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Fargo police 'apologetic' after mistaking students' telescope for a gun
Grand Forks HerLd ^ | August 26, 2015 | Aaron Burner

Posted on 08/26/2015 9:36:00 AM PDT by skeptoid

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To: skeptoid

Strange.

Everyone in Fargo is armed.

Why bother?


21 posted on 08/26/2015 9:59:22 AM PDT by Uncle Miltie (Cruz & Trump Supporters: Let's all play through this together, and things will become clear later.)
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To: BenLurkin

Did it have a 30 caliber ghost magazine clip?


22 posted on 08/26/2015 10:00:13 AM PDT by Noumenon (Resistance. Restoration. Retribution.)
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To: BenLurkin
“3 caliber Smith and Wesson”

I'm thinking either a 6" or 8" Celestron. Must be the Atlas model line.

23 posted on 08/26/2015 10:00:34 AM PDT by C210N (When people fear government there is tyranny; when government fears people there is liberty)
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To: I want the USA back

I read the headline and had two thoughts: I hope they aren’t black students and they probably aren’t black students with a telescooe in Fargo.


24 posted on 08/26/2015 10:02:20 AM PDT by Rona Badger (Heeds the calling wind.)
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To: Lx

Fully automatic, with target acquisition and tracking.


25 posted on 08/26/2015 10:02:28 AM PDT by polymuser ( Enough is enough)
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To: Red Badger
You should long since have been aware that a degree is no indicator of even the most nominal intellect. Look at teachers, journalists, Ethnic/Gender Studies majors, Art History, NFL players.

Criminal Justice majors seem to have particular trouble with the restrictions imposed by the Constitution.

In short, a Liberal Arts Degree is as useful as teats on a boar hog.

26 posted on 08/26/2015 10:04:13 AM PDT by jonascord (It's sarcasm unless otherwise noted... This time, it's not.)
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To: skeptoid

In a larger town, such as Chicago the boys would have been shot first then when their parents came out to see what was going on, mom and dad would have been thrown violently to the ground and arrested and kicked a few times before the cops “discovered their mistake” and dropped their extra gun on the ground and a baggie for good measure.


27 posted on 08/26/2015 10:04:56 AM PDT by arthurus (It's true.)
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To: skeptoid

What caliber is the gun the fellow is carrying in that picture?


28 posted on 08/26/2015 10:06:09 AM PDT by arthurus (It's true.)
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To: skeptoid

I had a similar, but not as severe, as a teen and amateur astronomer. In that case the officer just shined a light from his car at me, and did apologize after seeing it was a lanky nerd with a scope.

In his defense there were a couple of gun shot sounds that went off about 30 mins before, that I heard and brushed off because I wasn’t going to pass on a clear night. Teen astronomy nerds are hard-core like that, yo.


29 posted on 08/26/2015 10:07:08 AM PDT by VanDeKoik
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To: ObozoMustGo2012

Dog shooting seems to have gone out of fashion or is at least reduced in frequency.


30 posted on 08/26/2015 10:07:10 AM PDT by arthurus (It's true.)
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To: jonascord

Like the old joke: What do you call the person who graduated at the bottom of his class in medical school?

Doctor....................


31 posted on 08/26/2015 10:07:28 AM PDT by Red Badger (READ MY LIPS: NO MORE BUSHES!...............)
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To: knarf

Sawing off that bazooka would make it a federal crime, no?


32 posted on 08/26/2015 10:07:50 AM PDT by arthurus (It's true.)
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To: arthurus

Notice the sticker on the inside of the trunk lid..........................


33 posted on 08/26/2015 10:08:38 AM PDT by Red Badger (READ MY LIPS: NO MORE BUSHES!...............)
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To: Fresh Wind

Equatorial mounts and Newtonian reflectors in the wrong hands are a deadly combo, that’s for sure!


34 posted on 08/26/2015 10:09:06 AM PDT by VanDeKoik
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To: arthurus
Hmmmmm ... I don't know ....

Is a bazooka a 'gun' ?

35 posted on 08/26/2015 10:11:10 AM PDT by knarf (I say things that are true ... I have no proof ... but they're true.)
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To: skeptoid

If you look carefully at the criminal’s picture you will see the word “paintball” posted on the trunk of his car....obviously some kind of cult member who has done this before


36 posted on 08/26/2015 10:12:14 AM PDT by woofie
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To: woofie

and his buddies (obviously undercover types) ride BLACK MOTORSCOOTERS !!!


37 posted on 08/26/2015 10:14:33 AM PDT by knarf (I say things that are true ... I have no proof ... but they're true.)
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To: skeptoid
The mistook that for a gun?

Maybe a mortar or a cannon, but a gun?

38 posted on 08/26/2015 10:14:35 AM PDT by Mad Dawgg (If you're going to deny my 1st Amendment rights then I must proceed to the 2nd one...)
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To: Blood of Tyrants
It can't be an assault rifle. Black with a telescopic sight? Any democrat or LEO will automatically KNOW that it's a sniper rifle.

Some years back, campus cops called the local police when they saw a procession on campus, led by a guy with a naked sword. (It was the local Masonic Lodge.) The SWAT team showed up, all ready to start shooting. THEN someone called the sheriff, who happened to be a Lodge Brother...

A mass slaughter was averted, but only just.

39 posted on 08/26/2015 10:15:30 AM PDT by jonascord (It's sarcasm unless otherwise noted... This time, it's not.)
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To: Red Badger

Think about getting hit by a paintball from that “gun” the boy is toting.


40 posted on 08/26/2015 10:16:15 AM PDT by arthurus (It's true.)
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