A California company is advertising ‘tactical response’ Tesla Cybertruck upgrades for police cruisers, including shotgun racks and sirens.
I’d buy that for a dollar!
Any department that actually buys one of these turkeys is going to be very unhappy about the maintenance costs. Can’t park under trees, can’t let it get rained on, and if you’re in a medium-speed accident, the lack of crumple zone will injure your officers at higher rates.
My first thought was that a couple cops are going to get hurt in traffic accidents and then their union is going to point to the increased injury rate as a reason for further militarization
Can’t park under trees
Well if we’re being fair, that’s a bad idea for all cop cars. Trees might drop very hostile acorns, forcing the officer to unload his gun.
Trees might drop very hostile acorns
I wish I didn’t know exactly to what you referring.
Link for anyone who hadn’t heard this ridiculous story:
I’ll just add that both officers were such bad shots that they missed the man handcuffed and strapped down in the back of their own squad car. smdh.
That officer should not have been in that job. He should’ve known his PTSD was too much of an issue.
I still pity him. He heard an acorn hit a car and was convinced he had been shot. Not shot at, shot. He thought he’d been hit by a bullet because an acorn landed on his car. His brain has been fucked by his time in the Army Special Forces.
Fortunately the man being shot at was sitting in a police car. Unlikely they were gonna hit him regardless of aim.
simply drive around until the batteries run out
Looking forward to seeing a lot of cops missing fingers
I personally welcome this new fleet of self-igniting cop cars. It’s such a time saver!
Of-fucking-course they are.
Shoulda seen this coming…
All cops should be forced to drive them
does crime in a rain storm or up a sandy incline
The cops:
On a related note how come criminals in Gotham City don’t just do crime during the day time?
They’re criminals, not monsters.
I like that, looks pretty badass
Adding the “troll” tag to your profile is a wonderful thing I learned I could do
How do you do that?
(on boost for Lemmy) go to their “about me”, tap the three dots at the top, tap “add tag”. Now whenever I see this person’s comment, I see [Troll] next to their name. It’s hilarious, since they’re such an active lil fella
Well good for you
im gonna vandalize them
why? that graffiti or scratch is just gonna rust off in a day or two
exactly thats why im gonna be throwing water balloons at them
Paint ‘em with salt water. Or inversely, with lacquer, if you’re fancy.
Add some salt. Generic water softener salt will do,
“We have an officer down! He closed his door and now he’s bleeding out.” reference
The taxpayers should sue for misuse/abuse of funds if any of these get bought by or for police departments. They don’t need every expensive toy they set their eyes on.
Looks like its a good time to be a criminal
My first thought was the polygonal cars from Perfect Dark’s Chicago Streets level
I am just sitting here looking at all you people upset about government waste and thinking about the crap I see every day working for a company that is primarily a government contractor. The river of dirty money.
Just this week alone, and this is Thursday, I told a state employee PE that his spec calls for a part no longer manufactured and if he doesn’t update his spec he is going to get whatever I find on eBay and he said he doesn’t care. Tens of millions of dollars project and this guy is having me put in used parts on a new system.
As a PE, fuck that guy, that’s fucked up.
Maybe but it isn’t uncommon. This can’t be news for you. You know the game.
Government puts out the bid. Some shitheads like Jacobs or Parsons grab it up. They recycle some decade old spec. Subcontract it out to 3 companies who subcontract it out to 8 companies and so on until 90 different companies are involved with ten guys doing the actual work.
And now everyone is trying to clone a system from the early 80s. Because no one wants to do engineering, meetings are far easier. The excuse will always be that prudence is a virtue, which might be true but it isn’t the sole virtue.
Private industry now, which has its own problems. I previously worked in water/sewage, so even a recycled design works. The focus was quality for the public, we just had 6 guys doing a 2 man job. I secretly think there are more people than jobs at this point.
Private industry in a different field, it’s all about speed, quality be damned. Luckily I’ve gotten the chance to show quality leads to less time wasted overall.
Still a love of meetings and shit though, private or public. Waste of life time.
The focus was quality for the public,
If I had a nickle for every time someone with a degree in civil engineering told me about electrical stuff or software stuff. Guys think that if it costs more it must be better or even worse that if it is was the norm in their 20s it must be best.
Whatever it’s Friday and I am sick of caring about you people not dying from choleria because some PE want to run their little con.
Lol I’m a mechanical engineer with a lot of experience in software, so maybe that alters my protective a little.
It’s a beautiful Friday, enjoy.
said he doesn’t care
said
Please tell me that this was in writing and not actually verbal. And if it was, CC that to everyone now who’s going to blame you later when it all goes horribly wrong.
We all know, everyone knows. You think this is atypical? And yeah I sent my email and copied everyone I was supposed to. Nothing happens. I wrote up a nice one pointing out that these parts are no longer manufactured and as a result I will have to buy used and long run this is hurting the operation team. Even suggested a list of alternative parts. His response? “Rejected, follow spec”. No exaggeration here. So much for mutual respect. 3 word response to another engineer bringing up major project concerns.
I don’t drink tap water when I am in or around Toronto ON. There is a reason for that, I have seen how the sausage is made. Sent a system there I want to say 6 months back with a PLC from about 2002. Whole system was full of used parts, as I explained in my email.
Arizona, California, New York City, Toronto, parts of Florida, Sussex County New Jersey, Dubai, Oregon, and UAE off the top of my head. I am sure I am forgetting plenty. Places where I have sent brand new pieces of equipment with used parts inside it and I warned the guy running the project that this was going to happen if they didn’t update the spec and they didn’t care.
“You’re under a rust!”
STOP! In the name of Elon!
