Thread: officer was forced to shoot at the man's car

Originally Posted by DavidGunn

Hey, he smashed a pub up as well, Rushy wont be happy at that, being a seller of Waikato...then bugger me he took all his clothes off...the vehicle was not stopped by the bullet...it ran out of petrol.

But, but, the shot out tyre caused more drag and thus the vehicle used more petrol and therefore ran out quicker. This enabled a quicker resolution of the situation.
Kudos to the quick thinking officer for his forward thinking and taking the action he did...............otherwise the suspect might have travelled a few more kilometres...,

Yes, I am being sarcastic. Went and handed my prohibited firearms in today which gave me a 'jaundiced eye'. Nothing a few beers wont fix though...........I hope.

Originally Posted by Allgood

But, but, the shot out tyre caused more drag and thus the vehicle used more petrol and therefore ran out quicker. This enabled a quicker resolution of the situation.
Kudos to the quick thinking officer for his forward thinking and taking the action he did...............otherwise the suspect might have travelled a few more kilometres...,

Yes, I am being sarcastic. Went and handed my prohibited firearms in today which gave me a 'jaundiced eye'. Nothing a few beers wont fix though...........I hope.

But but but...if that cop had not got in the way on the forecourt of the Z station and got rammed be may have had enuf gas to get him to Auckland

Originally Posted by timattalon

I would not be surprised if the quote from the officer was more like...the offender gunned it down the road and burst a tyre and an officer drew his side ar thinking he ws shot at from the "bang".... and when you retype reporter short hand that comes out Officer drew gun, BANG and tyre went flat.....Sequenced in reverse and makes the story so much more dramatic tan the truth....(I am not saying this is what happened- I am saying this is about how much truth or faith in reporting nowadays....)

When I studied 'The News' at Uni, back in the day, it came under classification of; Docu-drama. I belive it still does.

As above, I no longer believe what I read in the news, the reporting of what happened can easily be far removed from what actually happened. If you fire a firearm at a person your and intention is to immobilize you are a fool and believed what you saw in old western movies when they shot pistols out of the bad guys hands etc. the real life result will more than likely be death if not a complete miss. Shooting out tires is for movies.

Originally Posted by Fawls

As above, I no longer believe what I read in the news, the reporting of what happened can easily be far removed from what actually happened. If you fire a firearm at a person your and intention is to immobilize you are a fool and believed what you saw in old western movies when they shot pistols out of the bad guys hands etc. the real life result will more than likely be death if not a complete miss. Shooting out tires is for movies.

Are you saying the "Duke" was all BS

im no expert at stopping cars by shooting at them but if i was going to i think my first shot would go into the radiator and possibly damaging the engine as well if presented a front shot

Originally Posted by DavidGunn

Are you saying the "Duke" was all BS

I am in no position to question the "Duke"

Originally Posted by Allgood

Went and handed my prohibited firearms in today which gave me a 'jaundiced eye'. Nothing a few beers wont fix though...........I hope.

Sorry to hear of your loss, unfortunately after the beers wear off, your firearms are still gone. Hopefully you were well paid and can make up for your loss with twice as many.

Getting back on topic...

Got to love this statement, although they left a few words off.

"It is a reminder to our staff, and to members of the public, that any event police attend can quickly escalate."

The missing words at the end are.

"It is a reminder to our staff, and to members of the public, that any event police attend can quickly escalate by police when armed with weapons solely to injure and kill people."

Originally Posted by northdude

im no expert at stopping cars by shooting at them but if i was going to i think my first shot would go into the radiator and possibly damaging the engine as well if presented a front shot

Radiator and front end is a bigger (harder to miss) target lots of hoses and electrical to disable too so that would potentially be a better target. But as mentioned, how close is the truth to what was reported????

I would not be SOP to shoot at a car with a handgun. Maybe he watches too many cop shows? If so, he could do with identifying less with his work role.

I've had a tyre shot-out by Pro's, (not this country) at 130kph, I still managed to travel 5k more b4 dealing with it. Back-tyre, they missed the front-first-shot, o/wise I doubt we would have survived. When I heard the Ist-shot, I thought ..Fek,that sounds close.

Shit Rewa, what were you doing bro?

130kph

I pissed someone off, in Central Africa, it was an 'interesting' trip.

Originally Posted by rewa

I pissed someone off, in Central Africa, it was an 'interesting' trip.

Probably not the best continent to piss someone off in. There isnt much respect for life in some of those countries.