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Why did he say "I'm hit"
Cops are trained to say that before shooting as a psychological trick to manipulate witnesses. Your brain doesn't perfectly record the order of events in a situation like that, so to make sense of things you're likely to misremember one or more of the gunshots being before the "I'm hit" rather than correctly remember that the cop shot first.
"It's coming right for us!" -South Park hunting episode
Because he's a hysterical fucking moron who believes himself to be some for of hero warrior.
He probably got it from South Park with the "its coming this way" defense for hunting out of season
This is Chewbacca, Chewbacca is a wookie...
but is a wookie a bear ?
First rule of the Chewbaca defense: you don't elaborate upon invocation of the Chewbaca defense
THE ACORNS ARE COMIN' RIGHT FER US!
Reading the article is hard.
My bad, just watched the vid on another thread and was asking here
Sunshine laws...shit happens everywhere, Florida just isn't embarrassed enough to keep it private.
OfficerandACORNare a dangerous aural combination to some folks