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don't askTopic: Crime and Punishment
"Is that a joke?"
I think this says a lot about the mentality of this town and it's relationship(s) with the police.
This is a Halloween costume store set up right near and inside a major shopping center with a movie theatre, cafes and department stores.
Sure, if you were here you would go right on by it, go about your business. Say nothing.
But as you can see, it is very adult oriented. (There is also a rock radio station here offering listeners a chance to win a contest and experience The Playboy Mansion. Would you want to go?)
But these are both the types of things you probably could not find even in major metropolitan cities.
So, sure. You can look at the picture in the privacy of your own home via your computer and give thanks to my cam phone and the reach of the Internet.
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But to actually see it is another thing. And therein lies the fantasy driven cross over, so the poster and ad do it's job...
a sexy cop.....against a literal clown posing as an immigrated person who doesn't know culture.
(Borat him self was never so sexy so I guess this is cast improvement although departure from the real thing (i.e. real Borat)..
But, yes, I have seen the real bonafide police aka R.C.M.P. parked in the parking mall lot, doing heaven knows what. Going for coffee perhaps. Taking a well deserved break maybe.
Well. So? Where am I at with this blog entry you dutifully ask?
I guess it means even the real police are not to be made fun of are they , or is that which you importune me on what you think I am saying?
No. You can make fun of the police. After all, this poster is a joke, an advertisement and the police are the butt of it and that is a fact.
But I mean seriously, if newly immigrated people can't take a joke now and then and receive a few jokey emails from yours truly...
...well, then SHOULD I NOT expect for a real police man to come to my door, arrest me for doing so, contravene the Constititional right for freedom of expression (as seen so obviously well expressed in the photo of the poster I just took) and my political mode of thought..(based solely upon having read this blog entry which means I am having a George Orwell style 1984'sque 'thought-crime' in progress...)
and proceed to come over and shoot me point blank
with his or her gun double tap style in the forehead and chest and call it suicide by cop?
Well I would. Because the last thing I normally think of when I think of a cop is to equate it with sleaziness.
So. When I go out for Halloween I am going out as a CIA/DEA agent.
Not very sexy I know, but since when did Halloween become about dressing sexy?
CIA and DEA agents are not very good targets for humor and I hope I don't embarass any real agents out there. May gods speed be with you on your important and time consuming work.
And no I am not a morality cop. I really do not morally object to this poster at all.I t does show though the lengths of what you are allowed to do though in this country doesn't it?What would you say or do if it was in YOUR neighborhood , near shopping, restaurants and cafes and movie theaters?
a-ok
crushed out
caffeinated
cheeky
chatty
d'oh