Moment der Polizei, die Cosplaying Boy (16

Theres a reason that toy guns are brightly coloured, its to prevent this exact thing

He sprayed the guns black to make them look more real and seems to have achieved that

Sensible cosplayers know you don’t wear shit like that in public. You take it to the con in a bag.

Airsoft will be banned because of idiots like this.

I cosplay and have done for years. This does happen every now and again. Some idiot got arrested over at Canary Wharf while doing a photoshoot because he had a massive replica firearm. Events do have rules that guns must have bright orange tips. Organisers often recommend that weapons be hidden until onsite. 

With the big events, like MCM Comic Con at Excel, the police are well aware of the event. They might check a few weapons, a friend was asked if they could check his gun for the orange tip, but it was a conversation, not being jumped. For smaller conversations, cosplayers should really be displaying some common sense. We usually drive or taxi to conventions when we have weapons. This weekend, we’re walking to one locally, so we’ve swapped from weapon heavy cosplay to Disney cosplay so that people aren’t scared.

The police should probably have been made aware of LAGC and to expect cosplayers which may have prevented the (rightful) actions from unarmed police. But it is on cosplayers to ensure they are public friendly too. Just get dressed there.

“The fake guns were originally brightly coloured, but had been sprayed black to make them look more realistic.”

I mean, in this case “replica firearm” is more accurate than “toy gun”. Dude knew exactly what he was doing.

You can’t expect to walk around a city dressed in tactical gear with realistic looking weapons. Good on the police for acting so promptly without anyone getting hurt tbh.

Correct headline: unarmed police tackle unknown person wearing full tactical gear after public reports of a firearm.

– you cannot tell their age because they are wearing a mask/helmet

– the gun has been painted to look real

– called in from a genuine concern

The headline wants you to close your eyes and imagine a kid running around with a water pistol while shouting ‚im 16‘.

He was going to a convention. But all cosplayers know what he did was stupid. You don’t carry stuff that look like weapons in public outside a bag or carry case so you don’t get mistaken. Let alone wear full military gear and covering your face, without any hint that you’re in costume. Idiots like this makes cosplaying even more difficult for everyone else.

Stupid as all hell to carry mock weapons that aren’t clearly mock. But it’s quite amusing to see the big umbrella patches on his shoulder.

So many bad choices made by the kid.

Painting the toy gun to look real.
Covering his face.
Dressing like a mass shooter.
Walking like this in a “high value area” for terrorism.

Bravo to the police for detaining him with no harm done.

I,ve been to con,s and the rules are always the same for any replica weapons.orange tip at least.or keep in a bag till you arrive at the convention.the last one I went to in Manchester even had staff checking they were non firing an didn’t hold ammunition. Even swords and knives had to be plastic or rubber.

Better to tackle a fool spray-painting a toy gun 9/10 times and look a bit silly, rather than do nothing and have a disaster 1/10 times.

The police response is fucking insane here.  I’m not talking about the tackling of the kid that’s understandable but the spokesperson is acting like they stopped an actual terrorist attack rather than beating the shit out of an unsuspecting child.

People on this thread are calling him an idiot. Meanwhile, I had no clue that there was a law against producing imitation firearms. 🤡