# DC Police bring a gun to a snowball fight **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [December 20, 2009, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dc-police-bring-a-gun-to-a-snowball-fight/521965 "2009-12-20T17:12:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2009, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dc-police-bring-a-gun-to-a-snowball-fight/521965/101 "2009-12-24T15:49:22Z")
There is, but it apparently isn’t very [impressive](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120757/). ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2009, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dc-police-bring-a-gun-to-a-snowball-fight/521965/102 "2009-12-24T16:18:30Z")
“…while eyewitnesses described the mod as belaboring the victim with a Nerf bat while screaming “Sight? Sight?”…” ---
**Author:** ![gonzomax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e8c25b/32.png) [@gonzomax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzomax)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2009, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dc-police-bring-a-gun-to-a-snowball-fight/521965/103 "2009-12-24T16:34:38Z")
Snowballs are very dangerous. That is why everyone who lives in the north has lost an eye or have friends who have been killed by them when they were growing up. The population of the north grows much slower due to these dangerous missiles. In order to save our northern youth, the police have a shoot to kill policy.It is only fair. ---
**Author:** ![Gala\_Matrix\_Fire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/4da419/32.png) [@Gala\_Matrix\_Fire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gala_Matrix_Fire)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2009, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dc-police-bring-a-gun-to-a-snowball-fight/521965/104 "2009-12-24T18:35:29Z")
Has detective Baylor made a public statement yet? Because if not, it would be a good exercise in creative writing to imagine what he would say. “Two feet of snow had powdered the ground that December day, blanketing the seaboard in silence. Cars stayed in their parking spots as workplaces and schools and federal offices were shut down. I was driving my beloved, burgundy Hummer home from the liquor store with two cases of Schlitz to get me through the rest of the weekend, when suddenly ‘slap slap!’ snowballs started hitting my car. ‘I wonder how they were able to make snowballs out of this powdery snow’ I thought, before realizing 'Hey, those bastards are throwing snowballs at Hummie!” I reached for my shotgun, but decided the pistol would be a better weapon for scaring this crowd of miscreants…" ---
**Author:** ![ExTank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/35a633/32.png) [@ExTank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ExTank)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2009, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dc-police-bring-a-gun-to-a-snowball-fight/521965/105 "2009-12-24T18:48:45Z")
> [@Merijeek](#): > > Prepare…THE ANTHRAX SUPPOSITORIES! [Just for you.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKHoMi-U8g4) ---
**Author:** ![Projammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/projammer/32/559_2.png) [@Projammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Projammer)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2010, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dc-police-bring-a-gun-to-a-snowball-fight/521965/106 "2010-03-09T22:16:16Z")
_Checks thread for life signs_ Nope. Not quite dead yet. In probably the final chapter, [DC “Snowball Cop” will stay on the force](http://voices.washingtonpost.com/crime-scene/theola-labbe-debose/dc-snowball-cop-will-stay-on-t.html). Or, more accurately, will stay on the farce. ---
**Author:** ![mhendo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mhendo/32/3159_2.png) [@mhendo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mhendo)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2010, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dc-police-bring-a-gun-to-a-snowball-fight/521965/107 "2010-03-09T23:14:38Z")
From **Projammer** ’s link: > [@](#): > > Lanier said the actions of Detective Michael Baylor “violated some type of police department protocol.” **She said city personnel laws limited her in describing what policies were violated.** On Baylor staying on the force, Lanier said, “I don’t believe this is a termination case.” The bolded part is, in my opinion, complete bullshit. I think it’s fucked up that a public servant who undertook an act like this is a public place, involving members of the public, is not even subject to having his policy violations publicly detailed. I understand that, even in public service, certain personnel issues need to be guarded in order to protect the privacy rights of employees, but the employment policies themselves should be public information, and if they are violated by a member of the police force then the exact nature and extent of those violations should be part of the public record.\* - nominated for most uses of the word “public” in a two sentence paragraph. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dc-police-bring-a-gun-to-a-snowball-fight/521965.md?page=5)