17-year-old shot and killed by officer conducting welfare checkZeroCool@slrpnk.net to News@lemmy.world – 568 points – 8 months agoabcnews.go.com116Post a CommentPreviewYou are viewing a single commentView all commentsDear police: you cannot check the welfare of someone by shooting them with your gun. Thanks, ACAB.Actually you can... It's just that the welfare check will result with "dead". Schrodinger could have shot the box a bunch & figured out the cat's welfare...Capital punishment as social welfare.Reminds me of that joke about the hunters in the woods. "911, what's your emergency?" Help, my friend got bit by a snake and I think he's dead! "Keep calm, and make sure if he's actually dead." BLAM Okay, he's definitely dead
Dear police: you cannot check the welfare of someone by shooting them with your gun. Thanks, ACAB.Actually you can... It's just that the welfare check will result with "dead". Schrodinger could have shot the box a bunch & figured out the cat's welfare...Capital punishment as social welfare.Reminds me of that joke about the hunters in the woods. "911, what's your emergency?" Help, my friend got bit by a snake and I think he's dead! "Keep calm, and make sure if he's actually dead." BLAM Okay, he's definitely dead
Actually you can... It's just that the welfare check will result with "dead". Schrodinger could have shot the box a bunch & figured out the cat's welfare...Capital punishment as social welfare.
Reminds me of that joke about the hunters in the woods. "911, what's your emergency?" Help, my friend got bit by a snake and I think he's dead! "Keep calm, and make sure if he's actually dead." BLAM Okay, he's definitely dead
Dear police: you cannot check the welfare of someone by shooting them with your gun. Thanks, ACAB.
Actually you can... It's just that the welfare check will result with "dead".
Schrodinger could have shot the box a bunch & figured out the cat's welfare...
Capital punishment as social welfare.
Reminds me of that joke about the hunters in the woods.
"911, what's your emergency?"
Help, my friend got bit by a snake and I think he's dead!
"Keep calm, and make sure if he's actually dead."
BLAM
Okay, he's definitely dead