Cops with submachine guns raid home - owner posted picture of TOY weapon on FB

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Operation overkill: Armed cops swoop on Action Man looking for a mortar after owner posts picture of TOY weapon on Facebook

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Ian Driscoll posted photo of Action Man as his profile picture on Facebook
In the background was a toy mortar gun, about six inches tall
More than a month later, five officers, including two armed with submachine guns, arrived at his home.

By DAILY MAIL REPORTER
PUBLISHED: 15:24 GMT, 13 February 2013 | UPDATED: 07:47 GMT, 14 February 2013

Stormed: Armed police raced to the home of Ian Driscoll (pictured) after he posted a new profile picture on Facebook featuring an Action Man, along with a toy mortar gun in the background

There were five police officers at the door, two of them carrying submachine guns.

And they were ready to smash the door open so it was fortunate Ian Driscoll was in when they pulled up outside his home.
They had come in search of a deadly mortar tube – spotted in the background of a picture that Mr Driscoll had posted on Facebook.

Mr Driscoll, 43, did indeed have a mortar in the home and promptly showed it to the squad.
It was a toy.

After inspecting the model mortar, the rather embarrassed team of officers apologised and took their leave.

‘I couldn’t believe someone thought it was real,’ said Mr Driscoll, a model maker, at his home in Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire.

‘It’s tiny and quite clearly a toy. I can’t stop laughing. I think it’s hilarious.’

The mortar, or at least part of it, was featured in a picture Mr Driscoll took of an Action Man figure and a toy Alsatian dog.

He posted the picture on Facebook ‘as a laugh’ because he says he looks rather like the Action Man figure and owns an Alsatian.

The mortar was near to a TV remote control which showed how small it was. Nevertheless, someone called in the police.


Read more: Operation overkill: Armed cops swoop on Action Man looking for a mortar after owner posts picture of TOY weapon on Facebook | Mail Online
 
They have no problem undermining the 2nd amendment so what makes us think they have a problem undermining the 4th or even the 1st.
 
AgeofKnowledge said:
They have no problem undermining the 2nd amendment so what makes us think they have a problem undermining the 4th or even the 1st.
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I'm going to point this out before someone who disagrees with you does. The man is British, so he doesn't have an enumerated Bill of Rights to protect his ability to keep and bear arms.

That does not make the fundamentals of your comment irrelevant.

1. The Right to Bear arms does indeed have British roots like almost everything else that has to do with our political order. British commoners kept military grade hardware in their homes for multiple reasons that are still relevant today. Indeed, made more relevant by an action such as this.

2. The Atlantic is a thin social barrier.

3. The government typically attracts idiots who cannot tell a hawk from a handsaw.
 
I was using "they" in a universal sense. There ARE natural rights Ritter. Unfortunately, not every government has codified them and even those that have always seem to have "they"s trying to undermine them.

Ritter said:
I'm going to point this out before someone who disagrees with you does. The man is British, so he doesn't have an enumerated Bill of Rights to protect his ability to keep and bear arms.

That does not make the fundamentals of your comment irrelevant.

1. The Right to Bear arms does indeed have British roots like almost everything else that has to do with our political order. British commoners kept military grade hardware in their homes for multiple reasons that are still relevant today. Indeed, made more relevant by an action such as this.

2. The Atlantic is a thin social barrier.

3. The government typically attracts idiots who cannot tell a hawk from a handsaw.
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AgeofKnowledge said:
I was using "they" in a universal sense. There ARE natural rights Ritter. Unfortunately, not every government has codified them and even those that have always seem to have "they"s trying to undermine them.
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The irony is that the governments who codify them find away around them by creating more of them.

Hence my trouble with Right Theory in general. Once a people create or recognize their Rights, they quickly forget the importance of the Rights they have, because they see the benign "injustice" otherwise known as reality contort the kit-gloves society they want to build.

There truly is no end. We had FDR propose an Economic Bill of Rights that went nowhere, people assert "reproductive" rights, then rights for every demographic imaginable, and finally morons proposing that we give cruise ship passengers a Bill of Rights.

Sure, you and I are well grounded in our defense of abstract rights that are integral to Self-Government and based on eternal truths. But the others?

It's like the Hydra of Greek myth, you take away one fundamental right, and others will pop up in its place that are more accepted because they are "relevant" to our increasingly dark times.
 
>>>>3. The government typically attracts idiots who cannot tell a hawk from a handsaw.<<<<

LOL...Ritter.... LOL...thanks!
 
the points in the story i was alarmed by:

1) some stazi called the cops over a FB pic
2) the cops apparently never checked the pic themselves before swatting up (a tv remote showed scale)
3) if they did check it, apparently they can't tell the difference between toys and the real thing

nothing good about it.
 
Zone,

You best be careful. With long hair and jeans someone might think you are one of those hippie Christians! Ha Ha.
 
I will never post pictures of my children playing on FB, if every little toy is going to get my house raided.

 
I WAS AT THE PUBLIC LIBRAY, USING MY REAL NAME, WHICH IS VERY RUSSIAN BOTH FIRST AND LAST, AND KGB KEPT POPPING UP ON THE SCREEN TO REPLY TO THE TYPE IN THE LETTERS, KGB IS THE RUSSIAN SECRET POLICE. LOL
 
Jkalyna, I don't think that was the KGB but the Internet Etiquette police. They want their Caps-lock key back.
 
I read through the article and don't see any indication that his FB photo settings were set to allow public viewing prior to the search warrant being served. It seems odd that it had been posted for a month before any of his friends were upset enough with him to report him to the police or that an average civilian could identify what it was from what little they could see. Interesting...
 
Jullianna said:
I read through the article and don't see any indication that his FB photo settings were set to allow public viewing prior to the search warrant being served. It seems odd that it had been posted for a month before any of his friends were upset enough with him to report him to the police or that an average civilian could identify what it was from what little they could see. Interesting...
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I guess it takes a month before the CIA facebook screeners catch it. ;D
 
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