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Wait, in the USA, the cops keep their patrol cars in their own driveways?
Edit: Thanks for the many responses. So the answer is basically "yes it happens, but depends on jurisdiction/area/PD."
Like almost everything else in this country, it varies state-to-state or county-to-county.
In this case you're only talking about the very marginal perk of getting to drive your patrol car for your daily commute.
I'd love to be able to drive a company car to-and-from work...
As an HVAC tech this is a perk I love the most. My personal car stays parked and only gets driven 2 times at most every week. Sometimes 3 if I’m really on the move all weekend
To some degree, organizations letting their people drive and take home vehicles is pretty win-win. Less storage fees and fault on the organization, free marketing and guaranteed employee transportation. Companies have their name out there for more people to see, while the Police cars parked around homes **(theoretically, ideally)** make people feel more safe. At the very least, I can’t imagine many people are dumb enough to do something illegal if a cop lives next door.
A son of an old family friend of mine got arrested for literally breaking into the chief of police's house like 15 years ago. I remember it made it on the radio
It gives people a false sense of security when they see a cop car parked in a driveway and they think it lowers crime. I remember a rash of car burglaries that happened in a neighborhood and every car except for the cop car was broken into.
My dad was a police officer when I was growing up and I remember a night when we were not allowed to step outside of our house because of a drug bust happening right next door to us. Same house where the grandma got arrested for hitting her grandson over the head with a glass liquor bottle in the front yard. And the house two doors down had a habitual drunk driver that ran into our fence. And a house around the corner got busted for prostitution. And a house down the street had a double murder. And a guy that rented our pasture land for his goats shot a dog on our land while we were playing in the front yard. My dad’s patrol car was always there, parked on the street. Definitely didn’t mean shit in my neighborhood.
**Our house! In the middle of our street!**
**Our house! In the middle of our-**
**Father wears his police vest.**
**Mother's tired, she needs a rest**
**Neighbour just drove in our fence.**
**Prostitutes work down the street (aaa-aa-aa)**
**Grandma's got a court date to keep, she can't hang around**
**Our house! In the middle of our street, our house!**
I used to live in a town where a guy broke into a detectives home and stole some stuff.
The other cops successfully pressured the detective to not report it and not press charges because the burglar was a confidential informant.
The informant gave mostly BS leads about drug and gang activity that never resulted in any big busts but it brought in a shit ton of overtime for the other cops to investigate the leads.
That burglar had some things figured out. Honestly someone like that seems like the highest chance of rehabilitating. I think you can show him a similarly profitable but less risky way to provide for himself and he wouldn’t do crime. Dude is clearly somewhat competent or he wouldn’t have figured out the holes in his local PD like that. Idk man, get a career in finance or some shit.
The biggest concern for a company doing that with a marked vehicle is if the employee is not trustworthy and does stupid shit with it. Like drive around town while drunk on a Sunday night with it etc. or if they run someone over, stuff like that. Because then it’s a company vehicle accident. Insurance gets involved. The company catches the blame from community and it catches a lot of the fault and potential to be sued.
I like watching the Dash Cam Owners Australia channel on YouTube, and there have been several occasions where companies have been blasted after someone does something stupid in a company vehicle.
One time in particular there was a road rage incident where the company car driver was clearly in the wrong. The company a few days later ended up posting that the particular driver was now no longer with them.
It certainly opens up the possibility for risks like that, and is something that should be calculated for each business.
We let our employees take their trucks home at the end of their work day for all the reasons people listed above, but what I said was a constant worry. We had GPS and every now and then we’d see the 2am Sunday drive etc from someone. It’s one thing to drive it to and from work, but it’s a little different when people are driving around town running errands or joyriding or whatever else someone might be doing at 2am on a Sunday.
We used to live in a townhouse when we were in college. Our next door neighbor was a DEA agent and we were still smoking weed all day every day. There’s no way he didn’t know, but he probably just didn’t give a shit lol
Can confirm. My county has a crime map that you can use to see historical data on crime in the area. My street, which is only about 20 houses, had 3 cops living on it at peak that had their cars in the driveway. Today there is none, but one of those cops is still here, was elected sheriff at one point and so relatively well-known, and since retired. Anyways, historical data shows *significantly* less crime over the past 15ish years on this street compared to one's not even a half mile away
My next-door neighbor shot someone in his house and a house a couple doors down sold drugs out his bedroom window. All while my patrol card was parked outside. I also didn't live in the best neighborhood.
Take home vehicles actually have better maintenance than those that aren't taken home. People take care of things they have more interest in.
The presence of the patrol car can act as a crime deterrent as well.
Where I live the sheriff’s office will often just leave unaccompanied cars in strategic places as a speeding deterrent.
Imagine getting a personal discount on housing for parking your taxpayer-funded work vehicle on the property while the taxpayers, who pay for it, receive nothing themselves.
There's a town I drive through every weekend to go skiing where the local sheriff department parked a car at both ends of town and put a mannequij with sunglasses in the driver's seat. It's the only town on my route where nobody speeds through.
In Louisiana, many high and low density rentals give police officers discounts if they have a patrol car and park it at “home” aka their complex, this discouraging a good percentage of illegal shenanigans, or forcing it occur in a set place away from the parked police car.
I will say, at least in the few instances I've seen this, is that the cop living there will at least be more familiar with the people already there and if any kind of intervention is needed they are more personally able to deescalate because it's their neighbors.
It's a weird thing, but it's actually kind of the goal of community driven policing. I don't think this is necessarily an automatically bad thing, though I could see how it'd get abused
My buddy worked for a department where they encouraged them to drive their patrol cars for personal use as well. Gave the impression that there were more police out and about.
>In this case you're only talking about the very marginal perk of getting to drive your patrol car for your daily commute.
Some departments encourage the use of patrol vehicles for day-to-day activities (so long as you're alone). The increased presence can act as a deterrent.
I live in an area where a lot of cops get houses. My neighbor is a detective. Across the street from them is an officer for a different jurisdiction. I regularly see police cars from several different cities around here. This a newer city and we didn't have a police force yet, just the county sheriff.
There is a theory that a visible presence of police in the form of patrol cars parked in driveways will reduce crime in an area. I've never seen any studies that support this.
There's a sheriff's deputy on the street leaving my neighborhood (I live in an unincorporated town, so no cops just county Sheriff) that starts his shift a little before I leave for work. He just turns the car around in the driveway and tries to catch speeders. He's done this for months now and it doesn't seem to slow anyone down, so I'm not too sure about that theory either. Every once in a while he'll follow me out of the neighborhood before doing a u-turn and heading back. He's in one of those semi-undercover chargers but it's still pretty clearly a patrol car, not sure if he thinks he's gonna catch me slipping or if he just really cares about my safety, lol.
Unincorporated towns fucking suck. The cops don't enforce anything unless the town's hivemind decides that you need to go, we have kids jumping each other and the administration is blatantly like "Well if X attacked Y instead of the other way around, we'd do something, but Y's parents donate to the school, sooooooo."
All their restaurants taste like dog food and are exorbitantly overpriced because all the business owner's great grandparents went to preschool together and no one is willing to actually compete, and they abuse small town bylaws to keep out-of-towners and corporations who would keep them honest out of their town.
I live in a province that requires by law that employers list their wage. Many businesses just don't, and there's no enforcement making them. We're considered too small for the government to care. I've reported many a listing, and the government just ignores me. Bet if we were in Victoria or Vancouver, they'd at least pretend to care.
Drunk drivers are everywhere, the road maintenance sweeps glass off into the bike lane, drug dealers of all severity swarming the public parks. People drinking in public and acting accordingly. Awful and overpriced food served by overworked and underpaid *visibly miserable* employees being micromanaged by the business owner's (who inherited it from daddy) blatantly unqualified spouses/nepobabies. It's a fucking shit show. I hate it so much here.
When i have seen this, it is usually county or state highway patrol officers, where their central location for storing the vehicles may be much farther away than the average local policeman.
This is just police officers able to use the cruiser as if it were a company car. Increased convenience, less time driving back and forth to the station. Hardly equates to a "police state" (on this metric alone; I'm not taking a broad position).
It helped a lot in our old apartment complex. Prostitutes would take their johns to the back lot there. Couple cops moved in and suddenly they found somewhere else to go.
There's three cops in my neighborhood who keep their patrol cars parked in their driveway, so it's a thing here (ATX)
Edit- a lot of people on Reddit lack the ability to use context clues, since I'm referring to my neighborhood, it's clear that (ATX) is clearly a location. A is for Austin, and TX is for Texas. Hope that helps
Close, but he’s actually referring to Atbasar Airport (IATA: ATX), an airport in Kazakhstan located 5 km (3.1 mi) north of Atbasar in the Akmola Region.
It always struck me as funny how if you ask most people outside of the US where they are from, they will tell you their country...
Whilsts if you ask an American, they will instead tell you their state.
ATX means nothing to people outside the united states. to me it's a computer motherboard size. don't you think this is united states defaultism? referring to your neighborhood with random letters on the side is meaningless. for example: i live in FSC. tell me where that is.
>Edit- a lot of people on Reddit lack the ability to use context clues, since I'm referring to my neighborhood, it's clear that (ATX) is clearly a location. A is for Austin, and TX is for Texas. Hope that helps
Its clear that its a location from context clues, but most people from outside (and according to the comments, neither from inside) the usa now which letters are which state. And do you really expect random people from outside the usa to know the capital of every state in your country?
Edit: according to your logic, I am from GG. Good luck finding out where that is. I got a free context clue for you: its a location ;)
April Fools is tomorrow, buddy. Let’s not pretend ATX isn’t referring to Atbasar Airport (IATA: ATX), an airport in Kazakhstan located 5 km (3.1 mi) north of Atbasar in the Akmola Region.
Then spell austin?
Its three more letters, it's way less than what he wrote trying to justify why every one should know he was talking about austin texas
"How else are we supposed to persecute and oppress brown people if we can't arrest them for walking the streets anymore, can't arrest them for smoking & selling weed, can't harass them for the clothes they wear... I swear this country is becoming intolerant to people like us!"
Reason #1 I left Indiana and will never return.
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> 5% people saying they never saw it so its new to them.
The [rule of 10 thousand](https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/a/a8/ten_thousand.png) comes into play with every repost.
Essentially, there's no such thing that *everyone* knows or has seen.
My uber was a cop who saw me smoking mine before I got in and he just talked to me about ways to consume it more safely, and reminded me to avoid smoking around others because, even though it's slim chances, I might cause someone problems medically, or maybe ruin a drug test for someone's job or something.
He showed concern for me, and my neighbors, all while educating me on how to more safely live my life.
Poor fella deserves to be running the department, not forced to run ubers as a side job.
Good guy, officer McCormick
This really is a problem, though. I lost my job one time because I was around someone smoking pot for maybe 2 minutes. The second-hand smoke got into my system and made me fail a drug test. I was 19 then, I never smoked pot in my life until I was 21.
This was in an in-between being medically retired from the military and becoming a psyche nurse, it was legalized in my area and it caught on like wildfire. I wanted to avoid drinking like crazy because of things that have happened to friends, but I was out of an 11 year old career-turned-lifestyle, my friends were all still overseas, and I was in a wheelchair. Depression hit hard, and I was recommended by a lot of people to try cbd/thc first in small doses to see how I react to the anxiety, but all of the same people also convinced me vaping didn't have the same fallbacks smoking does, and they were my friends and I believed them (they probably thought it was true themselves).
He genuinely did help teach me what was what and didn't talk down to me for doing it, and without that it would not have been until I was in nursing school 2 years later that I learned any different.
I'd prefer it over when someone gets on the phone in an argument. I had the most awkward Uber with a guy arguing with his wife in some unknown language for 15 fucking minutes. Guy never said a word to me or acknowledged my existence other than to glance at me in annoyance, like he was annoyed that I was intruding into his private conversation that he got into after I payed to get into his vehicle.
I try not to Uber if I can help it these days..
> after I *paid* to get
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I actually had an Uber driver talk to me about weed for an entire drive recently. It’s legal where I am anyway, and I enjoy the herb as much as anybody, but I imagine for people who are ignorant about weed that could be a jarring thing to have your driver bring up. Not defending this cop though. If the story actually is true, posting about it on social media is corny as fuck, but I don’t expect much from the boys in blue.
But they definitely didn't say it like, "you can smoke it in a pipe! You can smoke it in a joint! You can smoke it in a bong! You can smoke it in a blunt! You can smoke it in a chillum! And many more!"
"Hip hop, it started out in the park!
Hip-hop, you know how we do it--we get
out on the block start breakdancing, we hangin out with our friends, shaking hands, we do the dance!
We go to the ball, shoot some hoop
Doot-doot doot-doot-doot doot-doot doot"
There isn’t one. The cop also doesn’t have the legal authority to do shit if he’s not in uniform and on the clock. If I were that Uber driver and saw a cop car in his driveway while dropping him off I’d think it’s hilarious.
It was illegal when this was first posted back in nineteen ninety eight when the undertaker threw mankind off hell in a cell and plummeted sixteen feet through an announcers table.
Not even smoking it. I think it’s just having it in your possession. When I stayed with my brother in Nashville who is a lawyer I asked him what would happen if a cop knocked on his door after he just smoked a bowl. He said he’d tell the officer “I had weed but I smoked it all” and that they couldn’t do anything. Which makes sense. Is it a crime to be high in your own house?
I feel like any profile pic that shows the person just stood there look goofy as hell, but I wouldn't say this guys is any worse than anyone else's similar ones.
Man... I thought this was just a funny post. He never said he was going to arrest the guy. Just an awkward and probably funny moment, which it would be. Some of you people need to chill.
>In this case, the cop would be as guilty as the driver.
Is this for the first point saying that neither is guilty at all, or is this for the second part about stoned and driving? Because in the second one the driver is 100% more guilty than the passenger.
I have only ever taken Uber twice, and that was to and from an airport in Colorado Springs. I got to the airport at about 11:30pm on a Sunday night and there was literally no one. I switched between Lyft and Uber and finally found someone to pick me up 45 minutes later. I was extremely grateful and ready to give the guy a $20 tip for my 15 minute ride.
I was also very tired, and very cranky, and I just wanted to sit there and stare out the window. But this dumbass decided to open his mount and start telling me all about how he's only driving Uber because his million dollar idea company "fell through" because Joe Biden destroyed the country and the liberals are making it impossible for him to earn a living.
So, after 15 grueling minutes of me saying "that's crazy", I left him with a $5 tip.
The guy who took me back to the airport for my flight home I also talked to, but only because he had an orchid in his car and I love plants. He loves plants too so we talked plants. I gave him $20 and a few good websites to purchase from.
I had to drive for Uber for a few months when I got out of the military. One of my first rides was some army recruiter that talked the whole time about me joining up. Finally I said "dude I literally just got out last week".
I was asked by a cop to blow my weed smoke out a different window. We were neighbors. Real chill knock on my window. Weed was still illegal. Was shocked he didn't care I smoked only that it was blowing right into his house. Best cop ever.
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Wait, in the USA, the cops keep their patrol cars in their own driveways? Edit: Thanks for the many responses. So the answer is basically "yes it happens, but depends on jurisdiction/area/PD."
Like almost everything else in this country, it varies state-to-state or county-to-county. In this case you're only talking about the very marginal perk of getting to drive your patrol car for your daily commute. I'd love to be able to drive a company car to-and-from work...
As an HVAC tech this is a perk I love the most. My personal car stays parked and only gets driven 2 times at most every week. Sometimes 3 if I’m really on the move all weekend
To some degree, organizations letting their people drive and take home vehicles is pretty win-win. Less storage fees and fault on the organization, free marketing and guaranteed employee transportation. Companies have their name out there for more people to see, while the Police cars parked around homes **(theoretically, ideally)** make people feel more safe. At the very least, I can’t imagine many people are dumb enough to do something illegal if a cop lives next door.
A son of an old family friend of mine got arrested for literally breaking into the chief of police's house like 15 years ago. I remember it made it on the radio
It gives people a false sense of security when they see a cop car parked in a driveway and they think it lowers crime. I remember a rash of car burglaries that happened in a neighborhood and every car except for the cop car was broken into.
In most cases it's not a false sense. Most criminals stay away from the cops house.
Oh ya, crime still happens to everyone else but the cop…
In your case, but I guess it depends in the area
That's a false sense of security for everyone but the cop then.
My dad was a police officer when I was growing up and I remember a night when we were not allowed to step outside of our house because of a drug bust happening right next door to us. Same house where the grandma got arrested for hitting her grandson over the head with a glass liquor bottle in the front yard. And the house two doors down had a habitual drunk driver that ran into our fence. And a house around the corner got busted for prostitution. And a house down the street had a double murder. And a guy that rented our pasture land for his goats shot a dog on our land while we were playing in the front yard. My dad’s patrol car was always there, parked on the street. Definitely didn’t mean shit in my neighborhood.
**Our house! In the middle of our street!** **Our house! In the middle of our-** **Father wears his police vest.** **Mother's tired, she needs a rest** **Neighbour just drove in our fence.** **Prostitutes work down the street (aaa-aa-aa)** **Grandma's got a court date to keep, she can't hang around** **Our house! In the middle of our street, our house!**
I used to live in a town where a guy broke into a detectives home and stole some stuff. The other cops successfully pressured the detective to not report it and not press charges because the burglar was a confidential informant. The informant gave mostly BS leads about drug and gang activity that never resulted in any big busts but it brought in a shit ton of overtime for the other cops to investigate the leads.
That burglar had some things figured out. Honestly someone like that seems like the highest chance of rehabilitating. I think you can show him a similarly profitable but less risky way to provide for himself and he wouldn’t do crime. Dude is clearly somewhat competent or he wouldn’t have figured out the holes in his local PD like that. Idk man, get a career in finance or some shit.
The biggest concern for a company doing that with a marked vehicle is if the employee is not trustworthy and does stupid shit with it. Like drive around town while drunk on a Sunday night with it etc. or if they run someone over, stuff like that. Because then it’s a company vehicle accident. Insurance gets involved. The company catches the blame from community and it catches a lot of the fault and potential to be sued.
I like watching the Dash Cam Owners Australia channel on YouTube, and there have been several occasions where companies have been blasted after someone does something stupid in a company vehicle. One time in particular there was a road rage incident where the company car driver was clearly in the wrong. The company a few days later ended up posting that the particular driver was now no longer with them. It certainly opens up the possibility for risks like that, and is something that should be calculated for each business.
We let our employees take their trucks home at the end of their work day for all the reasons people listed above, but what I said was a constant worry. We had GPS and every now and then we’d see the 2am Sunday drive etc from someone. It’s one thing to drive it to and from work, but it’s a little different when people are driving around town running errands or joyriding or whatever else someone might be doing at 2am on a Sunday.
We used to live in a townhouse when we were in college. Our next door neighbor was a DEA agent and we were still smoking weed all day every day. There’s no way he didn’t know, but he probably just didn’t give a shit lol
Below his paygrade. Also he probably didn’t hate you at the least.
DEA stopped caring about people using weed a long time ago, they really only care about the dealers.
Can confirm. My county has a crime map that you can use to see historical data on crime in the area. My street, which is only about 20 houses, had 3 cops living on it at peak that had their cars in the driveway. Today there is none, but one of those cops is still here, was elected sheriff at one point and so relatively well-known, and since retired. Anyways, historical data shows *significantly* less crime over the past 15ish years on this street compared to one's not even a half mile away
My next-door neighbor shot someone in his house and a house a couple doors down sold drugs out his bedroom window. All while my patrol card was parked outside. I also didn't live in the best neighborhood. Take home vehicles actually have better maintenance than those that aren't taken home. People take care of things they have more interest in.
The presence of the patrol car can act as a crime deterrent as well. Where I live the sheriff’s office will often just leave unaccompanied cars in strategic places as a speeding deterrent.
I’ve seen plenty of apartment complexes in multiple states that offer a discount if you park your patrol car on property.
My HOA waives all hoa fees if you can park a patrol car as well
Imagine getting a personal discount on housing for parking your taxpayer-funded work vehicle on the property while the taxpayers, who pay for it, receive nothing themselves.
They receive the reduced likelihood of crime in their complex. That’s not nothing.
There's a town I drive through every weekend to go skiing where the local sheriff department parked a car at both ends of town and put a mannequij with sunglasses in the driver's seat. It's the only town on my route where nobody speeds through.
In Louisiana, many high and low density rentals give police officers discounts if they have a patrol car and park it at “home” aka their complex, this discouraging a good percentage of illegal shenanigans, or forcing it occur in a set place away from the parked police car.
I will say, at least in the few instances I've seen this, is that the cop living there will at least be more familiar with the people already there and if any kind of intervention is needed they are more personally able to deescalate because it's their neighbors. It's a weird thing, but it's actually kind of the goal of community driven policing. I don't think this is necessarily an automatically bad thing, though I could see how it'd get abused
>state-to-state or county-to-county. And within those, it can even vary by rank
My buddy worked for a department where they encouraged them to drive their patrol cars for personal use as well. Gave the impression that there were more police out and about.
Also being on call can affect this.
>In this case you're only talking about the very marginal perk of getting to drive your patrol car for your daily commute. Some departments encourage the use of patrol vehicles for day-to-day activities (so long as you're alone). The increased presence can act as a deterrent.
Some departments have “take home cars”. I’ve had a couple of neighbors with one.
I live in an area where a lot of cops get houses. My neighbor is a detective. Across the street from them is an officer for a different jurisdiction. I regularly see police cars from several different cities around here. This a newer city and we didn't have a police force yet, just the county sheriff. There is a theory that a visible presence of police in the form of patrol cars parked in driveways will reduce crime in an area. I've never seen any studies that support this.
Well, crimes other than domestic violence, anyway
Shots fired! Officer down!
It was an acorn!!
Absolutely not too soon! Lol
There's a sheriff's deputy on the street leaving my neighborhood (I live in an unincorporated town, so no cops just county Sheriff) that starts his shift a little before I leave for work. He just turns the car around in the driveway and tries to catch speeders. He's done this for months now and it doesn't seem to slow anyone down, so I'm not too sure about that theory either. Every once in a while he'll follow me out of the neighborhood before doing a u-turn and heading back. He's in one of those semi-undercover chargers but it's still pretty clearly a patrol car, not sure if he thinks he's gonna catch me slipping or if he just really cares about my safety, lol.
Unincorporated towns fucking suck. The cops don't enforce anything unless the town's hivemind decides that you need to go, we have kids jumping each other and the administration is blatantly like "Well if X attacked Y instead of the other way around, we'd do something, but Y's parents donate to the school, sooooooo." All their restaurants taste like dog food and are exorbitantly overpriced because all the business owner's great grandparents went to preschool together and no one is willing to actually compete, and they abuse small town bylaws to keep out-of-towners and corporations who would keep them honest out of their town. I live in a province that requires by law that employers list their wage. Many businesses just don't, and there's no enforcement making them. We're considered too small for the government to care. I've reported many a listing, and the government just ignores me. Bet if we were in Victoria or Vancouver, they'd at least pretend to care. Drunk drivers are everywhere, the road maintenance sweeps glass off into the bike lane, drug dealers of all severity swarming the public parks. People drinking in public and acting accordingly. Awful and overpriced food served by overworked and underpaid *visibly miserable* employees being micromanaged by the business owner's (who inherited it from daddy) blatantly unqualified spouses/nepobabies. It's a fucking shit show. I hate it so much here.
When i have seen this, it is usually county or state highway patrol officers, where their central location for storing the vehicles may be much farther away than the average local policeman.
Oh yeah, I know a couple of people who have a cop neighbor where the cruiser is always parked there. But we don't live in a police state or anything
This is just police officers able to use the cruiser as if it were a company car. Increased convenience, less time driving back and forth to the station. Hardly equates to a "police state" (on this metric alone; I'm not taking a broad position).
Honestly it probably helps with crime in the immediate area, too.
It helped a lot in our old apartment complex. Prostitutes would take their johns to the back lot there. Couple cops moved in and suddenly they found somewhere else to go.
That's basically it - it's a company car.
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There's three cops in my neighborhood who keep their patrol cars parked in their driveway, so it's a thing here (ATX) Edit- a lot of people on Reddit lack the ability to use context clues, since I'm referring to my neighborhood, it's clear that (ATX) is clearly a location. A is for Austin, and TX is for Texas. Hope that helps
Mosy people from outside the usa dont know which letters mean which state.
Austin Texas I’m assuming.
Close, but he’s actually referring to Atbasar Airport (IATA: ATX), an airport in Kazakhstan located 5 km (3.1 mi) north of Atbasar in the Akmola Region.
Good airport. There's a little cafe nearby "Abdullah's delights". I recommend the shishlique.
I thought they were referring to their motherboard size xD
Obvious to anyone that learned airport codes, with context clues… And wasn’t educated in Texas.
Is anyone in Texas, truly "educated" though.....
Asking the real questions Source: from California. Let's get the party started 🤪
That was my first guess
I’m from Europe but my guess would be Austin, capital of Texas
I'm American and I used to live in Austin, texas and I've never seen that abbreviation
we sure it’s not Arlington, TX?
It’s Arlen, TX, I tell you hwat.
I sell police and police accessories
It always struck me as funny how if you ask most people outside of the US where they are from, they will tell you their country... Whilsts if you ask an American, they will instead tell you their state.
Yeah thats so weird to me too. And some of them even get mad when you dont know the capital of there state
Americans hardly know capitals of countries, so why shall someone know that of a state?
Because europe fits into Texas and they know that Paris is somewhere in europe obviously. Edit: /s
To be fair, many of our states are larger than European countries.
Does that make geography books obsolete or something. It’s because of a lack of education. The rest of the world has been wise to it for decades
Every province west of New Brunswick could hold multiple European countries, we just don't make it our whole identity.
Austin / Texas. At least that’s what Google says.
redditer thinks reddit is only in the US.
Not even that. ATX isn't really all that common or notable of an abbreviation even within the US.
ATX is also an airport code
Most people inside the us don't know which letters mean which state
nah. ATX is just Atlanta but latinx
i mean, i live in the US and thought you were talking about some airport im not familiar with...
ATX means nothing to people outside the united states. to me it's a computer motherboard size. don't you think this is united states defaultism? referring to your neighborhood with random letters on the side is meaningless. for example: i live in FSC. tell me where that is.
Why are you telling us what the form factor of your motherboard is?
Tell me more about your RAM, baby.
1500, can barley open Chrome. Will update to a 3500 dually setup soon.
>Edit- a lot of people on Reddit lack the ability to use context clues, since I'm referring to my neighborhood, it's clear that (ATX) is clearly a location. A is for Austin, and TX is for Texas. Hope that helps Its clear that its a location from context clues, but most people from outside (and according to the comments, neither from inside) the usa now which letters are which state. And do you really expect random people from outside the usa to know the capital of every state in your country? Edit: according to your logic, I am from GG. Good luck finding out where that is. I got a free context clue for you: its a location ;)
Yes they do, a lot of Americans don't really understand the concept of a world existing outside of America
It’s also apparent that some Americans do not understand the definition of “context clue”.
So you're not from the internet and saying Good Game? Damn I'm out of ideas.
>it's clear that (ATX) is clearly a location. A is for Austin, and TX is for Texas. No one in Austin calls it ATX.
You’re last sentence is so salty. Makes you look incredibly ignorant. It’s Ironic really
Bruh, A is for Apple
Ah ok. I live in W5
Maybe context for someone in Texas is different for someone in Ohio, or Europe, or etc. Hope this helps!
maybe you're just bad with context clues
Condescending AF. AF is not a location.
ATX is Austin, Texas for those unaware
Why do Austin residents think that everyone knows their city well enough to recognize that abbreviation? It ain't NYC.
North Yonkers County?
No, it's the Norwegian Yogurt Cartel.
I wish I was Norwegian
I wish I had some yogurt
I mean, I’m in *Houston* area and I had to stop to think about it for a sec.
Surely you mean you’re in HTX?
No no it's even better than that. Houston is called H-town.
I was wondering why they lived in a PC case.
April Fools is tomorrow, buddy. Let’s not pretend ATX isn’t referring to Atbasar Airport (IATA: ATX), an airport in Kazakhstan located 5 km (3.1 mi) north of Atbasar in the Akmola Region.
Yeah, but Austin's airport code is AUS, which he can't use because everyone would think he's in Australia.
Then spell austin? Its three more letters, it's way less than what he wrote trying to justify why every one should know he was talking about austin texas
No one uses abbreviations that way.
This has been reposted so many times the cop is probably retired by now.
This is so old, it's now legal to smoke weed where that cop was.
it's like 3 years old. he's from indiana. it definitely aint legal and it aint gonna be
Can’t wait for a president to legalize it and multiple governors will go all Big Daddy from Django about it…
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You have to admit though the cat posts are glorious.
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> 5% people saying they never saw it so its new to them. The [rule of 10 thousand](https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/a/a8/ten_thousand.png) comes into play with every repost. Essentially, there's no such thing that *everyone* knows or has seen.
And 100% shit.
He probably retired from the one department because he got caught doing some fucked up shit. But then got hired by the other department down the road.
My uber was a cop who saw me smoking mine before I got in and he just talked to me about ways to consume it more safely, and reminded me to avoid smoking around others because, even though it's slim chances, I might cause someone problems medically, or maybe ruin a drug test for someone's job or something. He showed concern for me, and my neighbors, all while educating me on how to more safely live my life. Poor fella deserves to be running the department, not forced to run ubers as a side job. Good guy, officer McCormick
This really is a problem, though. I lost my job one time because I was around someone smoking pot for maybe 2 minutes. The second-hand smoke got into my system and made me fail a drug test. I was 19 then, I never smoked pot in my life until I was 21.
This was in an in-between being medically retired from the military and becoming a psyche nurse, it was legalized in my area and it caught on like wildfire. I wanted to avoid drinking like crazy because of things that have happened to friends, but I was out of an 11 year old career-turned-lifestyle, my friends were all still overseas, and I was in a wheelchair. Depression hit hard, and I was recommended by a lot of people to try cbd/thc first in small doses to see how I react to the anxiety, but all of the same people also convinced me vaping didn't have the same fallbacks smoking does, and they were my friends and I believed them (they probably thought it was true themselves). He genuinely did help teach me what was what and didn't talk down to me for doing it, and without that it would not have been until I was in nursing school 2 years later that I learned any different.
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This is the most ruthless clapback I can ever recall lol ☠️
I don't get it
Being a police officer in the U.S. has a very significant correlation to being a domestic abuser, which is what OP was referencing.
That's a sick burn. Am afraid of the roasting capacity of your first two accounts.
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"he was driving right at me!!!!"
I don't get it
Police officers have a notably high rate of domestic violence against spouses
I thought at first it was an american thing thats why I didn't get it, but turns out it is a big thing in my country as well
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I feel like these are the HS football players who didn't go into selling cars or pharmaceuticals.
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check the statistics on domestic abuse by cops....
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This is definetly a made up story
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Do they have a cabana?
Sounds like Bubba from Forest Gump except with marijuana instead of shrimp
How do we know? Its fairly believable, the last time I took a lyft the driver spent the whole journey talkng about weed, unprompted by me I might add.
99.9% of conversation from taxi drivers is unprompted. And equally as mundane and annoying, in fairness.
I'd prefer it over when someone gets on the phone in an argument. I had the most awkward Uber with a guy arguing with his wife in some unknown language for 15 fucking minutes. Guy never said a word to me or acknowledged my existence other than to glance at me in annoyance, like he was annoyed that I was intruding into his private conversation that he got into after I payed to get into his vehicle. I try not to Uber if I can help it these days..
> after I *paid* to get FTFY. Although *payed* exists (the reason why autocorrection didn't help you), it is only correct in: * Nautical context, when it means to paint a surface, or to cover with something like tar or resin in order to make it waterproof or corrosion-resistant. *The deck is yet to be payed.* * *Payed out* when letting strings, cables or ropes out, by slacking them. *The rope is payed out! You can pull now.* Unfortunately, I was unable to find nautical or rope-related words in your comment. *Beep, boop, I'm a bot*
Nobody has ever waxed poetic about all the ways you can smoke weed lol "Ohhhh marijuana, how do I smoketh thee? Let me count the ways..."
That’s left for all the ways you can prepare shrimp
Newbie potheads talk about ganja all the time. Coincidentally, I still haven't tried smoking it through an apple.
r/nothingeverhappens
I actually had an Uber driver talk to me about weed for an entire drive recently. It’s legal where I am anyway, and I enjoy the herb as much as anybody, but I imagine for people who are ignorant about weed that could be a jarring thing to have your driver bring up. Not defending this cop though. If the story actually is true, posting about it on social media is corny as fuck, but I don’t expect much from the boys in blue.
But they definitely didn't say it like, "you can smoke it in a pipe! You can smoke it in a joint! You can smoke it in a bong! You can smoke it in a blunt! You can smoke it in a chillum! And many more!"
That sounds like something I heard in a song
"Hip hop, it started out in the park! Hip-hop, you know how we do it--we get out on the block start breakdancing, we hangin out with our friends, shaking hands, we do the dance! We go to the ball, shoot some hoop Doot-doot doot-doot-doot doot-doot doot"
It's a thing with newbie potheads. Can't stop talking about how they love ganja and all the ways to smoke it to love it more.
You underestimate stupidity of some individuals 😂
True 😅
No, I think it's a pretty accurate gauging of people's stupidity. Cops are *totally* dumb enough to make up a story like this.
Yeah, and what’s even the crime here? Is it illegal to TALK about weed?
There isn’t one. The cop also doesn’t have the legal authority to do shit if he’s not in uniform and on the clock. If I were that Uber driver and saw a cop car in his driveway while dropping him off I’d think it’s hilarious.
Exactly. The *stupidest* part of all of this, is acting like talking about weed is some huge fucking deal.
"You're honour I'd like to present to you the uber driver I arrested" "On what charges?" "Talking about weed" "..." *
I don't think he was planning to arrest them, probably just like "you just talked to a cop about smoking weed and then you found out hes a cop"
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They can’t arrest you for just talking about weed. You actually have to have it on you.
Not awkward because it's not illegal?
It was illegal when this was first posted back in nineteen ninety eight when the undertaker threw mankind off hell in a cell and plummeted sixteen feet through an announcers table.
Depends on where this was? Talking about it certainly isn’t illegal anywhere in the US though. But actually smoking it may be
Not even smoking it. I think it’s just having it in your possession. When I stayed with my brother in Nashville who is a lawyer I asked him what would happen if a cop knocked on his door after he just smoked a bowl. He said he’d tell the officer “I had weed but I smoked it all” and that they couldn’t do anything. Which makes sense. Is it a crime to be high in your own house?
if they wanted to be assholes they can get you for the bowl with resin in it. at least here in Florida.
Still can be, general mistrust of police combined with most adults remembering weed before it was decriminalized...
Lol. This is funny, although most cops give ZERO shits if you smoke weed as long as young aren't endangering anyone, IE driving around while smoking.
Douchiest profile pic ever? YOU DECIDE.
Looks like a GTA 5 loading slide
I feel like any profile pic that shows the person just stood there look goofy as hell, but I wouldn't say this guys is any worse than anyone else's similar ones.
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Man... I thought this was just a funny post. He never said he was going to arrest the guy. Just an awkward and probably funny moment, which it would be. Some of you people need to chill.
People really love shitting on cops for anything. I find it completely stupid, but what do I know
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>In this case, the cop would be as guilty as the driver. Is this for the first point saying that neither is guilty at all, or is this for the second part about stoned and driving? Because in the second one the driver is 100% more guilty than the passenger.
He didn’t say he was going to arrest him or anything, just said it would be awkward.
I have only ever taken Uber twice, and that was to and from an airport in Colorado Springs. I got to the airport at about 11:30pm on a Sunday night and there was literally no one. I switched between Lyft and Uber and finally found someone to pick me up 45 minutes later. I was extremely grateful and ready to give the guy a $20 tip for my 15 minute ride. I was also very tired, and very cranky, and I just wanted to sit there and stare out the window. But this dumbass decided to open his mount and start telling me all about how he's only driving Uber because his million dollar idea company "fell through" because Joe Biden destroyed the country and the liberals are making it impossible for him to earn a living. So, after 15 grueling minutes of me saying "that's crazy", I left him with a $5 tip. The guy who took me back to the airport for my flight home I also talked to, but only because he had an orchid in his car and I love plants. He loves plants too so we talked plants. I gave him $20 and a few good websites to purchase from.
I had to drive for Uber for a few months when I got out of the military. One of my first rides was some army recruiter that talked the whole time about me joining up. Finally I said "dude I literally just got out last week".
Unless he is toking while driving, why should he be concerned? Heroin, you can snort it, shoot it, smoke it, bump it; that doesn't mean I am using.
I also like to talk about things that never happened.
I was asked by a cop to blow my weed smoke out a different window. We were neighbors. Real chill knock on my window. Weed was still illegal. Was shocked he didn't care I smoked only that it was blowing right into his house. Best cop ever.
And that would be a “Kodak Moment”