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[–] [email protected] 44 points 8 months ago (6 children)
[–] [email protected] 25 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Cops are trained to say that before shooting as a psychological trick to manipulate witnesses. Your brain doesn't perfectly record the order of events in a situation like that, so to make sense of things you're likely to misremember one or more of the gunshots being before the "I'm hit" rather than correctly remember that the cop shot first.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 8 months ago

"It's coming right for us!" -South Park hunting episode

[–] [email protected] 16 points 8 months ago

Because he's a hysterical fucking moron who believes himself to be some for of hero warrior.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 8 months ago (2 children)

He probably got it from South Park with the "its coming this way" defense for hunting out of season

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago (2 children)

This is Chewbacca, Chewbacca is a wookie...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

but is a wookie a bear ?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

First rule of the Chewbaca defense: you don't elaborate upon invocation of the Chewbaca defense

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

THE ACORNS ARE COMIN' RIGHT FER US!

[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Reading the article is hard.

... felt a “tingliness” all along the side of his body. He then said his “legs just give out” and he fell to the ground, assuming that he had been seriously injured by something.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

My bad, just watched the vid on another thread and was asking here

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

Officer and ACORN are a dangerous aural combination to some folks