Cop fired after waitress poses with rifle on police car

[Purplehood]

Kinda funny that an LEO might get fired over this kind of event, and "excused" for things that might drive members of this forum (including its LEO members) a bit berserk.

[Armybrat]

BTW: If anybody has a higher resolution copy of the photo, I'd certainly like to study the "evidence" in much closer detail.

Living next to Round Rock, I could volunteer to go examine the evidence a little closer.

[C-dub]

I heard this on the news today there's another component to this that I haven't seen here. The officers had apparently drank several beers, while on duty, before going out to take this photo. This may have been the biggest reason they have been suspended/fired.

[A-R]

The newspaper interviewed the waitress, who grew up in Pflugerville and works at "Twin Peaks" restaurant under the name "Bambi"

http://www.statesman.com/search/content ... bambi.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

and apparently she's a gun owner herself, including her very own AR-15.

Also, for those who asked for more ....

Photos (warning, these are "tastefully done" and shown on the web site of a "family newspaper" but I guess some could take offense to provactive poses of a young, attractive, blonde woman shooting an AR-15 ): http://www.statesman.com/ap/mediahub/me ... tId=177622" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Video: http://www.statesman.com/news/content/m ... 5870000001" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[android]

Labs and shotguns and ARs, Oh My!!!!

[LarryH]

I did take offense to the photo showing her pointing the shotgun at the camera, but otherwise, no problem.

[android]

I did take offense to the photo showing her pointing the shotgun at the camera, but otherwise, no problem.

These photos kind of bug me, but it's kind of like guns in the movies. You just have to trust that the photog and model have verified and then double verified that everything is clear. Ideally a third person is involved and then triple verifies.

[USA1]

oh , there were guns in the pictures

[Liberty]

I did take offense to the photo showing her pointing the shotgun at the camera, but otherwise, no problem.

It can be done safely. I am bothered more by people sticking pens and shotgun shells into the trigger guard to take pictures. Most people don't seem to have a problem with it. Different strokes for different folks.

[Velocity]

I did take offense to the photo showing her pointing the shotgun at the camera, but otherwise, no problem.

These photos kind of bug me, but it's kind of like guns in the movies. You just have to trust that the photog and model have verified and then double verified that everything is clear. Ideally a third person is involved and then triple verifies.

Yeah, I winced and hoped a tripod was used for picture 8, and must say I applauded the flash on picture 23 (made you look!). Interesting she has her own vanity website now...

[74novaman]

I'm a fan of her.

[KD5NRH]

oh , there were guns in the pictures

Yeah a couple of really...um...nevermind.

[nitrogen]

I find it interesting she said this:

"At no point at any time was anyone in any danger because we took proper precaution" by unloading the rifle, Purvis said. "Besides, I know how to use that gun."

when there's obviously a magazine in the weapon. Hopefully she wasn't lying, and there wasnt' a round in the chamber and/or it was on safe.

[CompVest]

"At no point at any time was anyone in any danger because we took proper precaution" by unloading the rifle, Purvis said. "Besides, I know how to use that gun."

Gee wasn't there an inicident with an (not to be named department) officer that said something similar before shooting himself in the foot in front of a classroom of children!

[joe817]

Gee wasn't there an inicident with an (not to be named department) officer that said something similar before shooting himself in the foot......

I thought that's what Obama does every time he opens his mouth.