So I ended up cooking for like five hours today. It was really satisfying, and now I'll be eatin' pretty for at least a week. Currently residing in my fridge is
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Me and Robin (well, me, I don't think Robin quite understood what I was getting at) thought about trying to make an SUV-tipping internet comic, chronicling our SUV-tipping adventures. You could do some interesting camera tricks to make it look like the SUV was fighting back, and stuff
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No, there were no options for stealing a tip. As a turf sport, clear boundaries had to exist in order to prevent direct inter-team confrontations. Turf could be changed, gained, or lost depending on the result of the previous season - often times such turf negotiation took place at the same time as the rookie draft picks were being decided. Discontent with being traded for turf, many star players chose to become free agents
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I never said that teams weren't allowed to interact. But they aren't allowed to interact directly - doing so would be a blatant risk to human life. Defensive units would be allowed to, as I noted earlier, inform the police of their opponent's plans or locations. Spying and double agent usage is a good tactic, but it's fairly easy to tell a spy because they won't participate directly in the actual tipping because it would be a rule infringement. That is, you can't tip SUVs outside your own turf
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You're correct about the public backlash against police for spending too much time on car-vandalism cases, and correct about the fact that they would follow the public's advice to spend more time on violent crime cases. But you're in incorrect in thinking that they would waste valuable resources on a task force. Given the meager jail time and fines dispensed on convicted tippers, the energy and risk involved in pursuing organized teams would make such task forces a waste of effort. The police would begin to treat teams like the mob - with a reserved dislike. Law enforcement would tolerate teams that maintained a 0-casualty rate, and some states (California, Washington, Oregon, among others) would go one step further in providing teams with a police chaperon. This individual would travel with the team in much the way a war reporter would travel with troops, but with the express purpose of ensuring public safety
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Lord help me if I ever have to get in a debate with you over something political or philosophical.
However--Police forces have, at various points throughout history, shown themselves to be remarkably adept at spending ridiculous amounts of money and manpower on essentially "trendy" issues. The primary reason for this is, insofar as they are funded by taxpayers and are a profession unofficially monitored by the press and citizens who want to make sure they're getting their money's worth, they are vulnerable to the wants and needs of the taxpayers, even if such a move is more to save face than to really keep towns safer. Thus, if the Highlands Ranch general populace demands more stringent protection of their vehicles, the police force would feel great pressure to provide it. And I fail to see how police officers are more likely to follow their codes of conduct than the league members are.
I'm not going to disagree with you about wasted taxpayer dollars, nor am I going to touch the topic of police brutality.
But I will say that there is a reason why the police will refrain from creating anti-tipping task-forces. The reason, aside from wasting spending time or effort, is that cops love the sport. Their kids watch it on TV, their spouses place bets on playoff results, and, with decreased SUV purchases, the annual death tolls due to 'rollovers' (of the moving, accidental kind) began down for the first time in history.
Sports teams bring a certain reputation, status, and honor to their host cities. As such, the police would be pressured just as much by the SUV owners to get tough on tipping as they would be by the rest of the 'general populace' to give tippers more leeway.
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Lord help me if I ever have to get in a debate with you over something political or philosophical.
However--Police forces have, at various points throughout history, shown themselves to be remarkably adept at spending ridiculous amounts of money and manpower on essentially "trendy" issues. The primary reason for this is, insofar as they are funded by taxpayers and are a profession unofficially monitored by the press and citizens who want to make sure they're getting their money's worth, they are vulnerable to the wants and needs of the taxpayers, even if such a move is more to save face than to really keep towns safer. Thus, if the Highlands Ranch general populace demands more stringent protection of their vehicles, the police force would feel great pressure to provide it. And I fail to see how police officers are more likely to follow their codes of conduct than the league members are.
But I'm a dirty anarchist.
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But I will say that there is a reason why the police will refrain from creating anti-tipping task-forces. The reason, aside from wasting spending time or effort, is that cops love the sport. Their kids watch it on TV, their spouses place bets on playoff results, and, with decreased SUV purchases, the annual death tolls due to 'rollovers' (of the moving, accidental kind) began down for the first time in history.
Sports teams bring a certain reputation, status, and honor to their host cities. As such, the police would be pressured just as much by the SUV owners to get tough on tipping as they would be by the rest of the 'general populace' to give tippers more leeway.
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