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Glad he had his "assault rifle" to stop this uhhhh.... threat. It gave him no option apparently?
To be fair i know he's got a job to do and all the rest, but seriously dude, some better training wouldn't go a miss.
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=332_1406356527
nothing wrong with what he did, what better training would he require? I have seen a car completely written off from hitting a sheep and the driver just about killed in the process.
By not trying to shoot a sheep with an AR on SH1 would be a good start.Quote:
Originally Posted by oneshot
I thought he did well, as well as dealing with retard rubber neckers
Well I'm sure the NZ police would be stoked if an "ordinary civilian" smoked someone's escaped sheep on the side of a public road with an AR
What a hero
@gimp, gold. Well said
he just wanted to play with his assault rifle best option would have been get cameraman to open gate and chase him in if that didn't work then shoot the cunt
just a rifle ....... no need for the "a" word
the camera man or the sheep?Quote:
Originally Posted by stub
at least he got it with 1 shot (remember a dog from a few years ago....
Just a bloke doing his job the best he can.
He's neither a sheep farmer or a PR expert. Nor a gun nut or a trained marksman. He's just a country cop.
He did good. And I bet he doesn't trawl the internet looking at hunting vids and then criticizing them publicly. :)
I'm sure you would of been rapt if the sheep had hit your car carrying your family and it caused an accident
This was on prime time free to air TV a year or so ago.
I guess he shot it with an AR because it was a better option than the glock and that's all they are issued with. After seeing the hue and cry resulting from police chases ending badly I can imagine the grief if it had run out again and caused an accident.
Police do a lot of things "ordinary civilians" shouldn't do.
Its just a sheep.
good on him, job done
I'm on the coppers side - sheep are stupid stupid animals.
Kudos to him for dropping it with one shot too.
Notice his trigger finger? Looks like he paid attention in class :)
He was talking to me just before he shot it.We were above the yards and i said i would go past it and it would go in the yards between us but when i hopped out he had come down past the yards so that was the outcome.
Best result was achieved, could have been a disaster. I have a friend in Oz who is a wheelchair after hitting a sheep on his motorbike on a highway 15minutes out of Perth.
And yet hundreds of people manage to get them off the road every year without being a big man in a blue suit with a rifle, doing shit they'd arrest anyone else for in a heartbeat
Who you going to call if there's a big man, not in a blue uniform shooting things on your property?Quote:
Originally Posted by gimp
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That's wildly irrelevant
No its not. They are specialists not some over confident member of the public with a fire arms licence. They have a different set of rules to follow than civilians and are the ones that civilians call when they need help.
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I would never put police, specialists and firearms in the same sentence Ever!Quote:
Originally Posted by smidey
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All good, you can have your own opinion.Quote:
Originally Posted by nzfubz
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Scariest thing I can think of is a traffic officer on patrol on the side of the road with a semi auto rifle! FFS he should have run it down with the patrol car. Why has he got that rifle in the boot of his car? Is Taihape really that bad?
Taihape is that bad:)
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/ar...ectid=10693632Quote:
Originally Posted by Maca49
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uh actually no, I have shot a sheep on the side of the road as it had just been hit by a car and was badly hurt and going nuts running all over the road, I dropped it with my 357 then went and told the local cops what I did, the response I got was "cheers thanks for that you saved us coming out to do it"Quote:
Originally Posted by gimp
YES!Quote:
Originally Posted by Maca49
Wow where was the rifle on that occasion? Got to get your priorities sorted! Those guys were from Fielding?
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Originally Posted by oneshot
Slightly different to running around with an MSSA on the side of the road desperately keen to shoot an able-bodied animal. I doubt that'd go well.
So what do you expect them to do in that situation?Quote:
Originally Posted by gimp
Options:
-Shoot the sheep
-Continue chasing it around SH1 to get it into a paddock
-Run it down with the car (WTF @Maca49 ?!)
-Leave it and wait a long time for animal control to come and shoot it
Remember this is SH1 not some back country road and you don't have anyone or dogs to help without endangering them. And public safety is the overriding priority.
What's safest for the public? (already waiting for the completely irrelevant highway shooting references)
I know I would have shot it, good backdrop and clear visibility all around. I thought he did a pretty good job, considering I used to be a farmer and have an interest in firearms, maybe your armchairs are more comfy than mine.
No @gimp a member of the public wouldn't have been 'arrested in a heartbeat' for doing the same, I don't know where you get that silly idea from.
I'll take that bet, I've known of cows and horses to be shot in the same circumstances.Quote:
Originally Posted by 7mmwsm
I'd be far more inclined to shoot it if it was a horse, they're unpredictable and far more dangerous.
quick story , a few years ago , our fire truck was called to a car versus horse in makara (back of karori wgtn) the horse was hurt and crashing around , the cop who turned up had no firearm , one of the farmers had his .22 with him , .. cop got the farmer to shoot poor old trooper , horses get shot .... sheep get shot ... cows get shot ... never seen a llama get shot yet ....
Mangaweka side of the deviation.3 lanes.
correct me if I'm wrong (which I'm shore some one will) but most police I car's carry a Bushmaster in the boot and a Glock inside the vehicle. I spend quite considerable time every year removing stock off a public open road for public safety, luckily for them and the cockie's I have 2 dogs.
I could use my dog .... but its an ex race greyhound , and would either maul the sheep to death , or just piss off in to the distance at a high rate on knots
I think they probably did the right thing but, I would of liked to see him try to get it in first.
When they first found the sheep it was standing in the gate, the camera man could of opened gate and stood back while cop backed down road, sheep would of gone down towards car as camera man opened gate and hero cop could of chased sheep back up and in gate.....
I get what your saying, but sheep don't work the way you want them ever !!!! Unless they are penned and or in a race and have NO choice but to go the way you want, they are f*ckn impossible animals to control.Quote:
Originally Posted by BRADS
gate was probably locked, as they all should be that open on to the main roadway, I quess
Hmm don't see a lock, so mine and the Farmers bad