Armed police raid home after mistaking Lara Croft dummy for gunman

[dogday]

When police spotted a gun-wielding suspect lurking in the shadows of a suburban front room, their response was swift.

Armed officers burst into the house, shouted at the owner to lie on the floor, and ordered him to surrender his weapon.

But efficiency turned to embarrassment when the "gunman" turned out to be a life-sized model of the video game character Lara Croft, complete with trademark outsized pistols.

Computer shop owner David Williams, 42, had taken the dummy home to put it up for sale on the auction site eBay


David Williams was arrested for having Lara Croft model in window

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=455037&in_page_id=1770

[slackmaster]

1. Mr. Williams should look at the bright side

He'll get a much higher price for the dummy as a result of this story.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

2. Hope it at least pays for the damages. -nt

[OPERATIONMINDCRIME]

3. WTF??????? And They Still Arressted Him? What The Hell Is Wrong With Them?

Jesus christ. I can understand the initial misunderstanding, but to still arrest him afterwards? What a bunch of assholes.

[AX10]

4. Asshats!

[panader0]

5. To hell with the police, if I had a life-sized model of Lara

Croft at home, my girlfriend would kick my ass.

[momster]

6. Those Aren't Pistols, Guys

Her 'trademark outsized pistols?' I thought Lara was all about her trademarked outsized breasts.

[gatorboy]

7. That's why they call it a "bullet bra". :)

Good thing I don't have my Stormtrooper armor next to the window.

[shain from kane]

11. Blow-up doll.

[qdemn7]

8. I cannot

For the life of me understand how he was arrested on "firearms charges" Sheer idiocy on the part of officials.

In any case he has been released, the dunny returned and charges dropped. http://search.bbc.co.uk/cgi-bin/search/results.pl?q=laracroft&x=0&y=0&scope=all&edition=i&tab=all&recipe=all

[DS1]

9. Curviest gunMAN in the history of anything

Idiots. You sure this didn't happen in BOSTON?

[Squatch]

10. This story just increased the value of that item on Ebay...

[dogday]

12. He looks beat up

but I could not find anything in the article about it....

[Javaman]

13. They held him for 13 fucking hours...

to me it sounds like the cops knew they fucked up and through a cover of over amped ego they tried covering up their complete and utter stupidity.

The message to this poor bastard is this: don't embarrass the police again otherwise you will put away for life.

Nothing like living in a police state, huh?

Stupidity is never in short supply.