Just recently I saw a Ford Crown Vic in full police attire on the Autobahn. Really weird, not even cool, just weird.
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We first caught wind of this, I mean, years back and turns out to be several hobbyists in Europe that like to collect American cars and repaint them, refinish them with police and law enforcement style finishes on there," Gandhi said. "And, luckily, we've become pretty popular in a few countries."
Everyone needs a hobby.
TIL Gandhi is still alive and commenting on polish car collectors.
Alex Roy's cannonball run M5 is painted like a German police car. Plenty of Americans accidentally leave misc cop equipment on their retired crown vics to cos play as police. The irony is only a small amount of the remaining population is scared of crown vics - under 30s may have never seen them used and a ton of people straight up don't spot cop cars. I can't say I see early as many retired chargers/impalas/caprices/tahoes/explorers/tauruses let alone with old equipment.
I grew up with Crown Vics as the standard cop car, but now it's been so long since they've been in use that when I see them, I just imagine it's a poor person who couldn't afford a newer car.
Why Sacramento though? I would have thought LA county, or Yolo county.
My first guess is that they probably Google what the capital of California is since California is "cool," and instead of Los Angeles they get Sacramento.
Yeah very weird. They mention LAPD and NYPD being popular, which makes sense, but I don't know how they got set on Sacramento. Maybe the image resources were just easy accessible online so it was easy?
Cheaper to license
I don't think these are licensed.
When asked for comment, the driver of the vehicle responded, "I'm gonna get that summbitch if it's the last thing I eva' do."
Eeaaassstttt bound and dowwnnn
You sound a lot taller on the radio.
Thank you, I got that reference.
Did the driver also happen to be a French police man chasing a man who stole a loaf of bread?
I misread this as "Portland" and didn't immediately think it was weird at first. Oh no that's very different.
And the Sheriffs office not being dicks about it is a refreshing change of pace.
What can they do about it? They know their jurisdiction doesn't extend to Europe. May as well have some fun with it.
Just because they can't do anything to stop it doesn't mean they can't get all huffy about it. That is what I'd expect out of a lot of agencies, tbh.
Huh, I never would have imagined that. What a quirky hobby. How fun!
Wait until you hear about the Chinese police fans who do up their cars to look like People’s Police vehicles and drive them around cities in Europe and North America with large Chinese expatriate populations, apparently just for fun.
Right? How fun! That guy has a nazi armband! So cool!
Are you calling Chinese police similar to Nazis….? I’ve never had a bad interaction with one and they’re certainly not fascists
I’ve never had a bad interaction with one
Presumably you've never disagreed with the CCP in a public way.
Not to just play whataboutism but wearing masks to protests against a genociding nation just got banned in some states of the land of the free. Sadly, not being allowed to criticize is on the rise everywhere…
There are many ways of allowed criticism of the CCP. A certain degree of self censorship is applied no matter where one lives. But yes that is certainly one large negative of Chinese political rule!
That's a fairly complex topic. The big take away is that the Chinese government isn't exactly loved by a lot of people.
It’s a joke. Look at the username.
Edit: saw the reply, doesn’t look like a joke now
It's fine if you don't know history.
A lot of westerners, sure. The vast majority of Chinese would disagree since they’re 1-2 generations away from poverty. Depending on the city most grandparents have zero education, parent may have gone to middle school, then current gen has shot for the stars. Chinese government can be unfair, but no one can argue they didn’t make everyone’s lives materially better
everyone’s lives materially better
Yes, I'm sure the Uyghurs and political dissidents agree wholeheartedly with you.
I think you need to look up the word material.
Yes, the Uyghurs currently being genocided are certainly materially better off.
Kindly fuck off, Comrade.
Found the liberal who can't read history....
Edit: What's with so much toxicity. This should be left at reddit... You reply with history and get cursed at.
This is what happens when you don’t pay your tickets kids, the sheriff hunts you down