Police run over calf - reasonable?

[Robertb]

Shooting at dogs on the street now…
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ced3wjvzx2lo

[dickymint]

Robertb said:

Shooting at dogs on the street now…
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ced3wjvzx2lo

Thankfully there were no calfs sat in the cars that got hit !!

[DonkeyApple]

Robertb said:

Shooting at dogs on the street now…
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ced3wjvzx2lo

7 shots fired and not one seemingly hits the owner of the dog.

[Hugo Stiglitz]

Robertb said:

Shooting at dogs on the street now…
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ced3wjvzx2lo

OK? And?

[CoolHands]

If they’d used .357 they wouldn’t have needed 7 shots. A few bystanders might have got taken out, though apparently that’s not an issue for PH expert marksmen!

Mooo

[Evanivitch]

DonkeyApple said:

Robertb said:

Shooting at dogs on the street now…
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ced3wjvzx2lo

7 shots fired and not one seemingly hits the owner of the dog.

That's because it obviously never happened.

DonkeyApple said:

And yet you suggest the use of such tools in this environment. And you appear to think a police officer will have been trained where to hit the animal? And that it will be stationary? And that it was broad daylight? Or that they would be permitted to even make the attempt? Or be available? As per usual you head off down naive street.

[DonkeyApple]

Evanivitch said:

DonkeyApple said:

Robertb said:

Shooting at dogs on the street now…
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ced3wjvzx2lo

7 shots fired and not one seemingly hits the owner of the dog.

That's because it obviously never happened.

DonkeyApple said:

And yet you suggest the use of such tools in this environment. And you appear to think a police officer will have been trained where to hit the animal? And that it will be stationary? And that it was broad daylight? Or that they would be permitted to even make the attempt? Or be available? As per usual you head off down naive street.

You were suggesting the use of high powered rifles in an urban environment. This recent saga somewhat highlight the farce of such thinking.

[Nibbles_bits]

Robertb said:

Shooting at dogs on the street now…
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ced3wjvzx2lo

Why didn’t they just calmly lead it back indoors? It's only a dog??

[Nibbles_bits]

Collectingbrass said:

Catweazle said:

Forester1965 said:

Why does that matter?

Because, presumably, a young woman is a lot easier to wrestle to the ground than a calf is and that's not considering the fact that a calf has two more legs. Also, a young woman with a baseball bat can understand instructions given by the police which is something that the calf cannot do, unless it's a particularly intelligent calf compared to a singularly stupid woman.

If she didn't obey she'd likely get a baton to the knee cap as a minimum. A cow can't comprehend a request to desist and a warning of consequences if not.

As a person, she would very likely hear and understand commands made of her.
As a person, she could be reasoned with.
As a person, taser would very likely be effective.
Etc etc.

[Evanivitch]

DonkeyApple said:

Evanivitch said:

DonkeyApple said:

Robertb said:

Shooting at dogs on the street now…
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ced3wjvzx2lo

7 shots fired and not one seemingly hits the owner of the dog.

That's because it obviously never happened.

DonkeyApple said:

And yet you suggest the use of such tools in this environment. And you appear to think a police officer will have been trained where to hit the animal? And that it will be stationary? And that it was broad daylight? Or that they would be permitted to even make the attempt? Or be available? As per usual you head off down naive street.

You were suggesting the use of high powered rifles in an urban environment. This recent saga somewhat highlight the farce of such thinking.

And yet despite not knowing how to shoot a dog, the dog not standing still, it being a populated urban area, and it approaching sunset, they still went around shooting at a dog.



Is that #1 Naive street you live at?

[DonkeyApple]

Evanivitch said:

DonkeyApple said:

Evanivitch said:

DonkeyApple said:

Robertb said:

Shooting at dogs on the street now…
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ced3wjvzx2lo

7 shots fired and not one seemingly hits the owner of the dog.

That's because it obviously never happened.

DonkeyApple said:

And yet you suggest the use of such tools in this environment. And you appear to think a police officer will have been trained where to hit the animal? And that it will be stationary? And that it was broad daylight? Or that they would be permitted to even make the attempt? Or be available? As per usual you head off down naive street.

You were suggesting the use of high powered rifles in an urban environment. This recent saga somewhat highlight the farce of such thinking.

And yet despite not knowing how to shoot a dog, the dog not standing still, it being a populated urban area, and it approaching sunset, they still went around shooting at a dog.



Is that #1 Naive street you live at?

You seem extremely confused or remarkably dim. To actually pop back up and use the farce of trying to shoot a dog with normal police firearms and repeatedly missing as some kind of proof that a cow should have been shot with high powered firearms is possibly the dumbest things done on PH this week. Well done.

[Evanivitch]

DonkeyApple said:

You seem extremely confused or remarkably dim. To actually pop back up and use the farce of trying to shoot a dog with normal police firearms and repeatedly missing as some kind of proof that a cow should have been shot with high powered firearms is possibly the dumbest things done on PH this week. Well done.

You keep calling 7.62 a high powered weapon

[gotoPzero]

Depends on your flavour of 7.62 tbh...

Some are more spicy than others.

That said - they all have plenty of poke, enough to deal with any small game, dogs, humans, zombies, intermediate size aliens.

You know the usual.

[The Gauge]

Looks like they've turned this debacle into a film going by the DVD cover. That vehicle must have rammed the cow at hight speed to get it so high into the air. Puts our cops to shame..

[DonkeyApple]

The Gauge said:

Looks like they've turned this debacle into a film going by the DVD cover. That vehicle must have rammed the cow at hight speed to get it so high into the air. Puts our cops to shame..

That's government funded propaganda to control the masses with climate fear, bruv.

[Super Sonic]

The Gauge said:

Looks like they've turned this debacle into a film going by the DVD cover. That vehicle must have rammed the cow at hight speed to get it so high into the air. Puts our cops to shame..

[Roger Irrelevant]

DonkeyApple said:

The Gauge said:

Looks like they've turned this debacle into a film going by the DVD cover. That vehicle must have rammed the cow at hight speed to get it so high into the air. Puts our cops to shame..

That's government funded propaganda to control the masses with climate fear, bruv.

I reckon you're right, it's meant to be summer but it's bloody friesian outside today.

...but seriously, what's happened there is that somebody dangling from a helicopter has grabbed the errant bovine by the tail. Obviously that solution was beyond our woke, health-n' safety obsessed British bobbies. They're so stupid.

[Nibbles_bits]

Do you know how difficult it is to get PeNAS airborne?



Nope too much cloud cover

[Bigends]

This today

https://www.lbc.co.uk/news/police-ram-cow-investig...

[CoolHands]

Does it really warrant that level of investigation. Imagine the cost. Meanwhile real crimes get ignored. Make a decision - reprimand the officer or not, and moove on.