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These comments are insufferable. The text of the post was missing and people are assuming what it's about wildly.
https://xcancel.com/SudburyPolice/status/1384563244619206658?t=wDzFgNUUM0VdF4wQlGD6cQ&s=19
This is a reminder to not believe anything you read online, and to reverse image search often :)
This is so weird I immediately assumed it was US cops.
I don't get it. It's Canada and weed is legal. Are they just openly saying they're trying to entrap law abiding citizens?
ACAB
The campaign is about driving while high. That is not law abiding.
Yeah we had ads about driving high even before legalization. Specifically remember a kids pack of zigzags talking To him in like 2007 "YOU. Are high. Do not drive"
Likely targeting impaired drivers.
Omg the comments on here are pathetic
Can't y'all have fun or laugh for once??
Fun with the police? No.
I know! People here are way too serious.
It's not funny and actually cringe because what point is it proving? It's kind of like sticking beer cans under there and asking if you're thirsty...
They're wearing masks, so it's 2020 or later in the photo, but weed was legalized federally in 2018. If cops in Canada did post this, they're dumber than I gave them credit for.
Driving while impaired is not. The photo is taken on a parking lot. Connect the dots.
That's entrapment!
They trying to catch fat people? I don't get it
They’re trying to catch police officers who smoke weed. That’s why they’re doing it in front of a police station.
Ah they wouldn't want any po-poes to be chill now would they
People who smoke pot are sometimes referred to having the munches when getting high. An innovative and low-teech way to catch pot-smokers!
Solid use of taxpayer funding.
Since the total cost would be under $20 (for the snacks—everything else they would have had already or picked out of the trash), even at current ridiculously high grocery prices, I'm not overly concerned about that aspect.
Glad they were doing it in their off hours and not while getting paid. Or maybe they were getting paid, but they’re all caught up on real crime in their city and there’s literally nothing else they could be doing in this utopian paradise.
Oh FFS. If a boss were to whine about employees doing this on company time we'd be dogpiling on them. Let's not have ridiculous double standards.
If noone reports a crime, how will they know to respond to crime? This is like complaining about firefighters eating dinner while on duty.
Maybe part of the job of these specific officers is outreach, and they think staging a silly photo contributes to that. Or they could be waiting for something/someone else, and thought this was more interesting than just standing around talking about the weather. Or maybe they were indeed doing this after or before work, or while not on the clock for other reasons. Truth is, you don't know any more than I do. And to be honest? Even if they had no excuse, how much pay do you really think they would have collected in the five minutes it took them to stage the shot?
(Sorry, but it annoys me when people expect perfect efficiency from others. Hardly anyone is actually doing work every single second when they're at work, and if you are, I'd advise you to ease off before you burn out. That applies to cops as well as everyone else.)
Good lord. Does nobody have a sense of humor anymore. You people are losers
Fucking eh. Admittedly the joke is low hanging fruit, but still worth a chuckle for the effort.
It's not funny and actually cringe because what point is it proving? It's kind of like sticking beer cans under there and asking if you're thirsty...
I agree, it's not that funny. Who cares? I don't imagine they were trying to make a point. A police officer is just about the most stressful job someone can have. Maybe they were just trying to have a little harmless fun. People are so uptight.
Most years police officers don't even rank in the top 20 most deadly jobs. Pretty much anyone in construction, logging, mining, agriculture, or fishing has much more reason to be stressed than cops, certainly more worried about dying at work. In America, they might be pretty worried because technically a state of civil war has existed for many years now with the cops killing more than 1000 civilians (over 1300 people in 2024) every year, but they made that bed, and they can lay in it. This is a picture of tax dollars at work. I don't think it's funny at all; to me, it's a repulsive reminder that they want as many people in jail, for any and all reasons they can come up with. "To Serve and Protect." I urge everyone to think hard about who they serve and protect , and why. Perhaps a more accurate slogan would be "Generating Revenue for the State", or thinking about the fact that only about 7% of officers time is spent investigating serious crime maybe just "Wasting Time on the Backs of the Taxpayers"
I disagree. Police go into unknown situations everyday. Potentially deadly situations. Farmers, tradesman, logging deaths are largely accidents. I am a tradesman and am not stressed out in the least about the potential of an accident. My opinion though.
Also, you've never goofed off on the job and had a little fun? They are in Canada. It's not a police state. People are allowed to have fun at work.
Point taken.
I'm a woodworker. I've got a bandsaw that makes the one the meatman uses look like a toy, a 9 horse 3 phase shaper capable of detonating any unsecured piece of wood that comes within reach of it's spinning head, and a tablesaw just like thousands of others that kill or maim my fellow woodworker every year. Every piece of wood is an unknown situation. Was it dried too quickly, and then case hardened, or did it just grow with the internal stress that's going to lead me to be pulled into a machine, or hurt or killed as part of it comes flying out of a machine? Just because the machines don't have awareness or intent doesn't make them less dangerous. Kudos to you for not being stressed. It seems to me that if more cops had your attitude about facing death every day, more if us civilians would survive every year.
I still think the folks more likely to die just trying to make ends meet have every right to be more scared and stressed than those of us who get to live safer lives. It rankles me when I hear folks refer to how stressful cops jobs are, whilst not paying homage to to the men and women who literally build our homes and feed our hungry mouths, especially when I know they're killing a few of us every day. Don't get me talking about the dogs they kill, either. What goes around comes around. Mahaps my job is so dangerous because I kill trees? I'd accept that. I'd rather be killing trees than people, or dogs, for that matter.
Insofar as my police state, well I think Canadians better think seriously about the police state to the south. Especially since we've gone and reelected the nutter in chief, and the days of resource wars are here (read Ukraine). I believe there's been some commentary from the man in charge of the world's most advanced military about a 51st state. Fuck around and find out is fully in play across the globe. The police state coming for an extended visit might seem unthinkable. I'll bet they felt the same way in Ukraine 3 years ago, in Poland back in the '30s, and even here in America just a few hundred years back. I've got my bugout bag, and my family knows the plan. They also know not to talk to people who's main interest is detaining people, people who's main catchphrase is "Anything you say can and will be used against you in a court of law." Ot still amazes me every day that most folks think of cops as on their side, as buddies almost. What was it the scorpion said? You knew what I was when you picked me up.
Damn straight I've fucked off on the job, just never on the Taxpayers back. I'm self employed nowadays, so I only get to fuck around on my own dime. This may have colored my opinion.
I hate the stoner stereotype of people eating shitty foods.
Anecdotely the stoners I know do eat shitty food. I believe their exists a blackhole that's hard to get out of. You feel shitty or stressed, smoke, eat shitty food because motivation is gone to do other things, feel shitty the next day because your body is surviving on garbage calories, repeat.
I had a family member that needed mental health care, first thing they did was alter the diet and check vitimin levels, because its hard to get mentally well if you aren't physically well.
It kind of makes sense for people who only smoke occasionally, probably not accurate for stoners though
I don't get it... Pot is legal in Canada