Girl buys water, spends night in jail

[Rain Man]

Originally Posted by suzzer99

Please local and state police departments everywhere, spare zero expense stamping out college-age drinking. Lord knows none of us ever drank in college, and I have no sympathy for those who do.

Whatever it takes money and man-hour-wise – no amount of overtime or overfunded pensions is too much. Bust college kids for 25 years, retire at 80% of your final salary (goosed to the moon with bogus overtime your last few years) due to "hazard pay", then go work another lucrative gig and double-dip until you're 65. You deserve it. True heroes.

Don't get me started on public pension abuse. That stuff is destroying America from the bottom up.

I met a woman a few months ago who was a former police officer in a very large city. She looked to be in her early sixties, and she shocked me when she mentioned that she'd been retired for 25 years. I asked her how she managed that, and she said she took a "full disability" retirement from the police force.

It turned out that she fell and broke her wrist. Since it was her "gun hand", apparently she made the argument that she needed to retire on disability, and the police force paid it. Are there no desk jobs in the police department? And how long does it take a wrist to heal? It was absolutely ridiculous.

And I should note that this is not an anti-police thing at all. If anything, it's an anti-management thing where people decide that they can give away public money like it's candy. 25 years worth of candy.