This is NOT cosplay. These people really think they're protecting a Marine recruitment center.

[RandySF]

http://wonkette.com/591956/military-recruiters-not-thrilled-with-militia-protecting-them-by-accidentally-shooting-stuff

[marym625]

2. Oy vey!

[herding cats]

3. I beg to differ. That is cosplay.

Just because they deny it, doesn't make it not so. Just because it's bad, doesn't make it not so. That's people wearing costumes to play a character. Just because the character is from their imagination and not a movie, comic book or video game doesn't make it not cosplay.

signed, a veteran at cosplay.

[Beartracks]

13. But they seem to IMAGINE they're in a movie.

For example, ALL the responsible army babes in B movies wear body armor with bikini bottoms. Maybe the woman in the photo actually thinks that's how military women go into combat.

This is definitely cosplay.

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[CTyankee]

51. maybe it's "foreplay'?

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

53. Nothing says "Let's make Love" ...

... like handing her an AK47, putting on your best camo-kilt or flag-pajamas, and spending the day in the hot sun outside a recruiting office in a strip mall.

Barry White, take a lesson!

[villager]

52. Herding is right. It's absolutely cosplay.

Only, unlike at Comic Con, say, no one's around to check weapons.

[beam me up scottie]

4. There were more of them, too.

Saw it on the local news.

The ones above are just the most...interesting.

[nadinbrzezinski]

5. You got to admit the guy in the middle has a certain sense of

fashion flare! A stars and stripes PJs, combat boots, we think, and an AR-15 while on an electric wheelchair.

That looks like well, any hardened combat superhero you have ever seen.

for those who will surely need it.

Oh and the other two, one escaped from Braveheart. He should have painted his face... and the young lady... well, that bulletproof vest looks so spiffy. She probably does not realize why people wear full BDUs... you think she is Marine Material?

[ThoughtCriminal]

60. Looks silly without a mask and cape

Somebody needs to get him a mask and Gadsden Flag cape!

[KentuckyWoman]

6. Well thank goodness they showed up !!

Someone has to keep our military save from the asphalt.....

[csziggy]

61. Yeah, one guy already shot that threatening asphalt!

Civilian guarding military recruitment center accidentally fired his gun while showing it off

by USMC Life
AR-15

Lancaster police confiscated Christopher Reed’s AR-15 after he accidentally shot it in front of a military recruiting center.

LANCASTER, OH: Many military leaders seemed like they knew this would happen. A armed man stepped up, volunteering to guard a U.S. Armed Forces Recruiting Center on Thursday. He fired a shot accidentally from his weapon just after noon, according to Lancaster police.

<SNIP>

Reed stated in an interview with the paper, “I was out here and was talking to a guy who wanted to look at my AR-15. “I was trying to clear the weapon and hand it over to him when it went off. I thought it was empty and must have missed it.”

The article also stated he was pointing the weapon at the ground when the shot was fired, and according to the police report, the only damage done was a hole in the pavement.

“Listen, it was a mistake. No one was injured and I owned up to it immediately with the police,” Reed said. “I’m glad no one was hurt. I am willing to take the punishment”, the newspaper reported.

More: http://usmclife.com/2015/07/civilian-guarding-military-recruitment-center-accidentally-fired-his-gun-while-showing-it-off/

[neverforget]

7. If they want to play war, all they have to do is go through that door

and sign some papers.

[Control-Z]

8. This. n/t

[Scuba]

17. /\_/\_This right here_/\_/\

[renegade000]

21. and that's the farce of it all, isn't it?

If they were really serious about wanting to protect the military, they'd all be signing up to try to be MPs.

[truebluegreen]

39. I'm thinking the military has higher standards than that.

Or I hope they do.

[valerief]

10. Teh Stooopid keeps outstooopiding itself. nt

[C Moon]

11. Feel sorry for the poor pup. He/she would probably prefer to be going for a walk...

than to be sitting idle with those nuts.

[Tom_Foolery]

35. My first thought, too...

[pinboy3niner]

12. Oh, darn! For a second there, I thought I found Waldo...

[SidDithers]

33. Heheh...

Sid

[MisterP]

14. what a tactical disaster--some point defense they'd make!

[Spitfire of ATJ]

15. And to think these people vote.

[Live and Learn]

16. Good Gawd! And to think these people pass the background checks.

What a friggen crazy place we have become.

[NightWatcher]

27. What background check?

You can get a rifle without a background check......thus pointing out even more of the problem.

[kristopher]

18. Wearing the flag isn't illegal, but...

Talk about literally trying to "wrap yourself in the flag"....

This is from a Congressional Research Service (CRS) report on the "The United States Flag: Federal Law Relating to Display and Associated Questions" published in 2008. It covers both custom and law with references and analysis.

Pg CRS13-14
Use of the Flag in Jewelry, Commercial Products, Wearing Apparel, and Advertising

The Flag Code addresses the impropriety of using the flag as an article of personal adornment, a design on items of temporary use, and item of clothing.48 The evident purpose of these suggested restraints is to limit the commercial or common usage of the flag and, thus, maintain its dignity. The 1976 amendments to the Code recognized the wearing of a flag patch or pin on the left side (near the heart) of uniforms of military personnel, firemen, policemen, and members of patriotic organizations.49 The Code also states that the flag should never be used for advertising purposes in any manner whatsoever.50
While wearing the colors may be in poor taste and offensive to many, it is important to remember that the Flag Code is intended as a guide to be followed on a purely voluntary basis to insure proper respect for the flag. It is, at least, questionable whether statutes placing civil or criminal penalties on the wearing of clothing bearing or resembling a flag could be constitutionally enforced in light of Supreme Court decisions in the area of flag desecration.51
In the past, the Supreme Court has held that states may restrict use of pictures of the flag on commercial products.52 There is a federal criminal prohibition on the use of the flag for advertising purposes in the District of Columbia.53 While commercial speech does not receive the full protection of the First Amendment,54 the status of these statutes and cases can not be taken for granted in light of Eichman and Johnson.

http://www.senate.gov/reference/resources/pdf/RL30243.pdf

Their view of patriotism is one I have never and will comprehend. I think we need to mandate universal service, if only for the basic civics lessons that go along with it.

[lovemydog]

19. Let's caption the dog:

'I'm smarter than these morons!'

[LiberalElite]

42. .

"Where's PETA when you need them?"

[MrModerate]

20. I work in Australia, and when my Aussie friends ask me (as they often do) . . .

"Are you yanks crazy?"

I've generally said, "no, only some of us."

However, these days, that answer just isn't working anymore.

I may go back to identifying myself as Canadian, like I did during the Bush years.

[Violet_Crumble]

24. I met a Canadian hitchhiker in NZ who got offended because I mistook him for an American...

And then he got doubly offended when I told him they all sound the same to me and spent the rest of the drive from Hamilton to Auckland with him making jokes about Australians...

Hey, do you get to vote in the primaries or just in the big one? Do you have to go to a consulate to vote or do you get to mail it or something?

[MrModerate]

65. I vote by mail in both primaries and the general . . .

And it depends on how they put the ballot together whether I can vote in (what was previously) my local jurisdiction or just for statewide/federal offices.

However, my last US address was Texas, and given the preponderance of left-of-center voters among expatriates, I'm far from sure that the election board doesn't just shred my absentee ballot.

Or open it, read it, and then bin it.

I keep sending 'em in, though — I haven't missed an election in the last 40 years, even though I've been out of the country for two-thirds of that time.

[cwydro]

22. I have no idea what cosplay is.

But these people are just stupid, and apparently have nothing to do with themselves all day.

Curious as to why the military is allowing this.

[Violet_Crumble]

23. I think it has something to do with IQs the size of a lettuce dressing up in onesies...

Are those guns real? If so, holy fuck! If that was here, they'd get arrested...

[Ilsa]

30. Cosplay usually refers to

Dressing up as a favorite character, frequently Sci-fi.

[Takket]

32. Short for "costume play"

[cwydro]

56. Thank you!

I'm so behind the times lol.

[druidity33]

25. Is that a cammo kilt? Or apron of sorts? nt.

[NightWatcher]

26. You can obviously see he's nuts

Now when he bends over, you can see his....

[B Calm]

28. Armed and dangerous nut jobs outside a strip mall, how comforting is that?

[wcmagumba]

29. "Bow to your Sensei"!

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[RandiFan1290]

47.

[B Calm]

31. Why don't they walk inside and enlist?

[MineralMan]

34. Indeed. All of them are the right age to enlist.

The Marines would give them real war weapons and teach them how to use them. Buncha morons!

The only effect that they have on that office is to keep people from going in to inquire about enlisting. I wouldn't go anywhere near that bunch of wackos.

[LiberalElite]

43. Instant 4-F nt

[HooptieWagon]

36. Could they just be trolling?

[petronius]

63. My first thought was that they were spoofing, but here's a news article:

http://www.king5.com/story/news/local/bellevue/2015/07/22/civilians-guard-bellevue-recruitment-center/30538597/

(The video plays, but for me at least an ad ran over it at first, I had to pause until the ad completed.)

Seems to be Bellevue, WA...

[truebluegreen]

37. Um, wait....

I thought the military needed to be defended against, not defended. You know, Jade Helm 15 and all.
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Is that a kilt?

[Tom_Foolery]

38. Is the dude in the flag PJs sitting on a Hoveround?

[LiberalElite]

44. Maybe that's his "Plan B" -

She's sitting in an office chair.

[Tom_Foolery]

45. And the chase is on...

[LiberalElite]

46. LULZ!

[malaise]

40. I'd be scared of those lunatics

In fact I'd tell them to sign up or get the fugg off the property

[LiberalElite]

41. Looks like Halloween militia-style - The guy in the skirt

is Braveheart meets Beetle Bailey, the one in the middle is Nappy Time for Uncle Sam (on a motorized wheelchair???) and the woman is nekkid Ninja Turtle. The dog is waiting for rescue.

Edit: Actually this could surprisingly be very shrewd thinking on their part. The terrorists will die laughing.

[CTyankee]

50. Yeah, what's with the skirt? A cammo skirt? I don't think it matches his boots...

[onethatcares]

48. Dear President Obama,

If you ever get around to taking away the guns, please start with these loonies.

Sincerely,


Onethatcares

[Logical]

49. They are the problem, not the solution. Fucking gun nuts. nt

[Charles de Gaudless]

54. Why am I not surprised?

[gademocrat7]

55. What a disgusting image.

Poor dog...trapped with gun nuts.

[Ernesto]

57. How come they didn't protect me

when I was in Vietnam?

[Generic Brad]

58. Now I see why the Marines are looking a for a few good men

That's because there are apparently so very few. This crew certainly doesn't qualify.

[Beartracks]

59. There should be guitar players with their hats out, singing songs about peace.

That would make it interesting.

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[hifiguy]

62. I don't even have words.

This kind of abject, brain-dead, cement-headed stupidity is something the earth has never seen before.

That guy in the middle should be immediately institutionalized on the basis of his attire alone.

[ladyVet]

64. You know, I'm insulted by this shit.

Those of us who actually signed up and put our asses on the line are being mocked by bozos in clown suits. Why doesn't a Marine run these morans off? This is seriously fucked up shit.

[KentuckyWoman]

66. Wish I could rec your post.

Someone needs to hammer into their stupid egotistical noggins that this is rude and insulting. We point at laugh but you are absolutely correct.

Even so, I think they intend the insult not to the soldiers but only to the Commander in Chief (aka that illegal Kenyan terrorist just waiting to grab their guns and turn them gay).

[suffragette]

67. The one in the ammo apron looks to be the same guy who paraded around at May 1st

protest in Seattle with his weapon.

Seems like he's seeking out media attention whenever he can.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=6606147