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werefreeatlast ,

If I wanted to nail a nail slowly, I would grab a hammer. If I wanted it nailed fast and in a very shitty way with all sorts of metal fracture generating stresses, I would use a nail gun. But if I wanted it shot dead, I would call the cops because that’s what cops do.

lingh0e ,

Wait, nail guns are bad?

werefreeatlast ,

Nah. Nail guns are good 👍. They just, probably, work harden the nail head. Come to think of it, hammers probably do worse. Not only do they harden the head, but each blow is at a slightly different angle, this work cycling the material. That’s why screws are better… Better for the home owner, not the contractor who would need to spend more time on each screw.

jeffw OP ,

Is a screw much better? It’s a lot larger. For example, I recently got a nail gun to secure a metal covering to a piece of wood. The nails are tiny/less visible (18 gauge). I can’t see an advantage to screws in my case

werefreeatlast ,

It depends on the design. Like imagine a GE stove where they want to join two pieces of sheetmetal. They would not use nails. But I bet that earlier refrigerators probably used nails? Lots of roofing and flashing house parts still use nails for installation for the convenience. But if you have ever removed a roof, you know those nails are just there to make you feel good. The glue does all the job. But for the flashing and gutters that are still hand made and nailed, those things are hell to remove and service. So yeah it’s fairly convenient for the contractor. But in the end it’s not great for you when you want to change things.

waterSticksToMyBalls ,

I don’t know who needs to hear this, but everyone should know that fop headquarters are flammable

Sangw3n ,

“I thought it might have rabies” is a sentiment born out of fear and ignorance. Just like “the man was displaying unusual behavior” or “appeared to be on drugs”

SuddenDownpour ,

Well you don’t become a cop by exhibiting a never-ending wealth of knowledge.

Konraddo ,

Instead of hiring brave and smart people to be the police, it seems people who are not brave, and dumb, are hired so they have access to guns to protect themselves again whatever scares them, including innocent humans. Sad.

AeonFelis ,

The dog was clearly resisting arrest!

WholeEnchilada ,

Is this actually real? It looks like the national enquierer. I want to.believe.

jeffw OP ,

The Independent reminds you of a tabloid?

Snapz ,

Hello everyone, can I please have a brief moment of your time? It is with a heavy heart and a heavy brick, that I break this window. May your days be merry and Christmas.

theotherverion ,

Guys, you need to call police only when you need to shoot sth.

andy_wijaya_med ,
@andy_wijaya_med@lemmy.world avatar

Fucccck

Yawweee877h444 ,

It’s a fucking shihtzu, which are tiny. And this ones blind and deaf. Holy shit do we need drastic and violent police reform. Like fire 90% and completely retrain from the ground up. Not gonna happen though obviously.

Smoogs ,

Meanwhile the schizo threatening to slice up everyone’s neck: 5 police cars show up to tell him to just calm down and then leave to go steal ebikes

MeaanBeaan ,

Why was a cop even involved here? Doesn’t animal control exist for situations like this? Yknow, like someone actually trained to handle animals instead of someone trained to behave like an animal?

Tikiporch ,

I live in a decent size county, and our three animal control agents only works four hours a day six days a week and all calls go through 911. So if animal control aren’t available, I could see 911 sending a cop…although he had an animal lasso, so maybe they do both jobs in that city.

Drusas ,

I used to work 9-1-1 in a pretty small town and our policy was to send a cop for every call. We once had someone call because an opossum was outside the door to a shop and it was scaring people. Cop went and shooed it away.

So it could also be that.

BonesOfTheMoon ,

ACAB. Fuck these cops. Poor old puppy.

TheReturnOfPEB ,

In the US a dog that works with the police has many protections legally.

In the US any other dog is merely property and the police kill them with impunity.

In the US when a police dog is euthanized there are lines of officers and police workers and first responders to show respect.

In the US any other dog is just leverage for the police to threaten.

TachyonTele ,

They don’t even treat their own police dogs with respect. There’s videos of cops yanking and choking them, body slamming them, etc. that that other stuff is just for show.

KISSmyOSFeddit ,

He didn’t comply with their orders.

Wogi ,

To be fair, dogs go nuts for bacon so the cops may actually have been in danger.

sparkle ,

the dog was too deaf to hear the oinks

rob_t_firefly ,
@rob_t_firefly@lemmy.world avatar

This police department really gave a gun and a badge to someone who fears for his life encountering a 13-pound shih tsu.

Muscar ,

If the people that become US cops aren’t already like that they break them to become like that during “training”. I highly recommend looking up the shit they say and show during police training in the US, it’s absolutely bonkers. They make them so scared of everything and fuck them up so badly that stuff like this is fully expected. So fucked up.

JASN_DE ,

police training

That’s what, 8 weeks?

TachyonTele ,

Is it even that long?

Training for call centers is longer than that.

Drusas ,

Varies by department. I think 3-6 months is pretty common. Obviously insufficient but slightly better than two months.

Jallu , (edited )

Pretty nice. We have the police trained 36 months (Bachelor’s degree, here’s more about it).

Some could say there’s a difference.

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