$10 that this thread will devolve into a FTP thread?

/$20??
//DNRTFA...yet

fark THA POLICE

Cop-bashing thread starts in 3...2....

Its_A_Tarp: $10 that this thread will devolve into a FTP thread?

/$20??
//DNRTFA...yet

No way I'm going to take that bet. You KNOW it's just a matter of time before the morons show up saying that all cops are the same and that this guy took too long to shrug off the mortal coil.

Its_A_Tarp: $10 that this thread will devolve into a FTP thread?

/$20??
//DNRTFA...yet

too busy trying to get a Boobies post, eh?

tedbundee: Its_A_Tarp: $10 that this thread will devolve into a FTP thread?

/$20??
//DNRTFA...yet

too busy trying to get a Boobies post, eh?

I've gotten several Boobies before but you can always use more.

I figured this time I'd go with a legitimate Boobies rather than Boobies.

Mods must have fixed the link, it goes to the correct story now.

/First time I clicked I got the LSU CWS story also.

Its_A_Tarp: $10 that this thread will devolve into a FTP thread?

/$20??
//DNRTFA...yet

You should take a trip to Iran.

You're good at starting riots.

I wish I fcould find one company and stick with it for a lifetime. I seem to move to a new company every five years. Nice that he had a special rank created in his honor.

Approves

skinink: I wish I fcould find one company and stick with it for a lifetime. I seem to move to a new company every five years. Nice that he had a special rank created in his honor.

My dad spent 35 years at GM/Delphi, and has been sweating bullets worrying about whether or not he was going to keep his pension.

Even that last bastion of life-long company work is going away, I'm afraid. Pretty much the only jobs you can make a career out of in the same place/company is the Military, police, or fire department.

He had his own special rank? WTF?

I have to admit, my first thought was that he'd been unable to retire due to the crappy social security in the US. Hardly the case for a long serving cop though.

/On last stint in US, saw too many elderly folks reduced to bag packing in supermarkets to make ends meet.
//Retire in piece, Sarge.

john83: He had his own special rank? WTF?

I have to admit, my first thought was that he'd been unable to retire due to the crappy social security in the US. Hardly the case for a long serving cop though.

/On last stint in US, saw too many elderly folks reduced to bag packing in supermarkets to make ends meet.
//Retire in piece, Sarge.

This is one of my primary arguments for the need for universal health care. The reason so many old folks are required to shag carts or be a greeter at Walmart is because they can't afford the meds that are keeping them alive. If they were able to get these meds at even an AFFORDABLE rate (something less than $12-$20 a pill, let's say), they could probably live off their Social Security and meager savings.

As it stands, though, your choice is either to go back to menial, low paying labor or just die off like good dead societal weight.

fark the police.

No Hero, no love for any of them.

How many darkies did he shoot in "self-defense"?

The article doesn't say it, but the term 'quiet dignity' comes to mind. It's just good to hear something decent about a NOLA cop.

Oh, and a big bowl of dicks for all of you cop haters, felons, and hippie residue this fine morning.

/fark you very much

CaptainWes: fark the police.

No Hero, no love for any of them.

tonesskin: How many darkies did he shoot in "self-defense"?

And we have our winners, folks!



/yes, I feel bad for posting that pic
//it's a bit of an insult to the kid to compare him to you numbnuts

maxspeed: tedbundee: I'll say it again (because apparently fixing the headline invalidated the whole post somehow):

All it takes to get a greenlight on Fark is a troll headline and a URL. Which is why I don't submit sh*t anymore

I think I found your problem. If you submit shiat it doesn't get greenlit.

/hats off and a big salute to Sgt. Major Curry

You're new around here eh? You haven't been seeing the kinds of crap that gets greenlit in the past few months...

Shadowknight: And we have our winners, folks!

Uh, that went over your head, didn't it?

/it was a joke, dumbass, based on the top post
//sand in your vagina--clean it

This is FARK Subby. You should know better than to give a cop a Hero tag.

Did they put him on a dangerous case just days before his retirement?

/drtfa

you know what's sad? the widow's house was ransacked while at the funeral.

http://www.nola.com/news/index.ssf/2009/06/burgled.html

I don't have much love for today's cops... but this guy seemed genuine

You don't be a cop for that long without being corrupt in one fashion or another. Either you are doing dirt or you covered for people doing dirt. Because of the D-day thing I won't spit on his grave.

Damn, a medic on Normandy at DDay?...

It's one thing to be a GI and trying to move up the beach getting shot at, it's another to be a medic and be sitting out in the open with the wounded as MG42' fire is spraying all around you.

Also, the old LEO's tend to be the best LEO's.

Hero tag for sure.

What the article didn't tell you was that he was a German and his police unit was the Gestapo

Dinobot: you know what's sad? the widow's house was ransacked while at the funeral.

http://www.nola.com/news/index.ssf/2009/06/burgled.html

It's not sad so much as it's entirely farking predictable in that city. The only thing surprising is that there was only one burglary.

So far.

I hope that widow can move the hell out of New Orleans ASAP.

Hey may have been a hero for all we know, but there is nothing in the article to indicate that he was.

Cop != hero
Military "Service"member != hero

New Orleans... Hell on Earth. Couldn't pay me to go there again.

It's a sad reflection on society when an octogenarian has to keep working till he keels over. Retire at 65 FFS.

Purple_Jack: It's a sad reflection on society when an octogenarian has to keep working till he keels over. Retire at 65 FFS.

Or maybe he enjoyed his work so much, he didn't want to leave. There are people out there that retirement would be equal to a death sentence to them. The thought of retirement causes them to lose the will to live.

Can'tLetYouDoThatStarFox: Hey may have been a hero for all we know, but there is nothing in the article to indicate that he was.

Cop != hero
Military "Service"member != hero

He was a medic. Medic, on DDAY. MEDIC on DDAY=HERO

tonesskin: Uh, that went over your head, didn't it?

/it was a joke, dumbass, based on the top post
//sand in your vagina--clean it

You do realize that sarcasm is hard to detect in text, right? And in a cop thread, your comment isn't exactly over the top. Hell, it's par for the course.

Goodbye Sarge. And they approve.

In other news, if you die, you're now a hero.

Its_A_Tarp: $10 that this thread will devolve into a FTP thread?

/$20??
//DNRTFA...yet

as much of a grudge as i have against many of the police in my town; this is an excellent use of the hero tag.

*hat off*

Karma Chameleon: In other news, if you die, you're now a hero.

It's from what he did while alive, smart guy. Not how he died.

Karma Chameleon: In other news, if you die, you're now a hero.

a little late to the troll party?

IKillBugs: Purple_Jack: It's a sad reflection on society when an octogenarian has to keep working till he keels over. Retire at 65 FFS.

Or maybe he enjoyed his work so much, he didn't want to leave. There are people out there that retirement would be equal to a death sentence to them. The thought of retirement causes them to lose the will to live.

sometimes i wonder if that's why dad hasn't retired at his age.

pxlboy: sometimes i wonder if that's why dad hasn't retired at his age.

I have a retired doctor down the street from me, and he works on a friends farm driving equipment every single day. He's told me that some people feel that if they stop working, they'll die.

/Old bugger is up at 5am every day it snows to plow every single driveway in the neighborhood.
//He's 85.

Another flat foot says thank you for your service!
Take a LONNNGGGGGGG code 7 my friend!

Shadowknight: Karma Chameleon: In other news, if you die, you're now a hero.

It's from what he did while alive, smart guy. Not how he died.

You mean working as a public servant since the 40's and catching criminals who committed crimes against our citizens and saving dozens of lives along the way? Yeah I can totally see why that guy got confused... ;)

Wait just a damn minute!

This sumbiatch was 80 when he died, and D-Day just had its 65th anniversary.... he was FIFTEEN and a medic? HE LIED ABOUT HIS AGE WHEN HE JOINED!!

I don't know if that was good to lie on a federal application per se, but hey, that just means he was a true patriot back then, too.

/Best use of the Hero tag in a while
//REALLY got somethin' in my eye...who let the dust out?

^^^Oh, wait....he was 80 during Katrina.

Never mind!

/Still a Hero.

ace in your face: Can'tLetYouDoThatStarFox: Hey may have been a hero for all we know, but there is nothing in the article to indicate that he was.

Cop != hero
Military "Service"member != hero

He was a medic. Medic, on DDAY. MEDIC on DDAY=HERO

Medic != Hero
DDay Vet != Hero

Come back when you have evidence of him actually doing something above and beyond his orders.

fark the police. What have they done except move us closer to a facist government. Not once have the police been a spearhead for anything except undeserved beatings. This guy was a drain on tAxpayer money.

CPT_Crnch: fark the police. What have they done except move us closer to a facist government. Not once have the police been a spearhead for anything except undeserved beatings. This guy was a drain on tAxpayer money.

He put his life on the line in WWII to protect your right to be an asshat.

He is guarding the streets for St. Pete now...

As to the "cost of meds in the U.S. stuff, socialized medicine won't help that too much, it'll just do one of two things, redistribute the cost to society as a whole or cause more oldsters to be subjected to risky surgical treatments or written off as "terminal" like so many are in the U.K. and neither is exactly a desirous situation. the reason that is the case is every drug sent for clinical testing costs the companies literally billions of dollars to develop and test, and out of a testing line of a thousand drugs maybe .1-2% will be shown as viable for the market and have the weight of the financial burden of the whole testing line to support.

Juniper Jupiter: Wait just a damn minute!

This sumbiatch was 80 when he died, and D-Day just had its 65th anniversary.... he was FIFTEEN and a medic? HE LIED ABOUT HIS AGE WHEN HE JOINED!!

I don't know if that was good to lie on a federal application per se, but hey, that just means he was a true patriot back then, too.

/Best use of the Hero tag in a while
//REALLY got somethin' in my eye...who let the dust out?

He was 84 when he died. That makes him 19 at D-Day.

And as someone else pointed out, medic + D-Day = Hero