My sophomore year of college I walked home drunk from a party down a relatively empty road. Cops stopped me, I was hammered and they could have easily picked me up for drunk in public. Instead, they gave me a ride home, no questions asked.

I’ve legitimately heard (some) policemen say they’d be happy to drive someone who is drunk home so that they don’t drive.  Or in the least call a cab or an uber for the person.

The expression on that cop’s face tho

I’m in my early 20's and get blind drunk in Sea Isle. Having never been to the Jersey Shore before, and hating standing in a super packed bar to pay for overpriced drinks, I decide I’m going to walk back to my buddy’s house in Ocean City.

Call your coach, not the cops. He’ll call the cops that are in his pocket.

Who was he harming, other than himself?Even then, how much is he harming himself? Sounds like he made a prerty good decision for a guy that drunk. Who benefitted from his arrest? How are the people and property of Iowa City safer now? What lesson has he learned other than “don’t trust cops?” Next time he may decide to…

Yeah. There are still places in the world (and even in this shithole country) that are small enough and friendly enough that if you get yourself in a drunken pinch, a police officer would provide a lift home.

The lesson is “We can beat Northern Illinois without you. Don’t do this again and make us look bad for letting you play if the next game is against a real team.”

I’m not sure what his or his family members’ football playing status has to do with this, but - yes, the police are the assholes here. He was drunk and made a dumb mistake (while trying to at least be a reasonably responsible drunk idiot, by the way). They could have, you know HELPED him, which is what police are…

I split time for work between Tokyo and the US, but the attitude of cops is one thing that is profoundly different between the US and Japan. In Japan, there are no public intoxication laws, so shockingly, cops’ jobs are to make sure drunk people are safe.

When I was an undergrad, I got extremely drunk and found myself lost in a neighborhood behind all the college watering holes. Two cops pulled up and made me put my hands on the car while they searched me. They then asked what I was doing in this neighborhood (they told me that it was a well known area for…

Some important subtext about this article that I feel is being missed:

I always managed my contributions throughout the year (necessitated by 401k eligible bonus and mid year salary increase) quite closely to be sure I would get the full match come December. One year I miscalculated, and I was pleasantly surprised to find that my company did a true-up. Good for those companies that do…

Agreed, should have been up front. The whole time reading I was thinking “But what about the true-ups? Too many people have gotten burned because their company only matches on a per-paycheck basis, not on your gross contributions over the year!”

Some companies do offer a true-up where they’ll calculate how much the match would have been had you spread it evenly through the year and contribute the delta in Q1 the following year.

“One key 401(k) consideration: Will your company continue to match your contributions throughout the year if you pay in one lump sum at the beginning?”

Respect the goddamn period and capital “V”.  It’s D.Va, heathen.  Agree with me or I’ll prove your point even further.

 I don’t understand why this is an issue now to call a hero by his alias instead of their real name

Ask him out! The worst that could happen is he said no, and that’s still good because you can move on then!

I understand the reasoning for using “Wrecking Ball” since it’s part of his lore at Junkertown. But, still that’s his stage name, or maybe the name he gave his mech. Would be like calling D.Va “Meka”. Sure, her mech is a large part of her identity and gameplay toolkit, but D.Va is the pilot, the character, and the one…