Agreed.  I literally just returned a rental to Hertz for a work trip yesterday.  I got a BMW 5 series and it was great.  Hertz clearly wasn’t as well positioned as others, due to large fleet costs and other internal decisions.  But to say that this industry is doomed is laughable.  Just as laughable as to assume that…

Yup.

You can’t compare this with UberEats because Lyft doesn’t deliver food to you. It delivers you to food. That being said, I’m not going to Virginia for some app deal.

The Interim Chief actually was secure enough to take decisive action. But regardless who was in charge, no one was going to let people break windows and set limos on fire on Inauguration Day. Those folks were rioting, and not protesting. I saw thousands of protesters that day who were fine.

Actually Dis Con is a catchall for a lot of things, but not contempt of cop. Loitering, screaming like an asshole in public, refusing to obey a traffic order (like this guy). It will get upheld. But even if it doesn’t, dude has to go in person to fight it.

See the targeted part.

Oh they’re aware of it. But they know it as a thing that happens to “those people” in “that part of town” and they’re all “targeted” so really it’s a shame but it’s not their problem.

Oh, I completely agree that there are far more dangerous jobs than being a cop. The difference for most of them (logger, roofer, fisherman) is that its either carelessness, equipment or dumb luck that probably kills most of them. Cops are taught that people kill them which makes encounters much more stressful, even…

Policing is a dangerous job, but it’s probably more mentally taxing than physically, Though kevlar in August is no fun, it beats roofing or road work. Those are real jobs.

As a cop, we never have people sign their tickets. It’s not really safe. The last thing I want to do is give someone whose day is ruined by me, a pen and my ticket book. That’s not smart.

Cop here. Sorry that happened to you. That betrayal of trust haunts us regardless of what officer from what department commits it.

1. Pizza Bolis is terrible.

I don't know what rich place your police department works for, but in my department, we most assuredly drive padiddles.

Before I saw this was posted on Deadspin, my first thought was Streetcar Named Desire.

While going the wrong way on a one-way.

Nah. If she was the "Let them eat cake" person, she would have just stopped the car and threw dude the keys and said park this.

If you dine at super fancy places, there's a tip line for the waiter as well as the Captain. I had to step out to call my mother in 2000 to ask what the hell a Captain did and how much to tip them.

Right. If you're choosing 24 people which I assume is going to be 12 males and 12 females, on a one way trip, then I'm guessing babies need to be made. Will she stay married even if she never sees her husband again? Or will she have a Mars husband as well?

The whole work to live, live to work thing. I think most people need to set goals yearly that they can have work help them achieve.

I totally get this. You use the job to allow you to enjoy the other things, family, vacations, hobbies, etc. I find it hard because when you don't have those things, then the work becomes more important. So it's cool to make good money, but if your weekends are boring or lonely, then you probably want to find a…