Shooting from the Hip

Even A-list offspring tote kid holsters.

Nowadays kids never get to have fun. Helicopter parents prevent neighborhood high jinx by snuffing out any and every danger. Hopefully they’re still willing to throw caution to the wind from time to time, and allow a lively game of cops and robbers.

For this, the wee ones do require some props, such as western holsters and plastic guns, to get into their roles. Since these really are just toys, the price and quality are both on the lower end of the spectrum. Most toy holsters are western style and range in price from $7.99 to $35.

The best place to find these types of holsters is at Toy Arsenal. This site specializes in toy guns, airsoft guns, military items and costumes. More than 20 western-style and airsoft holster systems are available for purchase.

So, who is wearing these holsters? How about rich and famous tots like Shiloh Jolie. Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie’s kid was recently spotted wearing an empty cowboy-ish holster. Very rebellious.

The most recent case of kiddos playing with toy guns is in an elementary school production of eff bomb-filled Scarface. The inappropriate reproduction hit the Interwebs yesterday replacing vulgar language with words such as ‘fudge’ and ‘bee’. After causing a massive parental freak-out, we have learned that the video is fake. It wasn’t a school production after all — just staged to look that way. However, there were still parents who allowed their kids to participate…

(Image via INF Daily, Pacific Coast News Online)

While visiting your favorite haunted house this season, what’s the best way to make yourself look über-cool when a terrifying monster is coming at you with a fake (but equally terrifying) chainsaw?

The answer is definitely not what Sgt. Eric Michael Janik, 37, of Baltimore did.

A man who helps run “The House of Screams” said that the officer, who apparently also had alcohol on his breath, pulled a loaded .40 caliber Glock out of its holster and pointed it at him.

“He pulled a gun out on me and aimed it at my chest,” Michael Brian, the haunted house worker, told WJZ Channel 13. “It was about three feet away from me.”

According to the Associated Press, Mr. Janik has since been charged with assault and reckless endangerment. He has also been suspended from the Baltimore city police.

Now Mr. Janik’s unbelievably poor judgment is bringing on comparisons of that other infamous gun fail.

“So we’re to assume a fellow officer knew he was armed and had been drinking, yet did nothing about it,” asks David Codrea for Examiner.com. “And we’re to further assume that not collecting actual evidence of intoxication by investigating officers is standard department procedure?”

Perhaps there is something scarier than bogus chainsaw-wielding monsters.