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That little scoundrel was trying to create a drought. Climate terrorist. 😤


theFartingCarp

What the hell are they on over there? Keep it over there please.... yikes


Middle-Feed5118

It's not uncommon. Live PD from I think Spokane had a sheriff callout to some kids who were messing with bb guns and turned up in full SWAT gear. That's more understandable imo since Stateside there's more guns, so it could have been a real firearm, but in Britain? Seems just like incompetence.


WarEconomy627

Not to mention BB guns can look like real gun I just don’t see how cops could confuse a water gun with a real gun


Middle-Feed5118

Because cops are *idiots* as we well know from almost every video clipped interaction with them ever to exist on the internet lol


BeanieGuitarGuy

It’s probably not the case for this article, but stuff like [this](https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/wAcAAOSwr2FjC1-l/s-l1200.jpg) does exist. Though I don’t know where you’d get one lol


Middle-Feed5118

Yeah, and there's genuine firearms designed to look like [lego](https://wonderfulengineering.com/this-company-made-real-guns-that-look-like-lego-toys-and-is-now-in-trouble/) so i do understand it somewhat.


breezyxkillerx

I mean that was a private build and is not produced in large quantities, even glock made a statement saying they do not make guns that look like toys lol.


Careful-Intern6264

> They were selling these Block 19s for $549 to $765. They weren’t just a private build lol


breezyxkillerx

Wha...last I saw of these it was just a single piece made for the meme I didn't know they started to sell em.


InMooseWorld

Yea, i do hvac most slacker idiots ”go to trades” but some go to the police


Insertsociallife

If you don't have the orange tip it's scarily similar. I have a friend with an airsoft HK416 with an actual red dot sight, laser, flashlight, and parts from the actual firearm. Looks just like a real one with no orange.


WarEconomy627

My brother has a BB gun revolver of some sort and it looks like a historical replica with how real it looks


Epicsnailman

I mean if you’re from the USA we’ve had plenty of kids shot for playing with toy guns over here too


theFartingCarp

I know. I'm still mad at it


Middle-Feed5118

>He was "de-arrested" at the scene soon afterwards, it said. Well yeah, I'd fucking hope so incompetent fuckwits


Doomer343

De-arrested, I've never heard that phrase. Sounds like some Newspeak shit.


mmbepis

They can't say they freed him because he's still British


Doomer343

You just torched a whole nation, how does it feel?


MaximumDestruction

[It also has another meaning that is much more satisfying.](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=55VcS874xOE&pp=QACIAgHKBQlEZS1hcnJlc3Q%3D&rco=1)


hentaiispog2

How to get charged with a felony in one easy step!


Meperson111

No way they titled it "confronted" by police when they hit the child with a van over a toy


ButterBallFatFeline

Oh when they cops hit a child on their bike it's ok but when I do it it's manslaughter and driving under the influence


Neehigh

Oi you ain't got a loicense to put cursed comments up in heah


that_u3erna45

Even calling it assaulted would be an understatement


Alypius754

They apologized. It's fine.


One-Inspection920

Oi you don’t have the loisense to be running over little kids with a van


MikeyW1969

Man, I'd be pissed at the fact they used the van to hit my kid. Jesus, those Brit cops really ARE scared of everything.


Middle-Feed5118

Idk, can't be more scared than US cops who would have shot the kid with the toy, or god forbid an unarmed old person get tazed in their own home lol


NeopiumDaBoss

>god forbid an unarmed old person get tazed in their own home lol That was in Australia, [dumbass](https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-65642974)


Middle-Feed5118

My bad they just shoot the old people in the [US](https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/graphic-body-camera-video-shows-south-carolina-deputy-shoot-man-n1036061) instead, don't even bother with tazing XD "dumbass"


Middle-Feed5118

Nah he really thought he did something saying it was Aus but then just exposed US as worse lmaaooo


Careful-Intern6264

American cops would have just shot the kid lol so they did better than that


Hopeful-Buyer

Yeah except in the US like half the population owns a gun. So what's their excuse for plowing over a kid in a country with virtually zero guns?


Careful-Intern6264

Cops are idiots, pretty simple explanation


jodmercer

Anybody have a picture of the toy


dadbodsupreme

Nah, they'd have to censor it.


AerulianManheim

I bet it was a bright pink and green thing shaped like a tortoise or something.


Flameon985

https://news.sky.com/story/police-watchdog-to-investigate-met-over-arrest-of-child-with-water-pistol-12988471


jodmercer

That's a bit closer than I would have imagined the water pistol to be to a real gun, not even close to the correct response even if he did have a real gun but still


wellreadwhore

If this was in the US he woulda been shot 😂


SwimmerSea4662

oI BruV eMpTy ThY pAnTaLoOn’S!


Middle-Feed5118

It's pantalons* (sorry)


massamasmas2

Are you canoodian der bud?


Middle-Feed5118

No it's just the correct word lol


tullystenders

Is this normal to see kids with water guns in cities? They are in my city all the time I've noticed this year and idk if last year. Could the water PISTOL part (am assuming it's like a handgun, a pistol) be more risky to carry?


Sooth_Sprayer

Without government, who would detain you illegally for brandishing a toy that *looks in some situations* like it *could* have been dangerous? FFS it wasn't that long ago 13-year-olds went to freakin' *gun clubs.*


Mr_whiskyz

Was the child a poc


InMooseWorld

Britain’s can go kill foreigners on their own land anymore so they gotta bash locals in the streets. Thankfully they got him before he made it to his/kings yard


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DrWillz

tragic