My brother is a mall ninja

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Eric F

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So my brother is now 22 he has been working for a multitude of security companies for a while. Well I go to mom and dads for dinner yesterday and he starts blabbing on and on about how he works for this company and he is now a plain clothes unit supervisor and tosses in all the cop lingo and he has court dates and how he "hooks bad guys up and taxes them."(local language I guess).

Where did he go wrong?
I guess I can blame myself. He is 15 years younger than me and I exposed him to the tools of the trade. I worked security for a short perion in college then got into 3 gun stuff he saw and handled my guns at a young age(in a safe mannor). Then he has always been border line legal to own a gun on the mental thing. He turns 21 after working security for 3 years. I guess he had worked for about 8 or 9 diffrent companies at that point. He runs out and buys a 40 cal glock(not my advise but ok)well then things really go down hill from there. The odd stories of how he has confiscated tac lights and ammo and other weapons that start showing up around the house. Mega drug busts that never make the news, Captured murders and most wanted kind of arests. Well last night was it. I go to mom and dads for dinner and he asks about my chp. So I give him the run down on what he needs to do. Then he says "well can I still get one if I have 3 assault charges on me?":what: OH NO! NOW WHAT? He goes on and on how he is a "special unit supervisor" he is some sort of plain clothes unit for a company that works apartment complexes in the area. And some guy went for his seargents gun so my brother hits the guy with an asp(assault no1) and while arresting this guy the mother comes out and starts interfeering. So my brother shovers her to the ground(assault no 2) then putes cuffs on her. The third comes as they are getting ready to clear up and drive off the husband is argueing my brother gets in the car and aparently slams the car door on the guys hand.(assault no.3).

So after this big line of BS I start asking questions and he just can not consistantly answer anything (for him its a big indicator of story telling) So I just drop it and say no you just dont need a CHP until all this gets setteled. OH and lets not even think about the time last year he bought an AK of some sort and had to let the whole world know about it. Running the gun from the trunk to the house every time a neighbor or a random car cam down the road.

Then in closeing he said last night his company just got approved for G-36 carbines:scrutiny: I had enough I had to go home after that. As I walked out the door I told him to look up Geko45 because thats exactly who my brother really is.:( what went wrong?
 
Could be worse. Could be working for Sarah Brady.

Count your blessings. Maybe he'll see the light. My dad used to say, there are some mistakes no one can make for you--you have to make them yourself.

Good luck to you both. Make it easy for him to ask for advice, but he's got to want it before it'll do him any good. Hang in there; that's what big brothers do.
 
We have a guy here at the hospital in Security that says he is always being called by local law enforcment to "help out" on big cases. He has some great stories, but he's so full of S***.

We had one guy in housekeeping that told us one day that he drove to Detroit and back "last night" :eek:

He must have a fast car.

Some folks just live in a different world. :)
 
Hopefully he is just being immature and will grow up soon. Hopefully the assualt charges aren't real.
 
Is he from our area? He doesn't show up at the range I shoot at does he? We have one that seems to appear everytime I am the RSO. The marked car, lights, badge, gun, and stories of the famous arrests that one has never heard of.... At least this guy is funny...
 
wow...that is an intense story.

sounds like he needs to be sat down and have a talkin' to.

...or there might be nothing you can do about it. just dont tell him about THR, lol
 
That's funny, I think my dad is on his way to becoming a mall ninja in the sense that he believes and repeats BS stories he hears from idiots he talks to at gunshops. It's funny because I got my parents interested in guns this past spring and my dad dove in head first. Technically, I'm still a noob, too, but that's all the more reason to NOT act like an expert in everything.

I would never have believed he could be so gullible. He got his first AR a month or two ago and he's constantly talking about getting more stuff to graft onto it and make it more tactical looking. I got really worried the other day when he told me he was getting scope advice from some guy at the store who claims to have been a marine sniper with 1200+ confirmed kills :barf:! He's also bought like 10 knives and was asking a guy at the knife counter if such-and-such a knife was "good for self defense." Next he'll probably want some nun-chucks as a backup for his defense knives :rolleyes:.

My mom and I are giving him plenty of s**t about it in hopes of setting him straight. My fear is that he repeats some "fact" that he learned to somebody when I'm around and he makes me look like an idiot by extension... and here I thought I was too old to have to worry about my parents embarrassing me.

Now that I got that off my chest... I love you dad! :D
 
I feel a great disturbance in the force, as though a million voices cried out in disgust and derision.

Sadly, I fear another Mall Ninja has turned to the Dark Side. He has been corrupted by the powerful forces of "Tacticool" and "Cop-Wannabe-ism". The Light Side of The Mall Ninja Way has lost another one; our self-referential irony and willingness to accept that most of us are mildly ineffective insurance dodges fails to hold attention against the powerful attraction of believing oneself to be Ultra Tactical.

Mourn his loss; few successfully redeem themselves from the Dark Side of Mall Ninjadom.
 
I will take
or there might be nothing you can do about it.
For $200 Alex.

He is really beyond help and has been for some time. I just listen and nod a bunch until I cant take it any more. I have tried to talk to him but its no good.

"Tacticool"
more like tactifool!
 
Maybe you SHOULD get him to sign up here. He will be ridiculed so quickly he might have a change of heart.

Or at the very least, provide some entertainment for us :)

Dope
 
Gee Eric,

Your brother is about normal, doncha think?

Give him a hug, tell him you love him, and it will all be okay in the end. :what:

By the way, which ....er....Glock do you recommend? (((ducks)))
 
OMG I just googled gecko45 and came up with this... :Dhttp://lonelymachines.org/mall-ninjas/

Be careful, I just shot soda out of my nose ROTFLMFAO!!!!

Freaking Classic :rolleyes:
OMG, that was pure GOLD! I gotta find more of that Gecko45-SPECOPS stuff; that was more entertainment than I can find on the tube! I always heard about it, but that was the first I ever viewed the exchange. Priceless!
 
I hate to say it, but maybe your brother has some sort of mental illness.

Sounds to me like he lives in a fantasy world that may get him some prison time or possibly killed.

Or maybe he is just another video game playing loser that has no life and has to embellish or outright lie when having conversations about himself because there is nothing positive and contributory about his existence on this planet.

Still, that needs attention from a mental health counselor as well.

I could continue on about what is wrong with you brother, but it gets pretty low from here on out.

I am supposed to take the high road here so I will say no more.
 
If it's just a personality thing.....

The only things that will help are time and patience.

If it's truly a mental disturbance type of thing.....

That requires attention.

How is he with other areas of his life that interest him? All over the map like he is with "gun stuff"?
 
Could be worse. Could be working for Sarah Brady.

This kind of thread (namely the title) forces us to look at the lens of "Funny stuff," and I laughed out loud at the title before clicking, but I think hopelessjoe is right. Would it really be worse to have a politically misguided bro than one who is in all likelihood dealing with some very serious mental issues that are from a dark place inside of him?

I think he could really use some familial support and possibly counseling from outside sources.

These may seem funny if you compare them to gecko45, but these are warning signs. I don't remember all the specifics, but one of those famous "mall ninjas" is now in prison for a very long time, and not just over gun law violations.

Do you want your brother to end up on the news, in prison, or dead? If not, begin consulting with some mental health professionals who have their head screwed on right. Present this as an issue you would like to resolve with minimal outside involvement, but please...take this seriously.
 
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