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LEAD BY EXAMPLE


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Lead By Example
You’re doin a hell of a job guys.

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  1. angie says:

    first, just being a pair of garden gnomes peps, under cover garden gnomes lol

  2. rach says:

    In their defense, “no sitting on the wall” is a dumb rule. Dumb rules are meant to be broken.

    • FamilySly says:

      Only dumb if this country wasn’t so damn litigious.

      Liability, you know … you can hear it now: “There was no sign posted stating that standing or sitting on the was dangerous, so the fact that I fell off and split my idiot skull open has to be somebody’s fault, but surely not mine!”

      • FamilySly says:

        *wall

        • Isildo says:

          The other day I heard some similar stories from a law student about “banana peel cases”. All of which involved actual banana peels. There were enough headdesk-worthy ones that my skull is still grateful there weren’t any desks handy.

  3. minty says:

    the “do as i say, not as i do” rule…

    speaking from actually witnessing the act…they also speed, park in fire lanes, drive in the carpool lanes (with only one person), roll thru stop signs, talk on their cell phones while driving, run red lights…and this is while just on patrol, not even going to an emergency.

    • Mina says:

      I was taking my driving test and saw one turn on his lights & seiren to go through a red light, then turn it off when he got through it.

      • Sometimes there’s actually a reason for that. There’s a certain amount of leeway as to when lights and siren is appropriate when responding to a call; when it’s a call where they need to get there expeditiously but don’t necessarily need to be going hell-bent-for-leather down the city streets, they will sometimes just use the lights and siren when they need it to get through traffic quickly, cutting it off in between.

        • Not to definitively say that he didn’t just see the light change, say to himself “Oh, not that light! That light takes forever, and I’m on my way back in to end my shift!” and decide to pop the lights on long enough to get through. Hey, they’re only human.

          • FamilySly says:

            Twould be veeeeeery tempting, I must say.

            • Mina says:

              My town finally joined the 21st century and we now have these little things over the light that the emergency vehicles can click a button and the light turns green for them. I want to know how I can get one of those for my car! :)

              • Those sound pretty awesome!

                • justacarolinian says:

                  And highly illegal. A local guy got busted with one, and that he was swiping them off of Paramedic vehicles and selling them. I don’t remember all the details, but the time was serious.

                  • froofrou the Barenaked Lady says:

                    Most of our lights have little flicker things that react to a particular flasher on the emergency vehicle. If you can figure out the frequency of flickering your headlights, you can make the lights change. But it’s difficult to do, and makes you look all suspicious. It’s better to do that sort of thing late at night when there is no one else around :-)

                    • justacarolinian says:

                      They said this was infrared. And that it pulsed a code. They were legit, just stolen. I don’t remember what he did to get caught.

                      • Mina says:

                        Probably didn’t pay attention and used it in front of a cop.

                      • HelOnWheels says:

                        Most of the the MIRTs (Mobile Infrared Transmitters) these days are infrared and coded. Well, in most metropolitan areas they are. Before they coded the transmitters you could get one on the web and hit green lights for miles.

              • dennis4king says:

                Those things were invented in Vancouver, and we don’t even have those here!

                City Hall believes they’re too powerful and fears they’ll be misused.

                • How big is the town you live in? Sounds like some towns in New Mexico that I know of.

                • Mina says:

                  I heard a rumor that there’s some way to electronically track who’s using them and when, but that’s just a rumor. I personally prefer to think of it as “business as usual in Louisiana.” We like our rice and our government workers dirty.

                  How you interpret the word “dirty” is entirely up to you. ;)

                  • froofrou the Barenaked Lady says:

                    I’m just glad it’s a little less dirty than it was before, lol. At least the dead aren’t voting quite as often as they used to. Damn above ground mausoleums. Makes it too easy for the undead to rise and vote.

                    • Mina says:

                      We don’t have too many mausoleums where I live, but I think somehow they manage to vote in spite of actually being 6 feet under (and usually encased in cement to prevent them from “revisiting” after the first decent rain storm. Don’t laugh, it really does happen… *shudders*).

                      • froofrou the Barenaked Lady says:

                        Oh I know. It’s gross, too. I’m still not sure why whoever populated Louisiana decided that building on the half of the state that’s below sea level was a good idea. It’s right up there with building Houston on a swamp.

                        • viking gal says:

                          I gather than a goodly part of what is below sea level in Louisiana wasn’t, originally. All of the levees on the Mississippi ended up decreasing the ground water, which caused the land to subside… Every action has an unexpected reaction for that sort of engineering!

                        • froofrou the Barenaked Lady says:

                          That doesn’t excuse New Orleans. Or Shreveport, but that’s another gripe ;-)

                        • Mina says:

                          NO was built there b/c of it’s strategic location on the Mississippi. Something about that bend in the river making it easy to defend. IDK, that’s about the point where I feel asleep in LA Hist.

                    • justacarolinian says:

                      Micheal Jackson votes?

      • yep says:

        One flashed his lights and siren at me once just to get my butt out of the crosswalk so he could turn left a full 2 seconds sooner.

        • arimareiji says:

          The other day, I saw two police cars running lights and sirens go through a few lights behind and then ahead of me. A couple of minutes later when I passed by the city hall / police dept, I saw them at the parking gate for the garage, with the occupants apparently talking about what they would do now that their shift was over.

  4. So, would the captioner like to volunteer to spend a very long day working in the hot sun wearing heavy boots and loaded down with a pistol, handcuffs, etc., probably wearing ballistic vests, and then NOT sit on the readily available wall?
    *crickets*

    • fab says:

      Ok, but there are just hundreds other places to sit.

    • Charlie Foxtrot (Floyd Extrodinaire) says:

      Hey, why shouldn’t they sit on the wall? I can just see a cop coming back to work after falling off a wall he was sitting on and telling all his fellow cops, “I’m gonna sue that guy for putting that wall where I could sit on it and fall off.”

      • Yes, he wouldn’t be the butt of every joke for the next, oh, forever or anything! He’s going to catch enough crap for being dumb/clumsy enough to hurt himself falling off the wall. I can guaran-damn-tee you somebody’d nickname him “Humpty-dumpty” after that.

        • Charlie Foxtrot (Floyd Extrodinaire) says:

          especially with his partner as a witness.

        • FamilySly says:

          Hey, one well placed lawsuit is all it takes and *poof* YOU’RE A WINNER! Yes, you, sir, never have to work again! Thanks to this wonderful court system we have, your own stupidity and clumsiness is it’s own reward!

          He wouldn’t have to endure the painful humiliation of being called “Humpty-Dumpty” for very long. A couple of million would make that pretty easy to take.

          • You wouldn’t get a million dollars for falling off a wall. You’re unlikely to get much of anything for falling off a wall anyway, unless it’s somehow defective in a way that’s not immediately apparent.

            • FamilySly says:

              Yes yes, I’m sure you’re right. I just have a special kind of angst for frivolous lawsuits and tort reform. Plus I need a nap … and a cookie … and a beer …

              • If it makes you feel any better, that crap that goes around in emails about ridiculous damage awards is generally either completely fabricated or so twisted as to obscure the true reason behind the verdict.

                And please don’t get me started on that poor woman with the coffee. When a major corporation has had numerous complaints and notice for years that their coffee is being served at a temperature that can cause serious injury, and they finally put a sympathetic old lady in the hospital getting skin grafts for third degree burns, a jury figured a sizable punitive award was going to be the ONLY way to get through to them. It did result in their finally lowering the coffee serving temperatures to normal levels, so in a way we all benefit. (And the amount they always publicize wasn’t actually the final damage award, anyway, it was reduced to less than 1/2 million by the judge — the original $2.7 million award represented about two days worth of coffee sales for McDonalds.)

                • FamilySly says:

                  Oh I know the difference between urban legend and legitimate litigation. And I’m not thinking solely of man vs. corporate monster either (in most cases) when I mention tort; I’m just irritated by the general misuse of the justice system for people to either avoid having to hold down a job or to air out petty grievances. You know, “My neighbor painted his house bright pink and now I get headaches all the time from looking at it ::whine:: … I want compensation!” Blech …

                  • dissimilitude says:

                    Yeah, and I was thinking on the drive home that it is possible (hell, it happens every day) to get money out of a totally frivolous claim; but that’s generally via settlement for what’s termed “nuisance damages”; in other words, “take some money and go away, because it would cost more to go to trial.” Unfortunately, I don’t think there’s much that tort reform can really DO about that aspect.

        • arimareiji says:

          Meh. “Humpty-dumpty” still beats the hell out of “The Blown Ranger,” i.e. that New Jersey cop over on FAILblog.

      • keithybabes says:

        Maybe the wall was built by Fat Tony and is not, like, real reinforced concrete… I mean, if it WERE real reinforced concrete it should be able to take the weight of two people sitting on it. But you can see a couple of hairline cracks. The poster has inadvertently uncovered a sinister web of town hall corruption in, er, wherever that is.. and furthermore, if the sign were just an attempt to prevent citizens from doing dumbass things. the steel column should have a sign saying ‘ do not bite or smack your head on this column’ and the bollard behind should have a sign saying, well, I’ll leave that to your imagination…..

  5. No1askedme says:

    Wow, I haven’t seen this picture with almost the exact same comment three times before. Oh, wait…I have, yawn.

  6. Rando the Evil Villain says:

    It’s a fvcking wall. And I don’t see anything saying not sitting on it is a law or city ordinance or something. It’s just a sign saying not to do it. Big deal. I’m so sick of the preachy LOLs, and they’re really having to stretch for them lately too. Where’s the good stuff??

  7. Giant_Rubber_Duck_of_Doom says:

    Am I the only person who really wants this as a poster?

  8. MaMaQ of Philadelphia says:

    Well DUH…

    White guys with Gov Jobs don’t need to follow Rules or Laws. Yeesh.

  9. MaMaQ of Philadelphia says:

    um… Ew.

    Honey, that ain’t cool. You pop a crackah cop in MY hood and it won’t jus be the crackah cops who hunt you down. It’d be a cop wit corn-rows that’d slap his partner’s cuffs on yo ass…
    – an I’d be ri’ there cheerin him on, Honey.

    Besides, these gents must surely be ‘Rental – Cops’… who are infamous for their illiteracy.

  10. Amanda says:

    Holy crap, that’s Riverfront Park in Spokane, WA! Yay for Spokane P.D.?

  11. rich says:

    pretty sure this one was done already, and it said something similar.

  12. Eustace says:

    This was posted before.
    FAIL

  13. rach says:

    *sigh* Don’t these idiots ever go away?

  14. the_original_shortright says:

    nope. we embrace “ordinal post rule” followers here at PK.

    don’t like it? don’t come back… no big loss.

  15. gniknihtdrawkcab says:

    Can I come back and still not like it, or is that my only option?

  16. Charlie Foxtrot (Floyd Extrodinaire) says:

    only if you cite why you don’t like it and why you came back.

  17. keithybabes says:

    I’ve got 100,000 words on the history of the concrete roofing tile, ready for the time I am quick enough to catch a ‘first’ tw@t. Just wondering if there’s a mutually agreed size limit on the asswiping tediosity of the second post. Wouldn’t want to overdo it, as a newbie..

  18. Rando the Evil Villain says:

    The above is on the high end of acceptable. Go too much longer, and you end up being more annoying than the “first” guy.

  19. Charlie Foxtrot (Floyd Extrodinaire) says:

    not really, but I’m a fan of the one word response — dumbass.

  20. I like to limit it to one reasonably long paragraph at most.

  21. keithybabes says:

    Damn. *stops typing*


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