Last week, Ford celebrated another major milestone in its storied history with the production of the 100,000th Ford Police Interceptor vehicle. Produced by Troy Design and Manufacturing, a wholly-owned Ford subsidiary, the milestone model will do precisely what so many other Ford-built LEO vehicles have done—serve the purpose of helping officers protect and serve communities…
Ugh, don’t you just want to chew on this until you can wriggle free? Remember that thing where, if a coyote gets caught in a trap, it’ll chew its own leg off to get away? Well, we humans like to think that we’re smarter than that. For Pete’s sake, silly coyote, why don’t you just…
Sobriety Checkpoints and the 4th Amendment. Photo: Versageek The Police force in the state of Michigan adopted the practice of conducting random sobriety checkpoints in an effort to catch drunk drivers and encourage sober driving. During this operation, all drivers passing through would be stopped and questioned. If an officer suspected the driver could be…
Police suspect Amish buggy in hit-and-run…looks like someone’s getting shunned. Either someone had a little too much hooch during Rumspringa, or else he’s got some ‘splainin’ to do. That’s because an Amish buggy was allegedly involved in a hit-and-run accident in Pennsylvania this past Saturday. Reportedly, the incident happened at an intersection in Wilmington Township,…
If you walk past a parked police car, especially if it’s in front of a business, it is oftentimes still running. Regardless of how long a police officer’s task outside of the car might be, it’s not all that uncommon. But why do they do it, if it wastes gas? A reader of the Answer…
A young Jake Lloyd stars in the 1996 Christmas classic Jingle All the Way South Carolina police have arrested former child star Jake Lloyd, who is best known for portraying a young Anakin Skywalker in Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace, but who should be best known for portraying 9-year-old Turbo-Man enthusiast Jamie Langston…
San Francisco police are using quadskis to patrol both land and sea Photo: YouTube via YouTube Cops in the San Francisco Police Department might just start calling themselves Bond. James Bond. Like something out of a low-budget James Bond film, the select San Francisco cops have taken to the open road—and the open sea—thanks to…
Alaska has recently seen a rise in a surprising and strange criminal activity. The latest occurrence happened early on Sunday, the 21st. Don Dyer was driving about 100 miles north of Anchorage, when he finally arrived at his destination: Talkeetna Spur Road, and the dead moose that was hit and killed by a car there….
It may seem a no-brainer that playing Pokémon Go while driving is a bad idea—and by “bad” we mean unsafe for you and everyone around you. Still, the urge to find a Vaporeon or a Zapdos (good luck with that) is apparently too strong to overcome for some. It’s not the first accident we’ve seen…
Just for reference, don’t do this in public Old Man Dancing Photo: Christopher Schmidt Dancing has a time and a place—your living room, a club, your car when you hear your favorite tune. But one man in Florida decided that the best place to show off his moves was the roof of a car in…
Pig Pig, the jolly ol’ swine gets a ride home Photo: Shelby Township Police via Facebook It was around 7:00pm, and the phone rang–a 911 call from a woman who survived a startling encounter just moments earlier. The dispatcher couldn’t believe what was being reported. There was a pig on the loose in the neighborhood….
Few things will make your stomach drop more quickly than seeing bright red and blue lights flashing near you when you’re driving—not just in your rearview mirror, but anywhere in your peripheral. It’s undeniable that we’ve come to associate the pairing of those two colors with law enforcement or other emergency vehicles. They quickly and…
Most of the police cars you see today are special models, with improved brakes and turbocharged engines that make it difficult—if not impossible—for anyone to slip away. But speed is not all that police officers need, which is why Ford has come up with a completely new technology designed to help protect officers instead of…
When your car is stolen, probably the only thing that you really want is your car back. So, when a woman from Calgary, Canada, received her car back from the police, she hit the proverbial jackpot. That is, if she likes cocaine, crack, and shooting pellet guns. Legally Amazed: Watch Autotrader rave about the 2016…
The Shortcuts app A new iPhone shortcut allows you to more easily record video when you’re pulled over by a police officer. Working in an app called Shortcuts, Robert Peterson of Arizona created the “Police” shortcut in September and shared it on Reddit. Shortcuts uses Apple’s voice-activated assistant Siri to quickly initiate custom actions that…
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