All in the Family featured the curmudgeonly Archie Bunker. Archie was television’s most famous grouch, blunt, blustering, straightforward and untouched by the PC crowd. He was the archetype of the conservative male. Michael desprately tried to reeducate him, but he persisted in his breviloquence.



Looking back at the last 40 years, we realize: ARCHIE WAS RIGHT!

4/17/2013

Marines

The following is supposedly a true story relating a situation that actually occurred in Los Angeles.The Marines were backing-up LAPD on a call that someone had broken into a store.

At the scene, the cop told the Marines to "cover" him as he approached the store (to police, "cover" means to point your weapons in the direction of the threat, to Marines it means lay down a base of fire!).

The Marines promptly laid down a base of fire. The Marines fired 178 rounds before they stopped shooting.

The thief, probably a little scared at this point, called 911 and reported, "They're shooting at me!".

But officer, I did what you said...

FWIW this is an Urban Legend or a sea story.  I never found any evidence to back it up.


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2 comments:

  1. Anonymous7:10 AM

    Not even good urban legend. Marines don't back up law enforcement.

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  2. WaterBoy10:52 AM

    Yup. Posse Comitatus.

    But it still makes for an amusing BJW story.

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