SWAT team - 'nuther photograph

[Petra]

Hey, pics is all I have to offer anyone these days! :sadcheer:

Anyway, a while back I mentioned the Armed Offenders Squad near my house attending an incident in progress. Of the pics I took, I thought this was the best one, as it had the cemetery in the background, so I played with it in Photoshop to make it a bit more gritty and surreal. Hope I succeeded. :)

http://www.freethought-forum.com/forum/gallery/files/1/6/_mg_3563_copy_1_cropped_copy_original.jpg


And here's the original:

http://www.freethought-forum.com/forum/gallery/files/1/6/_mg_3563_copy.jpg

[Artemis Entreri]

very cool picture.

[ITSOZAZ]

i dig what ya done :)

[Petra]

Thanks, guys. My camera and Photoshop are the only things that give me any remote semblance of joy these days. Everything else is shit, I'm afraid. But that's another story for another time...

*sigh*

[Naru]

nice

[Caligulette]

Creepy. Funny how swat teams look about alike worldwide, eh?

[California Tanker]

Creepy. Funny how swat teams look about alike worldwide, eh?

Form follows function. What else would you expect them to look like?

NTM

[fragment]

Nice pic. Sorry to hear things aren't going so well, Petra.

What else would you expect them to look like?
Pink fluffy bunny rabbits.

[Caligulette]

Not always black, I don't know, just some stylistic differences. Not all army uniforms look alike, nor did all armour.

[Ymir's blood]

Looks good, Petra. :yup:

Have any closeups of the graveyard? :ffwink:

[Uthgar the Brazen]

Form follows function. What else would you expect them to look like?

NTM

http://www.blacklibrary.com/images/books_large/eisenhorn.jpg

[Watser?]

It looks like something from a comic this way :thumbup:

And here's a hug for you :cheerup:

[Dingfod]

Here you might get arrested for taking a photo like that. Prosecuted? Not so much.

[Petra]

Thanks, guys. :)

I'd only get arrested if I pushed my way passed the cop that was keeping us rubberneckers out of the 'danger zone'.

I sent them to my Aunty Shreeve, who still works at the Police Station. Dad, who used to be in the Armed Offenders Squad, didn't like it 'cos he's left all that behind and life is much better without it (he much preferred a waterfall pic I took); the District Commander thought it was "spooky" and the S/Sgt in control of operations that day thought they looked like a "bunch of posers". :laugh:

YB, I haven't got any close-ups of the cemetery, but I will definitely take some for you. (I'd love to go take some at night, but I won't risk it on my own, as it's right at the end of a bad street and I'd be likely to get my head kicked in and my camera stolen - neither of which are insured). But I will take some - and being winter, I'll even look out for an appropriately foggy dawn for ya. :)

[cappuccino]

That is one interesting picture, it does convey a strong feeling of Holocaust and military dictatorship.

What kind of incident was it that warranted sending in the SWAT? My neighborhood is rather rough so I see police around regularly but if I saw SWAT officers walking around... :shudder: I'd be locking up my house.

[Petra]

Cops here don't usually carry guns or tasers - though that could change pretty soon - so there is an "Armed Offenders Squad" to cope with...well... armed offenders. The guy they were after was violent, out of his head on "P", armed (albeit with just a knife), and was threatening to kill people (his girlfriend, I think). Dogs and stuff were called in, and everything ended without anyone getting hurt.

There was a hella lot of AOS guys on hand (about a doz to a doz and a half, I think), but that's because Rotorua is where the rookie AOS guys train before being sent to other regions. One of those guys was a woman, too. (Not in that pic, but I have a pic of her in my files. She's only small, and wears specs an' stuff, but Dad says she can kick way more arse than half of the guys can. :cool:)

[BrotherMan]

That's an intriguing picture. I mean, they're just walking but it's so dramatic. Especially seeing the difference of before and after.

In the before, it's just some blokes in black strolling by. In the after, they're more like ghosts making their way to a haunting.

You've a very good eye for changing what looks normal into something more interesting. I am impressed and not a little jealous either.

[LadyShea]

Awesome, but creepy picture Petra.

Cops here don't usually carry guns or tasers - though that could change pretty soon - so there is an "Armed Offenders Squad" to cope with...well... armed offenders. The guy they were after was violent, out of his head on "P", armed (albeit with just a knife), and was threatening to kill people (his girlfriend, I think). Dogs and stuff were called in, and everything ended without anyone getting hurt.



Amazing the differences. A knife wielding guy warrants a SWAT team and dogs in your country. That would get a couple of beat cops in any major US city.

When we were in the UK a guy dressed as Batman scaled the walls of Buckingham Palace, and some demonstrator during the hunting fracas managed to get into Parliament and run down the aisle. Not only could neither happen in the US with our tight security, but if someone managed to scale the walls of the White House or run down the aisle during a Congressional session they would have been shot.

[freemonkey]

gritty? check
surreal? check
spooky? check

Well done

[Ari]

I like it.
I also like the original as well.

[California Tanker]

Amazing the differences. A knife wielding guy warrants a SWAT team and dogs in your country. That would get a couple of beat cops in any major US city.


Yes, but our beat cops are armed and in a position to deal with a guy with a knife without outside assistance.

NTM

[Dingfod]

With Tasers.

[Plant Woman]

Hey, pics is all I have to offer anyone these days! :sadcheer:

Anyway, a while back I mentioned the Armed Offenders Squad near my house attending an incident in progress. Of the pics I took, I thought this was the best one, as it had the cemetery in the background, so I played with it in Photoshop to make it a bit more gritty and surreal. Hope I succeeded. :)

http://www.freethought-forum.com/forum/gallery/files/1/6/_mg_3563_copy_1_cropped_copy_original.jpg


And here's the original:

http://www.freethought-forum.com/forum/gallery/files/1/6/_mg_3563_copy.jpg

That is fantastic! It is creepy but intriguing all rolled into one.

Are those bullet proof knee pads?

[BrotherMan]

No, they're just hard plastic pads.

[Uthgar the Brazen]

Bicycle helmets for the knees! :giggle:

[JoeP]

My camera and Photoshop are the only things that give me any remote semblance of joy these days.

:sadcheer:
Not even :ff:?

[JoeP]

Amazing the differences. A knife wielding guy warrants a SWAT team and dogs in your country. That would get a couple of beat cops in any major US city.
And none at all in :southafrica:

[Caligulette]

But the beat cops are armed here, unlike there, it sounds.

[Dingfod]

Beat cops in New Zealand aren't armed with firearms, I don't think; in South Africa, they're probably armed to the teeth, grenade launchers, flame-throwers, automatic weapons. No, wait, that's taxi drivers.

[JoeP]

Ding, you exaggerate. Beat cops and taxi drivers are armed to about the same level.