Steal a PS3, and SWAT will kill you. And your dog, too.

[Asher]

It's a fact that they killed the kid.

Whether it was manslaughter is a legal battle I'm not concerned about, given the state it's in. People in the south are all like Sloww -- bloodthirsty and vengeful against horrible "thugs" like this. I wouldn't be surprised if they ordered the kids body chopped up into bitesize pieces then boiled in a vat of acid prepared by Mexican illegals.

[Ogie Oglethorpe]

Originally posted by Asher
I wouldn't be surprised if they ordered the kids body chopped up into bitesize pieces then boiled in a vat of acid prepared by Mexican illegals.

Wasteful. Use lye so that you can render the fat (PS3 playing POS should have plenty) into soap and glycerin compounds.

[Provost Harrison]

Originally posted by Asher
How about the fact that he was unarmed.

Well, early signs are not encouraging. I remember the whole Stockwell tube shooting...it was difficult to judge what had happened with the initial shock and publicity. It transpired that the police had been so incompetent as to disgust the country - shooting someone because they look 'a bit foreign'. And still justice has never really happened with countless person after person passing on the responsibility. It could well be the same here, but I am curious what the circumstances are for the police to send an armed team to intercept this person and then cause a bloodbath. As you know, I am not usually the type to give the police the benefit of the doubt - the first example demonstrates why.

[Tattila the Hun]

I'd wait for the investigation to end before making judgements...

Though, I'd imagine, that as these SWAT-types are trained to kill, I'd also imagine they are trained to asses situations and act accordingly, not killing for flimsy, or no reason.

[Asher]

To be fair it's not real SWAT, it's a bunch of deputies in a small town.

[Ogie Oglethorpe]

A Reno 911-like SWAT as it were.

[Impaler[WrG]]

I find it rather inconcivable that a SWAT team would be so horribly incompetent as to not do any kind of survalance on the targets in the place their about to storm. Are they realy going to claim that they though a Playstation controler was a pistol. Its the very piece of property their investigation is looking for, are they going to say they hadn't considered the suspect might be using the stolen property at the time?

[Verto]

Originally posted by SlowwHand

You don't want to wait on an investigation. You prefer to go off initial reports and assume the aggressive little hoodlums are blameless

Whereas you assume they are guilty, end of story. None of that "innocent until proven" crap for you.

[senowen]

Originally posted by Impaler[WrG]
I find it rather inconcivable that a SWAT team would be so horribly incompetent as to not do any kind of survalance on the targets in the place their about to storm. Are they realy going to claim that they though a Playstation controler was a pistol. Its the very piece of property their investigation is looking for, are they going to say they hadn't considered the suspect might be using the stolen property at the time?

A: Um...yeah probably.

It's the shoot first, ask questions later approach to police work.

[DaShi]

PS3: How much is a human life really worth?

[Elok]

Originally posted by LordShiva
Further proof that the XBOX 360 is the superior system and that HD-DVD is the superior format

Are you kidding me? If this kid had stolen an X360, he'd have got a beating at worst. You've got to steal some quality merchandise to get gunned down by a SWAT team. What they don't tell you is that the PS3s survived the shooting; Sony's looking into the possibilities of slogans such as "Even .45cal won't stop a Cell."

[Lord Avalon]

Obviously the officers observed the perp with a phaser-like weapon in his hand, and feeling they were in danger, opened fire.

[senowen]

Originally posted by Lord Avalon
Obviously the officers observed the perp with a phaser-like weapon in his hand, and feeling they were in danger, opened fire.

I hope that was a joke. Plastic phaser vs. automatic rifles and body armor= justified homicide?

[Tattila the Hun]

Originally posted by DaShi
PS3: How much is a human life really worth?

And there aren't even any good games for it!

[Lord Avalon]

Originally posted by senowen




I hope that was a joke. Plastic phaser vs. automatic rifles and body armor= justified homicide?

Hey, they didn't know if he had it set to stun or kill. Better safe than sorry.

(Edit: added quote.)