Why an 18 year old Soldier in a war zone running on 70 hours of no sleep is held to a higher standard of skill, professionalism, and discipline than a police officer in Anytown USA is beyond me; and to think that 18 year old Soldier would be less competent than the officer if the roles were reversed is unfathomable.

No and no. Many ex-military members are rejected from serving as officers because they’re ex-military. There are of course exceptions but those usually are due to nepotism.

I hate that you’re likely right. In our society, nurse Wubbles is most likely to get the result of the department taking appropriate action by suing over Detective Payne’s conduct. I share your doubt that any internal investigation will have teeth to change his behavior in the future, but a sizable settlement payment…

Just my opinion but the police in the US are very militarized, in fact a lot of them have background from the military so I feel that makes an impact. Also it turns into a very much us vs. them mentality...America is a violent country and we see it through cops. I will admit there are parts of this country where I…

Everyone who didn’t try to intervene should be fired too. Why did they let this happen? Like that security guy talking on his phone - what about doing your job? You’re witnessing a nurse on the hospital you work for getting assaulted!

From what I understand they wanted his blood so that they can test it and hopefully it will come back as dirty (drugs or alcohol etc.). Then if he wanted to bring a civil suit against the department for being injured due to thier high speed chase, which I think is against the departments policy, they can bring up his…

To cover their asses over a potential unwarranted high speed chase; blame the victim, not themselves.

As-fucking-if.

They should get fired, but they won’t.

Why are US police so violent towards everybody? Are they afraid? Insecure? Misogynists? Wannabe-army? What’s wrong with them? The police in the UK would never handle a sober, non-aggressive, non-violent suspect in this manner, let alone another member of an emergency service. In the UK this would be big news, and…

Once Payne and his superior who pushed him are fired and unable to find another job, then I’ll believe in that “goodness of society”.

I think its gotta be the cross combination between a Viewer Car review show (reviewing peoples modified cars and builds) and them tapping their idiodiclly brilliant antics that we’ve all thought of doing but never have because all you have is public roads. 

Also I want to say that it’s a bit of a dream to work for these guys when I’m in college. They seem like my type of people. Thrashing cars for the heck of it, building amazing stuff, playing dukes of hazzard with a Miata, they’ve got it all. Three more years and the dream might start to become reality

Ah sh!t car. What a beauty. And the hertlife is the best life. Before they did the daily transmissions, I only knew them for their gymkhana videos. But now I binge watch them every week

Every time I watch their videos (which is every day), I realize I have never had this much fun in my life. Like, trashing old bimmers down the parking lot deck, burnouts, going to the track or welding the open one with the boys. I just go by myself, waxing the car at night and unintentionally hypermiling my turbo…

Why isn’t the US/Canada considered for WRC events? There are many awesome and diverse driving regions in North America, not only in Mexico.

That’s the great thing about having options and free will! You can very easily choose to not watch them, it’s fantastic!

You sure it’s not a Lincoln?

All of these “Look at me and my supercar I know nothing about that I bought with my YouTube money” channels are stupid.

Given the size of the company, Dodge almost certainly had these social media campaigns mapped out well in advance, and tweets around them were pre-loaded and scheduled ahead of any incidents. This is extremely common, if not the norm, for social media posts.