Comments on: Police fire on developmentally disabled man waving LEGO gun

By: dateman

dateman — Tue, 20 Nov 2012 10:50:09 +0000

I’m sorry but how is this more of threat than a air-soft or BB gun which look way more realistic…media just likes looking for a scapegoat…this time its Lego…even tho it isn’t Lego and the real problem is a poor guy with a mental disability.

By: Creative Anarchy

Creative Anarchy — Mon, 19 Nov 2012 18:31:36 +0000

I’m more troubled that someone with a disability that seems to have a history of this behavior wasn’t supervised. The police shouldn’t be in charge of looking after mentally handicapped people but this is the way of things when we cut funding to programs for the handicapped.

I’m also a little put off by the idea that police may have pressured Brick Con into not featuring realistic gun builds. They aren’t my cup of tea but they are respectable modelling and no more a threat to police than a gun carved out of wood or glued together from scrap. A lego gun didn’t cause the problem in Woodinville. A person without good sense did. Implying that AFOLs may cause police a problem by building and displaying Lego guns is not indifferent than calling us mentally handicapped in my book.

By: chalous

chalous — Mon, 19 Nov 2012 18:06:31 +0000

Sadly this is another case where “LEGO” is being abused as a generic word instead of a brand. These are not in fact “LEGO” bricks. They are (at least) mostly the cheap knock offs. You can see for yourself looking at the bricks in the pic. Not like the bricks did anything wrong. Its just one of those incorrect details as a fan of LEGO Im picky about.

Police cant afford to take chances (real vs no real in tense situations) so their actions are entirely valid here, glad no one was hurt.

My 2 cents worth. All well.