Late Friday, at the University of California at Davis, Lt. John Pike casually pepper sprayed a line of seated students to clear a path on campus in full view of a slew of people holding up phones and cameras (more pictures and videos here). As some have pointed out, it's almost like he'd never heard of the internet -- like he'd been magically transported through time from the 60s or 70s or something! In addition to an outpouring of justified outrage, the resulting footage captured by those onlookers of course led to an avalanche of photoshops and captioned photos hitting the web over the weekend.
When I was getting a B.S. in Criminal Justice we were taught that pepper spray was something used to non-lethally slow an attacker, not something to dole out as punishment without benefit of a trial to people you're about to arrest. And no, there isn't any language in the 8th and 14th Amendments that says "not applicable to hippie demonstrators." But enough with the depressing stuff -- let's jam that into a box with the diploma I never use and get on with the hilarious photoshops cementing Lt. John Pike's place in internet meme history.
Oh, and drop Pepper Spray Cop a line when you have a minute. We're sure that he'd love to hear from you.
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Just to clarify, I only wrote part of the text accompanying this article, if anybody who knows me was wondering why it doesn’t quite read like me.
To be fair, that baby seal was asking for it, loitering like that.
Why weren’t these students in class or doing homework? Its the entitled youth like these who are bringing our country to its knees. Get back to class or go get a job. They deserved it if you ask me. You don’t go to college to act like a worthless d-bag
Corndog’s right, you have to join a frat if you want to learn how to be a worthless d-bag.
“Why weren’t these students in class or doing homework? Its the entitled youth like these who are bringing our country to its knees. Get back to class or go get a job. They deserved it if you ask me. You don’t go to college to act like a worthless d-bag”
I bet you’re fun at parties.
Casually pepper spraying the singing butler. [imgur.com]
Oh yeah, cause the constitution and laws all have that caveat. You are only allowed freedom of speech if you don’t behave like some random troll on the internet thinks you should. If you aren’t working, or spending all of your time with your nose to the grindstone, you deserve violence!
Because that’s the free way! I certainly trust armed guys I’ve never met before to choose if I’m a d-bag and go after me with a weapon because they feel like it. Who needs laws and protections? That’s just pinko commie stuff, right? Give me.. well, clearly not liberty… give me overbearing authoritarian assholes, or give me death! That’s what the US was founded on, dang nabbit!
sigh
No Captain Pike references? Internet, I am disappoint.
I made one too!!
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more here [dudelol.com]
This is the best one: [travismcfarland.tumblr.com]