to show his friends. The principal saw his fake blaster and called 911. The man was then arrested and charged with disturbing a school and loitering. A police spokesman said the man "used bad judgment." I guess this shows you what not to do when geeking out on Star Wars.

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  1. Blasters don't exist, as the principal well knows by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Being a BETA, you take things at FACE VALUE. Of course school officials KNOW pretend 'guns' are not real guns, and offer no form of possible threat. That isn't what is happening.

    This is NOT stupidity, but COMPLIANCE TRAINING (or 'grooming' which is the new word). Being DIFFERENT must be a cause for punishment and outrage. You cannot create a pro-war society like the USA without such societal engineering. Beta dribblers who associate such actions to 'stupidity' rather than purposeful social engineering are very much part of our problem.

  2. Re:Could you tell a difference at distance? by clonehappy · · Score: 0, Troll

    Would you be able to be sure the black gun shaped thing was a toy from that distance?

    Guns. Aren't. Fucking. Illegal.

    So tired of light-loafered nanny-statists piddling themselves at the mere sight of a firearm. Go live in North Korea.

  3. Re:No Recourse by ibpooks · · Score: -1, Troll

    He's a 40 year old man(child) walking around a neighborhood in the middle of a work day wearing a movie costume. He obviously doesn't have a job, or at least doesn't have one worth keeping.

  4. Re: Fear of guns by Type44Q · · Score: -1, Troll

    If that was the best response I could come up with, I'd post as AC, too.