If you see something you may just look like an idiot and waste everybody’s time
Police and FBI pay a visit to a pistol instructor’s house because he bought ammo. You know, an expense for him in the ordinary course of business. Seems who needs that much ammo? warrants a visit. Need has nothing to do with it.
Via Tam, who asks: Where do you draw the line? How far down the slope do you slide before you decide you don’t like the view anymore?
September 29th, 2011 at 10:21 am
Very simple Tam. You know when you get there…
September 29th, 2011 at 10:37 am
Oh and everybodies level is different.
September 29th, 2011 at 10:59 am
I love when the news reports the number of rounds of ammo they find on a police search. “When they searched his home, he had over 100 rounds of ammo!!!1!”
Apparently every round represents a death. So right there the miscreant would certainly have killed over 100 people.
I’ve lost track of more ammo than that.
September 29th, 2011 at 11:58 am
Speaking of “calling the authorities…”
Back when I was a fairly newly minted MSgt in the USAF I was at my first squadron “Top 3” meeting. They were discussing the “report a speeder” program (I don’t remember the exact name for the program anymore). The program was about reporting base personnel seen speeding off-base.
The Chief looked at me and asked me if I knew what the program was. I looked at the Chief and said, “Yep, that’s that Nazi program where we all report on each other.”
The look of stunned disbelief on his face was priceless. The look of stunned disbelief on my bosses’ face was priceless.
Even in the military I was never one to blindly follow the crowd.
September 29th, 2011 at 12:10 pm
@Magus, Yup. Growing up riding around the Seattle area with my dad we’d see the HOV lane signs to call in if you see someone driving in the lane that shouldn’t be.
My dad said, “Son, you want to know how to remember that number? It’s simple, 1-800-Dial-A-Nazi. No red blooded American calls the government on his neighbor when they are violating no one. Only commie pinko fascists do that.”
Ever since when I see programs like you describe, or the see something say something BS, all I can think is 1-800-Dial-A-Nazi.
September 29th, 2011 at 1:01 pm
Not dial a Nazi… But dial a Commie!
It was, and is, a staple of the Communist regimes (and Obama IS a socialist…) Block spies that informed on all others to the local KGB (read Homeland Security.)
2012 can’t come to soon!
September 29th, 2011 at 1:58 pm
1-800-RAT-FINK.
September 29th, 2011 at 5:04 pm
Barron,
You left out the worst part of the report-a-carpool-violator program: the phone number to call was abc-xyz-HERO. Yep that’s right, call in some trivial regulation-violator and the common people are going to Worship You. I always wondered how sick a person would have to be to have thought that one up.
September 29th, 2011 at 7:42 pm
“How far down the slope do you slide before you decide you don’t like the view anymore?”
As far as I’m concerned, we got there sometime back around 1913. Ever since it’s been insult added to injury.
I’ve taken shipment of around 10K rounds of rifle ammo in a music store and no one blinked.
September 29th, 2011 at 7:49 pm
Kids are encouraged by school administrators to inform on their parents, for a number of things.
My kids were asked if we had guns in the home, and how they were stored. Doctors have asked the same questions. This sort of shit’s been going on for decades. Take note of the scant mention anything like this will ever get from political candidates.
September 30th, 2011 at 12:22 am
Now Tam why are you giving out Caleb’s Phone number?