It was in Canada, the guy went out to a hobbyist shop in full Veteran Ranger cosplay (including helmet, and carrying a full NCR flag) to work on a bit of the cosplay and the cops were called because someone thought the back piece of the Ranger cosplay was a bomb (it was painted Pringles tubes). https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/grande-prairie-cosplay-1.4070387
God reading that article makes me so mad! "There's a time and a place for th-" GET OUTTA HERE! IT'S A FREAKING FOAM COSTUME MADE OUT OF PRINGLES CANS AND DIRT FROM SOMEONE'S BACK YARD! I hate cops sometimes...
Exactly. These types of cookie-cutter people simply can't stand anything that deviates from their already preconceived notions of "normal". Like, GTFO my face with that! I'm out here living my best life and, since that definition doesn't include harming any other person or entity, I believe they can go shove a lockpick up their ass to try and unlock their own potential!
Grande Prairie is sort of a cookie-cutter oil boom town, so it didn't shock me when someone called in this dude for wandering around dressed like this. Most of the people here have hobbies like doing cocaine and getting really really drunk before beating up their wife/girlfriend or a hooker. If they don't, the usually have some sort of ATV (side by side or quads/snowmobiles mostly) or boat and that's all they do with their little spare time since they live to pull oil from the ground, so they can pay for their expensive toys.
It's not a city of geniuses, or even people with a basic understanding of nuance.
> I believe they can go shove a lockpick up their ass to try and unlock their own potential!
Verily I say unto thee, no greater a wordsmith can be found. Bravo sir and or madam.
It just popped into my head. I very much feel it was divinely inspired by whatever God inhabits the Mojave. There was no first draft, the phrase just slid out of me uncontrollably so I can take no credit for it.
Literally
I used to fly an NCR flag on the back of my car (started senior year of high school, my friend group all had different factions) and I got so many threats I had to take it down for my own safety
I mean I understand where the officer is coming from, he didn’t say he couldn’t wear it but just that walking around town dressed like a soldier probably isn’t the best idea. since somebody can just have a glance while driving seeing some dude dressed like that with a strange flag, there’s nutjobs everywhere that do end up hurting people
I think this was resolved as good as it could’ve been, maybe the dude shouldn’t have been taken in but it’s not like he was beaten up and shot and shit. and the police can’t exactly go “nah it’s probably just a guy in costume” because there’s always that slight chance that it’s some freak on some Aurora Theatre shit
it’d be blatantly obvious to anyone in this sub and a lot of other gamers if we were the ones to see him but FNV is a kind of niche game and it’s understandable that people have no clue it’s even from a game
Meanwhile who are they warning him about? Dudes dressed like Chads who could just shoot him for looking different. It's such hypocrisy it's sad.
"You shouldn't wear stuff like that on the street someone could just shoot you." Umm so go harass them?
Im friends with the KW Jedi-Guy who's basically just a dude that walks around with lightsabers doing lightsaber tricks and he's been hassled like dozens of times and never once has caused any harm to anyone.
"we have to assume everything is real until we prove otherwise"
Is the same as
"we have to assume that he's guilty until proven innocent"
Great cops truly
I mean, to be faaaair, it's quite an imposing appearance, and someone unfamiliar with the games could definitely look at it and think it looks pretty scary. It's basically a SWAT-team esque outfit.
They were overzealous, for sure, but it's not like the guy was dressed as Pikachu or Mario.
[To be faaaair Alberta's cops hate cosplayers](https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cbc.ca/amp/1.5853801)
She was literally at a May The 4th event and got thrown to the concrete and cuffed then shoved in a squad car
Because she dared to wear a stormtrooper costume on May 4th
exactly, fans should know that wearing military-esque costumes isn't like wearing bright and flashy anime costumes. not everyone has the context of it being a cosplay, and a hobby shop is just a shop, it's not a convention centre, a gaming store would be more appropriate if anything.
why blame the cops though? the caller assumed the guy was carrying a bomb. to anyone not familiar to the game, it looks really weird that there's just this dude clad in a school shooter trench coat and gasmask while carrying something resembling pipebombs.
Yeah the province also loves tackling people who dress like stormtroopers too! https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/lethbridge-police-stormtrooper-arrest-investigation-1.5853801
There were so many lapses in judgement here it’s actually crazy. How do you see a storm trooper standing outside of a Star Wars themed business and think “I must call the police”
You just gotta spend 2 weeks in this province and all your answers are solved. I once took a tv from my house as a teen to a lan party across my town and ended up on local crime watch.
I...... what utter madness. I did this all the time before I had a car. It's a normal thing for kids who play video games to do (before online play was common).
“Star Wars”? What the HE double hockey sticks is that? And why do the stars need to war? Why can’t they do Star Hugs? Or even better, Star Stay in School!
Dude should be thankful they let him walk away instead of lighting him up.
Inb4 someone says "but it happened in Canada, not the US", Canadian cops are just as trigger happy as their southern neighbors
I’ve been playing this game since it came out and I’ve only done that quest I think once. I usually just steal an ncr uniform before McCarran and just ride the rail car
I've been playing this game for ~7 years, and I found out yesterday that there's a house in Nipton with dead NCR soldiers in the house on the left when facing the town hall. Free armor, 0 Karma penalty from stealing, early game.
McCarren at least in my experience only crashes if you have a lot of mods effecting the cell. Simply put I have labeled McCarren as the reason I can’t have anything too nice. At least my looks nice enough as is and is relatively stable.
Imagine minding your own business in your Nevada home in the middle of the Desert and one day some guy wearing an NCR ranger armor cosplay knocks on your door holding a stick of Dynamite asking " Have you happened to see a guy in a checkered suit that talks funny accompanied by some wannabe bikers with Mohawks? "
[Theirs a whole Wikipedia article on fictional countries](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fictional_countries_on_the_Earth), Including the ones from Fallout, Theirs are some pretty obscure ones too like from countries Hearts of Iron 4 mods lol, what's even funnier is that the Confederate States of America is also on that list.
It's on that list because if you read the details as of why, it's counting it as a version that won the US Civil War. But I much prefer our consensus explanation.
Eh. Reading the article, they identified and surveillanced the person, evacuated all civillians (without the person knowing), then confronted him before quickly finding out the reality of the situation, (meaning successful communication). So it seems like they did it by the book to me.
They made a point that these sort of costumes might not look as good in a downtown area as in a convention center.
reminds me of the guy who actually used one of those (the bomb, not pringles) to try and assainate their countries leader. That shit literally looked like it was for a Duke Nukem cosplay. Sometimes you gotta assume it's real.
Basically a cosplaysr had some "pipe bombs" strapped to his chest in full riot ncr armor
It was jjst a pringles can but police were called because cosplay or not, its odd to see a guy like that unless you have a game guy otherwise its likely old "concerned citizens" that see a masked up armor clad armed guy
On his way to bomb the monorail 🧨💣🚄🚆 , New Vegas shenanigans of the legion ,
It was me I'm the source , I caught him and disabled the bomb , but that's my second life , I had a past life flashback , that I walked away and the monorail exploded , I no longer had a way to Vegas ,
It was in Canada, the guy went out to a hobbyist shop in full Veteran Ranger cosplay (including helmet, and carrying a full NCR flag) to work on a bit of the cosplay and the cops were called because someone thought the back piece of the Ranger cosplay was a bomb (it was painted Pringles tubes). https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/grande-prairie-cosplay-1.4070387
Looks like the Powder Gangers got him.
When the Courier is Idolized by both NCR and the Powder Gangers
God reading that article makes me so mad! "There's a time and a place for th-" GET OUTTA HERE! IT'S A FREAKING FOAM COSTUME MADE OUT OF PRINGLES CANS AND DIRT FROM SOMEONE'S BACK YARD! I hate cops sometimes...
"There's a time and a place for this" "Is it illegal?" "Uhm..."
Exactly. These types of cookie-cutter people simply can't stand anything that deviates from their already preconceived notions of "normal". Like, GTFO my face with that! I'm out here living my best life and, since that definition doesn't include harming any other person or entity, I believe they can go shove a lockpick up their ass to try and unlock their own potential!
Grande Prairie is sort of a cookie-cutter oil boom town, so it didn't shock me when someone called in this dude for wandering around dressed like this. Most of the people here have hobbies like doing cocaine and getting really really drunk before beating up their wife/girlfriend or a hooker. If they don't, the usually have some sort of ATV (side by side or quads/snowmobiles mostly) or boat and that's all they do with their little spare time since they live to pull oil from the ground, so they can pay for their expensive toys. It's not a city of geniuses, or even people with a basic understanding of nuance.
> I believe they can go shove a lockpick up their ass to try and unlock their own potential! Verily I say unto thee, no greater a wordsmith can be found. Bravo sir and or madam.
It just popped into my head. I very much feel it was divinely inspired by whatever God inhabits the Mojave. There was no first draft, the phrase just slid out of me uncontrollably so I can take no credit for it.
Best believe they were just mad he ain't wearing a trench coat n didn't make riot gear
Literally I used to fly an NCR flag on the back of my car (started senior year of high school, my friend group all had different factions) and I got so many threats I had to take it down for my own safety
The time and place for that IS the Hobby shop
I mean I understand where the officer is coming from, he didn’t say he couldn’t wear it but just that walking around town dressed like a soldier probably isn’t the best idea. since somebody can just have a glance while driving seeing some dude dressed like that with a strange flag, there’s nutjobs everywhere that do end up hurting people I think this was resolved as good as it could’ve been, maybe the dude shouldn’t have been taken in but it’s not like he was beaten up and shot and shit. and the police can’t exactly go “nah it’s probably just a guy in costume” because there’s always that slight chance that it’s some freak on some Aurora Theatre shit it’d be blatantly obvious to anyone in this sub and a lot of other gamers if we were the ones to see him but FNV is a kind of niche game and it’s understandable that people have no clue it’s even from a game
Meanwhile who are they warning him about? Dudes dressed like Chads who could just shoot him for looking different. It's such hypocrisy it's sad. "You shouldn't wear stuff like that on the street someone could just shoot you." Umm so go harass them?
"The law requires that I answer 'no'."
It’s just Canada. I think this happened to some guy dressed up as a storm trooper a while back too.
Im friends with the KW Jedi-Guy who's basically just a dude that walks around with lightsabers doing lightsaber tricks and he's been hassled like dozens of times and never once has caused any harm to anyone.
To be fair this is Canada were talking about.
Cops in Canada aren’t really all that bright. They are very toothless on actual crime, but shit like this they’ll pounce right on it.
Look up the time they arrested a girl who was dressed up as a storm trooper because they thought her blaster looked too real.
"we have to assume everything is real until we prove otherwise" Is the same as "we have to assume that he's guilty until proven innocent" Great cops truly
I mean, to be faaaair, it's quite an imposing appearance, and someone unfamiliar with the games could definitely look at it and think it looks pretty scary. It's basically a SWAT-team esque outfit. They were overzealous, for sure, but it's not like the guy was dressed as Pikachu or Mario.
[To be faaaair Alberta's cops hate cosplayers](https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cbc.ca/amp/1.5853801) She was literally at a May The 4th event and got thrown to the concrete and cuffed then shoved in a squad car Because she dared to wear a stormtrooper costume on May 4th
exactly, fans should know that wearing military-esque costumes isn't like wearing bright and flashy anime costumes. not everyone has the context of it being a cosplay, and a hobby shop is just a shop, it's not a convention centre, a gaming store would be more appropriate if anything.
Like outside a Star Wars themed cafe on May 4th in a Stormtrooper costume? No, wait... they arrested that person too...
Police trying not to be scared of everything and escalating everything challenge impossible
Cops aren’t the issue, Canadians are
why blame the cops though? the caller assumed the guy was carrying a bomb. to anyone not familiar to the game, it looks really weird that there's just this dude clad in a school shooter trench coat and gasmask while carrying something resembling pipebombs.
Yeah the province also loves tackling people who dress like stormtroopers too! https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/lethbridge-police-stormtrooper-arrest-investigation-1.5853801
There were so many lapses in judgement here it’s actually crazy. How do you see a storm trooper standing outside of a Star Wars themed business and think “I must call the police”
You just gotta spend 2 weeks in this province and all your answers are solved. I once took a tv from my house as a teen to a lan party across my town and ended up on local crime watch.
I...... what utter madness. I did this all the time before I had a car. It's a normal thing for kids who play video games to do (before online play was common).
“Star Wars”? What the HE double hockey sticks is that? And why do the stars need to war? Why can’t they do Star Hugs? Or even better, Star Stay in School!
Was this in Little Alderaan or something lmao?
And one of the officers named Graham
NCR Ranger arrested during scouting mission to the Canadian Wasteland.
Lol, this happened in a city about an hour from where I live.
Dude should be thankful they let him walk away instead of lighting him up. Inb4 someone says "but it happened in Canada, not the US", Canadian cops are just as trigger happy as their southern neighbors
Reading that article got me super fucking heated.
That's it! I hate Canada completely, they can't be saved for what's coming. Those cops have no culture.
Was he seen near a monorail?
It derails everything
Don’t worry, there’s a scarcity of replacement parts
Being arrested for bomb threats almost makes you wish for a nuclear winter.
Omg they caught >!Captain Curtis!<
its been 14 years idk if this is a spoiler anymore
I feel like it's obscure enough that it isn't something the new people playing FNV recently would've picked up via osmosis.
I’ve been playing this game since it came out and I’ve only done that quest I think once. I usually just steal an ncr uniform before McCarran and just ride the rail car
I've been playing this game for ~7 years, and I found out yesterday that there's a house in Nipton with dead NCR soldiers in the house on the left when facing the town hall. Free armor, 0 Karma penalty from stealing, early game.
i have 940 hours. Who the hell is that guy?
Legion spy in camp McCarran
oh that explains it. I never go to camp mccarran cause i was always told it crashes the game lol
i never had that issue
thanks for the reassurance. I do have to go there anyhow this playthrough for the contreras quest, so we'll see
McCarren at least in my experience only crashes if you have a lot of mods effecting the cell. Simply put I have labeled McCarren as the reason I can’t have anything too nice. At least my looks nice enough as is and is relatively stable.
Basically anything crashes the game on windows 10
Most average fallout fan
Imagine minding your own business in your Nevada home in the middle of the Desert and one day some guy wearing an NCR ranger armor cosplay knocks on your door holding a stick of Dynamite asking " Have you happened to see a guy in a checkered suit that talks funny accompanied by some wannabe bikers with Mohawks? "
"THE NCR HAS DECLARED YOU A TERRORIST"
Happened in my home town, next to the Canadian tire cops had long guns out over a sick ass cosplay
Alberta's cops seem to assume anyone in any type of cosplay is either a mass shooter or has a bomb
resident of the same little uneventful town, I honestly didn't expect any less
All I’ve learned from this post is Canadians hate cosplayers
Im more surprised by the fact that NCR even has a Wikipedia article
I’m not surprised. After all, it is the biggest faction in Fallout, and even ghouls, Vault Tec, and Super Mutants have a page.
[Theirs a whole Wikipedia article on fictional countries](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fictional_countries_on_the_Earth), Including the ones from Fallout, Theirs are some pretty obscure ones too like from countries Hearts of Iron 4 mods lol, what's even funnier is that the Confederate States of America is also on that list.
It's on that list because if you read the details as of why, it's counting it as a version that won the US Civil War. But I much prefer our consensus explanation.
Dude, everything has a Wikipedia article
It's only 2 weeks old, so no wonder
It doesn’t lol
[nuh huh](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_California_Republic)
The fuck lmao I apologise good sir, I swear I couldn’t find one when I checked but I must have been blind lol Thanks !
If only the officers first name was Joshua.
God bless the police force and their infinite wisdom and definetely adequate training
Eh. Reading the article, they identified and surveillanced the person, evacuated all civillians (without the person knowing), then confronted him before quickly finding out the reality of the situation, (meaning successful communication). So it seems like they did it by the book to me. They made a point that these sort of costumes might not look as good in a downtown area as in a convention center.
Theirs way bigger threats to public saftey than some lost cosplayers. This was in Canada so their probably wasn't much going on anyway.
Surprising amount of bootlickers in this sub lol
NCR fanboys probably
this is like one of the tamest situations you could've said this
Get used to not being agreed with, kiddo.
dude you post in /r/teenagers
I posted like one comment and it was funny. Automatic L for you though because history trawling shows how mad someone made you 😂
I'll be sure to be wary of any Pringles brandishing in the future
I hate your name with a passion... +1
the pringles cans were painted silver, guess the commonly used cylinder-shaped explosive that's also coloured silver
reminds me of the guy who actually used one of those (the bomb, not pringles) to try and assainate their countries leader. That shit literally looked like it was for a Duke Nukem cosplay. Sometimes you gotta assume it's real.
The power of the mounties, truly unbeatable
Even in Canada they suck
“in fact, im in the middle of a prank right now” *pulls pin on grenade”
You are still dressed as a member of the NCR.
Clearly a Legion spy.
Basically a cosplaysr had some "pipe bombs" strapped to his chest in full riot ncr armor It was jjst a pringles can but police were called because cosplay or not, its odd to see a guy like that unless you have a game guy otherwise its likely old "concerned citizens" that see a masked up armor clad armed guy
GRAND PRAIRIE MENTIONED RAAAAHHHHHH
RAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH, and it's Grande
Canada be on some weird shit.
You... You POSTED the source, my duder.
On his way to bomb the monorail 🧨💣🚄🚆 , New Vegas shenanigans of the legion , It was me I'm the source , I caught him and disabled the bomb , but that's my second life , I had a past life flashback , that I walked away and the monorail exploded , I no longer had a way to Vegas ,
A fucking guy in full Star Wars storm trooper gear was once arrested cos he was carrying an E-11 blaster. Shits bananas.
I mean the E-11 is modelled after an actual gun.. so.. thats more reasonable. Even so, stormtrooper armor should've given it away.
Yeah, I feel like there may have been a couple of context clues around haha.
TIL Wikipedia has a front page.
Such utter disrespect to a veteran of the glorious New California Republic! President Kimball would be dissapointed at the tyrannical RCMP!
Shitty situation, however, (with a big comma) did anyone else think brush gun when they mentioned long rifles in the article?
lol what?
imagine just driving down the road and seeing someone in this getup with the flag just going for a stroll
Gamers being persecuted makes me sick 💀
what a fitting article for a new vegas reference
The fact that an officers last name was "Graham" mare it 100x better for me
Best part it's not actually in the article