Sniper mistakes drill for gun

[Sun Wukong]

May 21, 2010
Sniper mistakes drill for gun

RIO DE JANEIRO - A MAN using a power drill on his balcony in a Rio de Janeiro slum was shot dead by police who mistook his handyman tool for an Uzi submachine gun, Brazilian media reported on Thursday. 'It'd be funny if they thought I was waving a gun around,' were the last words of Helio Ribeiro to his wife inside, local media said, as he spotted a police unit close by looking for drug gang members in the tense neighbourhood.

Moments later a police sniper's bullet turned his joke into fatal reality, piercing the supermarket manager's left arm and lung. The officer involved has been charged with involuntary homicide, and the state security secretariat issued a statement lamenting the death of Mr Ribeiro and promising compensation to his widow. Police, though, summoned reporters to see photos showing similarities in the shape of the drill used and an Uzi. Armed clashes between drug dealers and police are common in Rio's largely lawless slums, resulting in hundreds of deaths per year. -- AFP

 

[matamafia]

May 21, 2010
Sniper mistakes drill for gun

RIO DE JANEIRO - A MAN using a power drill on his balcony in a Rio de Janeiro slum was shot dead by police who mistook his handyman tool for an Uzi submachine gun, Brazilian media reported on Thursday. 'It'd be funny if they thought I was waving a gun around,' were the last words of Helio Ribeiro to his wife inside, local media said, as he spotted a police unit close by looking for drug gang members in the tense neighbourhood.

Moments later a police sniper's bullet turned his joke into fatal reality, piercing the supermarket manager's left arm and lung. The officer involved has been charged with involuntary homicide, and the state security secretariat issued a statement lamenting the death of Mr Ribeiro and promising compensation to his widow. Police, though, summoned reporters to see photos showing similarities in the shape of the drill used and an Uzi. Armed clashes between drug dealers and police are common in Rio's largely lawless slums, resulting in hundreds of deaths per year. -- AFP

Not only the shape looked like gun, their fucking noisy while drilling wall sounds like fucking machine gun too. They go TAH!-TAH!-TAH!-TAH! BANG!-BANG!-BANG!-BANG!-BANG!-BANG!-BANG!-BANG!

So mata will happily BANG!-BANG! back loh.