r/EmpireDidNothingWrong • u/BendDosetd • Jul 19 '20
In Public One of our troopers got unrightfully arrested while fighting the Rebel scum, its outrageous #justicefortroopers
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u/PreciousRoi Jul 19 '20
Surely those are local auxiliaries assisting a weary Snowtrooper returning from a lengthy foot patrol?
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u/0ct0pus0verl0rd Jul 19 '20
Context: In germany it's forbidden to carry real looking gunprops in public. Obviously this prop looked too much like a real imperial blaster.
source: https://www.onetz.de/oberpfalz/hinweis-polizei-anscheinswaffen-fallen-waffengesetz-id2640788.html (paywall after scrolling)
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u/NedHasWares Jul 19 '20
Tbf at a distance it's hard to tell and if it's a specific law then the trooper should probably have checked.
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u/0ct0pus0verl0rd Jul 19 '20
My comment was meant as a joke. :)
The article says it's a staged picture by the police to rise awareness for people not bringing fake guns to the carnival.105
u/NedHasWares Jul 19 '20
Damn it, always read before commenting folks. Although I was gonna say the picture looks far too restrained to be an actual arrest, no stormtrooper could actually be held in place like that!
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u/Hans-Hammertime Jul 19 '20
That’s honestly pretty great. There must be some starwars fan on on that police force who came up with this
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u/WedgeMantilles Jul 19 '20
Were you not clued in that it may be a joke when he said "real imperial blaster" lol
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u/jhmed Jul 19 '20
That happened here in Canada
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Jul 19 '20
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u/MobiusOne_ISAF Jul 19 '20
Nah, it's a feature called "Instant Apps". It basically a turbocharged web app that let's it function more like a native app without actually being installed. They usually give the option to install the full app, but you don't have too.
Once you close the instant app, it'll clear itself out of RAM like it was never there.
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u/mr_anonymous85 Jul 20 '20
Well tbh Canada is a joke and I live there. They arrest people if you carry fake guns because dumbasses been disguising guns to look fake
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u/electricalParadise Jul 20 '20
Something like this happened here in America too except the cops just shot the kid instead
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Jul 19 '20
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u/TableTopWarlord Jul 20 '20
In Canada someone was arrested, later released, because they had a fake gun. Even though they were dressed as a stormtrooper on May 4th outside a business running a Star Wars themed promotion.
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u/xyolol Jul 19 '20
At least they let him hold it while they arrested him. They probably knew even if it was real storm troopers cant aim for shit
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u/racoon1905 Jul 19 '20
Well, it still looks like a Sterling submachine gun ... wouldn't try that for real.
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u/buurenaar Jul 20 '20
It's probably either a resin kit or an airsoft. Resin is a lot more common and waaay less expensive.
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u/Sir_Lemming Didn't read the art post rules Jul 19 '20
This is a propaganda photo, no real Imperial Trooper would ever let themselves be captured alive.
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u/Freed_ Jul 19 '20
Immer wieder die deutschen
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u/tachanka4life_ Jul 19 '20
Sie haben zu Recht, sie waren wie das Imperium, aber Sie wissen, dass sie sich dem Abschaum der Rebellen anschließen
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u/NickLeMec Jul 19 '20
Ich liebe Demokratie
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u/Feck_this Jul 19 '20 edited Jul 19 '20
Finally, a German sentence that I can understand besides “Du bist ein Mann Kind”
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u/DivinePhoenixSr Jul 20 '20
Du hast mich? I know like 3 other phrases in German and 2 of them were from Choir
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u/mahdudee Jul 19 '20
Why is the context?
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u/AwSkiba Jul 19 '20
I'll do you one better, when is the context?
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u/irishsquidseb Jul 19 '20
How is the context
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u/Sir-Pythorax Jul 19 '20
Who is the context?
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u/Tsu_Dho_Namh Jul 19 '20
Where is the context?
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u/ultrasquish Jul 19 '20
What is "context"?
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u/The_Real_Axel Jul 19 '20
Wherefore art thou, Context?
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u/mahdudee Jul 19 '20
Holy shit I just realized what did I write, but I’m not gonna edit it now since you made the joke
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u/TheStonedEngineer420 Jul 19 '20
Probably the gun replica. If it looks too much like a real gun, you can get in trouble for carrying it in public.
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u/_m4a3e8_ Jul 19 '20
Looks like it happened somewhere in Franconia, Germany. Can see the flag on the lady's shoulder patch
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u/Grimejow TIE-Interceptor Pilot Jul 19 '20
Also the big flag in the top right helps
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u/Grimejow TIE-Interceptor Pilot Jul 19 '20
Ok I found the facebook post here it is in german, here is the gist of it though.
It is a staged photo, to raise awareness during Carnival that people should not carry weapons that seem real, because that is forbidden in Germany and could get them arrested.
It ends with a good humored Star Wars joke "May the costume be with you" which is in german a pun on Tracht - Macht =force so it sems really lighthearted.23
u/Marcus_Iunius_Brutus Jul 19 '20
As far as I know the OT guns were actually ww2 guns. Like mg34
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u/CheekiBleeki Jul 19 '20
The E-11 is basically a moded British Sten Gun. The DLT-19 is indeed from the MG34. The rebel blaster ( I always forget it's name ) is a moded STG-44.
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u/unclefisty Jul 19 '20
The E-11 was based on the Sterling SMG, which does look a lot like the Sten.
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Jul 19 '20
That’s Bavaria
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u/Masemo1234 Jul 19 '20
you might want to read the comment you are replying to, again and google any words you don't understand
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Jul 19 '20
Franconia ist not entirely in Bavaria. That is the Bavarian flag on the shoulder. In the top right it says Oberpfalz which is south east of Franconia.
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u/PaprikaYT Jul 19 '20
Its a staged pic of the police to raise awareness to not run around with weapon replicas
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u/Bernardito10 happy that i got an assignment at the jedi temple no war for me Jul 19 '20
Jokes on them, he was better prepared for winter that the german army
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u/gildedtreehouse Jul 19 '20
Looks like someone couldn’t handle his beer, wandered off into the snow with his weapon and was luckily brought back in by some local staff.
Sad state of the empire. pity.
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Jul 20 '20
Look people have said it once, and said it a million times, dont go out holding a gun, regardless of how fake it is.
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u/JimmyPellen Jul 20 '20
"We would've let you off with a warning if we hadn't spent THREE HOURS trying to find you!"
"We even kept calling out 'MARCO!'"
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Jul 19 '20
I don’t know hopefully for destroying rebellion scum and doing us proud
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u/kalelfaneditor Jul 19 '20
Read up, context is a few posts above yours :) basically staged to raise awareness about not carrying (fake) guns out in public.
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u/Qvar Jul 19 '20
Amother redditor said it was a stagged photo for a poster to raise awareness to not use real-looking gun props during carnival.
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u/Got2Go Jul 19 '20
Makes sense that its not real because they likely would have taken the fake weapon away before arresting them just in case.
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u/racoon1905 Jul 19 '20 edited Jul 19 '20
It's staged to raise awareness. It's illegal in Germany to open carry real or to real looking guns (in 99% of the cases)
Carrying an E11 on carnival for example is pretty dangerous as the E11 is just a slightly modified Sterling SMG. If you get caught it depends on the judge but probably get ready for jail and a 10k fine and also being barred from owning actual firearms.
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Jul 19 '20
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u/racoon1905 Jul 19 '20
Depends how big the "scheinbare Bedrohung" is perceived. But yes you are right most cases it's just an administrative offence
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u/lonesnowtroop Jul 19 '20
That was my coworker John. They executed him a day later. I did my best to stop them but they overpowered us and he held them off long enough for me to escape.
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u/uberduger Jul 19 '20
Even though she's arresting one of our own, I'm still madly in love with cop girl.
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u/TheVerde18 Jul 19 '20
as we can see the bavarian police is involved in this meme, so this is a matter of Germans. We occupie this comment section. Please "sprich deutsch du Hurensohn" and have a great day
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u/1TrueKnight Jul 19 '20
Why does the snow seemed Photoshopped?
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u/RiskMoranis Jul 19 '20
Yea, I came to ask the same question. It’s like she snow was erased around their faces..
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u/HWGA_Gallifrey Jul 19 '20
I blame the Republic and filthy Jedi propaganda for this honorable Trooper's mistreatment. Order must be restored.
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u/absboodoo Jul 19 '20
Our good lad Snowtrooper rather suffer the humiliation of being arrested by these confused locals, instead of firing on the non-rebel indigenous people.
#empiredidnothingwrong
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u/BoMbSqUAdbrigaDe Jul 19 '20
God damned rebel scum. It's worse in the USA. This guy didn't get beat at least.
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u/TheFriendlyKraut Jul 19 '20
Fuck the police, now they are even after the Whites
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u/solarus44 Jul 20 '20
Well this photo is actually staged for a poster telling people not to bring fake guns to public areas
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Jul 19 '20
Disgusting how the public treats our troops. I'm bet if he was a terrorist they would have left him alone. They want to be mind controlled by the Jedi. They can think for them selves. Long live the empire!
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u/binkerfluid Jul 19 '20
I just want to point out the pure disrespect in this picture.
They let him keep his blaster because they think he cant hit anything so its not even viewed as any kind of threat.
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u/boodooper Jul 20 '20
Disgusting. I say we send a squad to deal with the forces aiding the rebels at once.
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u/[deleted] Jul 19 '20
So the Bavarian police has chosen the side of the rebel scum. Looks like I’ll have to switch to asymmetric warfare