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sharp_stick

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8. Making Traffic Stops?

Reply to comipinko (Reply #6)

Wed Jan 4, 2012, 03:54 PM

Jan 2012

I guess you don't know the Brownsville police department. They don't make traffic stops, they sit on the side of the road playing Angry Birds and texting each other.

They were almost as bad down there as the Staties "patroling" the highways up here in central Connecticut.

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Police kill armed eighth-grader in Texas school [View all] Burgman Jan 2012 OP

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One or twenty is too much when it comes to our children. Burgman Jan 2012 #3

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Ouch. Burgman Jan 2012 #7

Making Traffic Stops? sharp_stick Jan 2012 #8

silly, that is what they call "traffic stops". comipinko Jan 2012 #9

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