This is the perfect example of the halloween costume party that policing in America has become. [View all]

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What in the living hell is chuckles dressed up as here?

He's wearing desert camouflage pants on the streets of a St. Louis suburb (presumably to blend in with the asphalt, fire hydrants, light poles, parked cars, and post office boxes);

He has a combat helmet on (as if someone, anyone, is going to be firing mortar rounds at him);

He has super-cool, high-lace tan boots as if he's going to be wading into quicksand or a jungle stream (for christ's sake, a pair of goddamn sneakers would be infinitely more logical);

He has those mean-ass looking black gloves (because you never know when desert sand-storms, rain-forest downpours, snakes or scorpions are going to interfere with your trigger finger);

He has the affected, squinty-eyed demeanor of Clint Eastwood in a 60's western;

And he has a sniper rifle and scope on a tripod (because, I guess, you never know when might have to pick off Uncle Bob and Aunt Judy in the next block over for jay-walking).

You have to figure it took this guy the better part of two hours to put on this dumb-ass costume (which, of course, included the half-hour in front of the mirror striking poses and muttering "yippee-kai-yay mother-fucker&quot .

Just put on a Captain America costume and be done with it.