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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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