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Fighting the good fight |
http://www.fox46charlotte.com/news/265483801-story (Both videos at the link.) I've shot hoops on duty. I've played kickball on duty. But I've never been on a slip-and-slide on duty.  | ||
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That's just outstanding. Too bad about the asshole neighbors. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ "And it's time that particularly, some of our corporations learned, that when you get in bed with government, you're going to get more than a good night's sleep." - Ronald Reagan | |||
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There is always one that ruins it for the rest of them. The uniforms played it well. | |||
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What a great way to show kids and adults that cops are good people too! They need to pull the snobs out and show them what a good time is. My mom in her 70s would still climb on a sled or toboggan and slide down a hill. Hope I do the same! P226 9mm CT Springfield custom 1911 hardball Glock 21 Les Baer Special Tactical AR-15 | |||
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So why is it ok some neighbors were blocking the road? Have all the fun you want on your property or that of participating neighbors, but the neighbors not partaking in the activity have just as much right to use the road. | |||
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Roads are for cars. | |||
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Yup. Why couldn't the dads who built the slide have gotten a permit (like one you get to have a parade) to use the street that way for a few hours? I bet they could have. There's usually a process in every community/county for making sure that everybody's good intentions can get taken care of with due consideration of everybody's needs and convenience/inconvenience. But instead they just shut the street off for everybody else. Kind of ass-holeish of them, on a fundamental level. But then it becomes the people who were actually inconvenienced that are labeled the bad guys when they complain? Smacks of a power play, small-town/neighborhood politics. Not knowing the neighborhood, you really can't tell who is ruining what for whom; who are the "snobs", really? Is it the guys that built the slip&slide, or is it the people they inconvenienced? If you'd ever experienced small-town politics, you'd be hesitant to make that call so fast as some who have posted in this thread have done. Thanks, Sap | |||
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| Conservative Behind Enemy Lines  |
"Roads are for cars, dammit!" * One day out of the year * Also stated by those who would burn our flag Let's relax and enjoy some neighborly fun. "Blocking the road!"  I found what you said riveting. | |||
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| Fighting the good fight |
 Lighten up, Francis(es). The officers, who were actually there and who actually known NC law, determined that it was fine. And you can seen from the pictures and videos that the slip-and-slide only takes up a portion of the street no wider than the cars that are parked on the curb just past it. So the street wasn't blocked. From http://wlos.com/news/local/ash...od-4th-of-july-party
And from http://www.wyff4.com/article/a...l-attention/10257770
So take a deep breath, smile, have a cold beverage, enjoy some barbecue, and just relax... | |||
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+1. Some people are just grumpy. | |||
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Well, unless it's a cul-de-sac or a dead-end street, it should be no problem, because there is an alternate route in and out. (Assuming that the only blocked driveways were the participating homes.) Admittedly it might be a slight inconvenience, but not worthy of making an issue of it. flashguy Texan by choice, not accident of birth | |||
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delicately calloused |
"My butt is wet..." lol Not a thing wrong with what I saw in that article. Absolutely love cops like these! You’re a lying dog-faced pony soldier | |||
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| Too old to run, too mean to quit! |
Seems like some people are just natural born assholes, and have to complain about every thing. Good on the cops!! Elk There has never been an occasion where a people gave up their weapons in the interest of peace that didn't end in their massacre. (Louis L'Amour) "To compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors, is sinful and tyrannical. " -Thomas Jefferson "America is great because she is good. If America ceases to be good, America will cease to be great." Alexis de Tocqueville FBHO!!! The Idaho Elk Hunter | |||
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This is commonly done (blocking the street) for block parties all over the country for various celebrations. Most cities will even bring barricades to block the roadway for a block party. My department's requirement was that emergency vehicles be able to pass and that someone be accountable. Obviously some neighbor's hemorrhoids were acting up. CMSGT USAF (Retired) Chief of Police (Retired) | |||
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Seems some of the neighbors are Sigforum members! | |||
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| Essayons |
When the neighborhood has a block party, how do you know to go put up the barriers? Somebody from the neighborhood has to get a permit, right? Some sort of coordination takes place to make it a permitted use of the road for that time, right? So why didn't the folks that threw the party do that coordination? What I'm getting at here is that neighborhood/small-town politics are harder to figure out than what a first glance might make one think. Yes, the people that complained might just be a bunch of sticks-in-the-mud, grumpy curmudgeons, mean people looking to hassle the people that threw the party. Or, maybe the folks that threw the party were deliberately sticking a finger in the eye of the people that complained by just surprising them, showing them who's the alpha, who counts and who doesn't. The ones partying should've done it right when they coordinated the party. They didn't. The ones complaining should've had more of a live-and-let-live attitude. They didn't. Why that situation exists is hard to say. Who is being the butt-head is hard to say. That the cops didn't let themselves be used or act like dickheads at the bidding of one party or the other is good, shows that they were professional and even-handed. Thanks, Sap | |||
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sweet nice job on the cops [B] Against ALL enemies, foreign and DOMESTIC | |||
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| Crusty old curmudgeon  |
I love the size difference of the two cops. He is a giant and she is small and petite. What a team. https://s25.postimg.org/5t699i...71563_o_14991037.jpg Jim ________________________ "If you can't be a good example, then you'll have to be a horrible warning" -Catherine Aird | |||
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Before reading the link I provided here I'd like to congratulate the officers on having some fun with the locals and spreading good will along the way. My daughter has lived full time in Asheville for the last 12 years so I have been there many, many, times. She has told me many stories of the past problems with the police department and hopefully things are better and getting better. This was not always the case. http://www.citizen-times.com/s...ain-future/20944059/ | |||
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