Cops Called Over Resident Evil Cosplay

@Saiwyn_Hy: I believe non-automatic rifles are allowed to be carried in the open in most states.

1Grand_Marquis

@RipSteakface:

and keep the queen of england out of our damn houses too !

expansionsss

@PSOCecil:

Not to mention he's asian. Go go school shooting scares !

expansionsss

@teknx

Bravo to the both of you. *bow*

Concealed or even open carry is a completely different game from walking around with a gun.
If this was a real gun we would have been in the complete legal wrong, but a fake gun is a whole different deal.

That's just down the hill from my house. Ha! What an idiot. They wanted zombies for the promotion, not SWAT guys.

"Seage, the event's organizer, says the man was dressed as one of the zombies from Resident Evil's Umbrella Corporation."

Uh...

I thought HUNK is never allowed to be zombified due to plot obligations?

thatdamnprinny

"local authorities were altered"

T-Virus am confirmed.

@Yertle8:

It's Keep AND BEAR arms, not just KEEP.

The Second Amendment most certainly protects our right to walk around armed.

RipSteakface

@Yertle8: While it is legal in Washington to openly carry a firearm in public you are correct in that he would be committing a crime by brandishing it.

While it is legal to carry, you cannot brandish/point the gun without just cause or it is a misdemeanor offense.

Saiwyn_Hy

@Hand_O_Death: In Washington State it is legal to openly carry a firearm in public, whether you are a licensed with a concealed pistols license or not.

There are limitations as to where you can carry, as you cannot carry into a bar or other areas where signs are posted stating that no firearms are allowed.

The police are often called when a firearm is carried in public as not many people are aware that it is perfectly legal.

[apps.leg.wa.gov]

Saiwyn_Hy

@zer0faults: I agree with most of what you said - that definitely was the intent of the second amendment.

However, many states have laws on the books allowing for concealed carry. So while the second amendment doesn't provide you with the right to walk around town with a gun, other laws (that may or may not be applicable where you live) do.

Yertle8

@Hand_O_Death: You do not need a license to own a gun as it is a constitutional right. In most places you're going to need a license to carry one in public, yes.

Although owning is a right, it is not unalienable. The most common way of losing the right is being convicted of a felony.

And you better have a good reason for brandishing one. If the guy in the pic brandished it was a fake gun, because he would not have been let go.

Yertle8

The most dedicated nerd of us all.

SENKOBEAN

cosplay is ALWAYS a bad thing

AnthonyUSN

@peacefuloutrage: I completely disagree. While I do believe that everyone should have the right to own a gun, the reason you have that right is not so you can walk around town with it, its so in case of the need to over throw the government, the people will be armed to accomplish it. Your right to bear arms is in case of revolution not so you can take a marksman clas in a school full of children.

Why not just leave the gun at home and no one carry weapons except the police and people who need to for protection due to their work?

Also you can't pretend your drunk. If you ran over a group of people when the ambulance and police arrive the first thing they will do is test your blood alcohol levels, this isn't a TV show, they aren't going to ask you to walk in a straight line and if you fall conclude you were drunk. Also if you ran over a bunch of people while drunk its still vehicular manslaughter, so I am not sure what the point is anyway.

Last point, the gun had a cap on it, people should have recognized that and not flipped out, if it had no cap then even I would have called the police.

This isn't a person in a state which allows visible weapons walking into a store with a holstered revolver. Its someone walking into a clothing store with an m16, and grenades, dressed in tactical gear. So if the person didn't spot the cap, then calling the cops makes complete sense. No matter how much of a hyperbole you wish to spin.

zer0faults

@zer0faults: Just to clarify in locations where you can carry a visible weapon, they also offer concealed permits. So I as also close but incorrect lol

zer0faults

@Hand_O_Death: Incorrect but close, there are some locations where the firearm does not need to be concealed, I believe in those locations the firearm is not allowed to be concealed.

zer0faults

@Hand_O_Death:
I for one am glad that the police are taking a possible zombie apocalypse seriously.

Arteen

"I didn't expect anyone to be arrested being dressed as a zombie because we did this last weekend,"

erm, he's not dressed as a zombie

cerebus201

Holy shit these soccer moms better not visit a country like Cuba or Istanbul where the cops carry around machine guns all the time. Can't they see he's dressed in military gear? If I called the cops every time a soldier from the local barracks came to the coffee shop they would be there 20 times a day! Holy over-reaction, Batman. I live in a smaller city though, not too many armed robberies here, and people dress so they can get away, not like carnival freaks on a suicide mission. God thing he didn't have any of those Mario question mark boxes that the cops think are bombs..

@RipSteakface: Absolute right. My stepdad used to have marksmanship classes in PUBLIC SCHOOL, no one would say anything to a kid with one RIDING THE BUS. I bet if I walk around town with a gun and some generic looking security guard-type uniform or random 3 yellow letter shirt, people would be happy to kiss my ass. It shouldn't matter who it is that is armed as long as they are not harming anyone. That's why theft and murder and the like aren't legal.

A hitman could run over 12 people with a car and pretend he was drunk, and after he got caught he might get time. Some guy could have no gun and an ammo magazine on him in some places and they would try to charge him with intent to kill. See what's wrong, people?

at least he got first place out of all the drama... it's also nice to see that he's not being a douche about the cops just doing their jobs.

glued

@teknx: *snort* I lol'd.

Ganji

@n00b_pwner: I have, and I didn't get arrested.

This is still America... last I checked, what he did was legal. Only a generation ago people could carry REAL firearms around openly and no one would freak out. Hell, you can probably still do that in some places.

Americans are f'ing paranoid now and need to get over themselves and stop watching so many movies.

RipSteakface

@Holygriever: pure win.

@Mister Adequate: Oh, I see. When Boston Police shut down a bridge because strange electronics were planted underneath it and call the bomb squad, they are overreacting. But swarming on a guy playing dress up is an acceptable response. Got it.

(no, the cops didn't overreact here, just like they didn't in Boston, and yes, I'm still bitter that every time BPD is mentioned everyone brings up how they "overreacted")

psxndc

Hah, similar event happened a few years ago in Tampa. Whole Umbrella squad was stopped by police. Even had the police choppers circling. Makes me lol.

Ignited_Impulse

@WFROSE:
Well the gun does has a huge ORANGE tip...Someone got scared, called the cops, they did their job, and the guy got a fun story out of it. Beep Bop Boop.

Heitz

@Holygriever: That was awesome, great job! Referencing Doug awesome, great job! You're awesome, great job! Man I miss that show... :(

Trowble (XBL/PSN)

They didn't press charges? He's pretty lucky.

Cameron Bogue

i'm not surprised he got arrested, but why did you say it was "a bad thing?" If the cops let him go instantly, and he got first place, it sounds like it was pretty awesome.

slaughterstorm

the police weren't aware what was going on? what piss-poor management of a zombie crawl... a proper xombie crawl clears these things with the city first. that's what happens here when they do it.

perfectly understanding glad to see Jay was a good sport about it.

@Ps360facepunch: i wish HUNK was in RE5... maybe he could be available through some good DLC?

Eesh...reminded me a little bit of an incident in my own wayward youth. I was about 19 and was going up the glass elevator at the Nationwide building (downtown Columbus OH). In those days I was fond of wearing my black leather jacket, and with my long hair and beefy build I guess I looked too much like a biker for the security guards' comfort.

Mind you, it was perfectly legal for me to be there; there was a nice restaurant at the top, and I was there to snap pictures from the elevator to the road.

Soooo, when I got to the top, I was met by 3 security guards who proceeded to inform me that I wasn't allowed up there (I pointed out that it wasn't illegal to be there, to no avail...this was 1981, btw), and with hands on their holsters, started to escort me back downstairs...where they were joined by 3 MORE guards, also apparently worried about a fight (Uh, no, I wasn't so stupid as to take on a grand total of 6 armed guards). They escorted me to the door, ironically the one that had a sign saying, "Open to the Public" and told me not to return, even though I did nothing wrong.
Apparently they didn't like the way I was dressed.

I went there some time later, sans leather jacket, and they had no problem with that. Prejudiced pricks ^_<.

Glad this guy had more understanding bulls.

@Hand_O_Death:
Also,ages vary.In Missouri it is 23,other places it is 21.My friend is 25 and well,lets just say he always carries.When we get pulled over it is interesting.Cops are aprehensive at first,but after a few minutes talking with him they trust him.I remember once seeing him tell a cop that he could render the officers gun useless.Cop said lets see it and it happened.Then of course,for every ok cop,you have some backwoods cop who does not know the law.He got pulled over with a few weapons,including automatics(as he worked at a gun shop and trained people) he had licensing and still was arrested...no charges stuck,obviously.

TimDJ84

@Riquez: We are use to Zombies in the US, just the ones with guns that "ALTER" us.

@Maddogdw: Very nice my friend, very nice LOL

@MaxDragon7: No Max !!!
*Wacks with news paper*
Bad Max, BAD!

@Xhacker02: Hahaha... that was funny.

*Tries to blend*

+ 1 Followers to you sir!

SansSanity

@Drogmir: sure you wouldnt think that if the cps didnt care and one prck brought a real gun to a zombie crawl and shot someone once he was plastered.

@Elfgrin: Not all Americans have guns, you need a license to own and sometimes a separate one to carry. and then it must be concealed, "Brandishing" (IE letting people see it) ] is illegal across the country.

@Holygriever:

I was linked to an homage of the cartoons I grew up with as a kid...

;_;

@ShaSt One:

BECAUSE I DOOO (yodelaayeeeeeeeeeee...)

also, where's my sock?

ghastlyprotector

@ShaSt One: ...because I do. :'(

spannu

@Fadakar:

...what the hell is that "Uaaaeeeo" doing in front of the rest of your otherwise correct post? i mean jesus, the least you could do is get the reference right to keep the good times rolling. but no, now they come to a screeching halt because of you.

ghastlyprotector

@Komrade Kayce - Soviet Attack Dog: "Now this is what I call VIRAL marketing!"
^_^

@Sythlia: Unless it is with some strange aeons.

Mekroth

@lucky644: He was the first costumed kid to come in, I can see why someone would call the cops. Especially if it was a fellow cosplayer who decided that he was stiff competition. Especially if it was a cosplayer cosplaying a corrupt crime lord and roleplayed owning the police. You know, as opposed to non-corrupt crimelords.

Anyway, I appreciate the article, I was about to go to the mall as Sephiroth, but I guess I'll just leave behind my 7 foot twig sword and wield an NBA player instead.

@V12themonster:
But you can easily tell the cops that your just a scholar!

@GohanGVO: Brains?

@spannu:WHY!

@Riquez: he meant alerted

@n00b_pwner: Its obvious he got the message from what he said in the article. He isn't going around complaining about it.

@Elfgrin: We may have the right to bear arms but that does not stop people from freaking out when they see a gun out in the open in public and calling police thinking you might be doing something bad.

@WFROSE: He never wanted people to feel sorry for him though...He was let off quickly when they found out what he was doing. He isn't complaining about it.

@kitsuneconundrum: That's only for fake guns, don't you guys have the right to bear arms?

Elfgrin

@Maddogdw:

Well played, sir.

HokemPokem

@Holygriever: I need mo' allowance!

spannu

@n00b_pwner:

The store was hosting the contest -.-

Does not seem to me like anyone here behaved improperly. (And I don't think telling the cops beforehand would have made a difference, because they couldn't have known whether "OHMYGODHE'SGOTLIKETENGUNS" is the guy who said he'd be walking around with ten fake guns or an actual nutbar.)

Dude did what he's constitutionally allowed to do. Cops performed the job they're tasked to do with speed, diligence, restraint, and civility.

Where is the problem in all this?

@Soultek: No, he's right. Take the mask off, keep the fake gun in your car and only carry it around where it's in context. Make sure you have something marking the fact that it's a fake gun. Quite frankly these things are common sense, don't just expect the community to understand because there's a convention in town.

@Pezdispenser: what makes you say that? There was a zombie infestation in Seattle, S.T.A.R.S. showed up and arrested them, and everything turned out alright.

@MellowJade:

Where's your jutsu now!

@n00b_pwner: I take it you don't see cons much. You'd be suprised.

@TrjnRabbit:

Da-dum-psh.

I dont understand?! - in what way did this incident ALTER the local authorities?
Were they scared by the zombies? Forever scarred by the nightmarish parade?
I would think that the US cops would be tougher than that.

Riquez

Jay's photo shall be released into the blogosphere, ensuring complete global saturation.

(sigh)

The Black Pigeon

@Teliko: Some cover band needs to do Beets songs badly. Doug is a classic show (the Nickelodeon version).

@Kitsune Sniper:

he does have a point.

two sides to every story, surely. but dress the way this guy did in an environment less then suitable and you're bound to have an altercation or incident of somesort occur.

@Kitsune Sniper: Contest or not, would YOU go into a store dressed in a military uniform with a mask and a realistic looking gun that's a fake?

Would you?

There was this... incident... at SafeCo Field....

@Holygriever:

I've always wished they made a full Beets CD since Shout Your Lungs Out is a fucking awesome song along with the other songs they had on the show.

The problem the cops had in drawing their guns is that they couldn't walk and aim at the same time, let alone move in non-90 degree angles.

A few of these comments are leaving me wondering how many of you actually read the article. :/

@Fadakar:

+ Watch video

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@n00b_pwner: This moron was only doing it for the contest.

Troll better.

@GohanGVO:
By taking out the competition.

TrjnRabbit

@Drogmir: Well your typical zombie does not brandish a weapon and dress up like like a commando whos ready to kick ass and eat bubblegum...but hes all out of gum.

B_NiN3

@Holygriever: Uaaaaeeeeo aaaa eeeee ooooooo, KILLER TOFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU!

@Chris Farmer: One of the best shows I watched as a kid. That Doug guy was Funny. You gettit? Funie, Funny. (www.instantrimshot.com)

OMG I just thought of that pic with the Sasuke cosplayer who got arrested years back at a convention.

Hilarious. There could not be a more awesome response to a costume than this. It would have been better if they had thought he was a real zombie.

@Kirbysuperstar:

I think both replies above me are not thinking the same Tofu that you and I are thinking.

Squeaky squeaky squeaky KNIFE THOSE DAMN ZOMBIES TOFU, KNIFE THEMMMM!

@Holygriever: doug reference is pure win...LMAO

Chris Farmer

He should have dressed up as a Tofu, people would think he's nuts at worst, but at least wouldn't suspect anything :P

@PSOCecil: Yeah, so if you would read the article it seems the store he was going into was the one putting on this event to win the passes. nice try though...

How did a non-zombie win the zombie crawl?

@Kirbysuperstar: hahahaha, but I actually thing this story is wrong, the cops probably were arresting him because he ate Tofu!!!!!

@Drogmir: police dont take things lightly for a reason, they didnt know an event was occuring, and when a guy suited up fairly heavy duty, and has fake guns walks into your store, pulling that OH SHIT button is done before it even enters your mind

This is the first real sign of Hunk since RE4. Thank you, Jay.

I hope that guy in the handcuffs is a master of unlocking.

teknx

It's just the risk you take when it's not even close to Holloween and people are going around dressed like that.

Good to hear the cops were understanding.

VladMalice

Some things you can get away with in open world games like GTA or Saints Row will not work in the real world.

This moron needs to understand this.

I was wondering if Kotaku would post about this. Read it online on the Seattle PI's website last week and immediately recognized the description to be HUNK. Glad to hear he won for his costume though. Then again, when your costume causes a dozen police cars to show up and the police approach you guns drawn, you know you've got a great costume.

Sir_Crocidile

Putting away my Assains Creed costume with hidden blades.

The death cannot die.

Sythlia

This man is badass.

I can't say I feel sorry for this idiot. What kind of guy (with common sense) would walk into a likely-crowded store with a big ole mask on, and a fake gun? Seriously.

Geeze. I wonder if all the cops freak out whenever a zombie march happens.

Drogmir

@Kirbysuperstar: Aaaa eeee ooooo! Killer Tofuuuuu!

Strangah! Now THAT'S a weapon!

so do the orange tips work?

kitsuneconundrum

I can't help but think it would have been hilarious if he got guns aimed at him for dressing as Tofu.

@aZn sensaZn: Concealed weapons permits are actually more common than you might think.

The thing is that with concealed weapons permit holders, such as myself, you would/should never know that they have the permit much less that they are actually carrying.

The vast majority of people who carry concealed weapons legally don't flaunt or rarely even mention the fact.

Saiwyn_Hy

@Hand_O_Death:
I hope you don't go around carrying a concealed weapon unless you have a concealed weapon license... which, you know, most people don't have. It is RARE for someone to have a concealed weapon, it's not the other way around, my friend.

Also, if you think "brandishing" a firearm is illegal "across the country," you have never been to the central parts of Virginia.

@RipSteakface: The text is:

"A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed."

Again enforcing the why, its not so you can shoot at your local public school or walk around feeling cool. If you wish to tout the 2nd amendment, then respect its purpose.

zer0faults