Shotgun etiquette

[Dead_Meat]

I answer to JBOY's 'no interesting threads' thread, I thought I'd post this.

While in Guatamala, we had an armed guard to go to one of the installation sites. He had a shotgun.

After we finished work, we went for some dinner, with armed guard still with us. He brought his shotgun into the restaurant, as, obviously, like your laptop, it's not something you leave in the car when you leave it for an hour.

So, we go in and our coats are taken by the waitress, but the guard kept his shotgun with him and put it in his lap for the duration of the meal. Which made us feel uncomfortable, if a little safer.

So, I ask you, oh wise sages of GD, what should he have done? Put it over the back of the chair? Given it to the coatroom and got it back at the end of the meal by presenting his ticket? Or should he have taken his food outside and eaten there?

Answers on a post to this thread.

[Marilyn Manson]

He should have slung it over his back.

[1-X]

I think the guard should have moved stealthily around the restaurant, diving and rolling and pointing his gun at any unknown visitor. But back in reality, he did the responsible thing keeping it on his lap.

[Deathjam|wee]

he should have eaten it







with jam

[AllFather|away]

I normaly just put the shotgun on the cabin table when i have been outdoors shooting bunnies.
The rifle i leave at the bedroom door though.

[Deepflow]

i thought that said shogun etiquette and i was expecting a thread about feudal japan

[djbass]

Actually I thought it was going to be a thread about the right and wrong ways to call shotgun before entering a vehicle.

[NEWSBOT3]

if it was in that country, the shotgun stays in 'fire it at short notice' locations all the time.
he did the smart thing.

[Dante Hicks]

Depends on the place. In some nightclubs in Durban (South Africa) they have a place where you check-in your firearms as you enter (like a cloakroom). Presumably they will institute this practice in clubs in Hackney or Peckham shortly.

If the staff aren't experienced/trustworthy when it comes to handling firearms he probably did the right thing. He couldn't leave it on the floor, and over his back may have been uncomfortable when sitting.

[Dead_Meat]

I remember being in my local in West London, when at some point in the evening I heard a *thunk* from something hitting the floor at the table behind me or so.

I looked at my gf, who seemed to be staring at something on the floor, when casual as anything, the bloke at the table next to me, who was looking in the same direction, chirped up with;

"Excuse me mate, you've dropped your shooter", at which point someone said 'Ah, cheers mate' and evidently picked up his 'shooter' and carried on drinking.

When AshKnight & Cobs came round to visit, I took them to the same pub. Sadly, no-one shot...
























....AshKnight

[Aviendha]

I threw a big snowball at him, do i get the fee for the contract now?

[pyirt]

Should have placed it on the table next to his plate, so if anything happens he can get to it almost immediately, and bring the weapon to bear on the target.

[I am Idler]

he should empty his rounds into the dustbin like any normal solider

[Weeks]

What kind of job is this?

[Baron Morte]

The OK Corral shootout started because doc hollyday ****ed his shotgun, then the badguys thoght they would be shot to death anyways, so they started shootin´

[1-X]

he must have had a small one to fit it in the barrel of a gun

[Baron Morte]

Originally Posted by 1-X

I apologise for the lack of quality control in my most recent parts. It's because I'm trying to get to 666 posts before I go.

Go where?

[1-X]

Damn you quoted that in the 10 seconds before I changed parts to posts :eek:

When I reach 666, I'm going to the sacred clearing in the woods with Dante's "girlfriend" which I will sacrifice by shooting it in the face, inviting Satan (George W. Bush, little bit of politics) to reward me for honouring him in post count form.

[1-X]

muahahahaha

This reminds me of school, whenever the Omen had been on telly, 'cos I looked like him, the other kids would look on my head for the mark of the beast, and on finding I didn't have it, they held me down and wrote it there. Happy days.

[Dead_Meat]

Originally Posted by Dr. Octagonecologyst

What kind of job is this?

It's the one where I travel to distant parts of the world and install broadband wireless services and backhaul products to enable ISPs to cover both rural and urban areas with IP and TDM services, carrying a mixture of internet, VPN, telephony (both switched and VoIP) traffic.

k?

[Intrepid00]

Originally Posted by Dead_Meat

It's the one where I travel to distant parts of the world and install broadband wireless services and backhaul products to enable ISPs to cover both rural and urban areas with IP and TDM services, carrying a mixture of internet, VPN, telephony (both switched and VoIP) traffic.

k?

Yes, but what shit hole did you go to where someone was walking around with a shotgun on guard duty?

[JC]

Originally Posted by Dead_Meat

While in Guatamala, we had an armed guard to go to one of the installation sites. He had a shotgun.

[Weeks]

Originally Posted by Dead_Meat

It's the one where I travel to distant parts of the world and install broadband wireless services and backhaul products to enable ISPs to cover both rural and urban areas with IP and TDM services, carrying a mixture of internet, VPN, telephony (both switched and VoIP) traffic.

k?

sounds v cool

[Baron Morte]

Originally Posted by 1-X

he must have had a small one to fit it in the barrel of a gun

i said c0cked, as in

c0cked, c0ck·ing, c0cks
v. tr.

1. To set the hammer of (a firearm) in a position ready for firing.

capicce?