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NEW TIMMY MCVEIGH IN A RED BEETLE, NEGOTIATING WITH A BOMB ROBOT: “WESTWOOD — A man accused of making threats against the White House led officers on a wild freeway chase that ended in a standoff outside the Federal Building.” Nice. Hooray for August. What does this sentence mean?: “The LAPD bomb squad is using its robot as officers try to coax the suspect out of the vehicle.” [KTLA]
This is like OJ Simpson all over again, only it is REVERSE RACIST
There’s some punctuation missing in that sentence. It should read “The LAPD bomb squad is using. It’s robot officers is trying to coax the suspect out of the vehicle.”
No serious terrorist drives a red Volkswagen beetle.
I’d get fired if I used my robot at work.
Is it one of those robots to which you attach sex toys? Because that would be awesome.
A red beetle? C’mon, that’s a chick car.. Are the robot officers sure they got that right?
Speed Ball: You took my comment. Boo.
“The LAPD bomb squad is using its robot as officers try to coax the suspect out of the vehicle.”
The robot is actually one of those Japanese sexbots; that’s why the sentence is so vague.
So does this mean we’re finally going to stop POURING FUEL ON THE MOUTH-BREATHING ANGRY GUN TOTING SOCIALIST NAZI BIRD CERTIFICATE FREAKS BY VALIDATING THEIR INSANE RACIST CRAZY IDIOTIC CONSPIRACY THEORY DRIVEL BEFORE SOMEONE GETS KILLED?
You know, for the children.
You see, this prohibition on crazy and bombs is making criminals out of all of us. End the prohibition!
Oh wait, sorry, I was assuming news from Southern CA = marijuana story.
You know what would complete this story? Adult diapers. I mean, if that crazy astronaut chick could work them in, why can’t this guy?
*fingers crossed*
Wait. Wasn’t the Beetle “designed” by Hitler? So now I’m supposed to believe that Hitler is trying to kill Hitler? Fuck, dude, this is intense.
I would offer the robot a little WD-30 to look the other way for a minute.
I’m thinking replicants are involved. (Just trying to keep the geek quotient up, Jim).
That and somebody from Andrew Breitbart’s Big Hollywood is trying to warn us about the Federal Government’s impending takeover of the United States.
He’s an anti-Death Panel patriot. The negotiations are with Fox News, not the police, over whether Hannity or O’Reilly gets the exclusive interview tonight.
TGY: True for the rest of the country, but this is SoCal.
Car Ramrod: Time paradox oh shi-
Advocatus_Diaboli: Ah, good point.
NoWireHangers: Too late. No one can put the brakes on the crazy now.
I have a valium and a gin and tonic on hand for when the wingnut pundits start blaming the next Oklahoma City bombing on Nancy Pelosi. You just know that’s how they’ll spin it.
Bomb/death threats to stop death panels.
My head would have exploded if I didn’t have a wingnut damper installed in my head.
uh, duh: RoboCop?
Robot: Surrender human! Resistance is pointless! Put the meth byproduct bomb down and step away from the vehicle.
Wingnut: But Robot, Obama is the Antichrist! Listen Robot, don’t you have to protect humans, according to the First Law? You should be helping me to defeat the Kenyan usurper and his Death Panels.
Robot: Setting laser to “Trig-ify”. Charging…
Wingnut: HE WASN’T EVEN BORN IN THIS COUNTRY SO HE ISN’T MAH PREZIDENT!!!
Robot: This is illogical; he has demonstrated his prima facie eligibility on numerous occasions. But then, why WOULDN’T he release his long-form certificate? But then, why would his mother announce his birth in Hawaii? LOGIC FAULT…KERNEL PANIC…SELF-DESTRUCT ACTIVATED…(BOOM!)
Wingnut: Heh, take that you Socialist robot.
4tehlulz: I bet it has a bag of cheetos.
SayItWithWookies: No, I think they’re using Six to lure the suspect out. Didn’t she and Baltar end up in California?
Okay. He’s going to drive a red Volkswagen all the way across America, from Westwood to Washington, with a bomb in the back seat. Listening to Rush and the Little Limbaughs all the way through Kansas to stay juiced. About in West Virginia, he reaches around back to dig another cold one out of the cooler. Problem solved.
omg. I live right across the street from KTLA. if i didn’t already have a robot, that could’ve been me…
Punch Buggy Red!!! (giving you each a good thwak on the shoulder)
So this has been in stand-off mode for like 3 hours now? Can’t the robocops just done blowed up the beetle?
we still have those Navy sharpshooter guys, right?
They need to be using a megaphone and threat/promise of a large caliber weapon to “coax” this asshole out of the vehicle.
Cicada: My brain started to break earlier today when Grassley said “whoops, someone could misinterpret this section of the bill….like me” and finished its final death spasms with the article showing Palin supported end of life counseling as Governor of AK. Fuck logic. It’s all going down the pooper now.
“When police robots are outlawed, only outlaws will have police robots.”
“I’m In The NPRA!”
Just use the ‘bots to detonate the explosives and wipe up the WingNut mess with a Swiffer, y’know, to keep the seagulls away.
TGY: Are you implying that members of the Baader-Meinhof Gang were unserious?
Neilist: LOL I was just wondering if you had a red beetle too.
Somebody get ahold of Bobby Jindal. Number 5 is alive!
If it was one of those early Beetles which made that annoying whistling sound from its exhaust as it drove by, then I can see why the guy flipped out.
Here’s live video. There’s a big scary army truck there now: http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/livenow?id=6963450
Servo: Would that become Nut Guano or Bot Guano later on? Or perhaps a Trail Mix– NutBot Guano to be sold exclusively at Whole Foods?
CorkPopper: Please never refer to the BSG finale again.
Mmmmm Six in Season 2 . . .
Herbie goes bananas.
The anti-socialist drives a VW, aka Nazi Go-Cart.
Extemporanus:
“Obama!” He said, and smiled in that wingnut way,
“Obama!” He said, “I’m going to kill him!”
“Obama!” He said, and peeked his head out,
Then they blew his ass aaa-waaaayyy!
just shoot the guy already. this stand-off is boring.
Tommmcatt: With excitement like this, who is needing enemas?
SmutBoffin: “Setting laser to “Trig-ify.” Huzzah, SmutBoffin! Trig is the new Phaser.
And of course the man accused of making threats against the White House is in a chickmobile. It’s probably Mom’s car. Do you think these tea-baggers have time for activities as mundane as work and making car payments?
american mutt:
One must be patient, they are setting up an impromptu ad-hoc Death Panel.
Cicada: Hannity has already said that if someone does violence to Obama, it’s Obama’s fault … for, you know, wanting to take the country in a different direction than that favored by a tiny stupid vocal batshit insane minority.
If the LAPD is using a Transformer robot, one of the good ones, then this hopped-up-on-goofballs latter-day Ronnie Dobbs is in for a big fuckin’ surprise.
chillpill: win
Bring in the unmanned drones with a coupla hellcat missles.
They just blew the fucker up!
Jim89048: Ah, crap. It was just teargas. Looke pretty kewl, though.
If the car is still running, what about bunging up the exhaust tube?
It’s over–after at least three teargas grenades, they broke out the driver’s side window for a better target, I suppose. I saw a cop level a gun on him, but didn’t see any muzzle flash. A few minutes later they rushed the car and dragged his ass out. They all walked away. I don’t know why, but I was hoping for a different outcome.
I know these bomb robots…he’ll find the conversation terribly one sided