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That's hilarious!

Awesome video.

The combo on the left is prettiest, but the one in the middle looks the most reliable.

Wouldn't it be great?

+1

Heck yeah we are! 97% of over 50,000 votes.

The main one I would have added is Futurama, but I got my wish and they just brought it back!

A home and a car are two totally different ballgames. No one needs a permit in their home.

I think that was a joke, Mike. I thought it was kinda funny. I assume he was referring to the logo at the beginning.

Yep. I gotta agree with all the others. Don't sweat the shooting. There'll be folks in your class that have never even held a gun, so you're probably already ahead of the curve. There'll be plenty of training. And plenty of shooting. It's been a while, but IIRC, firearms in the academy was 80 hours (most of it on the range). You'll get plenty of trigger time in and have all the time you need to get it right!

Just to clarify, "tracking history" is where the officer actually observes you speeding, estimates your speed, then uses radar (or lidar) to verify your speed. There's more to it than that, but that's an overall idea. I could write speeding tickets all day long without a radar or lidar unit if I wanted to. All the radar does is give an exact number to put on the ticket. After a while, you get quite good at your speed estimations. I can sit on the side of the road without a radar and tell you (within 3 mph) how fast every car is going. All the radar does is tell me to put "56" on the ticket instead of "55". Hope that helps. I know that a lot of folks who aren't LE are really confused by how radar and lidar works. I'm a Radar/Lidar instructor, so if there's anything you're curious about, holler at me and I'll be more than happy to help out.

"Slip" effect is something that someone pretty much has to try real hard to do. Most units used by US law enforcement agencies will not allow it. If I try to do it with my Laser Atlanta unit, it will give me an error code. I tried it when our motors units got a Kustom Signals unit and couldn't get it to do it either. Nope. They haven't made a model that can do that in a looong time. It leads you to operate radar without a tracking history, which is the wrong (illegal) way to do it. That bs flew in courts for a while, but not in the past decade or two.

Not sure exactly what you're referring to. I do, however, miss the good old days when you could set the squelch on a radar unit to not activate until a target was going over a certain speed. You could pull up on the side of the road and snooze undisturbed until something came along that was stop-worthy.

+1 - I used flyaway parking last time I flew out of BNA and was quite pleased.

Even on Sundays!

Saw this one the other day for the first time. Hilarious! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhlWddAXSRA

I dunno. I'm not convinced it's urine. Just watched it again and it appears that the dog might have had some taco bell......

I've never been able to figure out exactly how it works. I can say, though, that many times when I run a DL, I see out of state violations on TN DLs. When the history comes up, there are multiple columns (one for the event date, one for the action date, one for the offense description, etc.). One of the very last columns is "County". If, for example, you got a ticket in Shelby Co, it shows a "79" which is the county number for Shelby Co. I often see a state code "AR" or "VA" or whatever in the county code column. So the best statement would be "maybe it'll show up, maybe it wont". If GA doesn't participate in the compact, there's probably a better chance of it not showing up. My guess is that if another state bothers to tell TN, they'll put it on your record, but if the other state doesn't report it, you're in the clear.

TN just raised the minimum requirement for police/sheriff reserves from 40 hours to 80 hours of training, from what I've heard. Most places still do way more than that and require reserves to ride with experienced officers. I know that if you go to Memphis, Shelby Co, or Bartlett's reserve program, you do the same 500 to 600 hours that full timers do, you just don't get the POST certification.

The guys were all at a deer camp. No one wanted to room with Bob, because he snored so badly... They decided it wasn't fair to make one of them stay with him the whole time, so they voted to take turns. The first guy slept with Bob and comes to breakfast the next morning with his hair a mess and his eyes all bloodshot. They said, "Man, what happened to you? He said, "Bob snored so loudly, I just sat up and watched him all night." The next night it was a different guy's turn. In the morning, same thing, hair all standing up, eyes all bloodshot.. They said, "Man, what happened to you? You look awful! He said, 'Man, that Bob shakes the roof with his snoring. I watched him all night." The third night was Fred's turn. Fred was a tanned, older cowboy, a man's man. The next morning he came to breakfast bright-eyed and bushy-tailed. "good morning!" he said. They couldn't believe it. They said, "Man, what happened?" He said, "Well, we got ready for bed. I went and tucked Bob into bed, patted him on the butt, and kissed him good night. Bob sat up and watched me all night."

No reviews??? I loved it! I'm a happy camper!

I have to agree. Looks like many counties have already abolished the position of constable. I just spent a little while looking through TCA and have to say that there is no way in hades I'd consider being a constable. In today's sue-happy world, you're almost begging to be taken to the cleaners if you mess up in even the slightest way. The training, from what I've seen, is a 40 hour in-service which includes 8 hours of firearms. That is nowhere near the amount of training someone should have (nowadays) to be an LEO. Even in the small town departments where they have reserve officers with minimal training, they usually get to ride with an experienced officer for a good while before going out and flying solo. If you were to do it, I'd strongly suggest sticking to the required duties of the position and nothing more unless absolutely necessary. My 2 cents. Best of luck.

Well, I guess he figured that if it sounds like , it must be a command...