Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for October 02, 2022

Chillingly realistic.

Get on the next bus to Montana.

But always available to write a revenue aka speeding ticket

And we haven’t seen anything yet.

At least they still try to put on a good show when someone is murdered. As long as he’s not a poor black drug addict. Then they encourage white people to shoot to kill.

It’s what happens when your’ District Attorney is George Gascón

PBS is taking place in Afghanistan today. Or Russia.

it’s bad everywhere Rat…sorry

Has Pastis turned into an anti LEO ex lawyer?

How true.

Sums up most big cities in the USA, Mexico, Brazil, Columbia……

Probably the first time I’ve felt like agreeing with Rat.

The problem where i live is that the police are so busy dealing with homeless, mentally ill people, they haven’t got the resources to deal with actual crimes. 4 hour wait on their high priority list when i was attacked by a group of 20 teenagers while at work in a mall.

It was the dispatcher who stole his car; “Uh, we don’t investigate stolen cars anymore.”

In a pinch, you can ride a goat!

The Robert A. Heinlein novel I Will Fear No Evil portrays the future United States as being filled with “AA’s,” i.e. Abandoned Areas, which are lawless no-man’s lands that one doesn’t travel through except in an armored vehicle.

When I went to Vermont on spring break during grad school, my wife and I marveled that the biggest crime news that week was someone had broken into some vending machines and stolen a bunch of change.

That’s about it!

I’ve heard that in some parts of the country, thefts under $950 are OK. I do not recommend those parts of the country.

It all ends in a giant supernova

Get out my phone. Cut on app. Stop car (lock in park) Locate car.

Time to get out of Dodge.

So much for protect and serve.

I remember when the FBI had a database of cars stolen in the US. They were taken to task because they had more info on stolen cars than missing children.

The idiot mayor of the City of St. Louis (population 300,000 — and dropping, unlike the rest of the metro St. Louis area) was talking about suing the car manufacturer, because car thefts of Kias and Hyundais are so common now.

It’s certainly not due to the inept police and prosecutor. And “inept” is the nicest word you can use to describe them, especially the police.

Maybe he should have called a social worker because the local police has been defunded and crime and peaceful protests are running rampant.

Sounds about like it.

Steal a police cruiser.

Going to Montana soon, gonna be a dental floss tycoon.

Rat and Pig must live in a liberalism state, they should think about moving to a conservative state, like South Dakota (where my brother just moved to a couple of months ago).

So that’s how ride share works.

First of all, how does Rat afford a $30,000 car? Second, I must be lucky – around here, they don’t usually steal the whole car; just the catalytic converter, or occasionally whatever is inside the car.

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It seems to be increasingly apparent that many police departments don’t really care about property crimes…

“Don’t you have insurance? That’s what it’s for!”

Well, when you make enforcing the law ‘racist’, and punish cops for doing their jobs, what do you expect?

Aren’t they supposed to ask, “What is your emergency?” at the start of their 20 questions (fear not, I’ve been in many PSAPs)?

the only thing our local police do is write reports on stuff (like, collisions, thefts and assaults) after it happens

That all depends on where you live Rat. Actually quite safe with very little crime where I live, both in Michigan and Florida. Of course I do NOT live in any large city.

This is what happens when you defund the police.

Aaahh – If you want to know how we know we’re in the last days before God’s Kingdom comes to rescue us you can read Jesus prophecy in Matthew 24, Mark 13, & Luke 21.

Exactly this kind of thing has gotten so much worse in the small city where I live. It breaks my heart.

Portland, Oregon needs to have a curfew and all violators are subject to lead poisoning. A killing almost every day. Geeeez !

I live out in the country, and the other day came home to find that some jerk had left a pile of junk on my front lawn. Called the cops and one came by within minutes, and after having a good laugh, took care of getting the town to come pick it all up. Green acres is the place for me!

that’s Portland for you.

Anyone right wing trolls care to make a toxic comment about this one?

I’ve had this experience. My home and garage were robbed multiple times, and I lost 10’s of thousands of dollars worth of equipment and property. I knew who it was. The cops probably had a good idea too. They told me there was nothing they could do and told me to check for my stuff at the swap meet.

The trouble is, if police start ignoring more and more crime (for whatever reason, political, funding, whatever one might expect), this could well lead to vigilante justice when the citizenry gets too disgusted. This might sound good to many people, at first, but where does it stop? …when the “citizens on patrol” start stringing up offending individuals for over parking? And just who would these “good people” be anyway?

Rat, your Chevrolet Spark death trap would not have been stolen if you did not leave the keys in the ignition and dollar bills tossed on back seat.

In the late 90’s, i had my house broken into. They smashed the pane (it was a quiet medium sized town) then undid the door from the other side. I saw this, came in via another door assuming the back door knob would have fingerprints. The cop said “We don’t do that”. Guess I watched too much TV. Or, bet it would have if it happened to an officer’s abode.

Someone in Ukraine wrote about coming out from hiding underground during some of the early bombing, wanting to evacuate his family but he had no way to. But there was a car parked across the street and he watched it for over an hour with no one coming to it. The doors were unlocked, the key was in, and they all piled in. They found a note with a phone number in the glove box and called it and the guy apologized for stealing the car, saying he had to evacuate his family, he was so terribly sorry. He was wondering how to return the car. The answer he got was, Thank God! I have four cars and I filled their tanks and put them where I thought people would most need them, and now I’ve heard back from all four. And with that the owner wished the driver and his family safety and for peace to return.

Meanwhile, in Gotham city:

Yep. Too much crime, too few cops, too little prosecution. Way to go, California….

Yes. Yes, they are. Prepare to make thy Meet — uh, meet thy Maker. But seriously!

If the police handled incidents with cars the way they do with bicycles.

You need that police report to collect from your insurance company, rat. That’s what they are for.

There is some truth in this…i had my vehicle stolen and the police pretty much told me the same thing…minus the fleeing.

Regardless of the preceding panels, that last panel is accurate. :-(

LOL