• @specialdealer@lemm.ee
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      945 months ago

      A police officer recently got scared by a falling acorn thinking it was a gunshot. He then mag dumped dozens of rounds into his own squad car thinking it was the man he had in custody (handcuffed, searched for weapons already, and trapped inside).

      Luckily he struck with police precision. Meaning he missed every single shot and the guy was unharmed physically. Now he quit his job due to public ridicule.

      This meme jokes by extending the conspiracy theories around Taylor swift to include dropping the acorn.

      • @rustyfish@lemmy.world
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        255 months ago

        Didn’t know about that acorn thing. Wow. Maybe we should not make the bottom of the barrel into officers. Just saying.

      • Johanno
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        115 months ago

        I mean I don’t expect anything to change, but maybe give people some actual training and gun safety lessons before handing them weapons.

        • @deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz
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          5 months ago

          He also shouted “I’m hit!” Apparently not knowing the difference between being shot and, err, not being shot.

          • Johanno
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            115 months ago

            Ok this sounds like he knows exactly what he was doing. He knew that he could get away with it when he’s claiming to be shot at. Like the southpark episode where they hunt bears and shout “he is coming right at you!” so they can legally shoot them.

      • @pewgar_seemsimandroid
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        15 months ago

        this got showed on the news in my country and the background music was:

        AMERICA, FUCK YEAH (and they put a goofy acorn falling gif greenscreened to the footage)

        🇪🇪

    • @HuntressHimbo@lemm.ee
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      265 months ago

      The context is that just recently Taylor Swift sent a cease and desist to the twitter account tracking her and other celebrity private jet usage because she is embarassingly bad about using it for tiny flights.

      The other side of it is the story about the cop in Florida who unloaded his pistol into his police cruiser while someone was inside because he mistook an acorn hitting the roof of the car for a muffled gunshot. He fired his whole clip into the car and yelled ‘I’m hit’ which also got his partner to shoot their clip into the cruiser.

    • @witheyeandclaw@lemmy.world
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      65 months ago

      The context is literally a picture of a plane, the words “Taylor Swift”, and people keep upvoting them so people keep making more.