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AIBU?

to be gobsmacked at the STUPIDITY and arrogance of some people?!

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LRDTheFeministDragon · 26/05/2011 11:59

DH just told me about some mates of his, who play the very geeky, but usually fun and silly, LARP game (it's basically dressing up in funny costumes and acting out fake battles ... as geeky as could be and makes me roll my eyes, but this is beside the point ...).

Anyway, DH's mate apparently walked through a major train station carrying a shedload of replica weapons. Not covered in a bag, not having cleared it with the station staff first ... just wandered around carrying what looked extremely like real guns.

The police grabbed him, quite hard, and cuffed him and questioned him, and gave him a lecture. He is now cross because he has a bruise where the policeman grabbed him.

Is it me? Or is this just crushingly stupid and rude? I heard about it and was thinking WTF even before I heard that this guy actually considers himself to have been molested by the police.

I know this is an odd AIBU but I had to ask someone to share my WTF face ... and I do feel awful for the police who must have got a horrible scare!

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LRDTheFeministDragon · 27/05/2011 10:22

Oh - and half yesterday afternoon on MN, which is my dark secret I would never tell for fear of the mocking hoards ... on balance, LARP doesn't look so bad!

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LRDTheFeministDragon · 27/05/2011 10:22

Indeed.

Mind you, I am sure the things I like look just as daft to them - I spent half yesterday afternoon weeding my plants and baking cake, so I probably look to them as if I'm prematurely granny-esque.

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Get0rfM0iLand · 27/05/2011 10:14

"the weapons guy when I first met him insisting on telling me how knowing about fake swordfighing made him and his wife very fit and athletic"

lolol at the mental image

LRDTheFeministDragon · 27/05/2011 10:11

... should also say, DH is not stupid enough to own/carry through train stations replica weapons!

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LRDTheFeministDragon · 27/05/2011 10:07

GetOrf, that's pretty much my position .... you guys aren't REAL, are you?

I think it is totally ridiculous. DH is a huge geek, though, and he doesn't take it especially seriously, so I am ok with it.

I have a memory (that I am trying hard to erase) of the weapons guy when I first met him insisting on telling me how knowing about fake swordfighing made him and his wife very fit and athletic.

Believe me, it did not.

I don't so much mind the 'grown men being stupid like kids' - I'm just shocked by how twatty this guy is to have put the police through that.

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QueenofDreams · 27/05/2011 09:55

Apparently DP's dad goes 'caving' basically playing roleplay in a cave. bunch of grown men in a cave whacking each other with swords. He has a full set of chainmail apparently.

How idiotic though to show off the 'weapons' like that. He has no right to complain, he brought it on himself.

plupervert · 27/05/2011 09:48

"He is now cross because he has a bruise where the policeman grabbed him."

Hahahahha, poor hyprocritical baby. Hard enough to play big-boy games with big weapons, but not big enough to carry them properly, or deal with the consequences of his stupidity.

Eeejit.

Juxtapose that with not only the superficial response any normal person would have, but your understanding that the police had had a horrrible scare....

He should be ashamed of himself.

GetOrfMoiCase · 27/05/2011 00:21

AAAAH

(have googled)

I couldn't have sex with someone who did this

That is a lie, I am a geek myself, I would probably love shit like that. I would just never tell a living soul.

GetOrfMoiCase · 27/05/2011 00:19

What is larp?

Al0uiseG · 27/05/2011 00:16

Grown men do this?

tigerchilli · 27/05/2011 00:15

Attention seeking knob head. How old is he...12?

BeerTricksPotter · 27/05/2011 00:15

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giraffesCantZumba · 27/05/2011 00:09

twat

Fecklessdizzy · 27/05/2011 00:08

Shit ... Didn't realise there was a page 2! Sorry! Makes no sense at all now ...

Fecklessdizzy · 27/05/2011 00:04

If they're realistic enough to look like the genuine articlel I think it might be ... DP has a geek chum who'se into this sort of stuff and I'm pretty sure he's been cautioned for whipping his piece out in t'pub ( fnar, fnar )

Your twerp's lucky they only bruised him ...

LaurieFairyCake · 27/05/2011 00:00

Nice to see some twat's won the Darwin award this year

what a fucking idiot, seriously, who does that???

MuthaHubbard · 26/05/2011 23:57

serves him right - how are us mere mortals supposed to know they are replica weapons?? police receiving a call from a member of the public stating they've seen a chap walking round with a gun/knife/machete are going to treat it as real until they are able to establish otherwise.....and he was very lucky not to have been tasered or have been surrounded by an ARU.

he may well yet be charged with something.....

comedycentral · 26/05/2011 23:51

What an idiot, he could have been shot by the police. A man got shot years ago because they thought the table leg he was carrying was a sawn off shot gun...can't remember his name.

blackeyedsusan · 26/05/2011 18:03

mmm could have been more than a tazer... daft idiot...

LadyOfTheManor · 26/05/2011 15:36

People like this implied the guy carrying the replicas...

LadyOfTheManor · 26/05/2011 15:35

He's worried about peoples' irresponsible attitudes to weapons discrediting his line of business;

example;

Illegal fire arms certificates
Replicas
Sawn offs
Illegal importation of illegal guns

etc

Weapons cause fear in a lot of people, and dicks like in the OP, don't help the situation for those that deal with them in a controlled environment.

I'm anti-guns (legal or otherwise) FWIW.

Ormirian · 26/05/2011 15:33

Sorry lady? He's an international arms dealer and he is worried about someone discrediting him?

LadyOfTheManor · 26/05/2011 15:24

My father deals arms internationally as his little side hobby, and hates people like this causing uproar which discredits his line of business.

LadyOfTheManor · 26/05/2011 15:23

He's lucky the ARU (armed response unit) didn't get wind of it first and shoot him in the shoulder.

It is not illegal to carry replicas, it is illegal to use a replica in a threatening way where the victim may consider it to be real.

I'd rather he get a bruise, instead of the police being too PC and one day some idiot carrying real weapons shoots people.

Isntitironic · 26/05/2011 15:19

What a muppet. Yes, I believe it is illegal to carry replica weapons - I know threatening someone with a fake weapon is just as illegal as threatening with a real one. Our self-defence instructor at school gave us a stern lecture on the subject and now I'm cautious about even carrying sewing scissors or a craft knife, which are always in cases and well buried in my handbag!

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