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@return2ozma@lemmy.world to News@lemmy.world • 1 year ago

Florida Cop Empties His Gun, Runs For Cover After Acorn Falls On Car and Mistakes It For Shots Fired

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Florida Cop Empties His Gun, Runs For Cover After Acorn Falls On Car and Mistakes It For Shots Fired

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Florida Cop Empties His Gun, Runs For Cover After Acorn Falls On Car
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Florida deputy Jesse Hernandez screamed “shots fired,” and frantically fired his gun after an acorn fell onto the roof of his squad car, making him jump.
  • @Dra@lemmy.zip
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    Why did he say “I’m hit”

    • @Ultraviolet@lemmy.world
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      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.

      • Pantsofmagic
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        “It’s coming right for us!” -South Park hunting episode

    • @stoly@lemmy.world
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      Because he’s a hysterical fucking moron who believes himself to be some for of hero warrior.

    • @cheese_greater@lemmy.world
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      He probably got it from South Park with the “its coming this way” defense for hunting out of season

      • @Crack0n7uesday@lemmy.world
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        5•1 year ago

        This is Chewbacca, Chewbacca is a wookie…

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

        • @Hadriscus@lemm.ee
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          but is a wookie a bear ?

      • NιƙƙιDιɱҽʂ
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        THE ACORNS ARE COMIN’ RIGHT FER US!

    • @Death_Equity@lemmy.world
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      11•1 year ago

      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.

      • @Dra@lemmy.zip
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        My bad, just watched the vid on another thread and was asking here

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      deleted by creator

      • @Jimmyeatsausage@lemmy.world
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        Sunshine laws…shit happens everywhere, Florida just isn’t embarrassed enough to keep it private.

    • @cheese_greater@lemmy.world
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      4•1 year ago

      Officer and ACORN are a dangerous aural combination to some folks

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