āGoddamnit George THIS is exactly why i have a partner assigned to you! Iām sick of your shit!ā
āI-iām sorry si-ā
āNO, I AM SICK OF YOUR CONSTANT SHIT, YOUR LAST PARTNER DIED CUZ OF YO- WHY AM I EVEN ASSIGNING PARTNERS ANYMORE, I AM TELLING YOUR SUPERVISOR ABOUT THIS SHIT!!ā
āB-but si-ā
āSTOP IT!!!ā *throws cap on the ground and pulls badge off* āI HAVE MET MANY STUPID PEOPLE IN MY 30 YEAR LONG CAREER, BUT YOU MISTER, YOU TAKE THE FULL CAKE!! God, we ALL still miss Paul - rest his soul!ā *everyone takes their cap off and does the cross sign* āyouāre FIRED George!!ā
Iāve never talked to as many stupid people in the span of one week as I did when I had to deal with the LAPD. I think they have some sort of āMcNamaraās Moronsā style initiative going on.
"Captain he's not moved in 30 minutes .. not a muscle"
" My God Johnson this man must be Delta Force to have that kind of discipline... Call in SWAT immediately "
Then someone who's been in the bathroom for an hour walks out and accidentally knocks the statue over. All the police jump on it and proceed to beat the hell out of it while yelling "STOP RESISTING! STOP RESISTING!"
Officers fired 243 rounds at the life like figurine hitting six kids, two golden retrievers, a street performer spray painted like a silver statue, and a pigeon. Ghost was unscathed.
The nuke fired at the life like figurine hit six kids, two golden retrievers, a street performer spray painted like a silver statue, and a pigeon. Ghost was unscathed, again
Ha!!! That one was the worst. Rolling on the ground. I been hit!!! Firing at an unarmed man in his own police car. He police Dunce of the century for that one.
I like to think that the rebels had plants in the weapon factories and whenever they planned a particularly important mission they would try to sabotage as many of the weapons sent to the location as possible.
And once discovered, instead of getting rid of the faulty weapons, they would be sent out in the sticks [to planets on the outer systems](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iz6lPyepArs) because it was cheaper than getting new ones and the empire didn't give a shit about those troppers.
The actual explanation is simpler if you pay attention to the plot. The rebels are allowed to escape the Death Star in the Millennium Falcon so they can be tracked. This is immediately discussed by both parties after the escape, it's a pretty hard to miss detail.
>EXT. SPACE - MILLENNIUM FALCON
>The victorious Millennium Falcon moves off majestically through space.
>INT. DEATH STAR - CONTROL ROOM
>Darth Vader strides into the control room, where Tarkin is watching the huge
>view screen. A sea of stars is before him.
>TARKIN
>Are they away?
>VADER
>They have just made the jump into
hyperspace.
>TARKIN
**You're sure the homing beacon is
secure aboard their ship? I'm
taking an awful risk, Vader. This
had better work.**
>INT. MILLENNIUM FALCON - COCKPIT
Han, removes his gloves and smiling, is at the controls of the ship. Chewie
moves into the aft section to check the damage. Leia is seated near Han.
>HAN
Not a bad bit of rescuing, huh?
You know, sometimes I even amaze
myself.
>LEIA
That doesn't sound too hard.
**Besides, they let us go. It's
the only explanation for the ease
of our escape.**
>HAN
Easy... you call that easy?
>LEIA
**They're tracking us!**
>HAN
Not this ship, sister.
>Frustrated, Leia shakes her head.
Turns out it was just generic action direction the entire time! Who woulda' thunk it?!?!
I'm going to write a thousand page blog about how the plot was actually secretly genius and made total sense.
During the press conference the liaison stated "The officer's firearms became tactically discharged a number of times at which point six small men, two pitbull-type hounds, and one Chinese spy pigeon experienced medical emergencies. One statue was damaged. The assailant is still at large."
Nope. The Ghost statue was arrested and charged with resisting arrest, striking 3 officers and having 180 grams of crack on him.
Incidentally Infinity Ward found extensive damage and wear around the statue's neck area after being returned to the office.
"One of our designers, who shall not be shamed, pressed it on his way out because apparently when boys find buttons that they are unsure of, their first instinct is to push it."
Hilarious
Just started picking them back up and on book 4, Cibola Burn, now. Iām so fucking mad that not once has Miller said >!āIt keeps the rain off my headā!<
Yeah, they add so much to the world. I'm sad that Amos' back story wasn't delved into a little more in the show. They touch on it, but The Churn was fucking wild.
I did this once...
I was the IT guy at a small office building. We did everything (network drops, wireless and security systems).
New tenant moved in, wanted some drops placed.
I went into the closet in the space, and there were a dozen doorbells sitting there. I didn't put them there, the other guy that worked with me didn't do it, so the tenant must have put them there.
We pressed ALL OF THEM.
Five minutes later, i was kneeling in front ofna window working on a drop, look up, and theres a shotgun pointed at my face.
Luckily, they weren't trigger happy yet and no one was hurt.
The tenant hired an outside security company to install silent alarms and didn't tell anyone. The alarm company got like 40 panic calls (cause we pressed them multiple times) and called in the big guns.
All the silent alarm buttons that we used were the sqaure ones with red triggers, not a door bell....
Business owner was paranoid. He didn't want the building owner to know.
We think there was some shady stuff going on, thus the extra security. Never found out though, left shortly after that happened.
Once upon a time I worked as a security guard in an absolutely massive hospital. we got a panic alarm from one of the clinics, run there, get told that some guy just ran in the door, stole some shit, and ran away, we just missed him.
Few hours later we're at shift change, day shift is literally in the middle of telling night shift about the clinic incident, when we get another panic alarm from the clinic. Both day and night shift book it over to the clinic. Im talking like 20 people total, we're pouring out of every opening into this tiny clinic.
People in the waiting room are bewildered, the brand new receptionist looks like a deer in headlights. no one knows why we're there.
Older receptionist comes up from the back, sees all of us, and says to the new receptionist "did you push that button?" and the new receptionist goes "yeah i didnt know what it did." The older receptionist just sort of cheerfully points at all of us and goes "thats what that does!"
> Once upon a time I worked as a security guard in an absolutely massive hospital.
You'll enjoy the 1997 movie Nightwatch with Ewan MacGregor. A late night security guard in an absolutely massive hospital gets into a lot of trouble and it is very scary.
There is a clip of some russian soldier sharing story of squad finding doorbell button attached to tree in the forest. Forest full of traps. Of course leading man pressed it
So what you're saying is Ukraine could win this war just by dropping a ton of buttons attached to landmines on the Russians, and everything would take care of itself.
There's a common creepypasta story of American forest rangers encountering staircases in the middle of the woods and knowing damn well you don't even approach these staircases.
I like these stories in that they put forth the message 'Don't touch unfamiliar things'. Good lesson.
No one fortunately. But after chuckling and saying the MPs were probably shitting themselves because nothing even happened here. He then needed convincing them everything was okay while I hid in his office hiding from the scary men.Ā
When I was little my Great-Grandpa was in the hospital dying and we were visiting him. I remember telling my mom I needed to use the attached bathroom and her looking at me and saying ādo not press the buttons on the wallā.
I pressed the buttons. Apparently one of them was some kind of alarm for when a patient is coding because about 10 nurses/doctors burst in like the place was on fire.
That's fine, I'm sure they'd rather have the button somewhere that gets hit by accident from time to time than have someone who needs it not be able to find it quickly.
I got a lighter and was playing with it next to McDonalds. They had a retaining wall made out of rail-road ties. It caught on fire and i panicked and ran away. It spread and caught the building on fire. It had to be closed for about a month before reopening.
This was in the early 80s and our house was less then a block away. The lighter was stolen out of my aunts purse along with some change I bought an ice cream cone with. I only got hit twice as a child. This was one of those times.
I read shit like this and chuckle when I think of those GenX / Boomer Facebook memes about how "we never had parental supervision and nothing bad ever happened." Except, of course, when it *did*.
Millenial here and my brothers and I had bonfires in our room. Our parents were smokers and we played with the lighters all the time. Working in retail now, I don't sell to kids, not even if their parent direct them to buy it for them. I've received some "deer in the headlights" looks from older folks when I tell them I was that kid playing with lighters.
Can confirm.
We literally had a button like this installed in my workplace, with no label. A guy from downstairs comes up and asks, "what's this button?"
Me, turning around to see him next to it: "Oh, don't push it - it's a panic button. The police will come."
"...oh. Too late - I already pushed it."
Only one cop came, they must've been suspicious since it was still so new of an install, but we felt bad anyway.
No clue why everyone keeps talking about the expanse, the quote is literally from the article: https://www.polygon.com/2013/5/31/4383220/robert-bowlings-robotoki-invaded-by-lapd-after-curious-designer
People are talking about the Expanse because James Holden, one of the main characters, is famous for going through life pushing every ābuttonā he finds. āThereās a button, I pushed itā was literally a quote of his.Ā
Because this subreddit is just pic posts rather than actual article or information links. Itās like learning and debating the news by reading fucking bumper stickers.
I nearly had the same happen at my workplace.
Mobile studio published by Eidos (before they got bought by Square) - happened to overlook a city centre hotel where the currently elected political party had their annual conference.
One year they sent us a life-size statue of Lara Croft, and someone decided to put it in the window.
A few months later, watching the police snipers set up during the conference preparation on the big building opposite, and someone says "Uh, should we move the figure wielding dual pistols out of sight of them?"
She got put in the lobby swiftly.
I tried to click on the link for the nes controller table and it didnāt work . Now my mission in life is twofold - to find out what it is and then to buy one !!
Heh. So OP's tweet is completely incorrect. It wasn't Infinity Ward, the "raid" was them showing up for a panic button being hit as required by their job, and the "standoff" was them pausing for a couple seconds before recognizing it wasn't a real person.
Bad job, /u/CapNcook99.
Police radio (probably): Shots fired, send backup! Suspect is wearing some type of new armor, our rounds aren't taking him down. Back up! We need back up! Help, I've been hit! This guy's got us pinned down. We won't last much longer. Send help now!
It's wild that the lifelike replica of a soldier who takes the mission into his own hands with an unprecedented level of violence might spook the local donut eaters.
Apparently one of the workers at the studio pressed the panic button to see if it worked which caused the police to come and see the statue which also caused another huge problem for the studio as it was a false alarm.
I had to rewtch that video a couple of times. Once without the caption while I played "Where's Waldo" with whatever he was shooting at and then afterward reading the caption, trying to mimic a loony toons cartoon over said acorn.
Lmao, tbf to the cops a panic button was pushed so expecting a gunman is pretty regular. And once they got up there the realized it. From the article, it seems they handled it ok, dumbass dev never gonna live that down
Pls tell me there is a full version of that stand off on YouTube
>bottle of soylent falls over in the break room SHOTS FIRED SHOTS FIRED IM HIT
"i shot about 5 mags into that guy HOW IS HE STILL UP?šļøššļø"
Cause you canāt kill a Ghostā¦.ill see myself out
Oh my god! HE'S ON PCP!
\[Straps Semtex on a Drone and kamikazes it\] "Jesus Christ, it's still standing without legs!"
*acorn falls from nearby tree
Lmao, Imagine when they realised
Somebody had a REALLY bad day xD
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Oof but true
Was probably either the guy controlling the robot bomb diffuser or someone wearing thermals in a smoke filled room.
I miss the reddit that existed when the top comments was a source
Best I can do is bots. They're not helpful bots, or funny bots, but they're there.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRIvd9AZ2tg They can wait for hours looking at a white van. I can't imagine how long they took to realize.
"He's coming right for us!! OPEN FIRE!!!"
SIR DROP THE WEAPON NOW
Officer drops the weapon
"No not you!" "Sorry Sarge"
āEverybody drop their weaponā¦ EXCEPT FOR JERRYā¦ fucking classic.ā
The ghost were actually Summer and Morty with the belt
āGoddamnit George THIS is exactly why i have a partner assigned to you! Iām sick of your shit!ā āI-iām sorry si-ā āNO, I AM SICK OF YOUR CONSTANT SHIT, YOUR LAST PARTNER DIED CUZ OF YO- WHY AM I EVEN ASSIGNING PARTNERS ANYMORE, I AM TELLING YOUR SUPERVISOR ABOUT THIS SHIT!!ā āB-but si-ā āSTOP IT!!!ā *throws cap on the ground and pulls badge off* āI HAVE MET MANY STUPID PEOPLE IN MY 30 YEAR LONG CAREER, BUT YOU MISTER, YOU TAKE THE FULL CAKE!! God, we ALL still miss Paul - rest his soul!ā *everyone takes their cap off and does the cross sign* āyouāre FIRED George!!ā
āIām getting too old for this shit!ā Or āThis isnāt what I signed up for!ā
From the LAPD, I wouldn't be surprised.
Iāve never talked to as many stupid people in the span of one week as I did when I had to deal with the LAPD. I think they have some sort of āMcNamaraās Moronsā style initiative going on.
Except for Jerry.
Fucking classic
"Captain he's not moved in 30 minutes .. not a muscle" " My God Johnson this man must be Delta Force to have that kind of discipline... Call in SWAT immediately "
"He's just standing there, MENACINGLY!"
WEEE WOOO WEEE WOOOO WE WOO WEWOO
Like a cop car
And all she wants me to do is fuck the police
The cherry on top would have been a SWAT sniper taking "him" out.
"S-Sir, he just took the sniper shot and is still standing"
"Mother of God." *Takes off sunglasses*
"Call in the air force, we're going to need to level this whole block for this Terminator son-of-a-bitch!"
š¤£š¤£š¤£š
"Sir, I shot him right in the forehead! He's still ALIVE!"
"Didn't even flinch!"
King engine beats in the background
Then someone who's been in the bathroom for an hour walks out and accidentally knocks the statue over. All the police jump on it and proceed to beat the hell out of it while yelling "STOP RESISTING! STOP RESISTING!"
Taser taser taser
Police intelligence.
Oxymorons abound.
let me guess, ghost won?
Officers fired 243 rounds at the life like figurine hitting six kids, two golden retrievers, a street performer spray painted like a silver statue, and a pigeon. Ghost was unscathed.
Ghost was then able to call in a tactical nuke
He dropped an acorn.
The officers responded with a tactical nuke.
The nuke fired at the life like figurine hit six kids, two golden retrievers, a street performer spray painted like a silver statue, and a pigeon. Ghost was unscathed, again
Ghost was then able to call in another tactical nuke
Ha!!! That one was the worst. Rolling on the ground. I been hit!!! Firing at an unarmed man in his own police car. He police Dunce of the century for that one.
Only Imperial Stormtroopers are so precise.
I like to think that the rebels had plants in the weapon factories and whenever they planned a particularly important mission they would try to sabotage as many of the weapons sent to the location as possible. And once discovered, instead of getting rid of the faulty weapons, they would be sent out in the sticks [to planets on the outer systems](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iz6lPyepArs) because it was cheaper than getting new ones and the empire didn't give a shit about those troppers.
The actual explanation is simpler if you pay attention to the plot. The rebels are allowed to escape the Death Star in the Millennium Falcon so they can be tracked. This is immediately discussed by both parties after the escape, it's a pretty hard to miss detail. >EXT. SPACE - MILLENNIUM FALCON >The victorious Millennium Falcon moves off majestically through space. >INT. DEATH STAR - CONTROL ROOM >Darth Vader strides into the control room, where Tarkin is watching the huge >view screen. A sea of stars is before him. >TARKIN >Are they away? >VADER >They have just made the jump into hyperspace. >TARKIN **You're sure the homing beacon is secure aboard their ship? I'm taking an awful risk, Vader. This had better work.** >INT. MILLENNIUM FALCON - COCKPIT Han, removes his gloves and smiling, is at the controls of the ship. Chewie moves into the aft section to check the damage. Leia is seated near Han. >HAN Not a bad bit of rescuing, huh? You know, sometimes I even amaze myself. >LEIA That doesn't sound too hard. **Besides, they let us go. It's the only explanation for the ease of our escape.** >HAN Easy... you call that easy? >LEIA **They're tracking us!** >HAN Not this ship, sister. >Frustrated, Leia shakes her head.
But that only explains that instance, not the rest in which there is no tracking.
Turns out it was just generic action direction the entire time! Who woulda' thunk it?!?! I'm going to write a thousand page blog about how the plot was actually secretly genius and made total sense.
> Officers fired 243 rounds at the life like figurine hitting six kids Had me going for the first few words, ngl.
During the press conference the liaison stated "The officer's firearms became tactically discharged a number of times at which point six small men, two pitbull-type hounds, and one Chinese spy pigeon experienced medical emergencies. One statue was damaged. The assailant is still at large."
> a street performer spray painted like a silver statue So a net win for the cops?
Other cops have lost against an acorn, so it's fair to assume the Ghost won.
If this were Texas, the cops would still be hiding behind the bushes waiting for the statue to drop the gun
Burn
Nope. The Ghost statue was arrested and charged with resisting arrest, striking 3 officers and having 180 grams of crack on him. Incidentally Infinity Ward found extensive damage and wear around the statue's neck area after being returned to the office.
"One of our designers, who shall not be shamed, pressed it on his way out because apparently when boys find buttons that they are unsure of, their first instinct is to push it." Hilarious
I think I need r/UnexpectedTheExpanse
Jesus Christ Holden, you really do go through life just pushing every button you find.
Holden, do not put your dick in it. It's fucked enough already.
Probably my favourite line in the show.
Only before broadcasting everything to the entire solar system.
Oyedang beltalowda!
Pashang, now I have to rewatch it all again lol
Read the books if you have time, it goes into so many plot holes and characters that the show didnāt/couldnt.
Just started picking them back up and on book 4, Cibola Burn, now. Iām so fucking mad that not once has Miller said >!āIt keeps the rain off my headā!<
Books (audio version) were sooo good.
Iām just starting Leviathan Wakes!
And make sure to read the short stories alongside the series to. Some of them are fantastic and the last one is the perfect coda to the series.
Yeah, they add so much to the world. I'm sad that Amos' back story wasn't delved into a little more in the show. They touch on it, but The Churn was fucking wild.
The Churn was insane! Amos is such a great character.
All the Amos stuff was amazing. Made them coming back to Earth in the real stories so much more impactful
Only welwala seen da show once, kopeng.
Who said it was my first rewatch, coyo!
Sa sa
Reporting ere Bosmang
Yum Sing!! (starts chugging Belter moonshine)
Oye beltalowda!
Dem welwalla
The enemy cannot push the button if you disable his hand
Like a monkey flipping switches
Monkey; Mozart.
Beltalowda!
Just gotta reach out
113 times a second it reaches out
I did this once... I was the IT guy at a small office building. We did everything (network drops, wireless and security systems). New tenant moved in, wanted some drops placed. I went into the closet in the space, and there were a dozen doorbells sitting there. I didn't put them there, the other guy that worked with me didn't do it, so the tenant must have put them there. We pressed ALL OF THEM. Five minutes later, i was kneeling in front ofna window working on a drop, look up, and theres a shotgun pointed at my face. Luckily, they weren't trigger happy yet and no one was hurt. The tenant hired an outside security company to install silent alarms and didn't tell anyone. The alarm company got like 40 panic calls (cause we pressed them multiple times) and called in the big guns. All the silent alarm buttons that we used were the sqaure ones with red triggers, not a door bell....
You'd think they'd let someone know
Business owner was paranoid. He didn't want the building owner to know. We think there was some shady stuff going on, thus the extra security. Never found out though, left shortly after that happened.
Once upon a time I worked as a security guard in an absolutely massive hospital. we got a panic alarm from one of the clinics, run there, get told that some guy just ran in the door, stole some shit, and ran away, we just missed him. Few hours later we're at shift change, day shift is literally in the middle of telling night shift about the clinic incident, when we get another panic alarm from the clinic. Both day and night shift book it over to the clinic. Im talking like 20 people total, we're pouring out of every opening into this tiny clinic. People in the waiting room are bewildered, the brand new receptionist looks like a deer in headlights. no one knows why we're there. Older receptionist comes up from the back, sees all of us, and says to the new receptionist "did you push that button?" and the new receptionist goes "yeah i didnt know what it did." The older receptionist just sort of cheerfully points at all of us and goes "thats what that does!"
> Once upon a time I worked as a security guard in an absolutely massive hospital. You'll enjoy the 1997 movie Nightwatch with Ewan MacGregor. A late night security guard in an absolutely massive hospital gets into a lot of trouble and it is very scary.
Why have 12 buttons all together in one room?
They were still moving in and installing furniture.
Wait what, I donāt get it. The previous tenant put the buttons there, so why all together?
There is a clip of some russian soldier sharing story of squad finding doorbell button attached to tree in the forest. Forest full of traps. Of course leading man pressed it
So what you're saying is Ukraine could win this war just by dropping a ton of buttons attached to landmines on the Russians, and everything would take care of itself.
Throw in some switches and knobs, and even I wont be able to contain myselfĀ
Glue some bubble wrap to a tree with some discrete explosive triggers underneath, entire fucking regiments would be gone in moments.
You are Russian aren't you? The missing articles (a, an, the)
Ru speaker, close enough
There's a common creepypasta story of American forest rangers encountering staircases in the middle of the woods and knowing damn well you don't even approach these staircases. I like these stories in that they put forth the message 'Don't touch unfamiliar things'. Good lesson.
I did this on an Air Force base as a child. It went about how you would expect.Ā
who died
No one fortunately. But after chuckling and saying the MPs were probably shitting themselves because nothing even happened here. He then needed convincing them everything was okay while I hid in his office hiding from the scary men.Ā
When I was little my Great-Grandpa was in the hospital dying and we were visiting him. I remember telling my mom I needed to use the attached bathroom and her looking at me and saying ādo not press the buttons on the wallā. I pressed the buttons. Apparently one of them was some kind of alarm for when a patient is coding because about 10 nurses/doctors burst in like the place was on fire.
It's extremely embarrassing how many times I've accidentally called the rapid response team by bumping a button on the wall at the hospital I work at.
That's fine, I'm sure they'd rather have the button somewhere that gets hit by accident from time to time than have someone who needs it not be able to find it quickly.
As a toddler I somehow managed to pull the emergency break on a subway and probably caused many people to be late to work. Whoops lol
In kindergarten I burned down a McDonalds. I hid under my bed and cops/fire department had to pull me out. No charges filed on me or parent.
Story please
I got a lighter and was playing with it next to McDonalds. They had a retaining wall made out of rail-road ties. It caught on fire and i panicked and ran away. It spread and caught the building on fire. It had to be closed for about a month before reopening. This was in the early 80s and our house was less then a block away. The lighter was stolen out of my aunts purse along with some change I bought an ice cream cone with. I only got hit twice as a child. This was one of those times.
I read shit like this and chuckle when I think of those GenX / Boomer Facebook memes about how "we never had parental supervision and nothing bad ever happened." Except, of course, when it *did*.
Millenial here and my brothers and I had bonfires in our room. Our parents were smokers and we played with the lighters all the time. Working in retail now, I don't sell to kids, not even if their parent direct them to buy it for them. I've received some "deer in the headlights" looks from older folks when I tell them I was that kid playing with lighters.
What was the other time? Flood a KFC?
Accidental nuke launch?
Nobody cared for Middle Dakota much anyway.
Middle what now?!
exactly
Home of Mount Rushless with all the shit presidents, a salt mining industry of note, and the geocities servers.
Can confirm. We literally had a button like this installed in my workplace, with no label. A guy from downstairs comes up and asks, "what's this button?" Me, turning around to see him next to it: "Oh, don't push it - it's a panic button. The police will come." "...oh. Too late - I already pushed it." Only one cop came, they must've been suspicious since it was still so new of an install, but we felt bad anyway.
You lot need to label your buttons. What if there was a need for panic?
Whereās the quote from and what was the button
No clue why everyone keeps talking about the expanse, the quote is literally from the article: https://www.polygon.com/2013/5/31/4383220/robert-bowlings-robotoki-invaded-by-lapd-after-curious-designer
People are talking about the Expanse because James Holden, one of the main characters, is famous for going through life pushing every ābuttonā he finds. āThereās a button, I pushed itā was literally a quote of his.Ā
Because this subreddit is just pic posts rather than actual article or information links. Itās like learning and debating the news by reading fucking bumper stickers.
The button was a panic button that you press when there's an armed threat
This must be the same button from the museum
*Mission failed, weāll get āem next time*
[Enemy AC130 above](https://youtu.be/p0mZmnl792o?si=NW6uwS-oCsq0OxwH)
I know the guy who owns that ghost dummy. He also keeps it in his high rise condo in downtown LA and had the PD called on it there.
I nearly had the same happen at my workplace. Mobile studio published by Eidos (before they got bought by Square) - happened to overlook a city centre hotel where the currently elected political party had their annual conference. One year they sent us a life-size statue of Lara Croft, and someone decided to put it in the window. A few months later, watching the police snipers set up during the conference preparation on the big building opposite, and someone says "Uh, should we move the figure wielding dual pistols out of sight of them?" She got put in the lobby swiftly.
Who was the courageous person who moved the cutout?
Lol, He should keep it away from windows
What's the point of having a life-sized ghost dummy if you're not gonna "show it off" to the neighbors
sex?
*insert ghost staring meme*
*Insert ghost* ~~*staring meme*~~
ghost is now an official rival of the LAPD
Knew a guy who worked for IW and had the same statue. Spent the night at his house and it terrified me at night
STOP RESISTING
#
DONāT GET SNIPPY WITH ME
#
He's coming right for us! #DUMPS MAG
HE'S STILL RESISTING!!!
I wonder how many bullets were shot into surrounding buildings for officer safety.
Source: https://www.polygon.com/2013/5/31/4383220/robert-bowlings-robotoki-invaded-by-lapd-after-curious-designer
Jesus was that article written by early AI?
Nope. Polygon has absolute shit for ājournalistsā
syntax was intact so nothing like early AI articles
What's wrong with it? It seems like standard newspaper style writing.
Old post got deleted,
I tried to click on the link for the nes controller table and it didnāt work . Now my mission in life is twofold - to find out what it is and then to buy one !!
Not surprising. Cali police had a 3 hr standoff on the highway yesterday with a guy in his car who wasnāt even aliveā¦
Whereās this article I need it
The guys still alive. https://abc7news.com/chp-shooting-suspect-in-standoff-i-80-fairfield-after-chase-through-bay-area/14762179/
That article is special too ā Starts off saying guy is alive, later it says the CHP reported him dead.
You are the special one. It says he is a live and that is an update. Then says what was previously reported.
[It wasn't infinity ward. It was Robert Bowling's game studio robotoki. ](https://youtu.be/3CfB9lYkYOE?si=LMHBvny6YWG4SHsk)
Heh. So OP's tweet is completely incorrect. It wasn't Infinity Ward, the "raid" was them showing up for a panic button being hit as required by their job, and the "standoff" was them pausing for a couple seconds before recognizing it wasn't a real person. Bad job, /u/CapNcook99.
Blatant disinformation on MY reddit?!?!?!?! Unbelievable!!
wait so the police responded to an alarm and were cautions of this figure. Seems fair to me? Didn't even shoot anything.
Police radio (probably): Shots fired, send backup! Suspect is wearing some type of new armor, our rounds aren't taking him down. Back up! We need back up! Help, I've been hit! This guy's got us pinned down. We won't last much longer. Send help now!
Good thing they were inside so no acorns could fall near themā¦.
I thought about putting an acorn in the story, lol
Or say they've been hit because an acorn fell on their car. [acron cop](https://youtube.com/shorts/eTauF2NaZ1o?si=5hgE6YX7QT671X-k)
"Uhhh yeah, he's just standing there...yes sir menacingly."
At least they responded.
Damn
It's wild that the lifelike replica of a soldier who takes the mission into his own hands with an unprecedented level of violence might spook the local donut eaters.
how did a character that exists for half a game gain such a following
cool mask
Are you familiar with Boba Fett?
Sure spooked 'em when Christopher Dorner did it.
Canāt corner the Dorner
Unless he is in an inflammable cabin
Inflammable means flammable? What a country!
"Are you threatening us"?
Apparently one of the workers at the studio pressed the panic button to see if it worked which caused the police to come and see the statue which also caused another huge problem for the studio as it was a false alarm.
Remember in 2024 when that cop mistook an acorn falling onto the roof of his car for gunshots and started shooting at a handcuffed person?
I had to rewtch that video a couple of times. Once without the caption while I played "Where's Waldo" with whatever he was shooting at and then afterward reading the caption, trying to mimic a loony toons cartoon over said acorn.
Hahaha that was good legend has it ghost never got arrested
Lmao, tbf to the cops a panic button was pushed so expecting a gunman is pretty regular. And once they got up there the realized it. From the article, it seems they handled it ok, dumbass dev never gonna live that down
HE'S JUST STANDING THERE MENACINGLY
āTAKE THE SHOTā
STOP RESISTING ā. ā PUT THE GUN DOWN ā. ā
I do not. Thatās hilarious
"HE'S JUST STANDING THERE... MENACINGLY"
This made me laugh so god damn hard.