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This is the chilling moment armed police arrested a teenager who they thought had a gun – only to find it was a pistol-shaped bong pipe.
Officers in bulletproof vests, helmets and masks marched up to a teenage man and woman in a residential road in Strood, Kent, and made them put their hands in the air.
An 18-year-old man was arrested, taken into custody and searched, but no weapon was found on him.
Police then raided his home and found an ‘imitation firearm’ that was a smoking device shaped like a black pistol.
Video footage shows the shocking moment two officers with huge assault rifles dressed in jeans and balaclavas screamed ‘show me your hands’ and ‘get up against that wall’.
Armed police arrested a teenager who they thought had a gun – only to find it was a pistol-shaped bong pipe
The clip shared on TikTok shows a young man being handcuffed with his hands behind his back on a residential street in broad daylight.
As his female friend videoed the 18-year-old, who gave the name Edward, the officers searched the stunned man and said: ‘We’ve been told you’ve got a gun, mate.’
But the video later cuts to another officer carrying a see-through evidence bag with a large, black object visible inside – which the girl videoing described as her ‘gun bong’.
The arrest was made yesterday morning after alleged reports of a man with a gun.
Kent Police later revealed they had been called to a residential street after hearing a man had a gun.
The force said an ‘unarmed’ man was arrested in connection with the incident, but later released without charge.
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A spokesman added an ‘imitation firearm’ was discovered at a ‘residential address’.
The young woman filming the incident told the officer: ‘But it’s not a gun, is it?’ – to which the officer responded: ‘It is shaped like a gun.’
Video footage cuts to the moment when officers carried a see-through evidence bag with a large, black object visible inside – which the girl videoing described as her ‘gun bong’
She claimed the smoking pipe, that is usually filled with water, has never been taken out of her house.
Accompanying text throughout the video read: ‘We literally just left the house to get a drink from the shop just down the road from our house and this happened.
‘As I walked back down the road to my house as he had [been] taken to the station they had been searching our house.
‘This bong has never been taken out my house.’
A spokesman for Kent Police said: ‘Armed patrols attended and located an 18-year-old man nearby who was arrested in connection with the incident.
‘He was unarmed and a subsequent search of the residential address resulted in the discovery of an imitation firearm.
‘The man was later released without charge.’
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