(04-14-2024, 07:49 PM)snarkyguy_he_him_his Wrote:

(04-14-2024, 07:46 PM)mikesez Wrote: We had the DARE program in elementary school and the JSO officer who would show up and talk about drugs and alcohol was still salty about the end of the Sunday prohibition.  He said that in certain areas on Sundays you could find people licking sterno cans to get their fix and ending up in the hospital.  he said the solution to that should have been making those anybody who couldn't go one day without alcohol stay in the hospital until their alcoholism was "cured" and that simply selling beer 7 days a week would prove to be a mistake.

Made a strong impression on me, for me to remember it as well as I do. He was a real hard [BLEEP], took a dim view of most subjects that seemed fun, yet he also thought people would be willing to pay millions for hospitals to be full of addicts that didn't want to be there.  I guess the word for that is authoritarian.

I asked if I could hold his gun.

He ejected the magazine and pulled the slide to eject the round and gave it to me.

That's what I remember from DARE. lol

Yeah our guy did that too.  Let kids get in line to handle the unloaded gun and maybe some other stuff.  I remember he said most cops never had to use their guns on duty, and most of us didn't believe him.  The cops on TV shoot at bad guys every other episode!  But that was part of the message, "the cops are your friends, they won't shoot you."

He also told this kid who wore a wallet chain to stop doing that, because a cop would stereotype him as a drug user and possibly gang banger. "Looks like a duck, walks like a duck, talks like a duck, " the cop said. The kid was mad and said it was unfair and it was just something he did because he thought it looked cool. Next year he offered to sell me some pot though so the cop was on to something I guess.

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