Megatron holds neighbourhood in fear!

They guy cracked after having a brutal home invasion and being treated like crap.

Mason said charges are pending. “We’re going to be looking at some weapon offences at the very least, but we’ll have to give it some time to get to the bottom of it.”

Weapon offences? Wha? Criminal possession of Megatron?

Mason said the response level was reasonable...

Oh yes, very reasonable. Tactical officers, body armour, submachine guns, sniper rifles, a police dog and the mobile command centre.

hmmm...it'd be a whole lot different story if the guy had G2 megatron.

Starfield wrote:

Mason said charges are pending. “We’re going to be looking at some weapon offences at the very least, but we’ll have to give it some time to get to the bottom of it.”

Weapon offences? Wha? Criminal possession of Megatron?

Mason said the response level was reasonable...

Oh yes, very reasonable. Tactical officers, body armour, submachine guns, sniper rifles, a police dog and the mobile command centre.

Nobody knew it was a toy after the fact THREE HOURS LATER. I don't blame the police .I blame assholes like this who are the reason G1 Megatron is illegal in the first place.

That's just crazy, I mean you hear these police departments constantly bitching about how "oh we're so understaffed and underfunded" but then "OH Holy crap! There's a guy waving A SINGLE GUN out the window! Quick, let's get SWAT, Snipers, Dogs, hell call out the National Guard for ONE GUY WITH A GUN!"

Puh-fraggin-leez. Okay I can understand maybe going in with a couple of cops in body armor and a shield or something, if the guy does start shooting, but whatever happened to calm negotation? Like : "Sir, please throw the gun down and lay on your belly."

They see the gun, its got a little robot face on it.

Charge the dork with maybe a misdemenor for waving a weapon in a threatening manner. But c'mon really, SWAT?

Things like that make me think we're just turning into a police state.

That's some funny s*** right there.

Great, this will lead to more bannings of G1 & Masterpiece Megatrons? What an idiot.

Good thing I already have my Megatrons.

Seems like the Police went a little overboard, but I suppose they can't take any chances. That's how tragedies like school shootings happen, people don't take stuff seriously.

They recently arrested a high school student here who posted threats and a 'hit list' on Facebook. They raided his home and seized a bunch of weapons, and now he's getting a psychiatric evaluation in custody. It's good that people reported him and the Police reacted as such.

On the other hand, we also have the ongoing Taser controversy surrounding the death of Robert Dziekanski, where the Police obviously used much more force than necessary.

But with this guy and his Megatron, it's not like they had to physically take him down, so they were really only being cautious in case he actually had a real weapon, as they should be.

So either this guy's a total moron, threatening people with a toy, or he was just playing with it, and has dumb paranoid neighbors who can't tell the difference between a real gun and a toy. And now there will be public outcry for stiffer regulations on toys, and collectors will lose out.

What's depressing is that, when they find Megs, he's going to rot in an evidence locker somewhere as opposed to being proudly displayed in someone's collection.

I wonder if he'll pop up at police auction somewhere?

NickRyder wrote:That's just crazy, I mean you hear these police departments constantly bitching about how "oh we're so understaffed and underfunded" but then "OH Holy crap! There's a guy waving A SINGLE GUN out the window! Quick, let's get SWAT, Snipers, Dogs, hell call out the National Guard for ONE GUY WITH A GUN!"

Puh-fraggin-leez. Okay I can understand maybe going in with a couple of cops in body armor and a shield or something, if the guy does start shooting, but whatever happened to calm negotation? Like : "Sir, please throw the gun down and lay on your belly."

They see the gun, its got a little robot face on it.

Charge the dork with maybe a misdemenor for waving a weapon in a threatening manner. But c'mon really, SWAT?

Things like that make me think we're just turning into a police state.

That percieved "single gun" in the right hands could take out anywhere from 6 to 15 people depending on type and capacity. And, from a distance and depending on wear, you CANT see a robot face. It is the job of the police to protect the safety of the community and this a**hole, from all OUTWARD appearances, was a threat and they responded appropriately.
As for negotiation, that IS part of standard procedure. They would not have taken extreme action unless negotiation failed or there were other occupants in the home they felt were in immediate mortal danger. Considering that there was a recent home invasion (and apparently brutal) and the man was upset about his treatment afterward, I'm willing to place a highly educated guess that this guy was not an upstanding member of the community. This would also offer further explanation as to the show of force. It sounds more to me like this guy was "Taxed" and instead of taking it like a man, bitched about it to the police, which in his case would have been pointless. All that combined with his "off the deep end" stunt lead me to suspect drug use, most likely Meth.
That a tweeker would tarnish the reputation of Megatron pisses me off that much more. I can't say that my guess is right but I know enough behind the scenes aspects of both sides (police and bad-guys) to say that, when and if the whole story comes out I probably won't be far off.
Still Sucks that a Transformer got caught in the middle of all this. Poor innocent pawn...

it was only matter of time just not the situation i expected to happen to be in i expected some IDIOT & i use the word strongly idiot to use g1 megatron to use as weapone in store to steal money i was waiting for this sort of thing to happen when the first movie got released or before it but just not this late of the years.

im not megatron g1 fan so im not that concered about but if anyone decides to make master piece megatron illge to be shipped in the us ill be pissed i mean master piece megatron isnt even accuate to be gun at all its 3 times the size or an original real gun pistal & if poeple cant tell teh differnce between the mp megatron from a real gun then poeple are more stupid than they appear to be.

but for any megatron g1 fans here on this site sorry to here about the bad news you know the NEWS is going to make a BIG deadl about this once they hold of this information & becasue of the news they just may banned g1 megatron all togeather even mp verion in the states.

stupid news make big deal about every little dumb thing they report even old news oj simpson, m jackson, lets get everyone crazy in the year 1999 everyone stock up all the electronical devices on this plant are going down for a year its Y2K start stocking up or suffer, dont get me statred aboutthe news with there weather forcasts.