Épée Police Fail.

[DontSayBanana]

The only sword that could be mistaken for is maybe an epee or a fencing saber.  Any narrow sword like that is going to have some kind of basket or handguard, so yes, I'd still expect them to be able to tell the difference.  Again, unless it's low visibility conditions, which could be likely since the real sword-carrier sounds like a drunk and disorderly.

[CountDeMoney]

A fucking stick's a stick, people.

[Razgovory]

A fucking stick's a stick, people.

Do police in Baltimore just zap blind people as a matter of course because they are waving around sticks?

[Tamas]

But sadly, a number of people have been shot and killed by police for carrying, and refusing to drop, items that ultimately turned out to be harmless.

And it's pretty clear that the blame should fall on the individual with the gun.

don't do that brother talk here, Mr. Republican Voter

[Martinus]

Barrister as always in cases like this proves to be a square cretin.

[Martinus]

Anyway, in times like this, I kinda wonder how did the police manage to get by in the old days when tasers werent available? Because I'm pretty sure bobbies did not just go around shooting random people down - and I'm also pretty sure swords have been the technological advance known in Britain for quite a while.

[Ed Anger]

They can always go back to caving in skulls with nightsticks.

[CountDeMoney]

A fucking stick's a stick, people.

Do police in Baltimore just zap blind people as a matter of course because they are waving around sticks?

Blind's got nothing to do with it.

[Richard Hakluyt]

The guy who was actually waving the sword around was arrested later, without being tasered, on suspicion of being drunk and disorderly.

[CountDeMoney]

Yay, you're better than us, etc.

[Ed Anger]

Drunk and disorderly in the UK. There's a shocker.

[Malthus]

Probably thought it was Lettow, can't be to careful these days.  All sorts of weirdos out there pretending to be blind.

Well, yeah, the suspicion of Lettowism would rate a tasering to be sure.

[Razgovory]

Anyway, in times like this, I kinda wonder how did the police manage to get by in the old days when tasers werent available? Because I'm pretty sure bobbies did not just go around shooting random people down - and I'm also pretty sure swords have been the technological advance known in Britain for quite a while.

They used sticks.  Bobbies rarely had guns.

[The Brain]

Today in the subway I saw two blind people with sticks. Funny how no one, out of hundreds of people around, started freaking out and calling the cops. Maybe BB and CdM are even more unique snowflakes than we give them credit for.

[Scipio]

In other news, Zatoichi beheaded the corrupt prefecture policeman and went back to whistling.