Company car - Florida style!

[AusM]

Some people do it tough don't they?

[escapin]

wouldnt be sure weather to laugh or cry if they pulled you over
but i guess it gets the little kids interested

[GORDZ]

i'd half expect a looney toons character to get out of the car, at which time i'd feel compelled to give him a stick of dynamite or produce a shot gun.

but maybe i'm reading it wrong.

[escapin]

yep thats what i be expecting, imagine seeing that on the next epp. of cops

[GORDZ]

i'd be spewing if my taxes paid for that... the bling wheels? c'mon....

[irlewy86]

Is that part of an Anti-Drug campaign, cause I would trip balls if that busted me

[Stefan]

How the F did that country become the most powerful in the world?

I just got a package from the US with some Ebay parts it had a sports store brochure stuffed in as protection for Xmas specials, page 1 running shoes, page 2 track suites, page 3 guns and ammunition...WTF???? They a mental over there... : : :

[XlR8TED]

He sorta does look like yosemite sam...

[schnoods]

Originally Posted by Stefan

How the F did that country become the most powerful in the world?

I just got a package from the US with some Ebay parts it had a sports store brochure stuffed in as protection for Xmas specials, page 1 running shoes, page 2 track suites, page 3 guns and ammunition...WTF???? They a mental over there... : : :

Hehe we arent far off, I know of the NT and WA with their Beat The Heat drag cars to get racing off the street, all the general Promotional stuff too (constable care, etc). Getting noticed is a good way of getting a message across, besides paint is cheap.

Also in the NT Ammo could be bought from most servo's, tackle stores and camping shops, as well as crossbows (no licence required), slingshots too. Its closer to home then you think...

[flappist]

Originally Posted by Stefan

How the F did that country become the most powerful in the world?

I just got a package from the US with some Ebay parts it had a sports store brochure stuffed in as protection for Xmas specials, page 1 running shoes, page 2 track suites, page 3 guns and ammunition...WTF???? They a mental over there... : : :

Yeh nobody wears track suites anymore........

[Stefan]

Originally Posted by flappist

Yeh nobody wears track suites anymore........

[sgt_doofey]

Originally Posted by Stefan

How the F did that country become the most powerful in the world?

I just got a package from the US with some Ebay parts it had a sports store brochure stuffed in as protection for Xmas specials, page 1 running shoes, page 2 track suites, page 3 guns and ammunition...WTF???? They a mental over there... : : :

You need to go over there and walk in to a Wal-Mart. Go to the sporting goods section and pick out a nice shotgun for yourself. I had to have a little chuckle when I saw it for myself.

[woteva]

D.A.R.E means Drug Abuse Resistance Education. Basically an anti-drug program aimed at kids run by Police Officers so that explains the livery.

[GORDZ]

thanks woteva. makes a little more sense now... but it's still gay =)

[Paddyboy]

good on them, having a cop car that looks a little stupid to adults but relates to kids and help them stay off drugs then its worth it. haha and we cant talk here in VIC, our cops have hummers coz they apparently intimadate the crazy drunks in the streets who want a brawl. haha

[Charliewool]

Originally Posted by sgt_doofey

You need to go over there and walk in to a Wal-Mart. Go to the sporting goods section and pick out a nice shotgun for yourself. I had to have a little chuckle when I saw it for myself.

Wasn't TOO long ago that it was the same at Kmart here!
I can remember buying 22longs there

[GORDZ]

Originally Posted by Paddyboy

good on them, having a cop car that looks a little stupid to adults but relates to kids and help them stay off drugs then its worth it. haha and we cant talk here in VIC, our cops have hummers coz they apparently intimadate the crazy drunks in the streets who want a brawl. haha

Yeah... is that working? Did hummer supply them or did we foot that bill? Either way i'd love to know how much they both cost on fuel per night :

Does anyone actually feel safer that these are around though? I just resent the waste of money, and i really don't think it's a 'positive' image for the police.

[XM-221]

Originally Posted by Paddyboy

good on them, having a cop car that looks a little stupid to adults but relates to kids and help them stay off drugs then its worth it. haha and we cant talk here in VIC, our cops have hummers coz they apparently intimadate the crazy drunks in the streets who want a brawl. haha

They don't just have Hummers Paddyboy ... Working late nights at a bar in Fitzroy and then having to drive over the Westgate Bridge back to Geelong means I've been stopped and breathalysed a fair few times .... Once by a marked devil yellow Monaro candy car. Number plates ... COPGTO ... hows that for a waste of ratepayers money! I can understand personalised plates on an undercover car to dupe the average punter into thinking they are passing someone other than a cop car at high speed. But on a candy car you can see coming a mile off .. really .. do they have that much money to spare?

[XR6_190]

Again with the winging about the 'wasting taxpayers money on the Hummer' VicPol, didn't pay for these vehicles, they were loaned to them by GM, same as the Yellow Monaro they had, and the Chrysler 300C, as well as most other promotional vehicles, as for the cost of fuel, they wouldn't be using any more fuel than a V8 TMU car.

Back on topic though, I think it's great, and good to see them doing something about the drugs in schools over there. BTW that car wouldn't be used as a response vehicle, it hasn't even got a light bar.

[XC Ute]

Holy that car certainly has something to do with drugs. How high were they when they came up with that thing?

[guzzis3]

Just like to second charliewool. I remember wandering into k mart years ago and finding the gun section unattended. This happened often. Whole rack of guns and a glass counter full of ammo.

There is no problem provided you don't have any nutcases handy ready to do the wrong thing. The guns ain't the problem, it's the attitude. When I was young more people had a rifle in the house than did not. No problem.

[TOASTED]

yep thats right. are you familiar with the expression "its not the computer its the user", well what may be more appropiate in this day and age is, "its not the gun, its the american schoolboy holding it"
or "its not the paint tin, its the clown holding it."

[manxman]

No-one comments about the lovely Porsches the Autobahn Poletzi use, with their fancy paintwork and tag team tactics. That's one I really think they should use here. Those guys are tough!! Don't mess with them.

[csv8]

Or the Lambo's the Italian Police use !!!

[GasoLane]

I cant see our HP guys (and guyetts) driving one of those.

You couldn't swagger out of a car like that. It'd completely ruin their macho style and attitute