Strange News Sunday: Drunk? Work For The Police!

The Coopertown Police Department in Tennessee needs drunk people to help them catch other drunk people. Only six volunteers are needed, so you have to bring your drunken A-Game to get a spot.

You can even request what kind of alcohol you want and they’ll supply it. However, don’t be getting too thirsty, no top-shelf drinks.

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Apparently you get to day drink and then when you’re nice and toasted, the cops perform their standard DUI checkpoint tests on you to see what it is they’re looking for. It makes more sense for them to do it this way than to just tell you what to look for. “Experience breeds experience.” I made that up. You can totally tell, too. It’s terrible. “Experience breeds experience.” Jesus, no shit.

The Cincinnati Riots

Back in 2001 the city of Cincinnati, Ohio, where I live, was in the middle of civil unrest because the Cincinnati Police were doing some stupid shit. They’ve been known to be racist, or at the very least perform racist acts, but times were bad leading up to the riots, which took place in April. Hell, to be fair they’re still pretty bad to this day, but not quite like they were in 2001.

What set off the riots was the killing of 19-year-old Timothy Thomas, a black male, who was gunned down by a white officer. The city lost their minds and began to riot.

Were the riots justified? Yes and no. For one, anybody who knows me knows I am 100% against racism in any way. I just think it’s stupid, and those who are racist are also stupid for being racist. If you know me you’ll also know that I support GOOD police but hate the bad ones. Unfortunately I think the bad ones give the good ones a bad name, and that’s not right, but it is what it is.

I am, however, not one to believe all cops are good or bad. I’m not looking through rose tinted glasses. I see reality when I look out in the world. I have friends who, for whatever reason, find all cops either good or bad, and I don’t think that’s right.

With that said, and I don’t know what to believe, but here are the facts of Mr. Thomas’ killing.

He had warrants. They were traffic violation warrants, but he had them nonetheless.

He was running from the officer who shot him, at night, down a dark alley. The side of town they were in is known around these parts as the bad side of town. Hell, for the last few years they’ve been remodeling the area and bringing businesses in to make it a better place to go and to shop, but even still, there are shootings and killings there all the time. That part of town sucks.

Strange News Sunday – Arresting Winter

From down the street at ABC News’ place comes this fantastic story of a police department in New York getting fed up with winter, so they arrested it.

The Depew Police Department announced on their Facebook page that they had arrested winter. If any more snow were to fall, they would hold it against winter in court.

They also called out Punxsutawney Phil, the groundhog who saw his shadow and predicted 6 more weeks of winter, and said he should turn himself in for his prediction.

It’s a good thing winter is white, cause if it was black they wouldn’t have arrested it, they would’ve just shot it. Don’t be surprised if Punxsutawney Phil ends up being busted with meth or something. I’m sure it will be planted.

Hey, speaking of crooked cops, eight of them in Pilar, Argentina, blamed mice on a half-ton of missing pot. HuffPost reports that there was supposed to be about 13,000 pounds in lockup, but about 1,000 was missing.