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Tactical Camera 137

Posted by samzenpus on Tuesday May 05, 2009 @04:51PM from the guns-make-everything-better dept.

An anonymous reader writes "What do you get when you mount a Nikon D200 with a standard rifle stock? Why a Tactical Camera of course! One that no reporter would be caught with in a war zone or covering any armed action anywhere. What started out as a tongue in cheek project for April Fools wound up being quite the successful demonstration of concept. It features a fully functional trigger; it has controls for operating the shutter and auto focus; and for the patient shots, it has a mounted bipod. Carry sling optional."

Comment Re:Simple solution: (Score 1) 916

by BravoFourEcho on Monday November 12, 2007 @11:26PM (#21331947) Attached to: Chinese Sub Pops Up Amid US Navy Exercise

"If you've been on one of her escorts and had to be plane guard for an aircraft carrier, you know her for a fickle wench out chasing a breeze."

Meaning the carrier's direction of travel is unpredictable- it is literally chasing the breeze, to give launched or landing aircraft a favorable wind.

"Trading paint with 84,000 tons of US diplomacy underway going full-tilt-boogy is not going to be a career enhancer."

A collision, in this case between sub and the aforementioned unpredictable carrier.

"Not that this wipes the egg off the face of whoever was in charge of the escort screen [...]"

The Shame.... "you missed WHAT?"

Students Put UCLA Taser Video On YouTube 1583

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Tuesday November 21, 2006 @01:34AM from the police-buddhism-studies dept.

dircha writes "As widely reported, an incident in which Iranian-American student Mostafa Tabatabainejad was tasered up to five times by UCLA police on Friday, has been captured by a fellow student using a video enabled cell phone and published to YouTube. From the Daily Bruin: 'At around 11:30 p.m. Tuesday, Tabatabainejad, a fourth-year Middle Eastern and North African studies and philosophy student, was asked to leave the library for failing to present his BruinCard during a random check. The 23-year-old student was hit with a Taser five times when he did not leave quickly and cooperatively upon being asked to do so.' In a story which has raised concerns of racial profiling, police brutality and the health risks of taser use, the ubiquity of video cell phone technology has given us a first hand record of an incident which might otherwise have been a he-said, she-said affair. While the publishing of the video to YouTube has given the issue compelling popular exposure beyond the immediate campus community."

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