Comments on: More police advocacy

By: Standard Mischief

Standard Mischief — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 16:56:56 +0000

Jim Wagner's training site is back up, but I can't find the image to confirm it's his. The exact same image (md5sums match) is available on this web page, although there's some lame anti right-click javascript. (he's got a copyright notice on his page too) Simple workaround is just to use the deep link. Here too, although it's slightly different. Deep link (no copyright embedded in this one) Exercise left for the reader. Exercise left for the reader.

By: Kent

Kent — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 20:19:55 +0000

BTW, let�s have a contest: let�s �shop� the web for various city SWAT sites and publish links � they are full of examples like this � indicating perhaps the same mind set?

By: straightarrow

straightarrow — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 07:12:54 +0000

Shoot everybody armed with an assault baby. I can’t wait to hear them say something along those lines. They will.

By: workinwifdakids

workinwifdakids — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 00:50:25 +0000

I think you’re right about rounding up the department’s command structure. You better make that a no-knock warrant. Who can hear them scream “POLICE!” if it’s masked by a battering ram crashing in their front door?

By: straightarrow

straightarrow — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 23:39:28 +0000

I used to live in Lima. I didn’t meet many of the cops, but those I did were indicative of a subhuman species and had no regard for citizens. Fortunately, I had very little interaction with them, but I did see how they operated.

By: john

john — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 22:48:14 +0000

standard mischief, thanks for the firefox tip!

By: buzz

buzz — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 18:25:16 +0000

Unless your shooting into a mirror, you are not going to get that flash on the helmet. Clearly the only solution is to send heavly armed swat crews to kick in the door of the webmaster, designer, chief of police, swat commanders homes to effect the arrest. After all, we know many of them have guns. Some may have used one. Better safe than sorry.

By: Cactus Jack

Cactus Jack — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 18:09:57 +0000

Nice pic of a cop that’s done his “homework”. We should ask the Vung family in Minneapolis how accurate it is.

By: Standard Mischief

Standard Mischief — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 17:48:35 +0000

Firefox mischief: If you have annoying animated images like this on a page and you wish them to stop cycling, just hit the Esc key. I don’t know if it works in IE.

By: Standard Mischief

Standard Mischief — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 17:45:15 +0000

I couldn’t pull up his website last night, but there seems to be a Jim Wagner that runs SWAT team training sessions. At least that’s what Google says.

By: Kevin Baker

Kevin Baker — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 16:22:25 +0000

Boy, that image really does say “I’m from the Government and I’m here to help you!” doesn’t it?

By: _Jon

_Jon — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 15:05:09 +0000

The gif is pretty good work, though. Note the reflection on the helmet and armor of the ‘flash’. Mr. Wagner seems to be pretty talented and should be compensated by the Lima PD for his work, meh thinks…

By: Nylarthotep

Nylarthotep — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 12:08:34 +0000

Nice to see that they are “serving and Protecting” the subjects of Lima Ohio.

Nothing quite sends a message of oppression like showing the way you will be seeing the local police when they arrive to clean up after a crime.

Who ever designed that website should be fired. (Out of a cannon)

By: Standard Mischief

Standard Mischief — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 06:45:06 +0000

Google cache is not forever. It is, however, usually long enough. Anyone else that wants to see the image, well it’s still on the site. URL deeplink is here.

The best part about all of this is that if you pull a little *nix mischief:

# strings swat.gif|head

you’ll see the following:

So should we send in the Lima, Ohio SWAT team on a copyright infringement warrant? Perhaps a DMCA takedown notice?

By: Mike W.

Mike W. — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 04:20:21 +0000

wow they even have a link to a “No Guns Sign” PDF file for stores to use.