Dumb Drunk Cop w/Gun Vs. Chainsaw

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Cop pulls gun on haunted house character

NBC -- A Baltimore city police officer was charged with assault after he pulled a gun on a haunted house character over the weekend.

Baltimore County police said Sgt. Eric Janik, 36, pulled his gun on a haunted house employee dressed up as the killer from "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" at the House of Screams show in Essex on Sunday.

Police said the employee approached Janik after the haunted house tour was over in a bid to get "one last scream."

Instead, Janik, who was off-duty, pulled his service weapon and pointed it at Michael Morrison's chest, authorities said.

"I was doing my normal scene at the haunted house, and as I was going out the backdoor with the chainsaw, the officer pulled his gun on me. Basically, he put his gun to my chest and as I was going back in, he said he was a cop," Morrison, the man in the costume said.

He said he dropped the chain saw, which had no chain and was not dangerous.

Janik was with four other people, including his 9-year-old daughter and a female officer.

Charging documents show he denied pointing his loaded service weapon at Morrison.

He said he pointed it at the ground.

Police said Janik also appeared to be drinking.

"Callers said he seem to be very intoxicated. In fact, the people inside the House Of Screams noted that. When he was being process, two of the officers noticed his speech was slurred and there was a moderate odor of alcohol coming from his breath. He didn't seem to be taking this quite as seriously as he should have been," said Baltimore County police spokesman Bill Toohey.

Janik has been suspended without pay pending a formal suspension hearing.

He works patrol in the southeast district and has been on the force since 1995.


NBC

http://www.ksdk.com/news/national/story.aspx?storyid=188326&catid=28
 
drug_mentor said:
What a faggot, it annoys me he will get off with a slap on the wrst but if someone who wasn't a cop pulls that shit they will spend years in jail.
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Seriously?

A bluelight moderator using that type of bigoted speech?

If I was still a super mod you'd have some troubles friend.

Anyways, the chain saw guys scare me too...but not enough to pull a gun on them. It's amazing that this guy was suspended without pay. Good on his force.
 
^^^99% of the time it's "suspended with pay" when a cop does something like this. Which should be a huge WTF to everyone, they should send the cop to do community service while he awaits his hearing AND not get paid for it.
 
What bigoted speech did I use? Calling a drunken asshole on a powertrip who pulled a gun on an innocent person a faggot? I don't see whats bigoted about that at all but whatever.
 
Don't be so hard on the poor officer, he had a legitimate fear of being attacked by a man wielding a chainsaw who was wearing a mask of human flesh made by his previous victims, hell, if I had a gun id pull it too! It's not like he was near a haunted house attraction at Halloween or anything....jeez guys....:|
 
drug_mentor said:
What bigoted speech did I use? Calling a drunken asshole on a powertrip who pulled a gun on an innocent person a faggot? I don't see whats bigoted about that at all but whatever.
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We all agree that the cop is an asshole. "Faggot" is not an appropriate word to use as a substitute or synonym for asshole.

"Faggot" is a term used to describe a gay man (and often used in a derogatory manner).

My question (and likely the question MattPD is asking) is - Why would you choose to use that word to disparage the cop?

Either you think "faggot" is a derogatory word and you have a problem with gay men, or you don't.

If you don't, then it made no sense for you to use the word "faggot" in the context you did.

Did you really need this explained to you?
 
Pffft, I'm not homophobic, where I live its a commonly used insult regardless of its meaning. I don't have a problem with gay people at all but I just see the word as a general insult and it doesn't need any meaning. I don't know why that was the first insult that popped in to my head but I am not going to apologize for it. Lighten up, jesus christ.
 
It "faggot" actually started out sa a contemptuous term for an old unpleasant woman.

just because some men choose to act like old unpleasant women dosent mean we have to redefine words or anything.

but w/e im just glad he didnt pull the trigger.
 
Fjones said:
We all agree that the cop is an asshole. "Faggot" is not an appropriate word to use as a substitute or synonym for asshole.

"Faggot" is a term used to describe a gay man (and often used in a derogatory manner).

My question (and likely the question MattPD is asking) is - Why would you choose to use that word to disparage the cop?
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people need to chill out about words

they are just words. they are what you make of them

if you choose to make the word "faggot" a horrible degrading word that every time it is utttered it is a disservice to all gay men, then yeah it shouldn't be said

but you don't have to treat it that way! and i don't treat it that way, so when i read his comment about the cop being a faggot, i gave no second thought to it. i gave no first thought. i just read the sentence, and took the meaning he intended to convey (whereas you took a meaning he did NOT tend to convey)

as long as the sentence's MEANING is not bigoted, then the words used as tools to convey the meaning are irrelevant. the meaning conveyed is what matters in a message

if we chill the fuck out about words, then words will have absolutely no power to hurt. only the intended meaning will have that power, and that's what makes sense

many people would argue that you using the word "asshole" is similarly bigoted. we need to focus on what people mean, not whether they use words that are "politically correct" in their circle of friends but "politically INcorrect" in OUR circle of friends
Either you think "faggot" is a derogatory word and you have a problem with gay men, or you don't.

If you don't, then it made no sense for you to use the word "faggot" in the context you did.

Did you really need this explained to you?
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faggot has three possible (common) meanings. 1) a gay person, 2) a gay person, in a disparaging manner (aka you have a problem with gay people), and 3) an ass hole

don't totally ignore number 3...

yes, you can make the argument that adding a negative meaning to a word for a group of people hurts that group of people. and overall, it does do harm to that group of people. but nobody adds the negative meaning themselves, the words evolve through culture nonlocally. and the word only hurts the group of people if we retain that connection between the group of people and negativity. so what i mean to say is, you are addressing the symptoms, not the causes.

it's perfectly possible to have a society where people use the word "faggot" in a negative manner, while at the same time, nobody hates faggots (in this second case, by faggot i mean gay person)

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nobody raised a fuss when the poster above used the word "cunt". which is sort of degrading to women. and we ALL use words degrading to certain groups without thinking about it. they only have the power to hurt those groups if A) the person using the word is bigoted AND B) the group of people the word is bigoted against decides to perceive that word as threatening/harmful

there's so many reasons that we should just *chill*the*fuck*out* about words. i could write a book here. but this post is probably tl;dr for most people already
 
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^ Thank you, I was quite sure that it wasn't originally a derogatory term for a gay man but didn't want to say anything because I wasn't sure. I didn't mean shit by it obviously its just an insult like any other, the term retard/retarded is used on this site often which is much more offensive but I don't see people jumping down others throats over it. Its not as if I directed insults at a fellow BLer or meant anything discriminitory by it, anyway I am done justifying myself and cluttering up this forum with my drunken antics.
 
Glad it's settled. Stay on topic or take it to PM's. Anything more on this subject is going to get unapproved. :)
 
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... But since you all seem to think words don't mean anything...
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They do, especially in post 17. -phrozen
 
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The south eastern district - that's Valchek's turf, there's no way he'll leave an officer out to hang over something like this.
 
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