I have no desire to crap on your opinion. Or take a dump in your locker. (See, now, that would piss me off, too. LOL) But...I like a discussion so I'll just add that when you said...
No one that had my back pranked me. Know why? Because they knew me well enough that if you effed me over with some infantile shit, I would hold it against them, possibly forever. (Emphasis mine.)
...you made your own point. There are cops like that, too, that don't like it and see it as humiliation or abuse. So they weren't messed with. But I gotta say, they also didn't engender a lot of trust, because if backup from that individual depended on "towing the line" with them, it's not really dependable back up at all.
I think they knew Butch would take it just as it was intended, and I'm sure they're all watching their backs for return pranks, but I'm also pretty sure they know he's got their backs when it counts.
I agree that sometimes this stuff is taken way too far, and when it crosses a line, then it needs to get dealt with. For instance, no one thought it was funny when a tube of super glue was left open in a patrol car as "a joke". It ruined valuable equipment and the result was a dock of pay for quite some time. But I also think that sometimes a prank is just a prank, even one as extreme as the one they pulled on Butch.
No one that had my back pranked me. Know why? Because they knew me well enough that if you effed me over with some infantile shit, I would hold it against them, possibly forever. (Emphasis mine.)
...you made your own point. There are cops like that, too, that don't like it and see it as humiliation or abuse. So they weren't messed with. But I gotta say, they also didn't engender a lot of trust, because if backup from that individual depended on "towing the line" with them, it's not really dependable back up at all.
I think they knew Butch would take it just as it was intended, and I'm sure they're all watching their backs for return pranks, but I'm also pretty sure they know he's got their backs when it counts.
I agree that sometimes this stuff is taken way too far, and when it crosses a line, then it needs to get dealt with. For instance, no one thought it was funny when a tube of super glue was left open in a patrol car as "a joke". It ruined valuable equipment and the result was a dock of pay for quite some time. But I also think that sometimes a prank is just a prank, even one as extreme as the one they pulled on Butch.
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