sir prince duke alevine wrote on Feb 27^th, 2016 at 11:00am:


In a real film set there would be over a dozen people filming a simple scene. There would be a professional camera, maybe as large as 1 meter long, about 30 cm wide, as much as 50 cm high, plus on top of that it would probably be sitting on a large stand/post. There would be someone with a microphone boom arm, a director, probably a lot of audio visual equipment with possibly a van or two sitting close, and there would probably be artificial lighting posts set up as well. It would be so obvious it was a film scene, especially since parts of the street would be cordoned off.   

What were these guys using? A cam corder? Maybe only a mobile phone? If it was a phone you may not even know they were recording the scene even if you were looking at them. Plus with everyone being youtube journalist these days, even if the scene was real you would expect at least someone to be standing filming it on their phone.

I seriously can't see how in the heat of the moment it would be obvious to a cop that it was film set. In fact, it wouldn't even be a shock that such an event would be filmed by a group of terrorist anyway. You can see plenty of internet films of terrorist actions captured by the terrorist themselves. Why would any cop assume such a scene was just a home video for fun?      

sir prince duke alevine wrote on Feb 26^th, 2016 at 11:06pm:

Oh yes , all so merry. what a prank, pretending to kill and bomb people. heres the thing, if I thought my life or someone elses life was in immediate danger and I was able to, I wouldnt hesitate. Killing someone  to stop them doing harm would be appropriate and highly explainable in the coroners court. Some people are trained to run towards danger and stop it, by any means available, not run away from it like you. Thats what these fools dont understand. Like you I dont think these people should be charged, i just think they should be allowed to do it until they come across the wrong person.

Those artists should have  tried one of their pranks on a plane;that would have been epic. Nothing like seeing asswipes getting armbarred.

Quantum wrote on Feb 27^th, 2016 at 5:12pm:

Typical attempts to try and falsely rationalise because we have to be subservient to authority. 

It would be incredibly unusual for a police man to drive around the corner, guns blazing.  Your scenario would more likely play out by the kids seeing the cops, dropping the fake guns and corporating.  And if the cops shot the kids after that then throw away the key at the cops.

ian wrote on Feb 27^th, 2016 at 11:47pm:


100% false.  Even if we were to believe that you would immediately jump to being a hero and killing everyone with your bare hands, it would be deemed manslaughter and likely you would be charged and jailed. 

But the more likely scenario is that you would throw children in front of you and run faster than the speed of sound, in the opposite direction.

The Heartless Felon wrote on Feb 28^th, 2016 at 6:52am:

Do you ask yourself that every time you watch gotcha shows?

freediver wrote on Feb 28^th, 2016 at 7:03am:


I can't actually. What is it so bad that they did?

Should it be illegal to run with someone while holding a cricket bat?  The cops might confuse The situation and start killing immediately.

I mean sorry but it's a ludicrous argument to suggest that something that poses no danger should be for some reason illegal. And it's ridiculous to try and rationalise it with wild what ifs.

If you can see the obvious difference, why bring it up?

A cop will not shoot you if you merely have a cricket bat. Compared to an automatic weapon, the urgency to disarm you is not there. If you have an automatic weapon, the cop is pretty much obliged to shoot first in the interests of public safety. And if you do not appear to be committing a crime, there is also far less urgency.

Are you just pretending to not see the difference? How many different ways do we need to explain this to you?