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Sniper Tries To Take Out Cop...With Paintball Gun

110610paintball.jpg An NYPD officer left his command post in South Jamaica to break up a brawl that started in a laundromat on Guy R. Brewer Boulevard last night. As he and other cops then returned to their post, the officer was reportedly hit in the cheek by a paintball shot from the windows of the Baisley Park Houses, according to officers. Take that, pigs! The officer suffered minor injuries (those things do sting), and is in stable condition, and is now presumably out until the next round.

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  • Steven RH

    LOVE IT!

  • silver

    Old New York is coming back. The days when cops didn't respond to the projects because there is a sniper on each side of the project tower in a window aiming at any cop cars that drive up. Gotta love Moses's tower in the park. You can see a cop car from 1000 feet away and start firing rounds at it. Cops can't ever figure out what window your shooting from.

  • militza

    oh man, those things hurt when they hit you. also, usually the people who play them are highly aggressive. I played with a group and they continued to fire even after I shouted "I'm out!"

  • Peter

    My guess is that if someone shoots at cops (or anyone else) with a paintball gun, the cops (or others) would be legally justified in returning fire with real guns.

  • Yep. It would be evolution in action, IMO.

  • kazubes

    At least JDS insults cops in stories related to brutality or unreasonable ticketing cases. Where as Jaya takes innocuous cop stories like them getting medals for bravery, or randomly getting shot in the face with a paintball gun and insults them. I guess thats why she's on weekend shift

  • Yahtzee

    Love it...some skell shoots a cop with a dangerous weapon and this idiot blogger tries to make light of it.

  • ides_of_march

    "Take that pigs"???

    That's out of line, even for this site.

  • CaptainWillard

    I agree. Total lack of class on the bloggers part.

  • Kojak

    Yeah. Not appropriate terminology for what he was trying to do (breaking up a fight).

    Cops who bust people smoking weed or who think are above the law ARE pigs.

  • I find I agree with you...

  • Peter

    It's not just a matter of stinging a bit. Getting hit in the eye would very definitely not be a pleasant thing.

  • so1337

    Considering they travel at 300fps. There wouldn't be any eye left.

  • mistermarkdavis

    anything over 60FPS is useless :)

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