So if you happened to lose your little pink pistol today, I may have found it.
On the walk from my office to the courthouse this morning, I found a cheap looking gun lying on the sidewalk. At first, I thought it may have been a toy due to the color, but I could see the barrel was the real deal. Without thinking, I picked it up and cleared the weapon. There was nothing in the magazine, but there was a live round in the chamber. I had no time to wait for law enforcement, because I was due in court. I just could not leave a gun lying around on a sidewalk, so I turned it in to the deputy at the courthouse. Told him my fingerprints are all over the damn thing, because I had to clear the weapon. Gave him the magazine and the single round along with the gun.
And there we go. A mundane and pointless thing I had to share.
It was probably someone heading to the courthouse for an appearance and they realized they were carrying the gun, so they ditched it. The Washington City Paper used to run a regular feature listing all the things they found in the bushes outside the courthouse in DC, mostly weapons and drugs.
I was in the local bar and restaurant and walked out of the bar to use the bathroom, it is centrally located between the bar and restaurant. While walking to the bathroom I saw a state police officer sitting at the counter in the café having lunch. Walked inside the men’s room and there is a gun on the sink. Glock, typical cop gun. He probably unholstered it to use the toilet. I went out of the men’s room door and caught the eye of the waitress and motioned for her. When she came over I pointed to the cop and told the waitress to have him come back into the men’s room, he forgot something.
He was embarrassed but greatly appreciative of my discretion.
Maybe, but this was family court, not a criminal docket, and the gun was not concealed at all. It was just lying there on the sidewalk, like it fell out of someone’s pocket.
Someone suggested that I could claim it under the abandoned property statute, but I don’t think I want it. Damn thing is pink and looks like a toy. A child could easily mistake it for a toy and bad things could happen. I think guns should be either black. chrome, or metallic, and look like what they are…weapons.
Huh. When I was a kid I worked at a self-service gas station. A PA State cop was using the men’s when his horn bleeped. He came running out and drove off to a robbery in progress. When he arrived at the scene he realized he had left his weapon in the men’s.
A short while later he returned and the gun was gone. I hadn’t seen anything (I was reading in between sales). The bathroom doors were open, no key needed. There was an investigation and I was interviewed several times.
For years I’ve been sitting on a project to make a ‘retro’ CAR-15. (i.e., non-trapdoor buttstock with swiveling loop (not a collapsible stock), no forward-assist, flat-sided lower receiver, hard-chromed bolt and bolt carrier.) But it’s very difficult finding a 16-inch skinny (‘pencil’) barrel with a 1:12" twist. I finally found one, from a Colt CAR-15, in great condition. Maybe I’ll put it all together this year.
If I have to brandish a gun, I want the glint of steel to add to its intimidation factor. The more intimidating it is to the person(s) threatening me, the less chance that I’ll have to use it (hopefully). But, if I suddenly whip out a pink gun? Pink? Maybe they’ll be disabled from hysterical laughter? I just can’t wrap my head around that.
Is it just me? OK, so I have never worn a holster and/or a gun. But why did these guys have to disarm in order to piss? I mean, genuine question - I have no idea.
An acquaintance operates a business outfitting new cop cars with the usual equipment: sirens, radios, lights, and so on. They sometimes refit used cop cars as well; when doing so, they occasionally discover drugs or weapons that arrestees have stashed while enroute to jail.
Not a cop, but I am an actor who has worn gunbelts of various types on stage. The problem with them during pooping is if you drop your pants and gunbelt, then your gun is sitting on the floor in a stall. And if you don’t drop the gunbelt, unless you are way more flexible than I am, pooping is…impractical at best.
OK, I get that. But why is a gun (not a belt, apparently) on a sink? Is the sink in the stall*? Why is the gun seemingly not in the holster?
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for the garage incident I can see that might be the case. But the other story describes a general bathroom in a bar-diner and talks about “The bathroom”, sitting between bar and diner. I assume the bathroom has stalls, but also a general area with urinals and sinks. Would that not be the norm?