Sniper rifle falls off roof during Buffalo's St. Patrick's Day parade
Photos show an officer's rifle falling off the roof onto a sidewalk during Buffalo's St. Patrick's Day Parade.
www.wgrz.com Someone didn't set their rifle up right.
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www.wgrz.com Someone didn't set their rifle up right.
Give a cop a plastic hammer, put him in a padded room wearing a straight jacket, and he'll figure out how to break an anvil.
All the best equipment that taxpayer money can buy.
Maybe he just wanted to verify if that Vortex warranty works.
What a 'tard.
"It's not something the a average person could just pick up and utilize.". Haha! Finally I'm above average!
I love what that dumb ass retired captain said. “ It’s a specialized weapon not like a pistol or something. Most people can’t just pick it up and use it.” Yup 95 percent of cops are as stupid and worthless as tits on a boar hog.
Wonder if that was one of MikeR’s TacOps ninjas? 
Barney is that you?
Did he even go to Sniper School?
Oopsies
People that don't understand genetics really need to stop using that phrase. Teats on a boar are not worthless...but, you wouldn't understand it if it was explained in detail.
If the rifle/tripod would have hit someone in the head and killed them, would that count as a kill for the sniper?
Yes. And just doing their job.
To be fair, the "sniper" didn't even know how to set it up...so I guess that includes his police force...
Exactly, like millions of hunters don’t use bolts with a scope ……
Buffalo? Probably a graduate of the latest "inclusive, gender neutral, white people bad/black people good" sniper class. Shooting, tactics and equipment use were covered in the last 30 minutes of the course 
ThisBuffalo? Probably a graduate of the latest "inclusive, gender neutral, white people bad/black people good" sniper class. Shooting, tactics and equipment use were covered in the last 30 minutes of the course
I wonder if it’s an “LE Only” model that is so high speed civilians can’t own. Ya know, instead of just cutting LEOs the special pricing and letting civis pay normal retail… but hey, it’s not a normal weapon…it’s special.
At least nobody was buying a hot dog when that thing fell.
I mean, still, the rifle stayed attached to the tripod, the rail stayed attached to the rifle, the scope stayed attached to the rifle, as well.
And the tripod doesn't look much worse for the wear.
They're buying the good stuff with our $$, and having idiots run it. It seems.
And the tripod doesn't look much worse for the wear.
They're buying the good stuff with our $$, and having idiots run it. It seems.
I wonder if it’s an “LE Only” model that is so high speed civilians can’t own. Ya know, instead of just cutting LEOs the special pricing and letting civis pay normal retail… but hey, it’s not a normal weapon…it’s special.
Oh it’s ”special“ alright. Just look at the picture. Look at how thin the barrel is and how high the scope is mounted. Not to mention that the scope doesn’t exactly resemble a modern precision scope; thing looks like a 30mm tubbed Barska in that blurry photo. The rifle was probably set up by some worshiper of ARFCOM.
Or it only appears that way to your common eye. When in fact it is a super sniper special LEO only model sniper rifle.
Isn't the guy on YT "AngryCops", from the Buffalo PD, will be interesting to see if will do a parody video from his "This Old Crack House series".
Yes he is from Buffalo. We will have to wait and see.
Can anyone tell what kind of a rifle that is? Doesn't look like anything I have seen before in that pic on the roof.
How to find yourself back writing parking tickets 101.
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Sirhr
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How far back to the team room????
And by way of full disclosure…
I never dropped a rifle. But in a training course on room entry, we were doing dry runs. No rounds. Just entering and going left and right (heavy side… light side.). Working on footwork and weapons handling.
I entered second, went right…. Feeling good… all squared away going “bang bang” and the instructor yelled at me “your weapon jammed, transition to pistol.”
So dropped my rifle on sling… perfect. Grab pistol super fast… perfect draw… I’m looking good! And as I bring the pistol up… it just goes whoopsie… out of my hand like a bar of soap.
Oh but it gets better. It was on a lanyard… nice coiled retention jobby. You know the type.
That’s when the whole world went into slow motion. I’m watching the pistol fly through the air in front of me. Sort of nose down as it climbed and climbed. The lanyard gracefully uncoiling like a kite string…. The pistol getting farther and farther away as it tries for orbit.
Then … boinnnnng. It reaches the end of its stretch and back it comes. Reversing course and tracing a perfect ballistic arc through the air in front of me… landing on the floor at my feet.
That was perhaps one of the loudest sounds I ever heard. Clatter clatter clatter…..
And of course everything froze. I’m standing there with every student and instructor looking at me. My pistol on the floor. With a leash. Like a small dog. Just lying there.
If I live to be 100… that moment will be printed in my cortex. Along with forgetting my Purdey at the gunsmith last fall while bird hunting…
So, I honestly feel bad for the guy (I am assuming it’s gender) in Buffalo. Really.
Then again, dropping your pistol in early stage training and having your rifle fall off a roof during an actual security op aren’t exactly comparable.
But buddy… in Buffalo… if you are actually here on SH…. I do feel bad for you!
Sirhr
PS. I never dropped a gun after that. There was additional training involved. I don’t want to talk about that.
I never dropped a rifle. But in a training course on room entry, we were doing dry runs. No rounds. Just entering and going left and right (heavy side… light side.). Working on footwork and weapons handling.
I entered second, went right…. Feeling good… all squared away going “bang bang” and the instructor yelled at me “your weapon jammed, transition to pistol.”
So dropped my rifle on sling… perfect. Grab pistol super fast… perfect draw… I’m looking good! And as I bring the pistol up… it just goes whoopsie… out of my hand like a bar of soap.
Oh but it gets better. It was on a lanyard… nice coiled retention jobby. You know the type.
That’s when the whole world went into slow motion. I’m watching the pistol fly through the air in front of me. Sort of nose down as it climbed and climbed. The lanyard gracefully uncoiling like a kite string…. The pistol getting farther and farther away as it tries for orbit.
Then … boinnnnng. It reaches the end of its stretch and back it comes. Reversing course and tracing a perfect ballistic arc through the air in front of me… landing on the floor at my feet.
That was perhaps one of the loudest sounds I ever heard. Clatter clatter clatter…..
And of course everything froze. I’m standing there with every student and instructor looking at me. My pistol on the floor. With a leash. Like a small dog. Just lying there.
If I live to be 100… that moment will be printed in my cortex. Along with forgetting my Purdey at the gunsmith last fall while bird hunting…
So, I honestly feel bad for the guy (I am assuming it’s gender) in Buffalo. Really.
Then again, dropping your pistol in early stage training and having your rifle fall off a roof during an actual security op aren’t exactly comparable.
But buddy… in Buffalo… if you are actually here on SH…. I do feel bad for you!
Sirhr
PS. I never dropped a gun after that. There was additional training involved. I don’t want to talk about that.
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good scope test. wonder if it, under warranty.
When breed for replacement gilts/sows, you use a boar with more teats, to increase the chance of getting female offspring with more teats…you don’t want a sow with 6 teats trying to feed a littler of 8-10 bacon seeds.Well I’m not the smartest man around but I can tell you for fact. That playing with my teats doesn’t do as much for me as it does for the wife when I play with hers. And I sure the hell have never got my coffee creamer from mine like I did hers neither. So tell me what makes boar tits so special.
There, you city kids learned something new, take the rest of the day off.
Wanted to flex his superiority from the rooftop and it backfired. Good, just glad the gun didn’t fire.
I obviously can’t see the roof structure, but what was his plan if he actually had to shoot the thing? Looks like the tripod is well above where he was walking around… away from his rifle… on duty…
I obviously can’t see the roof structure, but what was his plan if he actually had to shoot the thing? Looks like the tripod is well above where he was walking around… away from his rifle… on duty…
Police captain- “These are highly specialized weapons. Only trained professionals would know how to pick them up and use them”
Police Sniper…..
Police Sniper…..
I thought the same thing. Looks like someone was pretty proud to be the “sniper” so he set up so everyone could see him.
Ok. I sure did learn something today. But I sure the hell am not a city folk. I guess from now on I will say “ as worthless as tits on a bull” . Is that ok? Just want to make sure since growing up on a dairy ,how many teats on a bull didn’t mean anything for breeding. Lol
Going to have be a sub-section in the SOP manual...How to NOT load a tri-pod...
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I thought that the loudest sound in the world was someone dropping their rifle in formation.
Then I learned that the sound of @sirhrmechanic pistol dropping on the floor was louder than that.
However, I don't think there is anything more deafening than the sound of a sniper rifle dropped off a roof.
So here's my warped fantasy. I'd like to go back in time and have everyone in this forum present in Buffalo at the time of this incident, on the street below.
There isn't anything more priceless than listening to all of the colorful comments of members of this esteemed forum spreading the love and encouragement to the man on the roof.
Time machines aren't real and we can't go back to be there so I'd like to start a contest. First prize and an "Atta-Boy" goes to the person with the most imaginative comment. I'll go first.
"Hey Officer, is that rifle a police trade-in?"
Then I learned that the sound of @sirhrmechanic pistol dropping on the floor was louder than that.
However, I don't think there is anything more deafening than the sound of a sniper rifle dropped off a roof.
So here's my warped fantasy. I'd like to go back in time and have everyone in this forum present in Buffalo at the time of this incident, on the street below.
There isn't anything more priceless than listening to all of the colorful comments of members of this esteemed forum spreading the love and encouragement to the man on the roof.
Time machines aren't real and we can't go back to be there so I'd like to start a contest. First prize and an "Atta-Boy" goes to the person with the most imaginative comment. I'll go first.
"Hey Officer, is that rifle a police trade-in?"
“Just because it’s a USO doesn’t mean you have to torture test it! Oh, it’s a Vortex.”
