This gentleman is George Vera, 25, who managed to smuggle a 9mm handgun and 2 clips with him into a Houston area jail. The 600 pound fellow allegedly hid the contraband between layers of his body fat. From Click2Houston.com:
"Inmate Hides Gun In Fat Layers" (Thanks, Jess Hemerly)Houston police said... Vera was arrested Aug. 2 and taken to the city jail. He spent a day there before being transferred to the Harris County Jail. After being there for 14 hours, going through intake procedures, he was taken to the showers, the final step before going to his cell. There, Vera told police he had a 9mm handgun on him, along with 2 clips.
(Former Harris Counter Detention Major Mark) Kellar said Vera should have been searched at least three times before getting to the jail.
Houston Police Officers Union President Gary Blankinship said cadets are trained how to search morbidly obese people.
"We teach officers to lift up and look under," Blankinship said. "The officer may not have arrested anyone this big before."
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magazines...magazines....clips are not magazines. I suppose people might think he just really liked to read magazines if you said otherwise.
this dude won the lottery
LIFT UP AND LOOK UNDER
followed immediately by:
STOP DROP THAT ROLL
Reminds me of a friend's story of working as an EMT. He came into contact with a morbidly obese woman who was complaining of chest pains. Naturally, he checks her for a heart-attack and finds no other symptoms and begins to do a surface check.
After digging around for awhile he discovers an entire 6 inch Subway sandwich wedged between her rolls that had been there long enough to cause an abscess.
Obviously failing to exercise wisdom, he asked her just how that could have happened. She answered that she and her husband like to hide food in each other for foreplay.
*shudder*
Please, please, please ... let this not be about someone in the US... please... ple... dammit.
I'm so sick of Lost. Isn't this like the 6th time Hurley's been arrested?
!!!Unicorn chaser warning!!!
My wife's coworker once worked in a bariatric clinic and had a patient with a dead kitten under a roll...
/k/
surely he had two magazines on his person not two clips
/k/
@4 "with a dead kitten under a roll... "
Wasn't that a Dr. Seuss book? The Cat in the Fat?
I never knew rolls of body fat could be so handy!
My wife's coworker once worked in a bariatric clinic and had a patient with a dead kitten under a roll...
"Wow, that's the second smelly, matted pus-" [*SLAP!*]
Isn't this viral marketing for ABC's "LOST?"
#5, Hawley.
The people who run this blog are in California. They probably barely know which end the bullets come out. (OMG, guns are eeeevvvviiillll).
If this blog was run out of Wyoming or Montana, then they would know the difference between a clip and a magazine.
The "clip" quote wasn't his own. He quoted a Houston news website...
Wow. Gun lingo snobbery. You really *can* find anything on the internet.
@Brianspore (#3)
LOL - you took the words right outta my mouth.
They really do look alike!
@Brianspore (#3)
Damn! You're too quick.
Hmm, unless we're talking about some crazy real-life manifestation of that awesome scene in Videodrome, it might be more accurate to say he hid the weaponry between "folds" or "rolls" of fat, rather than "layers."
@ #8 Harrkev
where this blog is from is kind of irrelevant - their quoting a news site in Houston - a place that definitely knows its guns
#9 posted by jonathan29
its not snobbery, a magazine and a clip are totally different things
Harrkev #8:
The people who run this blog are in California. They probably barely know which end the bullets come out. (OMG, guns are eeeevvvviiillll).
Californians hate guns? Dude, our governor is a HEAVILY ARMED GENOCIDAL ROBOT FROM THE FUTURE.
Two *magazines*, not "clips". It's not gun lingo snobbery, it's simply the difference between correct and incorrect.
#13 posted by Hawley
And if this was a blog about guns by gun enthusiasts, that would be pretty important. But everyone knew what David and the article meant when they wrote "clip." I'd submit, as a non-enthusiast, that this is one of those words whose incorrect usage has overtaken (or will overtake) its correct usage, like "Decimate."
FWIW, I think your post was fine. I was referring more to #8
Houston Police Officers Union President Gary Blankinship said cadets are trained how to search morbidly obese people.
"Um, Cap'n, I think I'll take the fire department exam?"
In a modern world without Roman legions, or execution of one tenth of said legions, or even people who speak Latin, I think the word "decimate" may be permitted to drift.
Last time I checked, "clips" and "magazines" are still in active use and spoken about by native speakers of the English language.
As a non-enthusiast of Roman military practices, however, I may be mistaken.
The original article, datelined Houston TX, refers to the items as clips, not magazines.
I took a firearms/hunter saftey course, and hunted as a teen, and I did not know there was a difference between a "clip" and a "magazine"! NRA's website offers this definition:
CLIP
A device for holding a group of cartridges. Semantic wars have been fought over the word, with some insisting it is not a synonym for "detachable magazine." For 80 years, however, it has been so used by manufacturers and the military. There is no argument that it can also mean a separate device for holding and transferring a group of cartridges to a fixed or detachable magazine or as a device inserted with cartridges into the mechanism of a firearm becoming, in effect, part of that mechanism.
I knew the gun nuts would show up. It's the heavy breathing gives them away.
Listen, I was in the fucking U.S. Army infantry for four fucking years and we called them "clips." Who fucking cares what you fucking civilians called them?
Will he at least lose some weight in prison?
Do they give prisoners enough food to maintain such weights?
Did he beat the metal detectors at the prison, or don't you bother with those?
To get into Belmarsh prison in the UK nowadays you need a current passport, to put all your possessions in a locker, and submit to photograph, iris scan and fingerprinting. And that's just the lawyers! They aren't allowed *any* metal, not even paperclips or treasury tags or ring binders.
There's one word that you need to know: Panniculus.
I find it encouraging that gun geeks can be just as nitpicky about terminology as geeks of other flavors.
There's at least that much common ground.
Vertical wind tunnel. Think Marilyn Monroe in The Seven Year Itch. Problem solved.
GrimC and Antinous: Thank you for those images in this context. I am suitably grossed out for the entire weekend. *shudders* Anybody know where the unicorns are hiding?
#28 pstd by bddy66
lstn y pny ntnl grd fggt. ws n th mrns fr 8 yrs (3 trs n rq) nd w nvr vr clld mgzns "clps" r th thr wy rnd.
thr s dffrnc nd whn yr lf nd frdm s n th ln y bttr nt mk mstk.
When she reads something she thinks I'll like, my mom will frequently clip it from the magazine. *Snt!*
(Am I doing this right? I can never tell.)
Clip, magazine, whatever. What I want to know is, can you make one out of LEGOS?
(ducks)
Should I just bring up the 2nd Amendment now so we can get this thread closed?
Magazines, clips... let's not argue. Can we at least agree that Obama wasn't born in the US?
It would seem like clip would be the better word to use in seeking to avoid confusion in a firefight. It's one syllable, so quicker to say, and you don't want "Hand me a magazine!" to be answered with a copy of Playgirl, do you? -Just sayin'.
Thanks, Hawley. I have some Army buddies who call 'em "clips" too, but it's not technically right. Semper Fi!
If being wrong cheeses anyone off badly enough, go edit Wikipedia. They think calling a magazine is "clip" is wrong, too: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clip_%28ammunition%29
"The term clip is commonly, but erroneously, used to describe a firearm magazine. A clip is used to feed a magazine or revolving cylinder, while a magazine or a belt is used to load cartridges into the chamber of a firearm."
@Hawley #35: It's possible to have a disagreement over semantics without resorting to personal attacks, homophobic slurs and a complete disregard for the shift key.
I didn't know firearms could be used to split hairs.
I can just see this semantic quibbling transpiring on the battlefield in the midst of heavy fire a la Monty Python.
I might be wrong,(or just wishful) but I hope that was Sarcasm on the part of Hawley@35. If not the National Guard goes through the same hell as the Marines for half the pay and a quarter of the benefits, so take a deep breath and try to work out the serious PTSDs,,,ok?
I do this all the time with candy at the movies.
Hawley, insults aside, is correct. They're different and it does matter.
The difference between the Infantry guy and the Marine, besides choice in profanity, is professionalism.
I mean it doesn't really matter that much, right? It's like how Chewbacca was my favorite Star Trek character, amirite?
Back in the day, we called them "Banana magnets". Then the Kaiser invaded Finland and the whole vernacular changed.
If it matters...
Maybe a time machine to go back and tell my platoon to stop calling those magazines "clips"?
After all, it's "lf nd frdm [that] s n th ln" and you've got to get the nomenclature right in order to survive. Then I'll tell them that a jarhead from 58 years in the future told me so and they'll die laughing.
HAWLEY, although I was/am no "pny ntnl grd fggt," I do believe you owe the Guard an apology. Too many of them got dead in WWII, Korea, Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan.
You brought too much of war home with you. Good luck, Marine.
Say, you know who's really fat?
That George Vera.
Fat man. Really, really fat man.
As men of science are not your minds open to new ideas? I say, do not judge me until you have tried my way of life for yourselves.
Clip? /k/ aproves!
just mount a condemned MRI magnet at the entrance.
"Young man, you have opened our minds and swayed our hearts. Let us therefore-"
Devophill,
Your comment featured one of the three words which are almost never allowed on BoingBoing. I ROT13'ed it, for your convenience.
Please look over the Moderation Policy to be sure it doesn't happen again.
Thanks.
"They aren't allowed *any* metal, not even paperclips or treasury tags or ring binders."
I think you mean "papermagazines."
"PARTY!"
Obesity kills after all.
I admit, I didn't understand the difference between "clip" and "magazine" until I bought my first SKS, which loads by means of a stripper clip, not a magazine.
@#43, Phikus, they can be used to split hairs, but you've got to be a really great shot.