An Australian police officer threatened a colleague with his service weapon who wanted to spoil the ending of “Top Gun: Maverick”. Pleading guilty, he was sentenced to 100 hours of community service.
Nobody likes to be spoiled. And especially not Australian police officer Dominic Gaynor. The latter, working in Sydney, directly threatened a colleague with his service weapon who wanted to spoil the film Top Gun: Maverick for him.
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Aged 30, the latter appeared on November 9 before the Downing Center court in Sydney. He pleaded guilty after being charged “carrying a firearm in a manner likely to endanger the safety of another person” according to Australian media Perthnow.
According to court documentsDominic Gaynor was chatting on May 28, 2023 with his colleague Morgan Royston at the counter of his police station, located in the business district of the city of Sydney.
The latter, aged 26, explained that he had seen the film the evening before, on May 27. He reportedly said: “I’m going to spoil it for you.”. Dominic Gaynor then laughed under the eyes of a colleague who was leaving the room, before responding: “Don’t spoil the movie for me, asshole.”.
Then to tell his colleague that he was going to shoot him by taking his service weapon out of its holster. “He pointed his firearm at the complainant and held it in that position for five seconds. The accused’s finger was on the slide of the gun and not on the trigger. The accused was laughing the entire time. ‘incident”, the court document states.
The complainant leaves the police force and becomes a car salesman
Morgan Royston obviously did not laugh in unison with his colleague… He even claims to have been traumatized by the incident, to the point of having left the ranks of the police, and has now become a car salesman .
“I have completely lost the confidence I had and my previous admiration for the NSW Police. When I see a police officer now, I feel obliged to look at them and check that they have not hand on his gun”, he told the audience.
Pleading guilty, Dominic Gaynor was placed by the court under “community corrections order” during two years. An Australian legal measure that may cover, for example, travel restrictions, curfews, or judicial review.
He was also sentenced to 100 hours of community service. In addition to being suspended from the police, without payment of salary. A (bad) joke is expensive…