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Cop Offended By Pizza Box
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mechashiva
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P Blowdryer?
The Last Wizard
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Saw this on the news a few nights ago, that shit dont say pig.
Massive Duck. C.M.
Banned
P is for persecution complex
TarpitCarnivore
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Grew up in a town over. East Brunswick cops were notorious for being pricks. All small town cops can be but definitely remember theirs having a worse rep for the area.
andthebeatgoeson
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Too bad the cops didn't use a camera. Funny how that works. They hate cameras and can't prove a thing.
Seems to me like they haven't yet learned how to preserve evidence or investigate.
andthebeatgoeson
Junior Member
Probably would have been the quickest release of a tape in police history.
water_wendi
Water is not wet!
lol
Probably would have if it had black olives.
Galactic Barret
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What pisses me off is the PBA statement. "We stand behind the officer...".
What will it take for the PBA to NOT stand behind an officer thats absolutely in the wrong?
What will it take for the PBA to NOT stand behind an officer thats absolutely in the wrong?
If an officer is a minority.
Cymbal Head
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Aren't cops supposed to be tough?
Like, if all it takes to be a cop is to be a huge crybaby sign me the fuck up and I'll outclass them all.
Like, if all it takes to be a cop is to be a huge crybaby sign me the fuck up and I'll outclass them all.
RodanCeros
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I'm a cop, and I like ham on my pizza anyways, so you can call it pig pizza and I wouldn't even hesitate to eat it all in one sitting
Coriolanus
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NoRéN;246153186 said:
hey man, dont be like that. all olives matter.
Super Troopers.
LookAtMeGo
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She probaly felt threatened as well.
BladeoftheImmortal
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Doesn't look anything like pig.
excelsiorlef
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To be fair she might have mistaken the box for a mirror
I'd love to offer a Trump pizza if I had a pizza place. It would have a Cheeto dough and topped with well done steak bits and ketchup. It would also be a lot smaller than advertised and delivered in an oversized box.The pizza box was doctored. I stand by our police force. Mancini is fake news. They use Chinese ingredients in their Pizza's while insulting our men and women in blue. So sad!
Thatonemoor
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If I was a cop and I got "pig" written on my pizza box I wouldn't even think twice about it. Probably even chuckle and move on.
CadetMahoney
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I loled at this more than I should have.
ReplacementPelican
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Shut up snowflake, blue lives matter.
Sidewinder
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CosmicGroinPull
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How ironic that someone working in law enforcement does not need evidence to accuse someone. 'Oh, they doctored the box afterwards.'
Yeah I'm inclined to believe the pizza place.
Yeah I'm inclined to believe the pizza place.
I already posted my personal feelings about being insulted throughout my career, and how this wouldn't have phased me, but I'll add a little perspective to it as well.
If you're willing to think that the pizza place kept the original box, for 11 days, then you should also be willing to entertain the idea that the box shown isn't what was pictured initially.
Cops are human, people, just like everyone else. Sometimes there is a breaking point for emotions when you've had a really hard day. Some people react differently.
Imagine not being able to revive the little girl that was found drowning, while the person who called stood on the bank of the narrow river and waited for you to arrive in your squad card. Then picking up something to eat, and your food throw at you. Someone calling you "pig mother fucker" to your face when you were holding their 85 year old mother in your arms while she took her last breath because her grandson thought the house smelled to bad to go in to check on her.
It can get to people. Those two things I posted happened. Did that officer act unprofessionally? Hell no. It wasn't written in the report, or told to his supervisors or other officers. He talked to his wife about it and cried about the things he had to see those days. That doesn't mean it can't get to someone. We aren't super human.
If you're willing to think that the pizza place kept the original box, for 11 days, then you should also be willing to entertain the idea that the box shown isn't what was pictured initially.
Cops are human, people, just like everyone else. Sometimes there is a breaking point for emotions when you've had a really hard day. Some people react differently.
Imagine not being able to revive the little girl that was found drowning, while the person who called stood on the bank of the narrow river and waited for you to arrive in your squad card. Then picking up something to eat, and your food throw at you. Someone calling you "pig mother fucker" to your face when you were holding their 85 year old mother in your arms while she took her last breath because her grandson thought the house smelled to bad to go in to check on her.
It can get to people. Those two things I posted happened. Did that officer act unprofessionally? Hell no. It wasn't written in the report, or told to his supervisors or other officers. He talked to his wife about it and cried about the things he had to see those days. That doesn't mean it can't get to someone. We aren't super human.
elrechazado
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Guarantee these cops expect and receive free food all over from local businesses just because they are cops, any "on the books" policies against the practice notwithstanding.
I know this is anecdotal to a degree but; No one in my department would ever EXPECT to get anything free. Not only is it in our oath of office to not, but it's unethical from a personal standpoint as well. None of our local businesses offer anything free. They've been asked not to do that.
I've had to accept a free meal only because a business wouldn't accept me paying. Some places have policies to not charge first-responders; cops, fireman, EMS/EMT. When that happens, I pay for whoever is ordering behind me. The rare occasion that I'm the only person in there ordering, I'll buy a gift certificate and take it to a low income family, or give it to the first person I see walking around.
Come on, this department is full of idiots. You have the entire department and union going after one small pizza shop over this. That's waaaaay beyond having a bad day.
That wasn't simply addressing the officer from the OP. It was in response to the idea of "thick skin" and the other comments about how the officer should be.
I've been through a lot in my career that I hope no one else ever has to deal with whether it's in law enforcement or just in the every day life of someone else. Even still, things baffle me as to "why". That doesn't change how things do affect others though.
Even if this had happened to me, after one of the worst days I've ever had in my career, I would still take that home and deal with it on a personal level and not involve PBA, my Lt, Capt, etc. Maybe I wouldn't eat there any more, or just brush it off. While it still can cause hurt feelings, I wouldn't make a big deal about it.
Humans, we're all different.
"P squiggle" could say pig when you're writing with a Sharpie on the side of a pizza box, it's a totally feasible misunderstanding. Sounds like she either got embarrassed about her mistake and left or there was more of an argument over it. I don't even have to trust the restaurant for the rest of this post:
All of that is whatever, the absolutely mind bogglingly stupid part is that the precinct felt the need to double down to defend her rather than let the whole thing fizzle out. Now this simple misunderstanding (or slight) has somehow turned into a whole left v right thing with people review bombing the restaurant.
End result: a small business loses customers because the police (who are supposed to de-escalate situations in general but hey ho) can't let a single fucking thing slide. An officer either makes a fool of themselves or receives a small insult, and that's enough reason to start a fight. Absolutely pathetic.
All of that is whatever, the absolutely mind bogglingly stupid part is that the precinct felt the need to double down to defend her rather than let the whole thing fizzle out. Now this simple misunderstanding (or slight) has somehow turned into a whole left v right thing with people review bombing the restaurant.
End result: a small business loses customers because the police (who are supposed to de-escalate situations in general but hey ho) can't let a single fucking thing slide. An officer either makes a fool of themselves or receives a small insult, and that's enough reason to start a fight. Absolutely pathetic.
Um, pretty sure Sonny Landham never successfully became a politician, which is good because he sounds like a fucking lunatic.
I can agree with this in respect to the aftermath. I feel it was a misunderstanding, and should have stopped right there. That's my opinion of course. Even if this had offended me, which it wouldn't ever in real life, I'd deal with it personally and not let shit roll downhill.
Triggerhappytel
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So it clearly doesn't say pig and it wasn't even her pizza box?!
sturgboski
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It will all be cleared up when the pizza place releases the body can footage...assuming they remember the 30s recording buffer.
Also NJ cops saying something was doctored after the fact, ha. I'm surprised the "pig" box art wasn't planted like in that other video.
Unfortunately the body can was off and no video from the dash of the cruiser. Which means we need to trust the police regardless of the historical preponderance of evidence.
Agent Gibbs
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explains why everything looks like a weapon to these cops if a squiggly line can look like an IG
excelsiorlef
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There's zero indication of any of that here. Zero indication she was coming off anything you describe.
And no I don't have to entertain both sides at all.
The police department is raging a media war against the place. It makes sense the place would have kept the box
RoninChaos
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I appreciate that there's a police officer posting in this thread. With that said, this is comical. If I was the pizza place in question I would have saved the box too if I thought an entire police union and the media was going to descend on my place of business and possibly fuck up my lively-hood over one cop's bad day.
lol. Thanks. I almost just spit water all over my screen.
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