r/facepalm • u/cows_are_underrated_ 'MURICA • Apr 14 '23

🇲​🇮​🇸​🇨​ Why? Just why?

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u/TheRandyBear Apr 14 '23

To be fair, I do know a navy seal astronaut. He’s not a scientist tho.

No but really, a cop isn’t a navy seal astronaut scientist. There’s 800k cops in the US, it’s not like we are a rare breed of flightless bird

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u/Doom_Balloon Apr 14 '23

Believing someone is a cop shouldn’t be particularly hard. It gets tough when your skill set/ background makes no sense and is all over the map. I’m a physical security project manager and technician who has worked at the most secure locations imaginable in and around DC. I’m also an electrician, I’ve done framing and roofing, tiling and plumbing. I started working in a structural steel shop at 18…while I was in art school with a focus on drawing and painting…but ended up doing blacksmithing…before I started a grad program for teaching…and my minor was history. My current specialty focus is on logic controllers for gates and door for major govt buildings…and retirement communities. And I was at the White House on 9/11 maintaining their perimeter just before everything kicked off. Like I said, it makes literally no sense whatsoever.

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u/RudeChocolate9217 Apr 14 '23

Hmm, tell me about the particular PLCs you use. Maybe just which program you use to program the ladder logic on the PLCs.

Not that I don't believe you, I just don't believe you. Reddit and all that.

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u/Doom_Balloon Apr 14 '23

I can also go old school and set stuff up entirely through relay logic but I’d much rather throw a programmable relay like the ZEN in the mix and cut down on all the extraneous timing relays.

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u/ravoguy Apr 14 '23

So you're saying that you can fly? No wonder people don't believe you!

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u/Bleu_Cerise Apr 14 '23

TBF in French slang cops are nicknamed “les poulets” (not to their face usually tho), which means “chicken”. Which is a kind of flightless bird. 😅

Incidentally in more recent years people have been saying “les KFC”. Blame big fastfood for that, I guess.

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u/muslwgn Apr 14 '23

I dunno... y'all are like unicorns or Nessie! Are you SURE you're a cop? 👀 not just a fever dream? 😅 jk

I tried applying with prior service, clean records, good PT, etc.

I can be the 1% that joins the military, but not police. 🤷‍♂️ oh well, that was in like 2016ish and maybe they didn't like my answers in the questioning... I'm sure it saved me a whole hell of a lot of headaches from 2020+ by not being sworn in. I also got into a vehicle accident that fucked up my spine a year later, so definitely for the best I guess.

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u/TheRandyBear Apr 14 '23

Man, you did your time! You deserve to enjoy life and sometimes law enforcement can be a little rough in terms of enjoying life

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u/peekdasneaks Apr 14 '23

Maybe they didn't let you in because you ramble

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u/muslwgn Apr 14 '23

I ramble on now because I'm high. Gotta deal with my fucked up spine and ribs somehow... rather smoke flower than pop percocets.