Every so often, I’ll be critical of cops. Usually it’s because they’re tasked with the unenviable responsibility of enforcing bad laws, but sometimes they do things that are needlessly wrong.
- Busting two kids for throwing snowballs.
- Cops issuing summonses to people for lawfully sitting in a park.
- Arresting a woman for standing on her own porch.
- Fining two men for rescuing an injured deer.
- Arresting a homeowner for the crime of self-defense.
But these are rare examples of bone-headed behavior by individual cops. I’m much more concerned about bad laws issued by politicians, such as asset forfeiture laws that give cops incentives to harass people who aren’t a threat to society.
Having made a semi-serious point, now let’s enjoy a good joke about cops.
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HOW TO CALL THE POLICE WHEN YOU WANT RESULTS
George Phillips , an elderly man, from Meridian, Mississippi, was going up to bed, when his wife told him that he’d left the light on in the garden shed, which she could see from the bedroom window. George opened the back door to go turn off the light, but saw that there were people in the shed stealing things.
He phoned the police, who asked “Is someone in your house?”
He said “No,” but some people are breaking into my garden shed and stealing from me.
Then the police dispatcher said “All patrols are busy. You should lock your doors and an officer will be along when one is available.”
George said, “Okay.”
He hung up the phone and counted to 30.
Then he phoned the police again.
“Hello, I just called you a few seconds ago because there were people stealing things from my shed. Well, you don’t have to worry about them now because I just shot them.” and he hung up.
Within five minutes, six Police Cars, a SWAT Team, a Helicopter, two Fire Trucks, a Paramedic, and an Ambulance showed up at the Phillips’ residence, and caught the burglars red-handed.
One of the Policemen said to George, “I thought you said that you’d shot them!”
George said, “I thought you said there was nobody available!”
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Zorba says there is a point of no return, and that it has passed .…
True.
It passed on March 23, 1775, when Patrick Henry said, “Give me Liberty or give me death.”
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Like foul creatures from a hollyweird walking dead flick, the tyrants are abroad in numbers.
Let us pray we Patriots will step willingly to the mark — and put them in their place!
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Not sure how “disrespectful” got changed to respectufl but that’s what happened.
Mind you, I’ve never been arrested. I’ve known a few law enforcement officers personally, count them on one hand. Maybe the one’s I knew were atypical. But ALL of them were arrogant, self aggrandizing and respectful in their attitude toward the people they were supposed to protect.
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I love it!
Reblogged this on michaelacummings.
The police presence in the US is astounding, but whats sad is that increasingly they is a shift from neighborhood watchman/public servant to powerhungry blind enforcement of terrible laws.
We should pay police more money, and make it WAY harder to become a police officer. The police are here to protect the people, but this ‘joke’ is reality.
He’s lucky they didn’t show up and shoot him. When they roll out the forces like that they tend to be rather trigger happy.
See, that’s why we need VAT. So that every small community can have five swat teams, seven helicopters, and scores of voting police officers who will then support more arrest-donut-eating-adults-in-parks laws, so that their cousins and nephews can also be hired into the police department to handle the extra load, even more police voters showing up at school indoctrinating captive children to the bravery and virtues of ever larger police departments….
There is a point of no return, and it has passed…
I have read the one before but he remains very good. I think the police are gaining steam via Obama for martial law. How these good men and women can do this and sleep at night I have no idea. What has happened to there moral compass and their loyalty to the United States and the right thing to do. Somehow Obama has taken the police and made them the enemy and they don’t seem to mind. This is very disturbing with the proper leadership in Washington I hope and pray this changes.