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[–] Montagge@lemmy.zip 94 points 1 month ago

Participants will have to sign a liability waiver

Nah. I'm good

[–] Nougat@fedia.io 62 points 1 month ago

Yeah! I want to run through a field at night pursued by armed police! That sounds like fun!

[–] Snapz@lemmy.world 47 points 1 month ago (1 children)

"trick or STOP RESISTING!!!!"

[–] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago

“Okay!” <paints their cruiser pink with a fake gold shield, pig snout, slaps on a curly-cued pool noodle, a cop hat>

You wanted us to trick you right?

[–] Sundial@lemm.ee 32 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Cops play find the black kid all the time though. Doesn't usually end well for the black kid, but still.

[–] nokturne213@sopuli.xyz 40 points 1 month ago

“I call it hide and seek, they call it resisting arrest,” one commenter wrote.

[–] pastermil@sh.itjust.works 32 points 1 month ago

Some people have been doing that their whole lives, and not for fun.

[–] SolarMonkey@slrpnk.net 27 points 1 month ago

Well, the plus side is that people who want to know if they can outrun the local police will have a chance to find out that (probably) won’t result in them getting shot

[–] foggy@lemmy.world 22 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Will any of the cops seeking have a Phillip Brailsford style "YOURE FUCKED" engraved in their gun's sights while doing the seeking?

Sorry guys. You can be the best folks in the world, but while you share an emblem with others who protect evil like Phillip Brailsford, you're evil like Phillip Brailsford. Until all y'all wearing that emblem can condemn those in your ranks as quickly as those who don't wear that emblem condemn them -- you're evil simply for wearing the emblem.

Police badge, swastika, I see no functional difference, emblematically. ACAB.

[–] BigPotato@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

engraved in their gun's sights while doing the seeking?

Not sights, Dust cover. Meaning the only way the message is exposed is if the user has loaded a round in the chamber.

Which is so, so much worse.

[–] nokturne213@sopuli.xyz 18 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Article has an Adblock blocker.

[–] Aatube@kbin.melroy.org 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] nokturne213@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)
[–] Aatube@kbin.melroy.org 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Try the new hide distracting items thing

[–] nokturne213@sopuli.xyz 5 points 1 month ago

That works. Thank you.

[–] grue@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago

Use Firefox lol

(inb4 the "not available on iOS", "use Android lol" exchange)

[–] QuadratureSurfer@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

No adblock blocker if scripts are disabled.

[–] ContrarianTrail@lemm.ee 14 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I've often thought about how fun it would be to get to play the "robber" in a police training scenario. I'd definitely join if there was something like this happening in my city, though I'd prefer it to be a more serious excercise.

EDIT: The comments here are even more unsurprising that the fact that the sun rose this morning.

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

What??? The sun rose this morning??? Well how long has THIS been going on??? I was under the impression that earth revolves around the sun, and the sun is a stationary flaming ball of scary!

Guys......if the sun is moving, we got big problems on our hands......BIG problems....

[–] Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

There's low hanging fruit, and then there's the shit on the ground that ants eat to get drunk. This is maybe under that.

[–] TheGingerNut@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

this is a tomato that got buried in a landslide

[–] chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

This is the shit at the bottom of my compost pile that somehow managed to avoid breaking down!

[–] DigitalNirvana@lemm.ee 5 points 1 month ago

Gee, I’d love to go but I already had plans. (Eek!)