This makes a considerable amount of sense, assuming what you’re suggesting is legal for them to do.

It has to be a typo in the ad copy, right?

Hey, the Miata has infinite headroom with the top down!

My Miata gets pretty far up there on the highway haha!

It galls me to no end that he will get a state funeral.

It seems unwise to wish death on a petty, vindictive shithead with a penchant for abusing the Justice department.

This. It was probably deliberate cherry-picking, rather than outright fakery.

It’s too bad, you know? For all the lives Boeing’s recent crashed planes have claimed, they could have earned back a lot of good will if they’d just crashed *one more* plane.

I have no idea how good the car itself is (or is not) but that name is a crime against typing.

Mercifully so!

Well, they're not MY flying cars, why should someone else get to enjoy them if they won't offer me a ride?!

I am amazed that not one red blooded American, armed with guns and booze, hasn't taken one of these down yet. Simply amazed.

Excellent work.

The plural is “Christophers (Chrises) Christie.” Kind of like Attorneys General or Grands Prix.

Seconded!

Agreed, whatever helps is good. My city has started changing the crosswalk signs to show “Walk” a few seconds before the light goes green. I can’t tell if it’s a good idea, because it made me realize that some drivers will start driving when the see a green light *or* a pedestrian walk signal, without even realizing it…

What novel ideas! Who'd have thunk?

Okay, cool, that seems like a good situation. Do the police in your town behave better than “the norm?” Do they make the news for bad behavior? Honest questions, I’m curious if my theory holds water.

Local governments will have to approve those pay raises (and they should!). But those local governments will be far less happy to pay out police settlements after paying the police more. Tolerance for poor behavior will drop. Legal defense will evaporate. High-level heads will roll, and hiring power-trippers will…

I still can’t agree with the “good pay and benefits” thing. Cities all over the place can’t fill their rosters because there aren’t people willing to apply, and the ones that do end up leaving because they can’t afford to stay. As I said, my city is one of those that can’t hire enough cops to spend their entire personn…