Vermont Inmates Hide Image Of Pig On Police Decals

[salvorhardin]

Bwahaha! I love it.

It took Vermont officials four years to notice a little creative editing by one or more inmates. Look at this police decal:



Look at the cow underneath the tree. Embedded within the cow's spots is an image of a pig, which as the Burlington Free Press reminds us is the '60s-era epithet used by protesters to refer to police.

Reuters reports that it was likely put there by inmates. The state, Reuters adds, "contracts with correctional facilities employing prisoners to make some print products, including the cruiser decals." One or more inmates somehow accessed the computer program holding the image and rejiggered it. The quality assurance department failed to notice it and as far as the state police know, the modified decal was used on as many as 30 Vermont State Police cruisers.

Some weren't laughing.

Full story: http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2012/02/03/146358114/vermont-inmates-hide-image-of-pig-on-police-decals

[NBachers]

1. What exactly are those three phallic creatures floating on the left?

Last edited Fri Feb 3, 2012, 08:22 PM - Edit history (1)

[salvorhardin]

4. I have no idea

I was hoping a Vermonter might read this thread and illuminate us.

[MadrasT]

7. Sheaves of grain

I'm from PA and we have 'em on our state seal, too.

[salvorhardin]

17. Ah! Thank you.

I was thinking maybe magic mushrooms.

[snooper2]

10. Bichon Frises tripping on Acid

[xfundy]

21. Hello Kitties that survived police brutality is my guess.

[Blue Owl]

2. OINK -- K&R!

LOL!

[gopiscrap]

3. Law Enforcement never has a sense of humor: I love it!!!

[virgogal]

5. I happen to have a positive opinion of law enforcement but

even I think it is funny.

[southernyankeebelle]

8. I agree it is very funny.

[JSnuffy]

16. Cops have an excellent sense of humor...

... perhaps just not your sense of humor.

[FogerRox]

6. LOL :~ )

[flexnor]

9. high 5 to the cons for showing a little spirit

pretty stupid to force people who hate your guts to make your emblems for you. talk about clueless authority

[arely staircase]

11. well i guess in a profession in which a high iq is a disqualifier, four years is pretty good. nt

METRO NEWS BRIEFS: CONNECTICUT; Judge Rules That Police Can Bar High I.Q. Scores

http://www.nytimes.com/1999/09/09/nyregion/metro-news-briefs-connecticut-judge-rules-that-police-can-bar-high-iq-scores.html

[RiffRandell]

13. LOL!

No kidding!

[virgogal]

14. You went back over 12 years for this piece of information----ancient history.

[arely staircase]

15. so the policy has changed? link?

i hope so, and i hope they have hired all the people they rejected for being smart.

[Dawson Leery]

12. Coppers love to mock the populace at the bar after work,

yet they are outraged by this. There you have it, hypocrites, protectors of the 1%.

[NotThisTime]

18. And this stunt is costing taxpayers 9 grand to fix, not funny for those of us paying taxes here

[salvorhardin]

19. $9,000!?

Wow, that is serious. That's like a week's donut budget.

[NotThisTime]

20. Maybe for someplace with discretionary funds, not a state trying to rebuild after 500 roads and

state office buildings were washed away. This was a stupid stunt that had no purpose at all other than to cost the tax payers.

[salvorhardin]

23. So where are you getting your $9,000 number from?

The article says $780. Either it, or you, is off by a factor of 10. Furthermore, it looks like this won't cost the state a penny.

It'll cost police $780 to correct the decals. The money will come from the small profits made by the prison division that makes things like license plates and stationery for state offices.

This is a very funny prank, with almost zero consequences. I'd say you need to relax. Perhaps have a nice ham dinner, eh? Oink.

[arely staircase]

22. fix? what's wrong with it?

leave it as is and save the money.