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Gumby 12-04-2009 09:16 AM

LEGO gun at work brings in the SWAT team
 
http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=2301787

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Of all the things available for order on the Internet, it was a replica Lego gun that grabbed Jeremy Bell's attention.

The 29-year-old partner at teehan+lax, a downtown Toronto user-experience design firm, had ordered the gun from the online retailer BrickGun, which sells realistic Lego replicas of firearms. Just how realistic, Jeremy would soon find out in an encounter with the friendly neighbourhood SWAT team.

After receiving the Lego gun kit in the mail on Wednesday, he brought it to work to show his colleagues.

"I decided to put it together," Mr. Bell wrote on his blog yesterday. "I literally assembled it, handed it to a coworker (who promptly broke it) and then put it back in the box."

It was the end of the day so Mr. Bell and a few colleagues decided to wind down by playing a few rounds of the video game Modern Warfare 2 at the office before heading home. A little while later, sudden, intense yelling filled the office hallways.

"We originally thought there was some sort of domestic dispute out there ... that was until I clearly heard my name," said Mr. Bell.

"The guy sounded seriously angry and was instructing me to slowly come into the hall with my hands on my head."

It was Toronto's Emergency Task Force, more commonly known as the SWAT team, responding to calls of a man in an office with a gun.

"I was surrounded by about six SWAT guys armed with shotguns and assault rifles," he said. "Once they confirmed I wasn't packing any Lego heat, I walked backwards towards them, was then cuffed, pulled into the stairwell and thrown against the wall."

While two members of the SWAT team kept Mr. Bell pressed against the wall, he explained that there was a Lego gun in pieces in his office. Sure enough, a few minutes later, an officer confirmed it.

"We found it ... it's Lego," Mr. Bell recalled the officer saying, as the police promptly uncuffed him.

It turns out police were tipped off by a neighbour whose apartment looks in on Mr. Bell's office. Police say a call came in shortly after 5:30 p.m. with the caller reporting that a man was sitting in his office with a gun on his desk and the door closed (Mr. Bell had been on an earlier conference call so had closed the door).

"With calls like this you have to be safe, not sorry," said Const. Tony Vella, a Toronto police spokesman. "Until we know it's not a gun, we have to take it seriously."

Mr. Bell says he holds no grudges against the police, considering how real the toy gun looks.

"If there was someone in here with a gun I'd expect nothing less," he said. "However, it wasn't like I was walking around downtown with it. I didn't actually do anything with it."

Mr. Bell was released and faces no charges.

As for why he bought the toy gun in the first place, blame it on a love for Lego.

"I've always been a fan of Lego, so I decided to pick it up," Mr. Bell said. "I wish I had a decent reason for purchasing it, but I don't. For shame, I suppose."

BinsentoW 12-04-2009 09:26 AM

"SWAT came into my house, disrespected my whole family because somebody narc'd me out! And you know what? IT WAS YOU!"
This guys got someone looking in on him all day, haha.

murd0c 12-04-2009 09:29 AM

www.brickgun.com is one cool ass site I'm only on my phone
Can't wait to get on a comp and check it out.
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Gumby 12-04-2009 09:32 AM

I just realized, this is free publicity for www.BrickGun.com. Their server's gonna get flooded for the next while...

murd0c 12-04-2009 09:50 AM

$70 for the mac11 that shoots rubber bands is pretty
Sweet lol
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shenmecar 12-04-2009 09:58 AM

http://a123.g.akamai.net/f/123/12465...n?size=404x272

theres a pic of the gun. Its no wonder the guy that was spying through the window mistaken it for a real gun.

Mugen EvOlutioN 12-04-2009 10:03 AM

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Originally Posted by Bali Vince (Post 6713232)
"SWAT came into my house, disrespected my whole family because somebody narc'd me out! And you know what? IT WAS YOU!"
This guys got someone looking in on him all day, haha.

:haha::haha::haha:

Jsunu 12-04-2009 10:17 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Bali Vince (Post 6713232)
"SWAT came into my house, disrespected my whole family because somebody narc'd me out! And you know what? IT WAS YOU!"
This guys got someone looking in on him all day, haha.

I never narc’d on nobody! I never narc’d on nobody!

haha thats a awesome lego gun

Qmx323 12-04-2009 10:19 AM

i had a yellow bionics dude that shot discs

johny 12-04-2009 10:20 AM

dam this thing cocks / clicks / and slides me want

http://www.brickgun.com/Semi_auto_w_...uto_w_Mag.html

TypeRNammer 12-04-2009 10:26 AM

You almost had me? You never had me, you never had your gun.

jtanner_ 12-04-2009 10:28 AM

I was not expecting the guns to be nearly that detailed... haha

Gumby 12-04-2009 10:28 AM

Damn, I just realized this guy looks like Gordon Freeman!

SolidPenguin 12-04-2009 10:55 AM

Quote:

"I literally assembled it, handed it to a coworker (who promptly broke it) and then put it back in the box."
Hate people like that

Quote:

It was Toronto's Emergency Task Force, more commonly known as the SWAT team, responding to calls of a man in an office with a gun.
Good job team
http://www.odt.co.nz/files/story/200...1654936275.jpg

AzNightmare 12-04-2009 12:34 PM

Why would anyone even call the cops. That's retarded. If I saw some guy in his house with a gun I wouldn't call the cops.

q0192837465 12-04-2009 01:28 PM

well, it's good to know that ur backup is not far away if smething should happen

StylinRed 12-04-2009 01:57 PM

awww their orders are so backed up they say new orders wont make it in time for christmas :(

skyxx 12-04-2009 01:58 PM

Pricey! BUT I WANT!

sonick 12-04-2009 02:31 PM

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Originally Posted by SolidPenguin (Post 6713336)
Hate people like that



Good job team
http://www.odt.co.nz/files/story/200...1654936275.jpg

Go Pink Ranger!

mazdaboi 12-04-2009 02:39 PM

I want the SMG.... it looks so cool!!!

!e.lo_ 12-04-2009 04:23 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Bali Vince (Post 6713232)
"SWAT came into my house, disrespected my whole family because somebody narc'd me out! And you know what? IT WAS YOU!"
This guys got someone looking in on him all day, haha.

i read this in the province earlier today, and seriously this quote popped into my head :p

JSALES 12-04-2009 04:26 PM

hahah

twitchyzero 12-04-2009 05:32 PM

the H&K MP5 looks pretty bad ass!

yellowpower 12-04-2009 05:40 PM

its like my crazy girlfriend decided to take that gun apart lego by lego, then id be reaaaaal pissed

InvisibleSoul 12-04-2009 06:09 PM

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Originally Posted by AzNightmare (Post 6713445)
Why would anyone even call the cops. That's retarded. If I saw some guy in his house with a gun I wouldn't call the cops.

Reading comprehension fail... it was at his workplace, not at home.


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