• fartographer@lemmy.world
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    God, cops are obsessed with posing with anything they seize in bulk. Are the posing officers the ones involved? Who the fuck knows?!

    But, let’s take everything at face value. $1000 $1700 “worth” of toilet paper… taken off the streets. Y’know, for safety. Like with drugs. This major bust apparently required 9 police officers, and, for some reason, a K9.

    Let’s be generous and assume that this department assigns 2 pigs bastards cops to a cruiser, and let’s be considerate and assume that it took them only an hour to perform this sting and collect their Bounty. Let’s also assume that they managed to only burn 1 gallon of gasoline per vehicle. Finally, I think that it’s safe to assume that it took about two hours to get back to the station, decompress, tickle each other’s assholes over what a good police job they did, fill out their passive language paperwork, stack the TP, take this picture posting like they just got Osama Bin Laden, and then make a couple of racist jokes.

    According to ZipRecruiter, the average Plainfield, IL hourly wage is around $30/hr. According to Gas Buddy, gas prices are around $5/gallon. So, to protect their streets from, probably, $400 worth of toilet paper, it likely cost the city $925, plus whatever the hourly cost is to make sure a police dog doesn’t get desensitized to black people.

    But thank goodness Plainfield PD was there to prove that you can also use assholes to clean up toilet paper. Fucking ass-wipes.

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    According to police, the estimated street value was $1,708.66.

    Once again, they’re inflating their numbers by extrapolating the street price for a single use against what’s clearly a distributor quantity. They’re probably also adding the weight of the pallets into the net total.

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      You have to factor in the amount it takes to pay smurfs to buy for you! (Limit: 3 per customer and all)

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      Yo man, you got any of that toilet paper? I some cheeseburgers right here, come one man, I’ll even suck your …

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    2 days ago

    They’re posing with the shit paper as if it were a pile of cocaine 🤣 I hope America the beautiful was blaring while this photoshoot went on.

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    It’s wild to me that they posed. Not that they stopped that, or that there’s a news story about it. But that they posed.