1139: Truth in Comedy

[Grapist]

Originally Posted by Junkenstein

Yes, i dont like baseball, so everyone who likes it must die.

Seriously, though, i understand that i'm pushing the example in a far direction but i just dont get how a guy who thinks a snowball fight is a dangerous anarchist convention is in the right, I get it, they're juvenile idiots but he should've known better. Exactly because he's a cop.

Juvenile in behavior only, too old to be juvenile age wise. It may be an environmental thing, there are kids who taunt and give cops a hard time here, the "It was an accident" crap is bs, I don't buy it and the cop was right for not doing so either. It's not necessarily the point that it was a snowball as much as it was that four young adults did whatever to make the cop feel threatened, we weren't there and don't know all of the details and befores and afters.

[thepetek]

Originally Posted by Blitzgal

Yeah, I still hate them.

I had someone hurl a snowball at my windshield while driving along. Scared the shit out of me -- I could easily see how someone could potentially lose control of their vehicle in that moment of shock. To me it's kind of like people who throw things off overpasses to see what happens when it hits a car below. It's all fun and games until somebody crashes their car.

A snowball is not a bowling ball.

The overpass people are obviously smarter, cos the car can't go out of control and hit them.

If the hummer had gone out of control and ran over a few snowballers (hehheh) I would have got that too.

I mean, it's a nice analogy, but he didn't crash his car, did he? He stopped it and pulled his gun. No one dropped a brick on his car from an overpass.

The real argument is: what if he wasn't a cop? What if he was just a guy with a gun?

No, seriously, what if he was just a guy with a gun?

Life is short, brutal, and most of us don't get laid enough. Just be thankful that wasps don't impregnate you with their young.

[Grapist]

Originally Posted by thepetek

The real argument is: what if he wasn't a cop? What if he was just a guy with a gun?

No, seriously, what if he was just a guy with a gun?

In this state, that could happen, however if the concealed hand gun owner pulls their weapon, they are required by law to kill them, if they only wound them, then they are in trouble.

[DarkKnightJared]

Yeah, if it was the DC case that I believe Blitzgal misread it as, where the cop got accidentally pelted while some dumbass adults were in a snowball fight and took out his gun, that is a clear case of an abusive cop--and unlike Kieth, I can definitely see a cop being that fucking retarded. If this New York case is true, and the kids were chasing him, they do at least need to have some sort of punishment.

[thepetek]

Originally Posted by Grapist

In this state, that could happen, however if the concealed hand gun owner pulls their weapon, they are required by law to kill them, if they only wound them, then they are in trouble.

It could happen anywhere. Your state is one that requires good marksmanship. So you are allowed to put two in the back of the head to be legal in Texas? Neat.

[Blitzgal]

Originally Posted by thepetek

The real argument is: what if he wasn't a cop? What if he was just a guy with a gun?

Wouldn't that be even more of an argument against throwing shit at random people?

Here's the Youtube video. They kept hitting him with snowballs even after he had the gun and his walkie talkie out. Perhaps they didn't realize he was a cop just because he had a gun, but the walkie talkie made it pretty fucking clear who he was.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uAgQKJuriIo

[thepetek]

Originally Posted by Blitzgal

Wouldn't that be even more of an argument against throwing shit at random people?

Here's the Youtube video. They kept hitting him with snowballs even after he had the gun and his walkie talkie out. Perhaps they didn't realize he was a cop just because he had a gun, but the walkie talkie made it pretty fucking clear who he was.

YouTube - DC Cop Waves Gun at Snowball Fight!

Only read about them hitting the car.

If you throw a snowball at a guy with a gun, let me readjust the Connery quote.

"Isn't that just like a wop? Brings a snowball to a gun fight."

Honestly, once the gun came out, I wouldn't stick around to see the walkie, much less throw snowballs.

Point is, though, he should have just drove by.

[kypdurron5]

This also goes back to what Keith said about black people scaring white people. These kids thought they had an easy mark- turned out they were the ones who got scared! Their response? Sue for a ba-billion dollars.

[flerchin]

All this discussion about the snowball fight misses the much more important debate about whether Lost Boys is a good movie.

So I watched it for the first time on Keith's recommendation, and because Corey Haim died. Holy balls, that movie pretty much sucks from beginning to end. I liked it as a movie to laugh at, and to remember how stupid we all looked back in the 80's, but the cheesiness of it was just so over the top. It seemed to be an allegory about how younger kids can get overly worked up by comic books, and that all the older kids in leather jackets and earrings are actually evil. Interview with a Vampire holds up much better over time, and came out only a few years later.

[Junkenstein]

To each its own but that's insane.

Lost Boys eats and shits Interview With The Vampire for breakfast. The vampires were at least menacing, the 80's atmosphere is cool and the over-the-topness is fun.

Interview with A Vampire is an awful adaptation of a not-so-great novel with one of the most irritating performances ever by Cruise. Also it spawned the whole dandy-emo-vampire trend that trickled into twilight and neutered horror forever.

Also, the best vampire movie ever made is "After Dark". Fact.