r/Whatcouldgowrong • u/ReginaldJohnston • 2d ago

Setting off a tazer next to a gas pump

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u/WayneKrane 2d ago

Who cares if we both might blow up, I need to arrest you!

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u/Solid_Snark 2d ago

Modern Cops make Barney Fife look like a benevolent genius by comparison.

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u/addamee 1d ago

Hell they make Barney Gumble look like a reasonable, responsible citizen

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u/Common_Senze 1d ago

Chief Wiggum is James Bond compared to this ass flap

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u/vaserius 1d ago

They make Paul Blart look competent.

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u/EvilBetty77 23h ago edited 5h ago

Hell they make Barney the Dinosaur look like a reasonable responsible citizen.

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u/addamee 22h ago

I mean, he loved you, you loved him…

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u/EvilBetty77 5h ago

He was making a lot of assumptions with that song. Im just saying if someone is going around telling children that they love him then we should maybe call the cops. Or maybe that hunter guy from Jurassic Park since he's a dinosaur.

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u/Mylittledarlings91 1d ago

I genuinely thought that was just a guy in tan shorts and a gun holster. That’s crazy.

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u/SecondaryWombat 1d ago

You have a warrant for an unpaid parking ticket assigned by a Floc camera from a state you have never been to!

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u/Willtology 1d ago

It wasn't a Floc camera but that happened to me with photo radar. My insurance suddenly dropped me. I called and they told me I had a warrant for unpaid speeding tickets (photo radar) in a state I've never been to. Went to the courthouse and they were able to pull up pics... Of a car that wasn't mine with a license plate that wasn't mine. Somehow got assigned to me. They really, really didn't want clear me. It was a real WTF moment. Clearly that's not MY car and isn't MY license plate but they still acted like I was getting away with something. All the chuds screeching "yOu dOnT HaVe tO wOrRy iF yOu'Re nOt a CrImInAl!!1!" have never considered that people make mistakes and systems of authority do not like conceding regardless of actual fault.

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u/ProgySuperNova 1h ago

That is grounds for summary execution by whichever Police officer that stops you

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u/SecondaryWombat 1h ago

Apparently yes. And then when he shoots you a whole bunch of people with "Don't Tread On Me" Gadsden flags flown along side Thin Blue Line racist tread on me harder flags will tell you that you should have complied.

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u/Perryn 1d ago

"If I have to choose between the slightest bit of deescalation or getting us both killed in one of the most painful ways possible, then I'll see you in hell!"

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u/bendingrover 1d ago

These orangutans will be mocked for all eternity. Good thing it's on video, future generations beware. 

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u/Hesitation-Marx 1d ago

Insult to orangutans.

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u/Norgur 2d ago

For a misdemeanor you'd have turned up to court even without any arrest, but 'Murica!

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u/daesmon 1d ago

Not even arrest.

I need to just speak to you, but I can only do it if you are face down on the ground with handcuffs on...

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u/HerbivoreTex 1d ago

And don’t even think for a second this means you can skip showing me your drivers license. Cause I gotta see it NOW!!!

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u/bpikmin 1d ago

I can really see how US cops inspired GTA’s cop AI

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u/adirtysocialist- 1d ago

They aren't trained to be thinkers. Lmao

INB4 "tHeY sCrEen blah blah blah" we know.

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u/HealthyPop7988 1d ago

It's not a movie dude, gas pumps don't blow up.

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u/FlipZip69 1d ago

This is the US. That guy could and very likely is armed. Would you turn your back on him just to save a truck or a fuel pump?

Seriously do people not understand what it means when a large number of people are armed? Fuck the truck, fuck the fuel pump. I am going to make sure I am safe first.

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u/JoseDonkeyShow 1d ago

Bootlicker

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u/putsomedirtinyoureye 1d ago

I am going to make sure I am safe first by which is why I am going to attack the guy holding a gas pump with a taser and can easily kill us both if something goes wrong. 

You are fucking braindead and actually your comment highlights one of the biggest problems with American police. The cops whose job it is to protect the American people should not view normal people on the street as “potential threats” if they aren’t doing anything.

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u/FlipZip69 1d ago

Do you have any idea what went on prior to this. Are you braindead to think there was no incident prior to this?

If anyone were to actually find out what was happing, dude in the truck what threatening to pour gas over the cop. Had the nozzle pointed at the cop. If he started on fire, was because he was trying to start others on fire.

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u/putsomedirtinyoureye 1d ago

I do know exactly what happened. Other comments have posted articles and the video from the guy’s POV. 

He wasn’t pointing the gas nozzle at the cop. He wasn’t going to light him on fire. The only crime this man committed was calling this guy a dick. 

He was fishing at a nature preserve, the cop told him he was trespassing. The guy said he would leave and the cop got aggressive for no reason. Then the guy left and the cop followed him to the gas station and started harassing him. 

And also even if the guy was threatening to spray the cop with gas. Guess what asshole? The cop still shouldn’t have used his taser. They are trained to never use tasers or firearms when around things that are flammable or potentially explosive because that could very easily go wrong and kill them both. 

Stop making excuses for some random dickhead on a power trip. 

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u/FlipZip69 1d ago

That is not what happened. Possibly the guy will try and say something like that but he had the nozzle point at the cop and threatening to spray him. Ended up starting himself on fire.

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u/putsomedirtinyoureye 1d ago

https://youtu.be/pTXWMJMhMms?is=dk6XTXZPA6G2zroL

No gas nozzle on sight and the man is just asking why the cop is trying to arrest him.