A police officer recently got scared by a falling acorn thinking it was a gunshot. He then mag dumped dozens of rounds into his own squad car thinking it was the man he had in custody (handcuffed, searched for weapons already, and trapped inside).

Luckily he struck with police precision. Meaning he missed every single shot and the guy was unharmed physically. Now he quit his job due to public ridicule.

This meme jokes by extending the conspiracy theories around Taylor swift to include dropping the acorn.

[–] rustyfish@lemmy.world 26 points 9 months ago

Didn’t know about that acorn thing. Wow. Maybe we should not make the bottom of the barrel into officers. Just saying.

[–] Johanno@feddit.de 10 points 9 months ago (2 children)

I mean I don't expect anything to change, but maybe give people some actual training and gun safety lessons before handing them weapons.

[–] deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz 37 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

He also shouted "I'm hit!" Apparently not knowing the difference between being shot and, err, not being shot.

[–] Johanno@feddit.de 12 points 9 months ago

Ok this sounds like he knows exactly what he was doing. He knew that he could get away with it when he's claiming to be shot at. Like the southpark episode where they hunt bears and shout "he is coming right at you!" so they can legally shoot them.

[–] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 5 points 9 months ago

In America we do all of that right at birth and you are good to go after that.

[–] HuntressHimbo@lemm.ee 26 points 9 months ago

The context is that just recently Taylor Swift sent a cease and desist to the twitter account tracking her and other celebrity private jet usage because she is embarassingly bad about using it for tiny flights.

The other side of it is the story about the cop in Florida who unloaded his pistol into his police cruiser while someone was inside because he mistook an acorn hitting the roof of the car for a muffled gunshot. He fired his whole clip into the car and yelled 'I'm hit' which also got his partner to shoot their clip into the cruiser.

[–] manucode@feddit.de 11 points 9 months ago

Taylor Swift's airplane and an Acorn dropping on a police officer

[–] witheyeandclaw@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

The context is literally a picture of a plane, the words “Taylor Swift”, and people keep upvoting them so people keep making more.

[–] mriormro@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

I don't think you understand what the word 'context' means.