Cardboard cops

[devil21]

Yep.


It's also a money saver. Lenehan estimates it would cost $200,000 a year to have an officer watch over the cage full-time.

http://i.huffpost.com/gen/1283439/thumbs/s-CARDBOARD-COP-large.jpg?6

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/06/cardboard-cop-boston_n_3712477.html

[aGameOfThrones]

At least they're not assholes.

[devil21]

At least they're not assholes.

Would I be flagged if I mentioned this?

http://www.mrconservative.com/2013/02/5113-shocking-dhs-spends-2-million-on-no-hesitation-civilian-targets/

Hope not. Good for the goose....

(huge business opportunity for anyone with the balls to do it.....)

[amy31416]

Shouldn't they have used a thinner model? This one used too much cardboard and is not a good role model for the Obama generation.

[GunnyFreedom]

ygbsm

[tod evans]

ygbsm

WTF?

[aGameOfThrones]

WTF?

YouGuysBitchSoMuch or the other... YouGotaBeShittingMe

[Philhelm]

YouGuysBitchSoMuch or the other... YouGotaBeShittingMe

Oh...that must be it. I thought it was something about young gay boys.

[paulbot24]

"Lenehan estimates it would cost $200,000 a year to have an officer watch over the cage full-time."

Can this be accurate? The dumbest laziest cop on the entire force that they would pick for this pathetic job would cost them $200k/yr?

[noneedtoaggress]

"Lenehan estimates it would cost $200,000 a year to have an officer watch over the cage full-time."

Can this be accurate? The dumbest laziest cop on the entire force that they would pick for this pathetic job would cost them $200k/yr?

Yeah if they chose to put a real officer in that cage to watch the bikes 24/7 for an entire year (without sleeping?).

They just have to put like 4 more cardboard cut outs in the same cage there and it will save them a million dollars a year. WOW! Apple should hire that chief to run the company now that Steve Jobs is gone. He's brilyant.

[MoneyWhereMyMouthIs2]

Shouldn't they have used a thinner model?



They want them to look realistic.

[noneedtoaggress]

They want them to look realistic.

Still not quite their yet. They should have had a stuffed dog carcass at his feet.

[VBRonPaulFan]

hey look! free target dummies!

[GunnyFreedom]

Oh...that must be it. I thought it was something about young gay boys.

LMAO -- I get it from the Wild Weasels:

http://www.frontiernet.net/~freitag/Korat/patches/wild_weasel.jpg

Navy and Marines have kind of squadron called "Wild Weasels" whose mission is to fly directly into anti aircraft gun and missile emplacement until they get painted, and then drop ordinance on the source radar. Legend has it the first time they came up with the idea and recruited some pilots to do it, their first reaction to their mission statement "Fly right into anti aircraft ordinance" was "You Gotta Be Shitting Me." So from that point on, "YGBSM" is on all the official squadron patched for Wild Weasel squadrons. :p

[Scrapmo]

If someone vanadalizes the cutout would they be charged with obstructing an officer, Assuallt and resisting arrest?

[PaulConventionWV]

Still not quite their yet. They should have had a stuffed dog carcass at his feet.

It's there, not their. There refers to a place, while their denotes ownership.

[devil21]

"Lenehan estimates it would cost $200,000 a year to have an officer watch over the cage full-time."

Can this be accurate? The dumbest laziest cop on the entire force that they would pick for this pathetic job would cost them $200k/yr?

Well, it could if you figure in the future pension and health care obligations of that cop if he reaches retirement age.

[Danke]

LMAO -- I get it from the Wild Weasels:

http://www.frontiernet.net/~freitag/Korat/patches/wild_weasel.jpg

Navy and Marines have kind of squadron called "Wild Weasels" whose mission is to fly directly into anti aircraft gun and missile emplacement until they get painted, and then drop ordinance on the source radar. Legend has it the first time they came up with the idea and recruited some pilots to do it, their first reaction to their mission statement "Fly right into anti aircraft ordinance" was "You Gotta Be Shitting Me." So from that point on, "YGBSM" is on all the official squadron patched for Wild Weasel squadrons. :p

no

This started with the Air Force program.

Specifically the F-100F.

I flew Wild Weasel missions over Iraq.

The marines in typical fashion, were clueless in this mission.

[GunnyFreedom]

no

This started with the Air Force program.

Specifically the F-100F.

I flew Wild Weasel missions over Iraq.

The marines in typical fashion, were clueless in this mission.


You are right, developed by the Air Force in 1965. Adopted quickly by the Navy and Marines. I guess the Marine pilots weren't mentally defective enough to actually want to fly right into the jaws of an anti-aircraft missile just to make it light up. :p

I do know that Naval and Marine aviators were flying Wild Weasel squadrons back in Vietnam, so the concept spread very rapidly indeed. Still, YGBSM!

[Danke]

You are right, developed by the Air Force in 1965. Adopted quickly by the Navy and Marines. I guess the Marine pilots weren't mentally defective enough to actually want to fly right into the jaws of an anti-aircraft missile just to make it light up. :p

I do know that Naval and Marine aviators were flying Wild Weasel squadrons back in Vietnam, so the concept spread very rapidly indeed. Still, YGBSM!

Well, by the time I got into the program, it was a welcomed challenge. Hunter / killer.

[GunnyFreedom]

Well, by the time I got into the program, it was a welcomed challenge. Hunter / killer.

Too bad you weren't around for post #5, would have saved folks a lot of confusion. I don't imagine there is a Wild Weasel in all of the United States unfamiliar with "YGBSM"

[Danke]

Too bad you weren't around for post #5, would have saved folks a lot of confusion. I don't imagine there is a Wild Weasel in all of the United States unfamiliar with "YGBSM"


There is a famous video of the guy saying that, but I could not find it.

[Origanalist]

So Danke returns, avatar restored and all. Did you hold out until they gave it back? :)