Living Life in NYC: Things you may or may not wish to see on your walk to the subway

[xraytheenforcer]

A beat cop, wearing blue nitrile gloves, muttering into his radio while simultaneously staring into a garbage can with a look of pure horror/disgust on his face.

Comments

[knightofredempt.livejournal.com]

Sounds like the opening scene to an episode of Dexter

[xraytheenforcer.livejournal.com]

Ha. I was thinking a Law and Order spin-off, but Dexter or the X-Files fits, too.

Hahaha.

[knightofredempt.livejournal.com]

Never got into the other two but Dexter is a firm favorite here at Dragons Rest :-)

[xraytheenforcer.livejournal.com]

all glory to the compassionate serial killer!

[knightofredempt.livejournal.com]

As a sociopath can he be described as compassionate? this is one of the things I love about the concept of Dexter, that which we empathize with, is actually an act.

[songsofautumn.livejournal.com]

Well, I guess someone finally whacked Oscar the Grouch.

[xraytheenforcer.livejournal.com]

It was the incessant bitching and negativity. Fuck, I suppose that means I'm next!

[knightofredempt.livejournal.com]

Nooooo not Oscar I loved him. I wanted to grow up to be a Grouch (my wife would say I did)

[xraytheenforcer.livejournal.com]

grumble grumble

[niamhotoole.livejournal.com]

How can you be

amused

?

You sick woman you.

[xraytheenforcer.livejournal.com]

Well, if I'd seen actual body parts, I might feel differently. For all we know, he was trying to rescue his wedding ring and telling his buddy about it.

[sivestrit.livejournal.com]

Classic

I seem to be spending a fair bit of time with cops at the moment.

Sara's car got stolen at the start of last week. It turns out the thieves then used it in an armed robbery of a post office near Edinburgh.

So we had detectives round last night taking our DNA samples to rule us out when they do the forensic sweep of the car, and to take statements. Then they got really good fingerprint results from the car, so they turned up at work today to take my fingerprints.

Really nice guys actually. I asked them if they had seen The Wire. One said he had heard of it and was going to use a line he had heard from it on a crim some day...

[sivestrit.livejournal.com]

They also took Sara's fingerprints, to rule our results out.


Turns out the robbers were so stupid, they held up a post office in a town known to be a Rangers stronghold wearing... Celtic scarves. And wondered how they got identified by witnesses.

The cops actually seemed disappointed in the robbers from what they've said to us. They finish each sentence by shaking their heads and saying 'amateurs...'

[xraytheenforcer.livejournal.com]

LOL. OMG, morons. Is Sara's car OK, or does it have stylish bullet holes in it?

[blanchemains.livejournal.com]

Not only are bullet holes stylish, but they also give you street cred. Nothing says "I am a badass" like tangible proof that someone felt they had to shoot up your ride.

Or maybe that's just an LA thing?

[niamhotoole.livejournal.com]

HA HA HAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHA

[arya.livejournal.com]

Well, I'd be horrified and disgusted if I had to do a full cavity search on a trash can, on the suspicion of drug possession.

[xraytheenforcer.livejournal.com]

Ha. Honestly, I am pretty sure something like this was the real story. Which is sooooo not dramatic. Traumatic, yes.

[tom-foster.livejournal.com]

Probably dropped his doughnut.*

Or, as I believe you Americans say, "donut".

*Law enforcement professionals are hard working, dedicated people. Any prediliction they may have for convenient, high-energy food is merely a function of the difficult work they do at unsociable hours. Nothing in this comment is intended to imply otherwise.

Now if you'll exccure me, Police Academy is on, so I need to go turn the TV off.

[xraytheenforcer.livejournal.com]

In the US, "doughnut" and "donut" are used pretty equally. I prefer the former to the latter.

[bazzlebane.livejournal.com]

You wanted to look, didn't you?

[xraytheenforcer.livejournal.com]

Totally. But my better sense kicked in before I acted on it.

[tom-foster.livejournal.com]

Lol - something else I learnt from the Simpsons turns out to be untrue! Damnit :)