If you get into a car ‘accident’ on the regular to the point that it might attract attention, you’re the poster-child for the case that there are no accidents, only collisions.

Those are fair points to make and we could discuss those. One point which is never discussed enough in my mind is how in the U.S. some police officers are paid shockingly low salaries. You don’t attract your finest earnest young university graduates with starting wages in the low 20s. Take your country back from the…

To respond to everyone, yes I am white, and yes I have mostly dealt with Canadian police officers who I have found to be professional and well-meaning.

Fun fact: hydrants in cold climates are known as ‘dry hydrants’, due to the freezing they are exposed to. This would cause them to crack in winter. The water is in the water main 6 or 8 feet underground, safe where it won’t freeze.

“...and what’s the deal with Grape Nuts?...”

My sense is this video didn’t immediately come to light, was release a week after this incident?

The best I could come up with: https://jalopnik.com/1836317185

Just to temper this, we have to realize that the traffic camera footage we see is the spectacular events, not the routine ones. Traffic cameras revealing police officers doing routine good work doesn’t end up on the news and draw our attention.

To support this take, I’ve worked in close conjunction with Canadian police officers for years, and they’re mostly regular dedicated individuals doing an extremely difficult job. Some are subpar, as can be expected, but mostly, decent folk working hard and trying to do a job with limited resources.

As JTSnooks mentions, and without knowing how far the officer took it, it’s often a good tactic to cuff everyone, in a volatile situation, to figure out what happened. Not everyone who gets cuffed on scene gets arrested and charged. I’ve been asked to sit in the back seat of a police car while the officers sorted…

You might think he’s sick of himself, with that hair, but he probably needs it for plainclothes police work, if he’s working vice or narcotics or something like that.

Smart, pulling over behind them, not ahead of them.  Nice work.

As far as we can tell, being in an accident collision with a police car...

including MySpace posts that appeared to show some of the girls using drugs and alcohol.

By the way, yesterday in reply to a comment lauding Ray Ratto’s work, I agreed and advocated for the addition of Michael Farber to the slate of Deadspin’s contributors. Mr. Pierce writing articles here only strengthens my case.

This is one of the traditions the United States, and liberal democracy in general, is based on. Yes, there are lunatics and far-fringe groups out there, but there’s also an acknowledged centre, a bedrock upon which information/news/truth was based. In the 70s, a watershed moment was Walter Cronkite declaring to the…

I never knew this TV treatment was a thing.

Yeah, same with Alison Griffiths’ and David Cruise’s “Net Worth”, about the NHL in the Original Six era and into the Alan Eagleson years. How Gordie Howe’s humility and conformity was co-opted by the Red Wings to low-ball him salary-wise, who would then turn around and browbeat the other players, that if X amount was…

I read “Ball Four” a few decades back, and enjoyed it immensely. My favourite part, which is often undersold, is how well it captures the adolescent highjinks of young men with fame, fortune and lots of time on their hands in between spates of playing a game.