Posted on 02/13/2008 8:02:17 AM PST by Kirkwood
New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin and Police Superintendent Warren Riley on Tuesday used the floor of the Superdome to display more than $1 million in new armament and other equipment, largely for use by the SWAT squad in emergency and riot situations, including a fully equipped mobile command post, two armored cars and modern assault rifles.
(Excerpt) Read more at nola.com ...
I bet you $20 I know where you got those shoes
Better yet,Looter Dude should be photoshpped in(no clue how to do it myself)
“Wait ‘til THIS picture hits the internet!!”
photoshpped=photoshopped
"These will come in handy at the next city council meeting!"
Just pissing away tax payers money no body else would.
So that is how the legal gun owners in N.O. city limts will lose their guns, hope no more ‘Canes come a-callin’....
Dumbest picture I’ve ever seen, right there...
“Now let’s go get’em crackers and make dis a real Chocolate City”
Send 'em both back for training.
I also want to mention, I have no respect for that city re-electing that loser Nagin.
Nagin, What an
Excellent. (Probably lost on others)
You obviously spent time in the Vieux Carré.
I’ll count to ten before I start shooting.
Another example of black on black crime.
Please tell me this is photoshopped...Nagin really isn’t pointing a rifle at that guy, right?
Nagin needs a course in gun safety!
The local LEOs have multi-million-dollar robotic bomb detonators, SWAT teams that make U.S. combat-infantry squads in Iraq look like Boy Scouts, and APCs that sit, rusting away, in the county garage. Meanwhile, there is no money to fund extra foot patrols downtown where *every* night thugs from the adjacent housing project rob and assault people walking home from the bars and restaurants.
Gun safety ping...Check out this unbelievably stupid mayor.
AGREED!!!
Anyone pointing a weapon’s muzzle at me had best be prepared to die!! I take that $hit seriously!
Whether the idiot realizes it or not, he just threatened the man’s life!!! THIS IS ASSAULT WITH A DEADLY WEAPON!!!
THIS is why we have so many damned gun control laws; because a$$holes like this, are out there doing this $hit and thinking it damned funny!!!
Well Just Darn! I am headed there early April for a convention! I guess NOW I will be forced to behave myself.
LOL
Bayou Classic festivities
And would that include a case of Heineken’s?
And a P.S.
My dad taught me gun safety at a young age and that included control the direction of your muzzle, never point a gun at something unless you intend to shoot it, never play with guns, always assume every weapon is loaded.
Nagin is an idiot. Probably on drugs and booze. The police ossifer allowing Nagin to point a gun at him is a moron.
“Say hello to my little Friend!”
Wonder where they stole it from?
Liberals holding assault weapons is fun! Take everybody else’s first, then we can PLAY!!!
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preparing for a small war ???
Bet the 'people' feel much safer knowing these clowns are better armed...
What an idiot! Look how he’s pointing it at the officer with his finger on the trigger. Loaded or not, that’s a big no-no.
Is he?
Such BS!!! These weapons should be given to all those who had their firearms confiscated during the flood. Hell, some of these weapons might actually be ones confiscated during the floor.
I cannot believe that, you never point a gun at anyone, every gun is loaded I don’t care how many times the idiot who handed it to you says it wasn’t. Amazing lack of gun saftey, the cop should lose his job.
Gee, good thing they confiscated all the residents’ guns. Only police and politicians can safely handle weapons.
Bastards.
I think Nagin's left index finger is actually below the trigger guard. Regardless, it's a foolish thing to do.
I’ve lived in New Orleans my whole life — spent my share of time in the VC — and have never once heard that come on.
Some questions pop to mind after reading the story:
Now that the cops have new weapons, will they return those illegally seized from private citizens after Katrina?
Does this mean that no mass desertions from the NOPD can be expected if there is another large natural disaster?
Will that police officer ever hand Mayor Nutjob another weapon to model?
By golly, you're right. Still stupid.
Suprising.
Lived on the West Bank for 4 years (and miss it). Saw the kids in VC lookin’ to hustle tourists use it.
Okay, who knows when the NOPD first used a modern assault rifle? It was in all the papers...
Why is this POS still mayor?
His pointer finger is below the trigger guard.
Years ago I took a fellow out shooting who grew up on LI,New York. He had the same look Nagin has when he was shooting my 30/30. After he squeezed off his five rounds I took the gun from him and NEVER took the fool shooting again!
It’ll all be under water and rusting with then next major storm.
These guys just love the glamour of shooting druggies and playing adrenaline cowboy. If they were serious about knocking out crime, they’d focus on the sewer. But that’ll never happen, it’s not glamorous enough.
http://www.collisiondetection.net/mt/archives/2007/08/community_urina.html
“Community urinalysis”: Drug-testing an entire city via its sewage
This is both wonderfully practical and totally hilarious: A couple of Oregon scientists developed a technique that lets you take a teaspoon of water from a city’s sewer plant and detect which drugs the population is currently using. It’s based on a simple point: Every drug you take eventually comes out in your urine, and a community’s urine all goes in one direction — down the toilet.
They’ve only tested a few different cities, but the regional differences are intriguing:
One of the early results of the new study showed big differences in methamphetamine use city to city. One urban area with a gambling industry had meth levels more than five times higher than other cities. Yet methamphetamine levels were virtually non-existent in some smaller Midwestern locales, said Jennifer Field, the lead researcher and a professor of environmental toxicology at Oregon State.
The ingredient Americans consume and excrete the most was caffeine, Field said. [snip]
She said that one fairly affluent community scored low for illicit drugs except for cocaine. Cocaine and ecstasy tended to peak on weekends and drop on weekdays, she said, while methamphetamine and prescription drugs were steady throughout the week.
This is, of course, largely being viewed as a technique for urban-health analysis and crime prevention: By knowing which drugs are on the rise in a particular city, doctors and police can help prepare for the health implications, and try to combat them. But just imagine the more sordid uses of the information! Like the bragging rights these tests could give to urban decadents, or even travel guides. “New York City — highest per-capital use of injectable heroin in the nation!!”
(Thanks to Top 10 Sources for this one!)
Posted by Clive Thompson at August 27, 2007 02:02 PM
http://www.slate.com/id/2172848/
Scientists are drug-testing whole cities through their sewage systems. Concept: “community urinalysis.” Sample required: 1 teaspoon of wastewater. Drugs targeted: cocaine, meth, pot, oxycodone, and 11 others. Ten cities have been tested so far; more are in the works. In addition, “The U.S. Office of National Drug Control Policy has obtained samples from a dozen different waterways.” Official purpose: Tracking drug use collectively so we don’t have to target people individually. Unofficial purpose: Tracking drug use collectively so we can choose where to target people individually.
Teaspoon of urine can drug test an entire city - Addictions- msnbc.comAug 21, 2007 ... In the study presented Tuesday, one teaspoon of untreated sewage water from each of ... Vote: What do you think of citywide drug testing? ...
www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20380094/
Schneier on Security: Drug Testing an Entire CommunityDrug Testing an Entire Community. You won’t identity individual users, but you can test for the prevalence of drug use in a community by testing the sewage ...
www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2007/08/drug_testing_an.html
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