Originally Posted by
Knifefighter
What job do you have that allows you to regularly break people's arms and dislocate their shoulders without getting fired?
I don't do it regularly. It's happened a few times. Cost of doing business.
At the time I was a Rifle Platoon Leader (and, later, I lead a Weapons Platoon). Now, I'm a Company XO.
When you used a buzzsaw or sledge hammer to break peoples doors and then ransack their daughter's room looking for mortar rounds.....they can get a little excited (and Arabic culture does not produce many phlegmatic people, to begin with). Be rude to shoot them, hence the restraining holds. Sometimes, the result of forcing a restraining hold on a resistant subject is.......you guessed it, an arm break or shoulder dislocation. Other times, it was intentional, to neutralize a dangerous subject when they made their play for the upper hand.
Last edited by Wood Dragon; 01-04-2007 at 10:30 AM.
SevenStar: It's hilarious seeing people's reactions when they see a big, black dude with a sword walking toward them.
Masterkiller: Especially when they're at the ATM.
WTF? How did we go from the White Haired Devil strangling and beating guys to death in a teahouse, to Mr Miyagi and Jhoon Rhee?
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