The North Hollywood shootout was an armed confrontation between two heavily-armed and armored bank robbers, Larry Eugene Phillips, Jr. and Emil Matasareanu, and patrol and SWAT officers of the Los Angeles Police Department in North Hollywood, California on February 28, 1997. It happened when responding patrol officers engaged Phillips, 26 and Matasareanu, 30 leaving a bank which the two men had just robbed. Ten officers and seven civilians sustained injuries before both robbers were killed. Phillips and Matasareanu had robbed several armored vehicles prior to their attempt in North Hollywood and were notorious for their heavy armament, which included automatic rifles.

Local patrol officers at the time were typically armed with a 9 mm or .38 Special pistols on their person, with some having a 12-gauge shotgun available in their cars. Phillips and Matasareanu carried fully automatic rifles, with ammunition capable of penetrating police body armor, and wore body armor of their own. Since the police handguns could not penetrate the bank robbers' body armor, the patrol officers' efforts were ineffective. SWAT eventually arrived with weapons that could penetrate and they also appropriated several semi-automatic rifles from a nearby firearms dealer. The incident sparked debate on the appropriate firepower for patrol officers to have available in similar situations in the future. God Bless Them

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2hLg9GHEEc

This is GTA:IV discussion,my friend.You shoulda posted this in Random.

This is GTA:IV discussion,my friend.You shoulda posted this in Random.

And on that note I'll be moving to Random, also, can you kinda tell us what the point of this thread is? Is it like a tribute or something, because I'm a bit lost on the meaning of this topic :wacko:

And on that note I'll be moving to Random, also, can you kinda tell us what the point of this thread is? Is it like a tribute or something, because I'm a bit lost on the meaning of this topic

Could be a spambot. Although I'm confused as to why it would post a tribute.

I'll wait until the person behind the account responds on this thread before I investigate further

Could be a spambot. Although I'm confused as to why it would post a tribute.

I'll wait until the person behind the account responds on this thread before I investigate further

That is what I thought at first, but why in the hell would any one pay the cost of a spam bot to spam that? :D

That is what I thought at first, but why in the hell would any one pay the cost of a spam bot to spam that? :D

There are people out there that do things you'd find stupid. Welcome to Interwebs 2.0

Tribute of course...No Officers Killed

Psst...What's a spam bot?

I don't think he/she/it would be a spam bot even though I don't know what that is, considering he/she/it posted a topic on weaponsinfo.xml.

There's a new spy base being built somewhere, supposed to watch EVERYTHING the internet, searches, websites, and even your cell/home phone calls. Maybe this is the spy for this website. lol.

Anyways, wierd video, I guess. Hollywood is awesome.

EDIT: ninja'd. NVM.

Edited April 3, 201214 yr by theninja35

This was posted awhile ago wasn't it?

also, privacy anywhere will no longer be safe :(, from what i heard that over priced FibreOptic's internet is the start of even cable companies being able to see EXACTLY what your looking at. whatever happened to human right's? or a free country :(

Edited April 3, 201214 yr by Slimory

Psst...What's a spam bot?

A spam bot is a piece of software that creates user accounts on forums and posts useless crap or often adverts for a service etc.

They can post at much higher rates than humans can and can automatically seek out new forums to spam.....

Is there a program to block specific IP addresses? i would imagine that's the easiest to identify them.

A spam bot is a piece of software that creates user accounts on forums and posts useless crap or often adverts for a service etc.

They can post at much higher rates than humans can and can automatically seek out new forums to spam.....

Thanks.

Is there a program to block specific IP addresses? i would imagine that's the easiest to identify them.

IPs would do nothing to help block spam bots (Except ban them, I'm talking about detecting them.), our forum already has software/measures that block spam bots, thus, as you can see, we don't get any spam, we used to every now and then, but Jay fixed all of it.

Is there a program to block specific IP addresses? i would imagine that's the easiest to identify them.

The problem with IP banning is that you can't block a single IP without taking out 200 other homes with it. This isn't always the case though.

Edited April 3, 201214 yr by Tom H

I thought IP's were different then other's?

This was posted awhile ago wasn't it?

also, privacy anywhere will no longer be safe :(, from what i heard that over priced FibreOptic's internet is the start of even cable companies being able to see EXACTLY what your looking at. whatever happened to human right's? or a free country :(

Personally, I don't even mind government/private company intrusions. Should anything happen, all evidence is invalid without a warrant, so meh.

Home IPs are almost all "dynamic", which means that it changes from time to time (e.g.: you can typically guarantee a change by rebooting your router). Businesses and almost anyone with a server need static IPs (permanently assigned), but those cost much more money.

That's not entirely true, if they find something via IP address (that's hows they catch child pornographer's) most cable companies from what i've read and heard call police if your IP start's "acting funny", so based on evidence provided by whoever does the monitoring, the police can execute a search warrant and seize your equipment and search it, if they find anything, then... well... pretty much screwed.. sorry battle field3, didn't mean to hijack your thread

Cable companies/ISP's can track the changes of IP so even though it has changed its still linked with your account in their offices.

Cable companies/ISP's can track the changes of IP so even though it has changed its still linked with your account in their offices.

Right, well, while the thread is in random, please, the topic has been completely hijacked as stated above by Slimory, lets get back on topic now shall we?