Man arrested for toy gun

[Sharps-shooter]

A man was arrested in town yesterday for brandishing a TOY gun. He was sitting in the door of his trailer, pointing it out into the trailer park, and someone called the police. One of the toy gunman's friends tried to disarm a police offficer when they came. So the second guy was arrestd for trying to disarm the cop, and the first guy (with the toy) was arrested for wanton endangerment.
If pointing a toy gun at someone is, in fact, a crime, I think many of us should have spent most of our childhoods in prison.

 

[Heavy Metal Hero]

Toy gun.....

Like this?

 

[Lou629]

If pointing a toy gun at someone is, in fact, a crime, I think many of us should have spent most of our childhoods in prison.

The operative word above being childhood. Both the guy with the toy and his friend sound like a couple of very highly educated brain-surgeons. They both sound like they represent a good example of how the term 'trailer-trash' probably got started.

 

[Outlaws]

Either way, when the cop got there, it should have been, "sir, please don't wave a realistic looking gun around without taking the the time to think about your surroundings."

That should have been it. End of conversation. Now I dont' know at what time his friend jumped the cop, but IMO, if he was getting arrested it serves the cop right and he should have been disarmed because we don't need the gestapo patroling the street.

 

[Can'thavenuthingood]

Sounds like it may have been a setup since the one guy tried to disarm the police officer.

Could have been a setup, somebody could have been shot.

Vick

 

[Axman]

I'm still waiting for the entire story. A brief description of happenings doesn't do much for me. With that said, I am wondering if the guy was presenting the toy as if it were real. If that's the case, he's (the toy gun man) a class A moron. Pointing a visually unknown toy at someone in a manner to induce fear is the crime.

 

[ndh87]

i almost had one of my neighbors call the police on me a few years ago. a friend and i were running arround shooting at eachother with airsoft guns.

 

[bogie]

Guys, life is NOT a video game or a bad action movie.

Heck = about 35 years ago (dang, I feel old...) some of the neighborhood kids and I got rousted... We were running around in a field with a Daisy 1894, and the local constabulary wanted to make sure it was only a BB gun... They look like a real lever gun from a distance.

A few years ago in St. Louis, a guy tried to draw down on a cop with a toy gun... He was DRT...

 

[pcosmar]

A few years ago, in the Florida Keys, my neighbors got arested. They were having a Watergun fight in their front yard. The police came Swat style, and arested them. These were the big Orange and Green SuperSoakers. They went to jail. They got out but didn't get the squirt guns back.
A neighbor had called about a gun fight.

 

[Headless]

A few years ago, in the Florida Keys, my neighbors got arested. They were having a Watergun fight in their front yard. The police came Swat style, and arested them. These were the big Orange and Green SuperSoakers. They went to jail. They got out but didn't get the squirt guns back.
A neighbor had called about a gun fight.

you've got to be f****** sh****** me.

 

[dasmi]

Is there some sort of reference for this story? A URL perhaps?

 

[dfaugh]

Waving around a toy gun = stupid, but not such a big deal

Trying to disarm a LEO = SERIOUSLY BAD JUJU = Gp tp jail, and do not pass Go.

 

[Big Calhoun]

A man was arrested in town yesterday for brandishing a TOY gun. He was sitting in the door of his trailer, pointing it out into the trailer park, and someone called the police. One of the toy gunman's friends tried to disarm a police offficer when they came.

Please tell me you were typing something else, went back and edited, and just didn't finish...

So the second guy was arrestd for trying to disarm the cop, and the first guy (with the toy) was arrested for wanton endangerment.
If pointing a toy gun at someone is, in fact, a crime, I think many of us should have spent most of our childhoods in prison.

I think the problem is that your friend doesn't sound like a child and this doesn't seem like 2 10yr olds playing with an airsoft gun.

 

[Sharps-shooter]

Well, clearly the guy who tried to disarm the police officer goes to jail, and is probably lucky he didn't get shot.

As for the other guy, yes, he did something stupid and yes, it's quite possible that if he'd pointed the gun at the wrong person, he might have gotten shot with a real gun (I never had a toy gun for this reason, and my kids didn't either; but once we (my friends and I) found a real one at a friend's grandmother's house, and played with that).

The guys didn't look like they were from around here, and I would not be surprised if they turned out to be alliens (not the space kind; the Mexican kind). So that might have been a factor in why they were taken in.

 

[Warren]

Incredible! What are our nations' trailer-parks coming to?

 

[BlkHawk73]

If another resident saw this idiot brandishing the gun, toy or not, it could be construed as terrorizing and crimila mischief at the least. An adult should have the menatl capacity to know doing this is a pretty dumb thing to do out where others can see, especially when some toy guns look vvvveeerrrry close to the real thing.
It's no different than if an idiot has a toy gun is ordered to drop in by the cops and then raises it up. BANG! Pretty simple. :banghead:

 

[amature]

For those of you who think all toy guns are easily spotted, I'll add on to what Heavy Metal Hero was talking about.





I couldn't tell the difference between my SR-16 airsoft replica and a real SR-15.

 

[MechAg94]

A few years ago, in the Florida Keys, my neighbors got arested. They were having a Watergun fight in their front yard. The police came Swat style, and arested them. These were the big Orange and Green SuperSoakers. They went to jail. They got out but didn't get the squirt guns back.
A neighbor had called about a gun fight.

This is a case where the neighbor should have been hauled in for making a false report.

In the linked case, I imagine the friend is partly the reason why the first guy was arrested also.

 

[Double Naught Spy]

Man arrested for toy gun

A man was arrested in town yesterday for brandishing a TOY gun. He was sitting in the door of his trailer, pointing it out into the trailer park, and someone called the police. One of the toy gunman's friends tried to disarm a police offficer when they came. So the second guy was arrestd for trying to disarm the cop, and the first guy (with the toy) was arrested for wanton endangerment.

sharps-shooter, just what is it that you didn't understand about what went on? You have 3 claims of arrest pertaining to the thread title. Either the guy was arrested for a toy gun, arrested for brandishing a toy gun, or arrested for wanton endangerment. Which is it?

Well, since it isn't Carrolton, Texas, he wasn't arrested for a toy gun. So the title is wrong.

Since it isn't Carrolton, Texas, he wasn't arrested for brandishing a toy gun. So the second claim is wrong. In both these first two claims, the problem is that the claim is of a thing or activity that isn't against the law.

What about the wanton endangerment? That is against the law and that is what the guy was actually arrested for in this case.

What you have clearly failed to understand is that the problem was NOT the toy gun, but the sense of fear created by the toy gun that was perceived as a REAL gun by the person calling the cops who saw the man pointing it into the trailer park, hence the crime. No doubt there was more to it than just that, but the man arrested was definitely not arrested for having or brandishing a toy gun as neither activity in and of itself is illegal on one's own premises.

When a person uses a toy gun and passes it off as a real gun in attempting to rob a bank, it is armed robbery. It doesn't matter that the gun was a toy. When arrested, the person isn't arrested for robbing a bank with a toy gun, but for armed robbery.

 

[Delta608]

As for the other guy, yes, he did something stupid and yes, it's quite possible that if he'd pointed the gun at the wrong person, he might have gotten shot with a real gun (I never had a toy gun for this reason, and my kids didn't either; but once we (my friends and I) found a real one at a friend's grandmother's house, and played with that).

Stupidity should not be painless....

 

[TexasRifleman]

If pointing a toy gun at someone is, in fact, a crime, I think many of us should have spent most of our childhoods in prison.

If I'd pointed a toy gun at an adult when I was a child, my father and grandfather would have made sure I didn't live to be an adult anyway.