{"id":166,"date":"2006-02-24T14:41:35","date_gmt":"2006-02-24T19:41:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.summerofjim.com\/?p=166"},"modified":"2006-02-26T08:14:27","modified_gmt":"2006-02-26T13:14:27","slug":"dont-the-police-have-something-better-to-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/summerofjim.com\/?p=166","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t the Police Have Something Better to Do?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Instead of trapping decent and honest citizens who might be driving a smidge  too fast, the public would be better served if the police \u2026<\/p>\n<p>Dunkin Donuts will periodically introduce new flavours to their offering. How  do we know they\u2019re good? How do we know they\u2019re <em>safe<\/em>? The police could be  very useful in providing a critical review.<\/p>\n<p>Flagrant misuse of the express lines at super market check-outs. It\u2019s about  time &#8220;John Law&#8221; stepped in to enforce express lane limits and eradicate this  scourge.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s against the law to remove tags from mattresses. When was the last time  your mattress was checked? It\u2019s time for a house by house search.<\/p>\n<p>Are you bothered by those nasty birds that crap on your car? Or what about  those damned Canadian Geese that treat our beaches and golf courses like a  private litter box? And what about this bird flu stuff? It\u2019s time that the  police take action. Shoot them all\u2026 the pigeons, the crows, the Canadian Geese  &#038; those detestable sparrows. It will help improve the line officer\u2019s  markmanship skills<\/p>\n<p>See that filthy pigeon begging for food from that little kid near the park  bench? Blast him! Straighten the cap, button that shirt, shine those shoes &#038;  kill that bird! That\u2019s what we expect from our men and women in blue!<\/p>\n<p>What do you think?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Instead of trapping decent and honest citizens who might be driving a smidge too fast, the public would be better served if the police \u2026 Dunkin Donuts will periodically introduce new flavours to their offering. How do we know they\u2019re &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/summerofjim.com\/?p=166\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-ash-creek-bourbon-conversation-corner"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/summerofjim.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/summerofjim.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/summerofjim.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/summerofjim.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/summerofjim.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/summerofjim.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/summerofjim.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/summerofjim.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/summerofjim.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}