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Wait a minute, folks. This is not a cannon, it is a toy gun that fires magnetic darts at a target. I had one when I was 6 years old. When I was 6, I knew what a cannon was, and I knew that my dart-gun was not a cannon. Can't they find a reporter somewhere in first grade to set them straight on this, instead of using LEO-jargon?
What I see in our police-state future (sorry, LEO-state future) is a device similar to a cellphone factory-installed in the electrical system of all cars, and when the police dial the VIN, it shuts the car down. Saves $500 a shot with a dart gun. The added benefit of immobilizing illegally parked cars long enough for the Russian-style towaway truck to arrive.
Iowa? Is this necessary in Iowa? Are the Iowa COPS that incompetent that they lose people on their 2-D grid of roadwork? I mean seriously... they have the simplest road layout probably out of anywhere in the world. He either went left, right, straight... or dived into a corn field.
I read or heard somewhere recently where the term 'cop' came from. People started calling them 'coppers' because in the early days badges were usually made of copper. That was then shortened to 'cop.' Don't know if it true for sure, but it sounds plausible.
I read or heard somewhere recently where the term 'cop' came from. People started calling them 'coppers' because in the early days badges were usually made of copper. That was then shortened to 'cop.' Don't know if it true for sure, but it sounds plausible.
According to dictionaries, the noun 'cop' comes from the verb 'to cop' which means to seize, including to arrest.
1. another name for policeman
2. ( Brit ) an arrest (esp in the phrase a fair cop )
— vb , cops , copping , copped
4. to seize or catch
I read or heard somewhere recently where the term 'cop' came from. People started calling them 'coppers' because in the early days badges were usually made of copper. That was then shortened to 'cop.' Don't know if it true for sure, but it sounds plausible.
Wait a minute, folks. This is not a cannon, it is a toy gun that fires magnetic darts at a target. I had one when I was 6 years old. When I was 6, I knew what a cannon was, and I knew that my dart-gun was not a cannon. Can't they find a reporter somewhere in first grade to set them straight on this, instead of using LEO-jargon?
What I see in our police-state future (sorry, LEO-state future) is a device similar to a cellphone factory-installed in the electrical system of all cars, and when the police dial the VIN, it shuts the car down. Saves $500 a shot with a dart gun. The added benefit of immobilizing illegally parked cars long enough for the Russian-style towaway truck to arrive.
My dad once said he wished he had a paintball gun that he could use to shoot ugly blobs of paint at cars driven by bad drivers. That was before paintball was invented.
My dad once said he wished he had a paintball gun that he could use to shoot ugly blobs of paint at cars driven by bad drivers. That was before paintball was invented.
I've had that conversation many times. You'd have to pass a course so you'd be qualified to judge others, then issued a paintball gun with various colors of paint for different driving offenses. Police would pull over and cite vehicles based on what color and how many spots they had. Call it citizen policing.
You would also have to have marksmanship courses for those trying to qualify to be shooters of these paintballs. Can't have the cops generating revenue from innocent people who may have been erroneously marked!
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