Other Signs Your Local Police Department Has Gone Nuts
Runner Up submissions -- FLOPS
- "Officer Binks says meesa think yoosa bin berry bad!"
(Jim Rosenberg, Greensboro, NC)
- Citing someone for mixing a Prada bag with an Armani winter coat seems a bit much.
(Steve Hurd, Oakland, CA)
- Fulfill their quota for traffic violation citations in one monthly visit to the bumper cars.
(Daniel Weckerly, Limerick, PA)
- Full lights 'n' siren escorts for all customers of the White Castle drive-thru.
(David Hyatt, New York, NY)
- Instead of nightsticks, they beat suspects with night stands.
(George T. MacMillan, Shillington, PA)
- New mascot: Misty McGruff, the Crime Slut
(Jeffrey Anbinder, New York, NY)
- Official new department motto: "To serve and protect folks we see frequently on Sundays, if you catch our drift."
(Larry Hollister, Concord, CA)
- Overnight, familiar road signs have disappeared and been replaced with green octagonal signs that say "Go."
(Yoram Puius, Bronx, NY)
- Roadside tests for alcohol intoxication now require you to breathe onto a photograph of Larry Hagman, "Just to see if he smiles."
(Dave Juurlink, Toronto, Canada)
- They direct traffic dressed as Marcel Marceau. God help you if you walk against the wind incorrectly.
(Chuck Smith, Woodbridge, VA)
- They replace "Protect and Serve" on the squad car door with "Tee Many Martoonis."
(Paul Schindler, Orinda, CA)
- Vice cops now insist on being paid in goats.
(Chris Urich, Herkimer, NY)
- Your boyfriend was just arrested for "Grand Theft Booty."
(Peter Rogers, Austin, TX)
- Runner Up list name
(Dave Wesley, Pleasant Hill, CA)
Other Signs Your Local Police Department Has Gone Nuts
Honorable Mention submissions -- Starsky and Sucks
- After confiscating marijuana, they actually destroy it.
(Kim Moser, New York, NY)
- Bought Enron at $80. Yesterday.
(Bob Van Voris, New York, NY)
- Every Friday is Confiscated Bong Giveaway Day.
(Whit Watson, West Hartford, CT)
- Happily accept Monopoly "Get Out of Jail Free" cards in lieu of bail money.
(Doug Finney, Houston, TX)
- Has every member of the force investigating the criminal lack of sense in the movie "I Am Sam."
(David Kass, Queens, NY)
- Have given up coffee in favor of percolating their own urine.
(Doug Finney, Houston, TX)
- If they catch you with a radar detector, they make you eat it.
(Bill Muse, Seattle, WA)
- If you're arrested on your birthday, the entire precinct gathers around to serenade you with one of those annoying clapping birthday songs.
(Dave Henry, Slidell, LA)
- Miranda rights read with the phrase "in bed" after each sentence.
(George T. MacMillan, Shillington, PA)
- New profiling technique: Pull over chicks suspected of being so hot it's illegal!
(Chris Urich, Herkimer, NY)
- New program in the schools: DARE To Keep Kids Off My Damn Lawn or I'll Blow Their Little Heads Off
(Andrea Crain, Madison, WI)
- No police float in this year's Satan Days parade.
(Bob Van Voris, New York, NY)
- Normal uniforms are brown bowler hats and thick nerd glasses. But when a 911 call comes in, they put on the blue bodysuit with the red cape and red underpants on top.
(Andrea Crain, Madison, WI)
- Officers wear bullet-proof vests made from the foil wrapped around Wrigley's chewing gum.
(Peter Bauer, Rochester, NY)
- Out: Kevlar vests. In: tin-foil hats.
(Bob Van Voris, New York, NY)
- Thanks to the unholy influence on our children of that godless sorceress Mary Poppins, carrying an umbrella gets you a one-way ticket to Rodney Kingville.
(Larry Hollister, Concord, CA)
- The department avoids charges of racial profiling by making only mathematical arrests: every hundredth random person gets popped.
(Mark Weiss, Austin, TX)
- They have begun using bows and arrows instead of firearms, to give criminals "a sporting chance."
(Sandra Hull, Arlington, VA)
- They keep trying to send their prisoners to Guantanamo.
(David Kass, Queens, NY)
- They've declared the Hamburglar to be Public Enemy #1.
(David Kass, Queens, NY)
(Greg Preece, Toronto, Canada)
- Two words: tofu doughnuts
(Lisa Oliver, London, England)
- Honorable Mention list name
(Tristan Fabriani, Passaic, NJ)
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