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What kind of weakling has to go to the hospital after a snowball fight
In a statement Tuesday, the New York Police Department said multiple uniformed officers were struck in the face with snowballs and were "removed by EMS in stable condition" to a nearby hospital, but did not disclose additional information on their injuries.
What injuries? It was a fucking snowball.
I mean they have to, the officers were assaulted with projectiles of dihydrogen monoxide!
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More evidence that they have too much funding.
I'm not saying we should take away all of NYPD funding, but I think a moderate approach would be to cut their funding in half every year.
Zeno for comptroller
Can't even call them snowflakes any more because they're even afraid of that
Right wingers have a bad history with snow. See Stalingrad.
There used to be cops who knew how to deal with people on a human level.
Then 9/11/2001 happened and every cop in America was told that they were the front line of the War On Terror.
Basic common sense was replaced by The Punisher mind set.
Pre 9/11 cops would have looked, reported that it was just a snowball fight and walked away. These idiots had to be tough guys.
Then Occupy happened, and everyone realized that all NYPD cops are bastards
See 2004 RNC
Some Gross man trained cops to have a warrior mentality.
Was that before or after NYPD started training with the IDF? I've lost track of the excessive force saga at this point. Like I know we've got that douchecanoe whose name escapes me currently who was going around training cops that it's literally a war of Cops vs the Public and any random person they interact with IS actually out to kill them, the rapid militarization of American Police, and larger Police Forces like the NYPD doing exercises with the IDF but I cannot for the life of me remember which came first.
Police officers in any other Nordic country likely would have joined in when they saw that all is fine and it's just a snowball fight
I live in NYC.
Some idiot would see the cops throwing snowballs and put a rock in theirs.
I'd just throw rocks at the NYPD. No need for snow.
Yes, and your SO is a super model and you're an astronaut.
Who says we aren't?
If you're gonna act like you're on Reddit...
"Pix or it didn't happen."
Who says I'm acting like I'm on reddit?
If people are having a massive snowball fight in new York city, and cops show up and are concerned about people concealing rocks in the snow... There's hundreds of people there... Why not just throw a rock? Why have to hide it in a snowball?
I didn't think people on Fed were this fucking uptight.
You spelled genius wrong
Learn some history.
Back in the day, when the Industrial Workers of the World did any action they had a squad that made sure no one threw rocks at the police. The IWW leadership knew that one cop with a bruise meant a few dozen innocent marchers with broken bones.
If starting trouble for other people makes you a 'genius' than Donald Trump deserves a Nobel Prize for Science.
Good point, I stand corrected
Thank you
Off topic rant incoming in 3
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I don't like the phrase "thank you" because it's manners, but it has a pronoun inside. And so it puts Me in a really socially awkward position. And it's a position most people wouldn't understand. If someone has second person neopronouns, then "thank you" makes a person feel bad, while having really good intentions behind it, so if you complain or correct, it's really rude and it feels bad to do so. I try to avoid manners that have pronouns inside when I'm talking to strangers, but it would be unreasonable of Me to expect the same from most people. I like "thanks". But "thank you" makes Me feel bad, AND conflicted. It's the most annoying manners.
I don't like the phrase "thank you"
That's why you started this post with "thank you"?
Cool thanks.
There's a problem with "you"?
It's just not one of My preferred pronouns
would one prefer y'all? i can try to remember that
As a trans ally, your post was one of the most ridiculous things I've ever read. As I have never heard someone complain about "you" before, I provided the opportunity to explain why it might be problematic. If you were sincere and not using this as a method to mock trans people you would have taken the opportunity to explain why "you" is problematic. Instead, you took a paragraph to state you did not like "Thank you" but refused to elaborate any further when asked.
I was watching a clip of Gene Kelly doing a dance on roller skates yesterday. Absolutely incredible dancing on wheels. In the middle of the routine he does a stupid 'Chinaman' impression for absolutely no reason.
I had a choice. Stop watching, or accept that social norms change slowly.
made me think of this reddit story
Swarming kids are no goddamn joke, man. So - true story. And yes it's relevant.
In the U.S. Marines, doing a mock war in the Norwegian city of Trondheim with the Dutch, Germans and other allies, training in urban combat. My infantry unit was positioned in a large soccer field next to an elementary school. Keep in mind there was no actual combat, even simulated; it was mostly just practicing maneuvers and tactics. But we still looked out of place with weapons and gear, etc. It's fucking February. In Norway. Cold as balls. Snow up to our knees. Norway obviously has no snow days, so the kids were all in school.
Anyway, so Norway has this most delicious and amazing delicacy, I have no idea what it's called, but it's basically a bacon-wrapped hot dog; we just assumed it was called Candy of the Lord. As Americans we were naturally and instantly addicted. You find them at gas stations, and there just happened to be one on the other side of the school where we were camped. A few of my fellow Marines and I requested permission to go to the gas station and we set out on our way.
We made it to right about where the main entrance of the school was, and the doors opened; school was out. There were only a few kids, probably 6 or 7 years old. Lots of talking and laughing. Gawking at us as we walked by, with our guns and huge ridiculous snow suits. One precocious little bugger made shooting noises at us. We made shooting noises back.
And then someone in my group. I don't know who. God help me I don't know who...
Someone threw a snowball and hit a little girl in the leg.
And those little Norwegian children unleashed hell.
There was a shrill cry in unintelligible Norseman and the doors to the school burst open. School children flooded out like a never-ending flood of something that never ends. Screeching, smiling, sprinting - how the fuck were they sprinting?? - little bastards were slinging snowballs faster than the laws of physics should allow. It was like that movie Elf. If you can imagine riding in a fast car in a snowstorm and sticking your head out the window. Now imagine the snowflakes that are hitting your face are the size of snowballs. We couldn't fucking see. We couldn't run. We could barely breathe. Holy fuck....
We tried to return fire and threw one, maybe two half-packed, shitty snowballs that fell apart in the air, arms flailing like drunk octopi. I am from Texas. We were a unit stationed in North Carolina. We were so outmatched and out of our element, it only made them laugh harder. We were cutoff from our main forces. We tried to perform a flanking maneuver but fuck me they were fast. I think some of them were throwing rocks!
My comrades. I could see them speed waddling in their huge suits back to camp like a fucked up pair of white Teletubbies, under withering fire. Fuck tactics, fuck me, fuck the Candy of the Lord, this was survival! I was the slow one in the group. My snowboots were too big but they were the smallest size they had at Issue goddammit!! My Marines left me behind.
I tried pulling my hood over my head and keeping my head down. No longer content to pelt my defenseless body with ballistic snow, the enemy swarmed me and dragged me down, cackling like a pack of hyenas descending on a wildebeest. I tried to sling them off by spinning. I came out of one of my boots and fell. I began to scream and plead for them to stop but they neither understood nor gave a single Nordic fuck. They literally pinned me down with about five kids on each limb. It was then that I actually thought - oh shit. I'm really in trouble. My snow-mittens were ripped off and flung into trees. They started shoving snow down my suit. Have you ever had anyone drop an ice cube down your shirt?
Well now imagine someone shoveling handfuls of ice cubes down your shirt. It literally shocked the breath out of my body. Thisishowidie.jpg.gif
They left me laying like a Family Guy accident victim. Moaning and screaming in the cold. Rifle packed with snow and dirt. Boot buried some-fucking-where. They ran away laughing, jabbering in their crazy language. I lay there trying to figure out just what in the great American fuck had happened.
TL;DR - Norwegians discover way to defeat American Marines using bacon and small children.
LPT -don't ever, ever get in a snowball fight with Norwegian school kids.
TIL - there are more names for shoving snow down peoples' clothes than should be reasonably expected.
EDIT - Wow. Thanks for the GOLD and thanks for all the kind words! You guys rock. Glad I could make you laugh with my inadequacies. hahahaha. Worst snowfighters ever.
EDIT EDIT Candy of the Lord= baconpølse, and yes - it was filled with cheese! Very important detail that I left out. Sorry.
I completely lost my train of thought and got distracted at "Bacon-Wrapped Hot Dog" and forgot to finish reading that because it reminded me of this food court place in the local mall where I grew up that had something like that. They wrapped a hot dog in bacon, fried it, then covered it with chili and cheese. Terrible for you, but my Gods was it delicious.
Now I miss reddit. Not enough to go back, but it's still there.
Sadly the Reddit this guy commented on is not the Reddit of today. All the greats will fall in time. Only for another to take their place.
Whew, they're in stable condition. Anyone see the video floating around? I can't find it.
A police horse was hit with a snowball too. His condition is...
Stable
was literally in the article you linked
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Egp0591Q9RI
that said, it's sad that they just can't stand seeing a community having fun together and must do something to stop it... how pathetic.
assault on cops... please, why were they even there for more then a few minutes. observe from a distance... confirm it's a community of people having fun. if NO LAWS ARE BEING BROKEN, then fuck off back to your cars and go do actual work. there is zero reason to speak with anyone or stop the activity from happening. such pathetic individuals
Aw thanks, I have a lot of adblockers for video too, it must have gotten caught up in that.
Edit: That's not the full thing. They described a video where the cops were pushing people and someone came up with a snowball and smashed them in the face.
Why were they "responding to a snowball fight"? What broke law were they investigating? What even made them go there? Yes the police shouldn't of taken it to this level but also which grumpy person even called the in the first place?
Snowflakes pelted by snowflakes. The commissioner must have an icy cold brow. The perpetrators are snowed.
"New York City police investigating lake after officers got wet after walking into it."