Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2019/05/26/or-are-you-just-glad-to-see-me.html
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Curious they cite multiple reports — not just one person thought a banana was a gun, but a whole bunch of them, independently. Folie à peel?
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… How…? Was it wrapped in something? Did the guy have the banana in his pocket as a mock-gun, trying to rob people with it? Was he brandishing it as if it were an actual gun? Did he keep reaching for his banana, which he kept obscured, stuck into the waist of his pants (or in a holster)? Is that an actual picture of the banana in question (or did someone just photograph a banana so that we’d know what one looked like)? (Did people see a bright yellow banana and think, “There’s a gun”?) If that’s the banana in question, did the police confiscate it so they could photograph it?
So many questions.
Yeah, I just don’t get how one mistakes a banana for a gun, much less how it triggers reports, plural. (Though could all the reports have come from one person? That would… explain some things.)
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Peel. Peel before your leader.
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Is that a banana in your pants or are you happy to be robbing me?
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How many times did they shoot him?
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Banana? That’s worse than a gun.
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That must have been one hell of an overly ripe/rotten banana.
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Yes, but was it loaded?
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I completely understand the confusion. I once peeled and ate a banana, and it wasn’t until a while later I realized it was a gun.
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“That’s some good police work there, Lou.”
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Good thing it didn’t have a pear trigger.
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Forget it, Jake…
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This was in Canada, not the US, so the suspect might still be alive.
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The suspect, a Mr Talleyman, was last seen bearing a 30 caliber Cavendish, but he gave me the slip. Keep your eyes peeled. He hangs with a bunch of clowns, their size 18 shoes a dead giveaway. Approach with caution - we don’t know what their plantain is.
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Not the first guy to bring a banana to a gun fight:
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Classifying bananas as weapons is a slippery slope.
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