Author Topic: how to inspire kids to join the police department  (Read 2393 times)

Offline guncrasher

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Re: how to inspire kids to join the police department
« Reply #45 on: November 07, 2012, 02:49:45 PM »
if I take you to my job at the mill and you start asking stupid question does that mean you are stupid and should be exterminated?



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you dont want me to ho, dont point your plane at me.

Offline Hannibal

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Re: how to inspire kids to join the police department
« Reply #46 on: November 08, 2012, 02:01:37 AM »
And here is yours3 sentences consisting of six words total... Now what exactly did he say? Nothing...

As I said, we have so many people people in this world that have zero common sense that have no business being here. Sure its an extreme statement but it's true. Fine we don't have to exterminate them, but ship them off to some deserted island and I'm sure they would take care of that themselves.

An example:
A couple of years ago, during a very cold winter, our hangar door fell on one of our planes as it was being pulled out. It nearly killed the student who was just a foot ahead of where the door impacted the plane who was helping pushing it out.

The door was a folding door that is hinged AT THE TOP OF THE ROOF mind you. The drive chain failed and allowed the spool to unwind, but only one side of the door began to fall. However, because of the unevenness, the cables that actually support the door began breaking until the entire door free fell down. The entire event happened in about 4 seconds.

Because the hangar is owned by the county, everything had to go through the county, which means county lawyers were involved.

The plane spent a few days under the door while they were investigating. The manufacturer of the door was here with their engineers that day. We explained what happened and they were trying to figure out if the door was salvageable at all. Our mechanic was talking to them and he told them no, that the door was rusted out, and should just be scrapped. He took a hammer and just lightly hit a spot in the framework to show them and the head went straight thought the metal.

The lawyer turns to him and says, "Did you just tamper with evidence?!?!" he replied saying what and why he did it, but after she kept repeating that he just said, I guess so if you want to call it that...

So then we finally asked, can we just take off the lower portion of the door because it was blocking our entire hangar and we still had planes in it.

The lawyer said and I quote "You can't take off just the lower portion because then the upper portion will just fall down." after telling her that it's hinged at the top, she still said the top door will just fall. It took us five days of saying the same thing over and over again and three meetings with the engineers from the door's manufacturer explaining to her before she hesitantly agreed to allow us to take off the bottom section so we could use the hangar.

We even showed her another door on field that operated the same way and showed her that there is absolutely no support to the bottom of the door when it's down to begin with. The door stops about 4 inches from the ground and then it's just a heavy duty rubber weather strip.

This is the type of stupidity I'm talking about. It's not rocket science to understand what hinged at the top means. Just like thinking that it is not the job of the police to protect the citizens or thinking its even remotely acceptable to be pointing any weapon of any kind at another person, because they refuse to wash a person's car.



Dude all  was pointing out is how stupid talking about exterminating people based on intelligence is. Eugenics was a bad choice of words being that what you are suggesting is even stupider than that. The fact that you missed my point because I used so few words to express it, plus the fact that you needed to use so many words to explain that lawyers suck is proof you should be the first one to go into the oven you wish existed. Also, it was the Supreme Court, not me that said the police have no constitutional duty to protect citizens.

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Re: how to inspire kids to join the police department
« Reply #47 on: November 08, 2012, 08:10:15 AM »
I call bs on this story, just like all the other anti LEO posts on the internet. IF the story is true as told, then the smartmouth kid learnt a valuable lesson that a lot of people sorely need. If a police officer asks/tells you to do something, you should comply.
Are you kidding me ? One of the biggest problems I see in LEO's  today is the belief that if I tell you to do something it is my right to have you obey it , no matter how wrong it is . This kind of blind obedience , and one way respect.....man I can't even continue....about the dumbest thing I ever heard .

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Re: how to inspire kids to join the police department
« Reply #48 on: November 08, 2012, 08:12:25 AM »
If Joe Blow did it, likely wouldn't have been nearly so widely covered by media.


I don't know why, but for some reason, attaching an individual's screw-up to the institution is 'in' lately.


Now just a personal opinion here, but I feel like we owe them our respect, regardless of if we've had a bad incounter with a bad individual. I feel like disrespecting a uniformed police officer should be a public offense. And I feel society should be less tolerant of stupidity and put greater preasure on people to conform to social norms.

It seems that the bar has been lowered for society, and that our stadards are degrading. Now not that I've looked extremely closely into this, and I very well might be wrong, but it seems to me that this kind of started when society tolerated hippies, instead of cracking down on them.
So you think this type of thinking is not institutional ? Really ?