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Re: Big Banana Car

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Post by BoorishBears »

cj wrote: post #62
BoorishBears wrote: post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If being a positive presence in the community isn't enough incentive to be that, you don't deserve to be police. And if that sounds hackneyed and like a ridiculous standard, you're damn right it is: we let them have outsized influence in our existence as otherwise free people. Their standard has to be a double standard.

There's a lot of anger towards police coming through in your comments. It's just a banana car.

Yeah I'm a Black immigrant with a funny name, I have a lot of anger about what we tolerate of police vs what we should.

Are you under the impression all cops are known for is harassing banana cars?

Re: Big Banana Car

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Post by [deleted] »

BoorishBears wrote: post #71
cj wrote: post #62

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There's a lot of anger towards police coming through in your comments. It's just a banana car.

Yeah I'm a Black immigrant with a funny name, I have a lot of anger about what we tolerate of police vs what we should. Are you under the impression all cops are known for is harassing banana cars?

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Re: Big Banana Car

#75

Post by ssl-3 »

cj wrote: post #55
BoorishBears wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No, they can't have fun this way. If you mop floors and you have fun by twirling your broom and humming a tune, you're not affecting anyone. If we give you a gun and the right to shoot people in the head and go home to sleep in your own bed, then we can ask you to lock in a little more than that and not pull over people because it's funny.

Such a negative attitude is incredibly counterproductive. You want police to have a positive presence in the community. Innocent engagement with a banana car helps with that, doesn't hurt.

That sounds nice.

Over here in reality, when a man with a badge and a gun pulls people over for a bit of fun: Refusing to play along with whatever game it is that they have in mind is a criminal offense.

Re: Big Banana Car

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Post by dredmorbius »

dcrazy wrote: post #4

Well this headline is certainly a crash blossom: https://www.merriam-webster.com/wordplay/crash-blossom-words...

I'm presuming the original headline was some variant of "Giant Banana Pulled Over in Montana: Driver Says Cops Have Stopped Him 100s Of Times" (originally submitted URL, since changed).

Re: Big Banana Car

#77

Post by dredmorbius »

doubled112 wrote: post #41
orbital-decay wrote: post #35

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As someone who rides bikes most of the time, the right question is how you handle it.

This. I’ve ridden a bike year round in southwestern Ontario. In general, I’m fairly waterproof. -30C was pretty cold, especially moving, but rare enough I could dress for it and keep my body parts. Snowstorms are always fun. Free physics lessons included. How much traction can you get? Whoops, I’m laying on the ground. Thunderstorms and hail you might want to avoid.

What do you do for your hands and feet especially, and if you wear glasses, the inevitable frosting of them. Heck, if you don't wear glasses, what do you do for windburn?

I've biked as low as about -15C, though it's much more comfortable keeping it above -10 -- -5 or so.

Re: Big Banana Car

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Post by allenrb »

tremon wrote: post #42
allenrb wrote: post #9

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While absolutely and sadly true, something tells me that rogue banana drivers are not the ones most likely to be killed in a traffic stop. Besides, his family would surely win the resulting case… on a peel.

> rogue banana drivers are not the ones most likely to be killed in a traffic stop ...until the bananas go brown, of course.

You are my comedy hero, tremon. This is the joke I was looking for and failed to find.

Re: Big Banana Car

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Post by AngryData »

cj wrote: post #55
BoorishBears wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No, they can't have fun this way. If you mop floors and you have fun by twirling your broom and humming a tune, you're not affecting anyone. If we give you a gun and the right to shoot people in the head and go home to sleep in your own bed, then we can ask you to lock in a little more than that and not pull over people because it's funny.

Such a negative attitude is incredibly counterproductive. You want police to have a positive presence in the community. Innocent engagement with a banana car helps with that, doesn't hurt.

If cops want to be a positive presence in the community then they shouldn't regularly extort and abuse citizens and protect their violent and murderous coworkers.

Re: Big Banana Car

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Post by AngryData »

echoangle wrote: post #2

I would probably pull him over too but arguably he should be pulled over less than normal, right? The risk that he’s some criminal is probably pretty low since not a lot of criminals would chose a car like that to travel. On the other hand it probably has an increased likelihood to have technical problems that make it reasonable to pull it over though.

What possible technical problem would a cop be qualified to not only recognize and diagnose, but also have any useful input on?

Cops shouldn't be pulling over anybody without either direct evidence of a potential crime or a warrant.

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