Ok who's snowball fight?

C'mon don't hit Detective Danny Glover's Hummer!
He has to help out Bruce Willis one more time before retirement.
Then y'all gotta make him stop and bust out the gun.
http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/citydesk/2009/12/19/did-d-c-cops-overreact-to-snowball-fight-14th-and-u/

Does this mean there's going to be another beer fest at the White House?  ::)

Everyone in this story is a douchebag – the self-entitled hipsters who think its OK to throw snowballs at cars they don't like, and the cop for brandishing his weapon.  But they should be thankful it was a cop who had the gun…. someone else might've come out blazin'.

Doctor wrote:
Everyone in this story is a douchebag – the self-entitled hipsters who think its OK to throw snowballs at cars they don't like, and the cop for brandishing his weapon.   But they should be thankful it was a cop who had the gun…. someone else might've come out blazin'.

took the words right out of my mouth. 

andyrichter wrote:

Doctor wrote:
Everyone in this story is a douchebag – the self-entitled hipsters who think its OK to throw snowballs at cars they don't like, and the cop for brandishing his weapon.   But they should be thankful it was a cop who had the gun…. someone else might've come out blazin'.

took the words right out of my mouth. 

Ok, Grandpa's… I guess they haven't shoveled the sidewalk of the retirement home yet.
Your angst for self-entitled hipsters is misplaced on this one. As someone that used to be young, I can say I would've peg the shit out of a Hummer and any vehicle rollin' down the street.

Indeed, they should be thankful it was a cop…because the law never 'comes out blazin'.  ::)
And Crispus Attucks was a douchebag self-entitled hipster. (Google this thing called the Boston Massacre about a snowball fight turned ugly that kinda added fuel for a revolution.)

slappy wrote: As someone that used to be young, I can say I would've peg the shit out of a Hummer and any vehicle rollin' down the street.

I would've pegged cars as a teenager too.  These looked like grownups to me (although perhaps adult-baby grownups).   

Secondly, when pegging cars, I would've expected some kind of angry reaction, and I wouldn'tve gone crying to mommy (or the modern day equivalent, bleating on the internet).

slappy wrote:

And Crispus Attucks was a douchebag self-entitled hipster. (Google this thing called the Boston Massacre about a snowball fight turned ugly that kinda added fuel for a revolution.)

You're seriously comparing a mob of coddled trustafarians trying to get a rise out of The Man, who are upset that someone flashed a gun at them, to revolutionaries, who actually got shot?

slappy wrote:
Ok, Grandpa's… I guess they haven't shoveled the sidewalk of the retirement home yet.
Your angst for self-entitled hipsters is misplaced on this one. As someone that used to be young, I can say I would've peg the shit out of a Hummer and any vehicle rollin' down the street.

The idea that, because it snowed, it's ok to throw snow at anyone and everything, is just ridiculous. That cop hilariously overreacted, but it's not alright to throw snow at any passing car. And if you do it anyway, expect people to get pissed off at you.

slappy wrote:

andyrichter wrote:

Doctor wrote:
Everyone in this story is a douchebag – the self-entitled hipsters who think its OK to throw snowballs at cars they don't like, and the cop for brandishing his weapon.   But they should be thankful it was a cop who had the gun…. someone else might've come out blazin'.

took the words right out of my mouth. 

Ok, Grandpa's… I guess they haven't shoveled the sidewalk of the retirement home yet.
Your angst for self-entitled hipsters is misplaced on this one. As someone that used to be young, I can say I would've peg the shit out of a Hummer and any vehicle rollin' down the street.

lol.  so i guess the next time people pelt your car with snowballs, you'll be thinking "oh they're just reliving childhood memories.  i hope they hit my car again!"  these hipsters are lucky it wasn't some real thug with a gun who decided suburban rebels needed to be taught a lesson.

Woo hoo! So it's now the…

Douchebag, self-entitled hipster, mob of coddled trustifarians, suburban rebels that needed to be taught a lesson snowball fight of 2009.

Any other curmudgeonly cliché pejorative y'all wanna add to the list?

a cop driving a hummer? i'm in the wrong bidness

slappy wrote:
Woo hoo! So it's now the…

Douchebag, self-entitled hipster, mob of coddled trustifarians, suburban rebels that needed to be taught a lesson snowball fight of 2009.

Any other curmudgeonly cliché pejorative y'all wanna add to the list?

Actually, "douchebag" would've been enough.

So when's the revolution starting?

Doctor wrote:

slappy wrote:
Woo hoo! So it's now the…

Douchebag, self-entitled hipster, mob of coddled trustifarians, suburban rebels that needed to be taught a lesson snowball fight of 2009.

Any other curmudgeonly cliché pejorative y'all wanna add to the list?

Actually, "douchebag" would've been enough.

So when's the revolution starting?

I agree! So why did y'all feel the need to pile on?

I guess it would start when a few of them were shot and killed? For the record, I never said Crispus Attucks was a revolutionary. I go with the facts that show he was just a brotha that got shot. Nobody can name the three white dudes that were killed. 

I was there, and this was WAY fun. I left before the cop showed up, but I can say that everyone that was involved in the snowball fight beforehand was super respectful and not in the least bit "douchey". Everyone was just having fun in the blizzard. Meh.

I'm thinking anybody who happened to be walking by and didn't want snowballs whizzing by their head from all directions might've found the entire scene "douchey."   

Slappy, the only thing in common between this and the Boston Massacre was that snowballs were involved.  Beyond that it's hard to see your point.

I held off commenting on this but after seeing footage and a report on the news about it, I see nothing that was done wrong.  The cop was responding to a call about the snowball fight and the report he got was that someone was there with a weapon and it was unclear as to whether it was drawn or not.  The video showed the cop unsnap the his holster and drawn his gun out of the holster all the while keeping it aimed at the ground.  The gun was unholstered for a matter of seconds and when he saw that the situation was 'safe' (fill in whatever word you want here) he reholstered his weapon.  Not a thing done wrong.  In fact he did exactly what he should have done.  Some of the people who are whining about this, not necessarily anyone on this forum, would have been the very same ones wanting to crucify the cops for not taking firmer action had the person with a gun at the snowball fight done harm to anyone with that gun.

RatBastard wrote:
I held off commenting on this but after seeing footage and a report on the news about it, I see nothing that was done wrong.  The cop was responding to a call about the snowball fight and the report he got was that someone was there with a weapon and it was unclear as to whether it was drawn or not.  The video showed the cop unsnap the his holster and drawn his gun out of the holster all the while keeping it aimed at the ground.  The gun was unholstered for a matter of seconds and when he saw that the situation was 'safe' (fill in whatever word you want here) he reholstered his weapon.  Not a thing done wrong.  In fact he did exactly what he should have done.  Some of the people who are whining about this, not necessarily anyone on this forum, would have been the very same ones wanting to crucify the cops for not taking firmer action had the person with a gun at the snowball fight done harm to anyone with that gun.

Perhaps I read a totally different account of the story, but my take was that this guy was an off duty cop who happened to be driving by and got caught in a snowball fight and that HE was the one who brandished the gun.

Where did you read that he was an on duty police officer responding to a call about a man with a gun?

My take is that RatBastard confused which cop is in question. Sounds like he thinks the one he saw in the video was the person who everyone is upset with. From what I can tell, the one RatBastard discribed was the on-duty cop who responded to the call, did his job, and did it exactly as he should have. No one had a problem with him.

It was the off-duty cop who got out of his Hummer and started waving his gun around and didn't even identify himself as a cop who the whole country is pissed off with, and rightfully so. Even if he would have IDed himself as such, there was absolutely no need for pulling a weapon out. You can argue all you want about the innocent snowball action, both with good and bad points, but in no way does that incident call for such extreme force.

OK in that case I do indeed stand corrected!  (My dyslexia strikes again.)  I was under the impression from scanning the posts that people were upset with the officer responding to the call.  Thanks for clearing that up.

I've read all of this and my only comment is that "douche" and "douchebag" are overused, abused and dead.

I'm bringing back "taint" and "taintbag" so don't be surprised if the vast majority of my posts in 2010 are correcting this nomenclature.

What's a good synonym for "douchebag?"  I find myself using the term too much, but sometimes it fits so perfectly.    ("Taintbag" ain't it).

The Wikipedia definition is quite accurate:

Douchebag, or simply douche, is considered to be a pejorative term in North America and other English speaking countries. In some English speaking countries the term is not well known. The slang usage of the term dates back to the 1960s.[6] The term refers to a person with a variety of negative qualities, specifically arrogance and engaging in obnoxious and/or irritating actions without malicious intent.