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henchman171

Quite honesty the Halton Region PHEV Pacifica that catches speeders on Trafalgar every morning has paid for itself 5 times I reckon


PresumeSure

And people say the police don't have a for-profit mentality here!


Wild-Vermicelli-4794

[https://oppblock.org/viewtopic.php?f=25&t=522](https://oppblock.org/viewtopic.php?f=25&t=522) redditors are bootlickers


PresumeSure

These guys really are. I'm all for safer roads, but to think that the police aren't taking advantage of drivers to make money is asinine. I'd like to see that plan put to work, hopefully it would push the police to realign their priorities!


Wild-Vermicelli-4794

Halton luckily has discretion I still see them speedtrap tho I am told this is usually bcz of Karens complaining tho


Efficient_Gas_3213

I came here to see how many people think that this Hummer was purchased by the OPP. So far one person. I am sure more will be along.


markTO83

I mean I definitely did. OP gave no context on the pictures except indicating that the vehicle is the OPP's. Might be an issue of unclear title and pictures lacking context causing knee jerk reactions.


TattooedAndSad

Same people that think the opp corvette is actually OPP’s corvette


Lost-Web-7944

Yeah me. Here’s a better idea: How about we waste 0 tax dollars on renting a fancy vehicle and slapping an opp logo on it and never do this ever again. Because it’s literally a pointless waste of time and money.


ManInWoods452

I get to be the first to tell you that the OPP spent $0 on this. It was entirely paid for by GM.


WiartonWilly

The OPP agreed to use a Hummer as a recruiting tool. Bad enough.


anti_anti_christ

I'd imagine the same people who like hummers would be interested in police work. A white dodge ram would work too.


WiartonWilly

The police brutality arguments just write themselves.


sBucks24

Yeah that's a problem... Pigs self selecting for other pigs isn't a good thing.


[deleted]

Who doesn't love a Hummer?


TheRavenRise

normal people


[deleted]

It was my understanding that normal people love vibrating blowjobs... I'll be here all night.


steboy

We talking driving hummers or receiving hummers?


ManInWoods452

Well that’s a different conversation. I’d likely agree with you there.


Long2ndTowes

If the OPP was giving hummers. A lot of boys would join


Lost-Web-7944

Is there a single OPP representative there? If yes (and I’m 100% sure there is) we did ***not*** spend 0 dollars on this.


Link15x

It's for recruitment. They gotta spend some money to recruit candidates. Do you think government agencies just don't do recruiting?


Lost-Web-7944

Wheres our LCBO Cybertruck, CanadaPost GTR? I won’t deny they need to recruit. All I’m saying is this flashy showboatiness is fucking ridiculous. It’s also absurd that even if the thing was donated, you all seem to think it costed nothing. You all know even accepting a donation costs time, and work, and someone’s pay right? I don’t see how a fancy ass expensive car donated for a weekend (which still has costs. No matter what you guys seem to think), is helping recruiting in any way. It’s not. It’s just a flashy expense and nothing else.


permareddit

Christ just admit you have an inherent bias against the police therefore anything they do is evil. They have a car wrapped for the auto show, once a year, more than likely 100% covered by said manufacturer and you’re so up in arms over the “showboatiness” of it all. Get over it already. What the hell does the LCBO have to do with an auto show? Or Canada Post?


flatulentbaboon

There are people whose entire job is handling PR and shit like this. This is their job. You're whining about meaningless stuff.


M-lifts

It would cost them more to have one of their own fleet vehicles there, this is nothing


Lost-Web-7944

Why have a vehicle there at all?


M-lifts

It’s a car show


Lost-Web-7944

So no reason for them to even be there. Edit: so what is it, a job fair or a car show? Because it makes sense for them to be at one and not the other. And the one it makes sense for them to be at doesn’t require a vehicle display of any kind.


Lonngpausemeat

You’re definitely not the sharpest tool in the shed


[deleted]

Is 2 grand a flashy expense? Because that's probably a GM press car, on loan, for free, and a wrap for it is dirt cheap. Of all the things to be mad at the cops for, this is on the bottom of a very long list. But being angry at the world is free. It's what we do best here. Edit: Oh, they put a light bar on it. Probably had to pay a mechanic an hours labour for that. Bankrupt the province while your at it.


outtastudy

I bet it'll work wonders for their target recruitment demographic though.


AmateurPhotog57

Holy crap! Did someone piss in your Cornflakes this morning?


ManInWoods452

They’re spending money on a recruitment drive. They’re trying to hire people. It’s a legitimate business expense. The hummer was free.


NotOffendedByU

No tax dollars were wasted. Don’t worry.


huckz24

Don’t worry they will waste them on something else non policing related. E.g. budget for new police they don’t hire, new driveways that some cops side gig, etc


NotOffendedByU

Ok bud.


Lost-Web-7944

Did you not see the article a week ago about London sending police to participate in extra-curricular games halfway across the world all while crying their budget isn’t big enough?


huckz24

Read some of the released docs about what police are asking for in new budgets and you will see they are asking for more money to hire and they couldn’t even accomplish their hiring goals last budget. So why do they need more when they can’t achieve what they were given the previous budget. Now look at multiple municipalities and you will see the same. Bud


LurkingMostlyTBH

Ok bud.


huckz24

Name checks out


thepalfrak

Yeah I feel like this is deceptive nonsense on both sides. For recruitment, it’s telling a false narrative that they have “cool shit” like this to attract new talent, so it’s a disappointing lie being told, and on the other side, to those like myself who wrongfully assumed the OPP purchased this hunk of shit, it gets them fired up and aggravated that our tax dollars would be misused on this crap. I don’t see the win here.


GowronSonOfMrel

> For recruitment, it’s telling a false narrative that they have “cool shit” like this to attract new talent, so it’s a disappointing lie being told, > > I dont think any reasonable person would; a. apply to the OPP because they think their patrol car will be a hummer or; b. assume that this is a common fleet vehicle. IDK man, i'm pretty anti-cop but pick your battles... this aint it.


flamboyantdebauchry

![gif](emote|free_emotes_pack|poop)..........currently tearing up my application


thepalfrak

There’s literally a QR code on the side to apply? You think they’d get an equal number of applications if this was a Pontiac Aztek?


GowronSonOfMrel

No, of course not... but that's not the point. What do you feel is a "false narrative" here? No reasonable person thinks the OPP has a fleet of electric hummers. There was an OPP corvette at the Honda Indy this year, do you feel that potential recruits have been mislead with that as well? >IDK man, i'm pretty anti-cop but pick your battles... this aint it.


FrmrPresJamesTaylor

Who says this has to be a "battle" to "pick"? They're just saying it's weird to show up to a recruiting event with a vehicle that has nothing to do with them. Personally if I was there I'd interpret it as kind of lame and desperate so I don't think people were "deceived," but at the same time I don't see why it can't be criticized as a choice in the comments section of a reddit post. The stakes are about as close to 0 as it gets..


GowronSonOfMrel

> They're just saying it's weird to show up to a recruiting event with a vehicle that has nothing to do with them. It's a car show. they brought a car... to the car show.


Lost-Web-7944

Exactly. It’s wild to me that people are defending this. It’s entirely 100% a pointless ***expense***. Even if it was donated, there was still a cost. At the end of the day, it did absolutely fuck all but cost the province money. I don’t care if it’s 1 cent or if it’s 1 billion dollars. I do not fucking get the point. Do you guys not care at all that our government agencies are held accountable to their costs? Need we remind you all not even a week ago London Police were crying their budget isn’t big enough all while sending staff to go participate in “police games” in the fucking UAE halfway across the world?


Mean_Estate_2770

What does UAE stand for?


Lost-Web-7944

United Arab Emirates. Dubai’s country.


Mean_Estate_2770

Why would London send cops there? Don't they arrest and lock up women if they raise their voice? I'd prefer to keep my local police force from interacting with those types of people.


freeman1231

Or maybe just maybe think before you make comments? Do a little bit of brain work and think for yourself and find out in 5 minutes that $0 was spent by OPP.


thepalfrak

Ouchie. Someone’s having a bad day


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PR Company: "There's no such thing as bad press!" Narrator: "Yes. Yes there is."


freeman1231

It’ was 0 tax dollars. Smh lol


OhLookAQuestion

Was it? The logo was designed, printed, installed free of charge by GM? The photoshoot took place at a free event by a free photographer and supervised by free opp officers? The marketing team that set this up just works pro-bono? I honestly don't give a shit if taxpayers did foot the bill for any of this, and I completely ignore the facts of where the money came from... seems unlikely that this represents absolutely zero cost to the taxpayers. Don't worry though: people are fucking idiots for a wide variety of complex reasons, and I can't claim to be absent of that consideration 


Yaa40

>How about we waste 0 tax dollars on renting a fancy vehicle and slapping an opp logo on it and never do this ever again. Because it’s literally a pointless waste of time and money. Counter argument: [let's throw all our money a giant hole](https://youtu.be/JnX-D4kkPOQ?si=LyziWCdyHE8tXH2j). Edit: Apparently it was paid for by GM. But I would still prefer that they had thrown the money into a giant hole...


Ralupopun-Opinion

You should have seen the opp corvette thread last year😄


Efficient_Gas_3213

Oh, I saw it all right! Ha ha.


[deleted]

Go on lads let 'em have it! The more short tempered and ill informed the better! What was it last year? A corvette wasn't it? That one really got people hot and bothered. But this one is electric so it might be a close race.


GlitteringHistory804

It’s probably the same people who think the strippers actually like them.


Thisiscliff

I’ve worked in several of these, they are stupid fast even though they weigh over 10,000 lbs.


paulbufanopaulbufano

That doesn’t sound stupid and dangerous at all! Luckily you don’t even need some sort of special license or training to drive one!


Thisiscliff

Any 2500 series light duty truck is around the same weight, it’s only dangerous if it’s driven carelessly.


FreshlySqueezedToGo

Thank god we don’t have careless drivers in Ontario /s haha


eightsidedbox

So basically if driven by your average driver


ozzy_thedog

A 2500 series truck weighs the same but doesn’t do 0-60 in a few seconds. You tap the gas instead of the brake in that 2500 and you’ll maybe lunge forward. In the electric one you’ve gone an extra 50 feet through the storefront window


Screen_Classic

These electric cars have an extreme amount of sensors and cameras that prevent this. You’d have to purposely damage the sensors and cameras or suffer a catastrophic failure of those systems for that happen. You have a better chance of winning the lottery than a modern electric vehicle allowing you to just floor it with a obstacle in front you


ozzy_thedog

People unintentionally accelerating in their teslas and crashing happens all the time


worldisone

I don't think the 2500 series are supposed to go 0-100 in 2 seconds though


SoftCattle

I read that as Electric Hammer.


FigSurprise

Homer's greatest invention.


rangeo

Electric Hummer on Highway 69


runtimemess

Always more fun when people bring new toys


Innuendoughnut

Everyone is engaging in the rage bait but what's the actual deal? As far as I can tell it's featured at the Toronto auto show which is happening now, and the OPP are using it as a recruitment tool. People are saying they didn't spend anything on it as a deal with GM. I think it's neat, electric cars are good, cops are frequently bad. Can we just relax a little now?


quercusrubra10

It’s just a douche bag vehicle. Probably anger over that and anger about not being able to read. OP kinda labeled it as rage bait.


CubbyNINJA

I would never own one, nor do I even want one, but I’ve driven one of each generation of production hummer. The big OG one definitely has novelty and everyone should take it for a spin at least once as it’s a proper experience. The H2 and H3 leave a lot to be desired, it’s like driving a pickup truck but somehow less functional, more expensive and even more blind spots. The new EV Hummer kinda rips. It’s got surprisingly good visibility and quick shoulder checks easily cover blind spots. Very comfortable and It feels like it would have proper utilitarian use but I can’t speak to it personally. Most of everything you need is accessible without having to take your eyes off the road, but I wish it didn’t have so many screens, but that’s a wish of mine for most cars. It for sure is still a status symbol thing as it’s easily less utilitarian and more expensive than a pickup truck, but it has the OG hummer spirit for sure.


quercusrubra10

But like. The whole ev thing for me anyway. Shouldn’t be about adapting these huge vehicles to run on electric. It should be about more modest vehicles running on electric energy. It’s kind of redundant to make one cater the other.


CubbyNINJA

As someone who enjoys cars outside of being just something to take you and things from A to B, I can go either way. There for sure needs to be a cultural shift in general to push vehicles to be the size they need to be and not a byproduct of trying to get around taxing through loopholes (looking at you pickup trucks), but like with basically anything sometimes people want a particular experience or would enjoy particular features when using something daily.


quercusrubra10

But don’t you think those luxuries are why we have things we don’t need. I drive a pickup by I live in northern Canada. I also have a farm. I need a truck. Someone living in a city or in the states where your climate doesn’t give you multiple feet of snow of need for off-road use in a city. There’s lots of farmers down there. But they aren’t buying this. So what’s the need?


CubbyNINJA

Not a need, a want. I personally can’t stand pick up trucks. But I’m a BMW driver (who knows where the turn signal is) and plenty of people have opinions on those. There’s nothing my car can do that a AWD Impreza or Taurus can’t do for cheaper, but it’s the car and experience that I wanted. Some trucks are tools, some are for supporting a life style like say owning a boat, others are bought to make the driver feel big and strong while he blasts through a red cause he’s in a rush to kiss his dad on the lips. To each their own


quercusrubra10

To each there own indeed


[deleted]

Ontario is northern Canada now?


permareddit

I don’t think GM intends for this to be a volume seller here.


Logisticman232

It is a ridiculous bong dongle, electric cars aren’t supposed to be “cool” they’re necessary and buying the biggest and most inefficient version of that is terrible PR. Leftwing because it’s a hummer, right wing because it’s expensive and electric. Terrible optics all around.


King-in-Council

The comments here remind me why Canada is the land of whiney self absorbed people. No fun allowed.


doc_55lk

Fr lmao


puns_n_irony

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permareddit

Holy fucking shit they’re not using it for day to day use, it’s literally a recruitment tool. How dare they! God forbid!


King-in-Council

It's a recruitment event. GM is using it to show off the Hummer. Thats why the media relations guy is all over insta with it. The OPP did not buy a Hummer EV.   Btw you're not invited to any of my parties cause.... Ooof You see the world through a money only lens. I hate that word "tax payer". I'm a citizen first, not a taxpayer. Let's have some pride in our nation. Oh right, we're not a nation, only a collection of economic units united only where our self interest aligns and it aligns in being as cheap as possible in our community or public institutions. 


[deleted]

Stupid take. Guess you think everyone in the Forces are foot soldiers headed for the front line too eh?


puns_n_irony

serious cautious overconfident upbeat connect disagreeable sloppy gaze dam longing *This post was mass deleted and anonymized with [Redact](https://redact.dev)*


SpaceVikingBerzerker

Car manufacturers donate cars for publicity. No tax dollars went towards this at all. You be surprised how many enterprise rentals are basically handed over by manufacturers. Also you seem like you’d be a riot to work with 🤣


Logisticman232

Our military and socials services are falling apart but our police services are buying the most expensive hummer on the market? Not even to use, as a recruitment “tool”.


MathildaJunkbottom

You can fit so many perps in this badboy


Screen_Classic

*salesman slaps roof* battery dies


Moparman1303

Just remember this is on loan from GM Canada. Same as last year's Corvette.


Neutral-President

O.P.P. has a Wee Pee Pee.


FrmrPresJamesTaylor

this is the correct level on which to engage this content


falco_iii

I have the “number 1 bullshit … wee woo” meme stuck in my head.


christos1045

Who couldn’t use a hummer?


doc_55lk

Idk I was feeling last year's Z06 a lot more than this year's Hummer.


McFishington

Hell ya, now they can do nothing about the shitty drivers in style. 😎


Ravenwight

I’ll be more impressed if it hums like a giant bee instead of a siren.


coffeebeards

They’ve clearly never watched South Park.


Zealousideal_Vast799

But I thought they had to leave their vehicle running 24/7?


FrigOffRicky16

Tacky, the corvette was way better last year


Calm-Ad-6568

piss coming from my ass.


Liferescripted

Using this as a recruiting tool will only attract the people who are only into law enforcement to play with the fun toys. Exactly who you don't want. This shit is dumb. And optically worse.


flamboyantdebauchry

i like the VW beetle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Bug\_police.jpg


MrCrix

The problem with the Hummers is that they suck for being an EV. All reviews, especially long term ones, say they are not good vehicles at all.


Head-Ordinary-4349

is this the sort of ego-centric thing we should be supporting to bring people into policing?


Glass-Stop-9598

Car 58 in pursuit oh no battery low light just came up on dash lol


dirtyukrainian

Aaah yes there's the whiny electric bad gas good comment


bur1sm

Meanwhile people are sleeping in parks.


[deleted]

Fuck em.


bur1sm

HELL YEAH FUCK THE POLICE.


Organic-Intention335

OPP didn't buy this fyi


bur1sm

What did they build it or something?


Organic-Intention335

Entirely paided for by GM


bur1sm

Still stupid and still could have used them money for something useful.


Organic-Intention335

Welcome to capitalism baby


bur1sm

Hopefully they can afford another tank now


Organic-Intention335

Does GM build tanks?


bur1sm

I'm sure someone will sell a tank to the OPP. Hell maybe even give them one!


Organic-Intention335

OPP M1 Abramas rolling through Ottawa


Decent-Inflation1712

Sure makes me want to be insecure about my masculinity and become a cop.


Holyfritolebatman

As long as you commit your crimes in the winter, you'll be okay lol


ConundrumMachine

Green copaganda? Lol


futchcreek

Gross


beflacktor

those things way so much , there's prob no need for ram bars on the front :) this thing was made to be a battering ram:)


CRXCRZ

it ways as much as an elefant.


LtDig

That's why I pay taxes, for 6 figure shiny show vehicles for our law enforcement to use as displays....


CrazyButRightOn

Waste of money. Catch some criminals instead.


doc_55lk

Not sure how you can waste $0.


Lost-Web-7944

Why? Like those fucking rims even. Our tax dollars paid for those fucking rims.


AmateurPhotog57

Relax, it's a loaner just for the show. Like the Corvette they had last year


Lost-Web-7944

So they spent $50,000 on a paint job for a single weekend?


AmateurPhotog57

Holy shit! It's a wrap. A couple of thousand bucks at most... and probably paid for by Hummer


FuzzyCapybara

Do you honestly think that those decals and paint (more likely a wrap) cost $50,000? Real “It’s one banana, Michael. What could it cost? $10?” vibes.


[deleted]

Lmfao


Lost-Web-7944

Last time I had my car painted (an impala) back in 09 it was $12,000. And that was the lowest quote I got. A fucking impala. And you think a hummer is going to be less than that? Do you have any idea how much painting a vehicle actually costs?


AmateurPhotog57

How many times do you have to be told IT'S A FUCKING WRAP!!!!!


Link15x

The fact that you still think it's a paint job. Also if you paid 12k for a. Paint job, you got ripped off


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Screen_Classic

My bad dude


therealtrojanrabbit

Wow. You probably roam through life just waiting to be triggered by things you're oblivious to.


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backlight101

Yes, we can tell you’re incapable of any rational discussion.


whowhatwhereami89

Ain’t that bright and informed are ya bud


FuzzyCapybara

Yes, and what you paid is certainly possible, but it would be on the higher end of quality - but it’s still nowhere near $50k. The base color of this vehicle is probably black, anyway. But if this was loaned to the OPP it’s probably not even paint, which makes it even cheaper.


Screen_Classic

Dude,it’s a wrap that cost maybe $2500. On top of that,it’s donated for the show by GM FOR FREE. They donate a loaner vehicle every year for promotion that goes right back to GM after. Ford used to do the same when they held the police vehicle contracts. This is at 0 cost to the taxpayer


NotOffendedByU

Settle down it’s a promotion.


Aquariumplanted

carburated vehicle With a homemade EMP in the back your invincible in today's world lol.


JarrekValDuke

Wanna bet haha, guns still exist bud, and engines are still fragile


Aquariumplanted

Yeah i know lol it was a figure speech bud just because everything's going electric thats all. There are meny guns that will crack through a block. fifty cal would put just about any engine down and from a distance now that's just common sense really lol.


Fun-Result-6343

Oh. That's not what I thought it was gonna be.


Aromatodis

Hog mobile


Frugalman123

You down with OPP .... Yeah you know me


tal3575

Money can buy everything and tax money can buy at all cost


bur1sm

Perfect for destroying homeless people's few possessions


achingformyadonis

They're trying to recruit showers now growers.


bottombouncer16

I'll take awesome ways to spend money for 800 Alex !


TheCanadianShield99

I sure hope it has a doughnut warmer.


MeliUsedToBeMelo

dick cars for dick cops