...and the world collectively says, "No shiat, Sherlock."

I suppose he'd also like a transporter and tractor beam?

Set phasers to kill!!!

Phaser
Tazer

Hmmmmmmmmmmm

Turn someone's brain off? I think he's confusing the Starfleet phaser with growing up in the Bush family.

Unfortunately he wants most of the police force to wear red uniforms too... could be a massacre

Why not equip our police cruisers with tractor beams while we're at it? That would cut down on high speed chases.

If we're going to live a Star Trek fantasy, just beam me to that planet where all the women romped around in their underwear.

Phasers?? Screw that! I want me a LIGHT-SABRE!!!!!

Excuse me, I am looking for the nuclear wessels. Nu-cle-ar wess-els?

2004-02-14 01:17:35 PM arcas

Why not equip our police cruisers with tractor beams while we're at it? That would cut down on high speed chases.


It's called a road patriot. They have been available for quite some time and most police departments still don't use them.

"...would be able to turn "someone's brain off", he was quoted as saying..."

I think they tested it on him already.

You gotta wonder just what that guy's hat is hiding, a healthy brain????
Waiting for some Star Trek geek to translate this story into....Klingon....

Where is Wil when we need him to comment?

Only 262 years left. In the meantime he might want to try guns and tazers.

Phaser


Taser

Turning your brain off?



:-)

(only because I couldnt find a picture of a small police model helicopter dangling a portable tv showing a popular soap opera in front of a running perp)

PS quick threadjack - anyone else getting a file-not-found popping up on every fark page because of a busted guptamedia advert (eurotrip?) ?? ... advertising admins mind checking it out? Been doing it a couple days now.

What did you just say, Spock?

I can't see statements to the press concerning science fiction weapons being good for Deputy Chief Constable Ian Arundale's career...

Just go back in time and stop the suspect before he can commit the crime.

Just imagine the idiot newsreporter waking up this morning and deciding "I think i'm going to write an article about how british police want phasers from star trek"

Weaver95

Yeah, because when they're supposedly working they're just thinking about boobies and ruining the justice system.

They should wear red uniforms again.

Give me Star Trek weaons, and I'll set my phasers to kill...

stupid pigz! looks like he could personally invent "gheyzers"

Turning brains off? Wouldn't that just make all criminals be democrats?

Turn people's brains off? Is that what phasers DID? And, erm, wouldn't it kill them? Besides, everyone knows that the real future of law enforcement is the vomit-inducing prods from Minority Report. And Robocop.

/got nothin'

madcharlie

Why use expensive, power-consuming technology to solve problems when Kirk was always about, ready to beat the stuffing out of the bad guy with his bare fists?

I feel a bad Tom Cruise movie approaching:

While it sounds silly, why are we criticising what sounds like a legitimate desire to make our policemen less deadly?

How many 8-year-olds would get killed for waving waterguns around, if the police just stunned everyone instead of filling them full of lead?

How about hostage situations? Just stun 'em both, no harm, no foul, no tragedy.

Hell, let's have a phaser-stun bomb, and we can take out entire blocks of warring gangs.

Sounds good to me.

set phazers to kill,aiy aiy chief

The gun -- which Deputy Chief Constable Ian Arundale admitted might not be developed for many years -- would be able to turn "someone's brain off", he was quoted as saying by The Guardian.

Why develop a weapon that will turn people into liberals?

Seriously, though... a Star-Trek style phaser with "stun" has been the dream of police administrators since the 70's. Where the hell has this guy been? And is it really that slow a news day in England?

Like it would matter.

Untill all the lawyers are thrown into the Sarlacc pit, there are still going to be people biatching, no matter what weapons the cops use.

I can see it now. Some Andorian whore who's been snorting lines of dillithium-dust off of a Klingon's forehead decides to fight the police, and ends up getting taken down with a Vulcan Neck Pinch.

Next thing you know some inhuman slime (possibly related to the Horta) decides to "defend" this poor, innocent creature, claiming the police abused her, and how she now suffers permanant injury in her neck, suffers "mental anguish" and how she can no longer work because of it, and how she deserves 400-billion in gold-pressed Latinum...

All phazers on kill. Set for maximum.

Actually, a weapon like this has already being developed. It is called a tetanizing beam. It is a weapon that fires two ultraviolet lasers. These lasers ionize air, making it conductive.. High voltage electricity is shot down the beam. This electricity is designed to lock up one's muslces, immobilizing them. The range is apperantly about a kilometer.

The weapon uses a type of UV laser that does not damage people's eyes. The challenge is to shrink it to rifle size.

Bah - American cops already have several weapons that can turn off a perp's brain. One is the PR-34, and the other one is the .357 magnum. Both are incredibly effective when used properly.

If I was gonna be a bad guy I would move to England. Cops running around shouting 'Stop! Stop! Stop or I will be forced to shout Stop again!'

Uhmmm, don't they already have something like that? Isn't it called a TAZER.

Lamune_Baba Like it would matter.

Untill all the lawyers are thrown into the Sarlacc pit, there are still going to be people biatching, no matter what weapons the cops use.

I can see it now. Some Andorian whore who's been snorting lines of dillithium-dust off of a Klingon's forehead decides to fight the police, and ends up getting taken down with a Vulcan Neck Pinch.

Next thing you know some inhuman slime (possibly related to the Horta) decides to "defend" this poor, innocent creature, claiming the police abused her, and how she now suffers permanant injury in her neck, suffers "mental anguish" and how she can no longer work because of it, and how she deserves 400-billion in gold-pressed Latinum...

All phazers on kill. Set for maximum.

Oh. My. God. I understood every word you said! Kill me. Kill me!

xoxotl

Liberals are the ones with their brains turned off, huh? Have you paid any attention to the US adminstration the last few years? See no evil, hear no evil, I guess? Stick your fingers in your ears and just sing "la la la?"

By the way, the quote is "Please put down your weapons. You have 20 seconds to comply." Not "Drop your weapons," nor "30" seconds.

"yeah? I got your Star Trek weapons RIGHT HERE gentile asshat!"


Personaly I rather have the police armed with heavier weapons than the thief waiting for me behind a bush near the ATM. ...CALL ME CRAZY, but I think I'd preffer that!!

While it sounds silly, why are we criticising what sounds like a legitimate desire to make our policemen less deadly?

Because he voiced the desire in such a moronic way? I'd love to see cops armed with something that they could use in an uncertain situation without fear of taking out an innocent, getting crucified for misreading the situation or having their weapon taken away and used on them. I seldom talk about turning people's brains off.

Hell, let's have a phaser-stun bomb, and we can take out entire blocks of warring gangs.

Where do street gangs (outside of bad musicals) have massive standup fire-fights? Not that bombing a bad musical doesn't have it's appeal?

I always wondered why the more ingenious Starfleet officers never came up with better ways to utilize the transporters in hostile situations.

In Voyager, they did a T-Section (transported the baby out)..
You see, it had spines along the top of it's head and, well.. would have done damage on the way out.

/not a geek, really

Fallacies in Lamune_Baba's post:

1.) Snorting dilithium dust? Dilithium, as you know, is the power source for the warp engines. Dilithium occurs in crystalline form, and I see no way for it to be "powdered" or what result "snorting" the mineral would have. Additionally, what time period are we talking about here? Before 2286, when Spock surmised dilithium crystals could be recrystallized to some extent (perfected in the late 2360s) by exposure to high-energy photons, it was quite possibly the most valuable substance in the galaxy. Mined on very few worlds, including the infamous Klingon labor camp at Rura Penthe. Diamonds would look mad cheap by comparison.

2.) 400-billion in gold-pressed latinum? Yes, but what denomination of latinum? Remember, you have slips, strips, and bars. 1 bar = 20 strips = 2000 slips. So as we can see, 400-billion bars is quite different than 400-billion slips, no?

/Fear my limitless knowledge

Give police Star Trek-style weapons

What? Disruptors?