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SCRANTON, Pa. While responding to a call about a suspicious person in the vicinity of Viewmont Mall early Sunday morning, Scranton police opened fire on a discarded department store mannequin which they initially believed was a man armed with a handgun.
The mishap began shortly after 12:15 a.m. on Sunday morning when police received a call about a possible homeless man lurking in the alley behind the Macys department store ........
Good thing a homeless guy wasn't around.
Guy Whitey Corngood
(26,505 posts)Aristus
(66,462 posts)I'm sure he told the lifeless object to "stop resisting! Stop resisting!"
Warpy
(111,339 posts)then I guess they deserve having these total morons on the job.
malthaussen
(17,216 posts)But it could just as easily be real.
-- Mal
Coyotl
(15,262 posts)mannequins.
bluesbassman
(19,379 posts)mythology
(9,527 posts)Jumping to conclusions based on a first impression. For example somebody could fall for satire because it fits their world view.
http://www.snopes.com/police-shoot-department-store-mannequin-67-times-after-mistaking-it-for-gunman/
Lancero
(3,013 posts)Or for it not being the first time that police have put out bullets over cases of mistaken identies
http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/nandos-employee-killed-after-cops-open-fire-on-wrong-vehicle-20160225
http://www.cnn.com/2016/01/27/us/christopher-dorner-manhunt-officers-cleared/
Coyotl
(15,262 posts)Works every time if the satire fits the world well enough.
But, was the mannequin naked? People still want to know.
LanternWaste
(37,748 posts)Thank goodness no one quotes Animal Farm or the lazy mind would really be in a rhetorical tizzy.
Object Lesson II: Satire is predicated on the social norm, and abject rejection of the former is an absolute denial of the latter.
Coyotl
(15,262 posts)In our age there is no such thing as keeping out of politics. All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia.
10 George Orwell Quotes that Predicted Life in 2016 America
Threats to freedom of speech, writing and action, though often trivial in isolation, are cumulative in their effect and, unless checked, lead to a general disrespect for the rights of mannequins.