FBI Seizes “Fully Constructed” Lego Model of U.S. Capitol at Home of Alleged January 6th Rioter
The very serious media reports: “It’s unclear why Morss had the Lego set.”
The FBI has reportedly found a “fully constructed” Lego brand toy model of the U.S. Capitol in the home of one of the alleged January 6th rioters. The media is treating this story as very, very serious.
We live in such dumb times.
Jordan Williams reports at The Hill:
FBI seized ‘fully constructed’ US Capitol Lego set from home of alleged rioter
The FBI seized a “fully constructed” Lego set of the U.S. Capitol from the home of an alleged insurrectionist.
Prosecutors detailed the finding in a court document for Robert Morss, who was arrested on June 11 at his home in Glenshaw, Pa.
The government argued that Morss should be detained from court pending trial.
According to the court filing dated July 2, law enforcement recovered clothing and other items from Morss’s home that match what he carried on Jan. 6. Among the items were a “’Don’t Tread on Me’ flag, a neck gaiter, a military utility bag, a black tourniquet, and military fatigues.”
In addition, “law enforcement also recovered a fully constructed U.S. Capitol Lego set,” prosecutors wrote.
It’s unclear why Morss had the Lego set.
Jamie Ross of the Daily Beast calls it an “unusual piece of evidence.” That’s one way of putting it:
Riot Leader Had ‘Fully Constructed U.S. Capitol Lego Set’ at Home, FBI Says
Federal investigators seized an unusual piece of evidence from a Pennsylvania man indicted last month for his role in the Capitol riot—a Lego replica of the building he allegedly stormed. Robert Morss, 27, is accused of leading fellow rioters in what prosecutors say was “one of the most intense and prolonged clashes” with officers on Jan. 6.
This is not the Babylon Bee or The Onion, this is real.
"fully constructed"
LOL. https://t.co/ic2LyboRRe— Mike LaChance (@MikeLaChance33) July 8, 2021
FBI: Investigators found fully assembled U.S. Capitol Lego toy at Jan. 6 riot leader’s home https://t.co/MowKrTbkz8
— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) July 7, 2021
So what, did he have the Millennium Falcon too? 🙄
— Cr8z13 (@Cr8z13) July 7, 2021
Well case closed then.
— hynterd (@HdavisHunter) July 7, 2021
So the FBI is finding Capitol lego sets but hasn’t found the person who laid pipe bombs at the RNC & DNC…
— Lisa Boothe (@LisaMarieBoothe) July 7, 2021
Feds say he came prepared for violence. The proof is in a LEGO set. https://t.co/nNZwzxFqSh
— Ian Miles Cheong @ stillgray.substack.com (@stillgray) July 7, 2021
Full disclosure, there’s a fully assembled Death Star in my house. https://t.co/Myzt9SnqKU
— Tim Wood 🇺🇸⚔️ (@TimOnPoint) July 7, 2021
OK so maybe the “insurrectionists” weren’t armed, didn’t have plans to kidnap lawmakers, didn’t bring zip ties, didn’t kill any cops, but one of them … had Legos! https://t.co/IkuU7l1Ss9
— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) July 7, 2021
American citizens have been held in solitary confinement without bail or trial for months, and this is what we’re talking about. It’s like we’re living in an episode of the Twilight Zone.
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The issue is not that they’re doing shit like this.
The issue is that they’re so proud that they did it, that they PUBLICLY ANNOUNCE it, and then are shocked when people rightly point out how unbelievably stupid announcements like this make them look.
Are we going to learn that the Lego set was actually purchased by a paid FBI informant and the whole thing was a set up?
“The People will prove that not only was this Lego set detailed, accurate, and fully constructed, but Lego The Joker was had been seated by the defendant in Lego Pelosi’s Lego office.”
They had a miniature light and camera and were attempting to take pictures inside the lego capital.
Maybe it’s a Trojan Horse with a tiny neutron bomb, set to detonate
NOW!!!
No. It comes in a box in several thousand pieces. You have to set it up yourself.
/ducking
Or that they also found a fully assembled Lego monster truck, and that the plan all along was to drive a monster truck over the top of the capital building.
/sarc
LEGOMASTERS – FBI EDITION!
Based upon LEGO evidence the FBI is certain that Trump supporters are planning an attack on Hogwartz Castle.
https://babylonbee.com/news/based-on-lego-evidence-fbi-believes-capitol-rioter-was-also-planning-attack-on-hogwarts-castle
Some guy joked on Twitter that the FBI is building its case piece by piece.
They’re just missing a few. Maybe if they walked around barefoot for a while…
Totally even handed.
Feds have been doing this with all the rioters in Portland and Seattle too. However, none of those sons of bitches were so brazen at to have dared go so far as buying legos. What a monster!!! I hear the SEALS used the Hogwarts lego set in planning the Bin Laden raid.
/endsarc
More than 200 years after great men rebelled against taxation without representation (not to mentioning quartering of troops) we now live in a country where toy models are treated as illegal.
Wait until they find unassembled Lego kits in possession on parents’ property and arrest them for “intent” to assemble a model of Congress with further intent to blow up the US capital. Thought crimes are here.
They’ve been a joke since J. Edgar “there is no such thing as organized crime” Hoover.
Seriously: what have they ever accomplished that has beneftted the nation?
It’s far worse than that the FBI has never accomplished anything benefiting the nation, they actively harm the citizens of the nation.
I’d get rid of the FBI on the first day on the job, the first minute.
Why is the FBI even on this case?
This is a job for Plastic Man!
Plastic Man is sittitng behind the desk in the oval office.
They have provided material for a lot of Shows at CBS.
Everyone knows that “fully constructed” Lego models are the gateway drug for terrorists who plan to destroy the government. That’s why I have always stayed away from Lego hobbyist. Too scary.
If you have read Vince Flynn, you would see the similarity of this lego model with what the author speaks about in his books. These models, if assembled correctly, obviously detail all hidden access points, tunnels and rooms throughout the Capital building. That is why the confiscation of this model was such a coup for the fibbers, now they have him dead to rights. /sarc
The deluxe set comes with the little rail car that takes the crooks from their office building to the floor of congress. The super deluxe model includes the famouse bean soup recipe.
I know of, but I’ve never read the late Vince Flynn. I assume you’re talking about scale accuracy of mockup miniatures. I’ve done work building proper scale recognition models, setting up sand tables, and other defense related scale model building. I also happen to love LEGO sets.
Even the more “scale like” sets like the LEGO Architecture series are still just rough representations of the real building that are made within the set dimensions of the parts, or “elements” of the LEGO ABS Plastic snap-together parts system.
LEGO sets are great learning tools, but by their own design constraints, they can never be true scale models. You absolutely could not build an accurate 1/48 or 1/35 model of say, the Bin Laden compound that could be of any use in planning an assault.
Presenting this LEGO set as proof of a detailed plan of an assault, is laughable.
“…is laughable.”
You think? And just remember the government actually believes they can pass this off as proof of
Something.
Oh, it’s proof of something. Just not what the FBI was thinking.
“That man over there looks guilty!”
“Um, sir. You’re pointing at the mirror again.”
Don’t get me started on Lincoln Logs–even more dangerous!
Not to mention Bill Ding models!
Especially the Lincoln Project Logs which smell rather funky after repeated use.
Two of them arrested for child pornography and worse last month. Dangerous corruptocrats.
I collect the more rare LEGO sets, mostly the more complex working “Technic” kits. But I do have in my possession the Death Star model mentioned in the article.
Since I haven’t built it yet, does that mean that technically I don’t possess a planet-killing WMD? I also have a built First Order Stormtrooper. Maybe that will buy me some goodwill with the doorknockers, like having the proper portraits on the wall back in the 30’s.
Lego set 21030 – United States Capitol Building: Width 17.5″ height 6.5″… I sure hope the FBI agents didn’t hurt their spineless backs lifting that incriminating evidence out… I could never be on a jury that had that evidence provided to indicate intent, I’d laugh so hard the moment the prosecutor advanced that theory that it’d probably be declared a mistrial.
You would laugh at the evidence you say. Yeah, but suddenly, with a somemn tone, the prosecutor adds, “It was FULLY assembled.” And a hush falls over the courtroom. The ladies on the jury cover their mouth with their hands and grown men clasp at their chest and the prosecutor says, “I rest my case.”
Like the scary guns that are “FULLY semi-automatic!”
With high capacity ammunition!
Fully-constructed semi-automatic assault Lego brand toy model of the U.S. Capitol.
You should see the full-auto bolt-action belt-fed single shot target version.
Scary…
Dude…..
Wicked awesome!
The one with the magazine clip cylinders?
LOL! It actually comes from an old gunsmith school missive. You had to come up with a new innovative concept at one point, kinda like a term paper.
We were all talking about forcing cone angles and such, and this one fellow says screw it, I’m proposing a belt fed single shot full auto Mauser 98 bolt action.
Gunsmith humor, who knew?
What about flash suppressors?
Is a fully-buttoned raincoat a flash suppressor?
How about an ambidextrous ejector? It cuts the shell casing in half and sends the pieces out both sides?
And if you put three rubber bands around the Capital Dome and it qualifies as a Bump Stock?
The Friendly Grizzly- Love it. An ambi ejector means we could offer to machine a second ejection port. I see income potential…
Next, they’ll find – water pistols..
Obama and his ilk are runninh our government – and destroying our precious nation.
Nurse Jill just relays the commads.
News flash: a fully armed rubber duck was found in one of their bathtubs.
He lives in the same marshlands as the killer rabbits.
Was it a yellow rubber duckie or a red devil duck like mine?
And they claim to have found body armor. It looked a lot like a jock strap with a cup. It was super strong. FBI agents took turns putting it on and having their colleagues kick them in the nuts.
I built a full-auto water Tommy-gun using a Jabsco “,Water Puppy” pump, a 5 gallon drum, and a pushbutton.
Don’t sell water pistols short.
It’s like we’re living in an episode of the Twilight Zone.
Any writer proposing such a bizarre and stupid episode would have been laughed off the set.
Then, if I were laughed off the set, I’d rework it into a Naked Gun sequel script.
They were hoping to find a Lego set of the Kremlin. That would have proved that Donald Trump worked for Russia.
Yes, but the Feds found enough extra Legos that COULD be assembled into a model of the Kremlin. Call them “ghost Legos”.
Obviously the accused PLANNED to build a model of the Kremlin!
The FBI found a $50,000 peice of artwork that purports to be a picture of Donald Trump in the Kremlin. They thought at first they had found a smoking gun, but it turned out to be something Hunter Biden painted while smoking dope.
Damn it, I’ve got a gallon of gasoline in the garage for the lawnmower. I expect SWAT any minute backed up by The NG
Amid all the snark and laughter is this sobering reality: the genocidal maniacs who thinks Lego kits are some sort of illegal weapon now have the power of life and death over us.
This is the sort of incident that a real opposition party could use to pound the deranged ruling junta with. But the Franz von Papen Republicans are too vested in the “insurrection” lie to admit the truth now.
No, the real truth is that we have the power of life and death over them, But we would rather draw an infinite number of lines in the sand rather than use it and be done with the tyranny.
To those who think I’m extreme:
They want you gone, and they want your kids gone, too.
Here’s his GoFundMe, if you care enough.
And just when I thought you were fully recovered.
You are all having entirely too much fun with this subject. You are to report to the Dean of Humor Elimination immediately
– signed Professor Jennifer Hyphenated-Name, PhD, Grievance Studies
🙂
Lego pieces are not made in America, the CIA must get involved and look into the foreign influences that want to overtake this country.
Not my Country anymore…
It hasn’t been mine since about 1968.
Mr. Morss was charged with scattering Lego blocks in the path of Capitol Police in an attempt to cripple them.
Yeah it’s the Legos that are not assembled which represent the true threat.
Seriously. Ever come downstairs barefoot for a midnight snack and stepped on a bunch of Legos that your child left lying around?
If those had been scattered around the Capitol, Pelosi might have slipped on her way to the liquor cabinet and lost her dentures!
Definitely a WMD if you’ve ever stepped on one.
Seriously??? The lego model is only scale accurate to the facade of the buiding not even the interior or the surrounding structures and exterior access points. Is this really going to be pawned off as some kind of plotting device?
The real crime is that lego wants $270 on amazon for this thing (I was about to go buy one just for fun).
So having the Lego Space Shuttle makes me an astronaut, right?
Or, a space cadet… :-{)}}}
The existence of the Lego set at all is a clear act of war by Denmark against the United States, and yet Biden does NOTHING.
It is past time for common sense Lego reform.
Threadwinner.
LEGO humor is awesome. think of the crime or punishment if the domestic terrorist planned to disassemble the LEGO Capital. that would be a felony?
That point is addressed in Article XXX.v of our Plastic Constitution, ANY INDIVIDUAL FREEDOMS MAY BE MOLDED TO FIT THE STATE’S POWER OF THE MOMENT.
“So what are ya in for?”
“I built a lego model of the capitol building.”
And they all moved away from me
on the group w bench.
You can build anything you want
With Denmark’s new …um… Ok, I can’t make it rhyme.
I’d say “Send in the clowns”, but they’re obviously already here.
Not to mention it’s an awful song.
Well, isn’t that rich.
Not to mention queer…
Don’t bother.
.
Lego just announced a Food Series. They will start with breakfast; the first kit is “Lego: My Eggo”.
My late adopted sister’s husband has the Lego Death Star and several other Star Wars Legos, assembled and on display. Does that make him Darth-freaking-Vader?
Subotai Bahadur
He has a Lego arsenal.
And he is planning the most insidious attack on government workers, by quietly entering their homes in the middle ofthe night and spreading legos on the path from the bedroom to the bathroom. When these American Vichy workers get up in the morning and walk barefoot to the bathroom, justice will be served.
The FBI has jumped the shark. Again.
Does anyone other than Dems, RINOs, and NeverTrumpers have any respect at all left for the FBI?
High on the ‘To Do’ list of the next non-RINO GOP POTUS admin, if there ever is one again, should be repealing the Patriot Act and breaking up the FBI. And the NSA. And the CIA. Clearly the external threats to the US have significantly diminished considering these organizations have so much time, money, and personnel to spare and spend spying on American citizens and on conducting partisan political domestic witch hunts.
Now, if Lego just made a NASCAR doorpull set… .MAGA heaven!
There’s a tv show called Lego Masters. hopefully the producers don’t make that one of the contests, they might have to arrest a whole bunch of people
Masters, eh?
That’s racist!
/someone had to…
On a VERY SERIOUS note, EVERYTHING that the leftists are doing now should be considered “setting PRECEDENTS” for the time WE AMERICANS are back in control of Our Nation! If the FBI considers legos as evidence then anyone buying the pedo-legos should be REGISTERED so later their purchase can be used as evidence! The ONLY CRIME about the entire “lego” thing is the $270 price tag!!
Whoa! – He could have amased an arsenel of Obama water guns:
https://i.huffpost.com/gen/1195984/images/o-OBAMA-WATER-GUN-TWEET-facebook.jpg
In the immortal words of Charlie Brown, “Good Grief!”
Had I the inclination, money, and time to be a major Lego nerd, a model of the Capitol might just be the sort of project I’d try my hand at. As it is, my handling of lego is limited to a few simple things when with the grandkids.
Does everyone here realize how hard it is to put togther a Lego set that looks like the Capital building? Is Lego going to offer an endorsement deal to the guy who did it????
I guess that it was complete down to Pelosi’s table lectern, because that seems to be the big issue in the whole Jan 6 thing.
Let’s prosecute this guy to the fullest extent of the law because he has a Lego set. Yep, that is leftism at work.
Apparently that Lego set is much, much more interesting than Hunter’s laptop to the fumbling, bumbling idiots.
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