The Mothership - 2015-04-04
Nice wingtips. Also Officer Angry/Frustrated reminds me of Henry Gibson for some reason.
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Binro the Heretic - 2015-04-04
HA!
http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/New-York-NYC-NYPD-Taxi-Dr iver-Uber-Cop-Video-Tirade-NYC-Detective-298585531.html
Maybe soon cops will figure out how many cameras there are watching them nowadays.
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TheOtherCapnS - 2015-04-04
This reminds me of this one time I got a parking ticket I didn't deserve on campus, and I had to talk to the university's person in charge of ticket contesting. And she was talking, and I kept nodding just saying stuff like 'right' 'okay', but every time I would say something, she would act like I was interrupting her, and totally stop the conversation and glare at me. I was really being nice, and eventually after she verbally admonished me I just stopped talking and made the 'zipping your lip' gesture, and she acted like I had just slapped her.
It can be really frustrating to deal with people like that, but you have to understand that it's basically their job to be shat on at a professional level (not that I'm defending Officer Friendly here, but I'm sure he was having a bad day), and once you're in their little kingdom, there's nothing you can do but smile and wait it out.
That said, people like this guy will be first against the wall. Also, I got out of the parking ticket, BITCH.
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Hooker - 2015-04-04 I think everyone's had to deal with someone powertripping them. Everyone loses in those situations.
My favourite part of this is the end when he starts asking if the other people are okay with the cab driver wasting their time. The guy has so totally lost his mind and, although his anger is so totally in control of him at this point, there is a rational side in there somewhere screaming at him that he needs to calm down and probably apologise. But by the time that message gets to the decision-making part of the brain, it's just a distant, meaningless noise, like a stranger frantically waving and shouting at you from a distance: you know they're trying to tell you something important, but there's just nowhere near enough information to do anything with. But you have to do something, so, hey, I know! I'll try and get the bystanders on my side!
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TheOtherCapnS - 2015-04-05 Can you imagine what might have happened if at that point the passengers had told him he was being an inexcusable ass, and that they were recording his whole meltdown? I had that thought for a brief second while I was watching this and started to gasp, but then I remembered that this story ends with him getting his badge and gun taken, and not with a murder-suicide.
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TheOtherCapnS - 2015-04-05 Without a doubt, yet I can't help but blame myself on some level. You see, I'm devastatingly handsome, and I barely even flirted with her at all. I don't think she even saw my signature wink. I've made a fine point of being more obvious since that day.
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Simillion - 2015-04-05
the only time police officers are allowed to be this yelly is if there is some kind of actual emergency going on.
Obviously, such is never the case for traffic enforcement. Ever.
The only time I'd excuse a cop for being rude like this would be if they had lives to save, or -dangerous- crooks to arrest. Then, by all means, yell, intimidate, etc to serve the greater good.
But when it's over -any- kind of traffic violation, doing this has absolutely no benefit.
/obvious
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Nominal - 2015-04-05
Fuck Uber
http://www.thebaffler.com/salvos/crowdsourcing-scam
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Hooker - 2015-04-05 I feel like you've missed the point.
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infinite zest - 2015-04-06 I sort of glazed over the article, but yeah this has nothing to do with him being an uber driver. He could be a delivery driver for Jimmy Johns and I think their vegetarian sandwich is shit, but.. anyway.. speaking of Uber, I'm a little skeptical about it, but I know a lot of cabbies, mostly because they're working similar hours as I am and we wind up at the same places like bars and 24 hours coffee shops. Once in a while I'd see a cabbie come into the bar and order a shot with a beerback, smoke a cigarette and take a hit of weed and get back into his car and drive away, still on the clock. And if that works for you, it works for you, but since you're working for a company that can administer piss tests you're fucked unless you know somebody clean, so they're still careful about it, and since there's competition, drug/breathalizer tests are administered much more frequently. With Uber, what's stopping me from getting in a car with a completely fucked up guy, and if he/she does get into an accident and I get hurt, who do I go after? The driver or Uber? I'm more curious than anything else. It was trying to take off in Portland but I'm pretty sure it got banned for some reason.
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chumbucket - 2015-04-06
License To Be A Dick
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