Whitebread on Patrol

You always hear as a new gun-toter that almost everybody ends up with a box full of holsters that didn’t work right for them.

What nobody ever tells you is that you may eventually find one that works so well that you can ditch almost everything else.

For three years now I’ve been carrying some Glock or another in a Comp-Tac MTAC holster. It’s held up just fine and conceals a baby Glock under a T-shirt, or my duty weapon under an untucked camp shirt. It’s so comfortable that I usually wear it right up until I get undressed for bed. For the first two years of ownership I wasn’t an Only One, so the holster was my constant companion.

About a year ago, I gritted my teeth and bought a second copy. I’d had beloved holsters fail on me before, and it always seems to happen right before a long trip where you really want your heater to be comfortable and well-concealed. It came in and was promptly put on the shelf for a rainy day.

Today I received duplicates of my magazine carrier and chemical weapon carrier. Over the years I’ve also ordered several sets of mounting hardware and mounting clips.

Nothing made by man lasts forever. If you know that something will eventually fail, and that you’ll replace it with an identical copy when it happens, why not go ahead and have your spare lined up now? This is the beginning of preparedness.

Commander Zero links a great youtube tour of a bunker originally built to protect telecom equipment during the cold war.

At $440,000, it could make a darn tempting group buy. I would be very interested in knowing if it was located in California or in one of the neighboring states. The description says five hours out of LA.

I have a guest room that has room for a twin bed and a tiny desk and not much else. Designs like this could make that room actually useful for something.

Take a good hard look. What do you see?

I see an aggressor with a weapon.

What would be your immediate reaction to this situation? I hope that it would be to address the criminal with your own deadly force.

But then you’d go to jail, because that criminal is an off-duty cop, and in the state of Maryland, cops don’t have to worry about petty things like aggravated assault charges. Instead, when faced with documentation of unlawful use of force, they can charge the motorcyclist with a crime for videotaping one of their own in public.

Here’s the whole video. Skip to about 3:00 for the rage. I can imagine that at about 3:18 I’d be putting rounds into the man approaching me with a gun. Good thing for the Only One that the little people aren’t trusted with handguns in public.

What’s the fastest you’ve driven? Well, the Crown Victoria Police Interceptor has a factory electronic governor of 130 MPH. I’ve been in the passenger seat to see this quite a few times, and as a newly-unleashed officer have done it a couple of times already. There are precious few places and circumstances where this kind of speed is justifiable and relatively sane. Usually it’s an interstate at zero dark thirty on a weeknight with five miles between you and another officer who is in danger of getting his ass kicked. The landscape is entirely different once you pass 110 or so, and I’d never do it just for fun unless I was on a closed course. Then again, I’m boring.

In my personal vehicles, I doubt I have ever topped 90 MPH while passing.

Cyanide & Happiness @ Explosm.net

I’m still a big fan of chemical weapons. Yes, everybody in the vicinity gets a little of it, but the intended target gets it far, far worse, and presumably doesn’t know it’s coming. Two important points:

- You want “stream” chemical weapons, not “spray” or “fog”. The stream is just what it sounds like, putting out a super-soaker-style splattering stream of Suck. Spray or fog tends to produce more of the aforementioned collateral damage.
- The surprise of the sensation is key to its effect. Thus, it is essential that you never, ever telegraph your intention to spray someone, or use the threat of spray as a deterrent. Anyone who’s been sprayed before will instinctively close their eyes and hold their breath if they know it’s coming, diminishing the Suck and enabling them to continue doing whatever it is that you were spraying them for.

Courtesy Merlin Mann.

I love videos like these, because you can watch them, tuck away the trick, and not think about it again until years later, when it saves your bacon in a highly specific situation.

We do this with several other couples. The first few years we traded $20 bills. Now we just go to dinner together sometime during the holidays and go dutch on the bill.

I wish my entire family would do it. Every year everyone gets lots of thoughtful, cute, and completely unneeded crap that ends up cluttering our homes or being discretely offloaded.

Does anyone else do this with anyone in their life?

I share this here because less than 1% of my non-interweb friends will get these jokes. Use them this holiday season on family when you feel that you aren’t getting enough blank stares.

Received in the mail today:

Dear Whitebread:

This letter is to advise you that you are being offered an at-will employment position as a Police Officer, with an hourly rate of $[Not Much], with the City of [The City, My The City], contingent upon satisfactory completion of our pre-employment physical examination, drug screen, and psychological examination.

Continuing my search for interesting InfoSec demonstrations and lectures, I came across this gem.

Basically, this guy is saying that if you want to keep the goons at the airport from going through/stealing your tech gear, pack a gun in the case with it.

I’ve had good success doing this when flying. Checking a gun means you get to use a REAL non-TSA lock, and they can only open it for searches while you are present.

Deviant Ollam – Packing & The Friendly Skies from Deviant Ollam on Vimeo.

I had finished my work for the day and was waiting for the office to close, so I pulled up a video on Wardriving. An incident within the demonstration caught my attention. Check it out starting at about 5:00.

Fail.