peachplumbpear

Excerpt from the linked article: The video opens with a cacophony of bangs and bonks, as the unseen officer loses a great battle. Suddenly, he toboggans into frame, turtle-style — legs first, face-down — whipping along the outer rim of the slide before he spills from its wide metal maw onto the ground.ALT
“Normal people, when they go down a slide, they’re fine.” - Rhett Allain, an associate professor of physics at Southeastern Louisiana UniversityALT

i’ve never wished so badly before that a viral moment could never end i'm crying

roombawithaknife

I’ve never witnessed such a coming together of different people to make fun of a cop before. The local classic rock station was talking about it.

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Even the mayor is like. I guess we should do something to protect our idiot jackass cops who apparently don’t know how to use SLIDES

corpsebrigadier

More people should abandon Internet discourse and get into observing/engaging with local politics. I say this not because local politics often offers more meaningful opportunities for effective praxis (although it does), but because local politics often offers just as much highly toxic and entertaining petty drama.

I highly recommend city council meetings. You might make yourself an informed voter and active community member or something. You also might get to watch an ongoing soap opera of old men ready to murder one another over trash collection ordinances, and unlike the Internet, none of them can effectually tell one another to kill themselves no matter how hard and how clearly they are thinking it.