• How to defend yourself against a banana? Colorado Cops tell us how!
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[video=youtube;4bCyIAsSid8]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bCyIAsSid8[/video] [QUOTE]A man is facing a felony menacing charge, because two Colorado sheriff's deputies say they thought a banana he pointed at them was a gun. Nathan Rolf Channing, 27, was arrested Sunday, according to the Grand Junction Daily Sentinel. According to an arrest affidavit, Mesa County deputies Joshua Bunch and Donald Love said Channing pointed the fruit at them while crossing a street. The deputies said they feared for their lives even though they saw that the object was yellow. Bunch wrote in the affidavit that he has seen handguns in many shapes and colors.[/QUOTE] Sources: [url]http://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/2014/11/daniel-zimmerman/colorado-cops-arrest-man-brandishing-banana/[/url] [url]http://www.cbsnews.com/news/colorado-man-arrested-after-pointing-banana-at-police/[/url] [url]http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/man-arrested-pointing-banana-cops-gun-article-1.2024758[/url]
[t]http://assets.nydailynews.com/polopoly_fs/1.2024757.1417017567!/img/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/article_970/banana27n-2-web.jpg[/t] Is that DSP?
why didn't they taze it
[QUOTE=Vipes;46588917]A man is facing [b]a felony[/b] menacing charge, because two Colorado sheriff's deputies say they thought a banana he pointed at them was a gun. [/QUOTE] Jesus christ, I realize it was a dumb idea to point anything handgun shaped at the cops but come the fuck on.
keep your eyes peeled, they call him The Potassinator
[QUOTE=Binladen34;46588931][t]http://assets.nydailynews.com/polopoly_fs/1.2024757.1417017567!/img/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/article_970/banana27n-2-web.jpg[/t] Is that DSP?[/QUOTE] Even his shirt is a banana
[quote]He wrote that Love was drawing his service weapon when Channing, of Fruitvale, Colo. yelled, "It's a banana!" Yes, the man accused of pointing a banana at police is from Fruitvale. And yes, one of the police officers he pointed the banana at is named Bunch. And, no, we didn't make this up.[/quote] :v:
[QUOTE=de;46588939]Jesus christ, I realize it was a dumb idea to point anything handgun shaped at the cops but come the fuck on.[/QUOTE] But it wasn't handgun shaped, it was banana shaped.
[QUOTE=zakedodead;46589326]But it wasn't handgun shaped, it was banana shaped.[/QUOTE] Really depends on the angle it was pointed, how far away, and what the banana itself looked like. At the perfect angle, i can imagine a banana looking similar to a gun. If it was on old blackened banana, there are even more possible angles thatd make it look gun-like.
While this was an incredibly stupid stunt that could have got him killed, I don't think the charges are fair.
[url]http://facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=1438978&highlight=[/url] Regardless; still insane that he could have to pay 100k over a banana :v:
I'm sorry but if you can't tell the difference between a banana and a handgun you might not be cut out for the police after all
[QUOTE=Mellowbloom;46590233]I'm sorry but if you can't tell the difference between a banana and a handgun you might not be cut out for the police after all[/QUOTE] Well, you have to keep in mind that most veteran police officers have seen many guns of all shapes, sizes, and colors. Even at a distance, for all they knew, it could've been a gold-plated firearm. In this day and age, you never know what could happen. Charging him with a felony is just overkill though.
[QUOTE=Binladen34;46588931][t]http://assets.nydailynews.com/polopoly_fs/1.2024757.1417017567!/img/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/article_970/banana27n-2-web.jpg[/t] Is that DSP?[/QUOTE] how was he supposed the know that bananas aren't guns?
[QUOTE=Mellowbloom;46590233]I'm sorry but if you can't tell the difference between a banana and a handgun you might not be cut out for the police after all[/QUOTE] Guns come in all shapes and sizes. There are yellow guns out there, specially sub-compacts. [img]http://www.thewellarmedwoman.com/image/data/the-well-armed-woman-articles/concealed-carry/drawing%20yellow%20revolver%20from%20concealed%20carry%20purse%20web.jpg[/img] Here is an idea, how about we do don't point things in threatening manners towards anyone? specially the police, who you know have been known to be attacked by insane people for no reason what so ever.
Devil's Avocado, it is extremely stupid to point anything even vaguely resembling a weapon at an armed cop. [editline]27th November 2014[/editline] [QUOTE=Binladen34;46588931][t]http://assets.nydailynews.com/polopoly_fs/1.2024757.1417017567!/img/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/article_970/banana27n-2-web.jpg[/t] Is that DSP?[/QUOTE] Thanks Kojima
[QUOTE=joes33431;46588989]keep your eyes peeled, they call him The Potassinator[/QUOTE] Shoots rays of radiation
Cops are trained, AKA psychologically conditioned, to react in specific ways to specific events. Pointing something that is firearm shaped in a menacing fashion at them is the greatest way to trigger that training into effect.
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