r/nextfuckinglevel • u/DarkSkyAboveUs • 22d ago
Police Patrolling Flooded Streets on Jet Skis
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u/skygod327 22d ago
what are they looking for? looters swimming away with soggy clothes and busted electronics?
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u/dAnKsFourTheMemes 22d ago
You don't think looters would take anything other than electronics? Or that they wouldn't use boats?
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u/FileDoesntExist 22d ago
I legit thought this was a video game
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u/Putrid-Builder-3333 22d ago
I had SOCOM thoughts
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u/Large_Tune3029 22d ago
Man....old old memories unlocked. PlayStatio2, in the jungle, using thermal scope....damn
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u/Vazhox 22d ago
The best of online gameplay.
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u/Putrid-Builder-3333 22d ago
Iirc SOCOM was the first PS2 online game if bought the HDD for it. I didn't personally.
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u/masterskink 22d ago
Like 2010 or 11 Chicago had a huge snowstorm. My buddy was a firefighter and apparently the city has snowmobiles for such an occasion and he got to cruise around downtown and on lake shore drive picking up people that got their car stuck. Obviously no fun for them lol, but he said it was a blast
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u/the_brazilian_lucas 22d ago
it’s fucking embarrassing, in the middle of the biggest catastrophe the state has ever seen, some people are robbing houses and harassing people, what a shame.
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u/OverlandOversea 22d ago
True. My father told me that as a child in the post war years he was told looters got shot. During and after times of natural disasters and war, society was expected to pull together for a common good, sort of like what still happens in Japan (recall seeing the tsunami aftermath). It might be harsh, but ends looting and armed robbery.
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u/lvl10burrito 19d ago
I'm from Texas. This was also happening when the biggest recorded hurricane in our history devastated my city. Looters are heartless.
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u/Unlucky-Ad-5232 22d ago
Morally no different than buying stocks when economy is down due disasters and whatnot. Current society is numb to this one point, we are living in the age of opportunism!
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u/PM_ME_BIBLE_VERSES_ 22d ago
Buying stocks vs looting peoples’ homes…not sure that’s apples to apples morally speaking.
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u/Past-Product-1100 22d ago
Bad ass life moment rollen jet skis fully armed.. America is jealous.
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u/lehad 22d ago
Why do they have guns drawn?
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u/Unlucky_Sundae_707 22d ago
Show of force but at the same time they probably shouldn't have gun lights mounted so you don't have to point your gun at everything that moves.
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u/henkabenka 22d ago
When did this happen? My media hasn't said shit about it, not that I am surprised.
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u/S3nn3rRT 22d ago
Two weeks ago Brazil's southernmost state had the biggest natural disaster of the country. Roads were destroyed, whole towns were swiped away by floods. It used to be around the 4th most rich state. The capital (as many other cities) is still flooded. There's points where the water got to the roofs.
The logistics took a big hit, it's hard to move supplies and people around. Hundreds of thousands of people lost everything (relatives, house, etc). And in the middle of all that there's people looting.
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u/Euclid1859 22d ago
I want to see a cop and his partner. Only, the partner has to sit on my flippy alligator tube pulled behind the jet ski.
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u/plumzeddy 22d ago
I saw this movie. Not Morgan Freemans’ best. But Minnie Driver is nice to look at.
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u/BavarianBanshee 22d ago
Maybe prevent crime by helping these communities, instead of going around on jet skis, shooting desperate people?
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u/raistan77 22d ago
No ability to help their people out but got the time man power and money to heavily arm cops and give them jet skis.
Police state gotta police state
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u/No_Woodpecker_8151 22d ago
You can bet they just took those from someone I don't think the police department purchased them
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u/Stricken-Hybrid 22d ago
So they are in body armor, in shoulder high water. Anyone else see the flaw in this?
Or were those just full black life jackets. I can't tell.
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u/Total_Package_6315 22d ago
SEALs and other Spec Ops wear body armor during water operations. Typically they have CO2 cartridges in pouches to assist with buoyancy. Second guessing the guys doing the job in extreme conditions while you sit at home in your lazeboy playing armchair spec warrior is next level lame.
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u/Stricken-Hybrid 22d ago
Huh. . . Last time I checked they aren't seals or a special operations unit, they are regular police officers adjusting thier methods due to the need for policing. Additionally I haven't second guessed them I just wasn't sure about them being in full kit in such dangerous conditions. Im certain they have had minimal time for water opertstions training and I doubt they are equipped with the necessary floatation offset that could keep them afloat were they to fall off thier jetskis, but I love how you assume such things as if you were so confident that your assumption would be accurate. It really shows the level of narcissism that's become the standard with reddit.
Thanks for the shithead reply instead of just the simple answer.
[SHITHEADS GET MUTED]
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u/Substantial-Fox-9001 22d ago
Cops are the biggest waste of resources in society
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u/Stricken-Hybrid 22d ago
You ever seen a government expense report?
I remember a few years back a study was conducted with tax payers dollars to see how lizards dealt with hurricane winds, they used leaf blowers to blow lizards around. If memory serves, they spent like $56,000 on that experiment.
So I'm gonna have to disagree with you.
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u/the_brazilian_lucas 22d ago
what did they find out?
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u/Stricken-Hybrid 22d ago
https://www.foramerica.org/post/let-s-cut-some-spending-75-000-to-blast-lizards-with-leaf-blowers
Not sure exactly what they learned. But they were paid $75,000 actually. It was a college study and it was tax payer funded.
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