# "Cops" show comes to Omaha; 1 dead **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [August 27, 2014, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cops-show-comes-to-omaha-1-dead/696680 "2014-08-27T20:05:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 13
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2014, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cops-show-comes-to-omaha-1-dead/696680/241 "2014-09-09T19:45:33Z")
> [@common\_good](#): > > Not one of you has answered my question about the police response to the three girls fired-upon for suspicion of smoking something. Did the police act within reason in shooting their weapons in that incident ? Yes, no, or other ? Stop attacking me and answer the fucking question ! Then, return to attacking me, 'cause I enjoy it. Mooks. O.K., as far as your question is concerned, the police…Look! A bluejay just stole an acorn from that squirrel! ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2014, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cops-show-comes-to-omaha-1-dead/696680/242 "2014-09-09T19:52:08Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > O.K., as far as your question is concerned, the police…Look! A bluejay just stole an acorn from that squirrel! Quick! Draft a Tumblr post about how the squirrel needs to check its privilege and the birds need to have wing-cams installed to prevent abuse! ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2014, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cops-show-comes-to-omaha-1-dead/696680/243 "2014-09-09T20:57:49Z")
> [@Marley23](#): > > “I’m so liberal that” … I’m sorry, I can’t continue this joke because I’m uncomfortable with your hateful language. What is the matter with you, **Boyo Jim** , that you want us to “insert” a “punch line” into this sentence against its will? This is offensive to women, and also to men, and then even more to women because men were trying to co-opt their offense in that clause. And then there’s that phrase “punch line.” It implies violence, and that’s no laughing matter. It appalls me that our society is so desensitized to violence that we’re willing to use terms like this and without paying attention to their implications. Was it a “punch line” when the settlers used violence and disease to take this country away from Native Americans? Or when they “punch lined” Africans into slavery, laughing all the way to the bank? **Boyo Jim** , you are worse than Food Co-Op Hitler. My hateful language? WTF are you talking about? I was inviting a joke at my own expense. I am utterly baffled that you could find anything hateful or even mildly offensive about that comment. But perhaps I’m just an ignorant hater. Probably best that I don’t recognize the reference to the Food Co-Op Hitler. ---
**Author:** ![FXMastermind](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fxmastermind/32/7289_2.png) [@FXMastermind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FXMastermind)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2014, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cops-show-comes-to-omaha-1-dead/696680/244 "2014-09-09T21:05:00Z")
It’s just off topic nonsense. They don’t actually mean it. ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2014, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cops-show-comes-to-omaha-1-dead/696680/245 "2014-09-09T21:10:02Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > My hateful language? WTF are you talking about? I was inviting a joke at my own expense. > > I am utterly baffled that you could find anything hateful or even mildly offensive about that comment. > > But perhaps I’m just an ignorant hater. > > Probably best that I don’t recognize the reference to the Food Co-Op Hitler. I think you may not have recognized more than that. ---
**Author:** ![common\_good](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f475e1/32.png) [@common\_good](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/common_good)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2014, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cops-show-comes-to-omaha-1-dead/696680/246 "2014-09-09T21:21:35Z")
> [@Marley23](#): > > PAY ATTENTION TO **common good** , YOU GUYS! Finally, you say something useful. That’s why you’re a mod. My sarcasm detector is “off”. It was beginning to overheat. ---
**Author:** ![common\_good](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f475e1/32.png) [@common\_good](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/common_good)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2014, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cops-show-comes-to-omaha-1-dead/696680/247 "2014-09-09T21:27:37Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > O.K., as far as your question is concerned, the police…Look! A bluejay just stole an acorn from that squirrel! Well, it’s funny at least. Moderately. Sorry, I missed the action. Now, what were you trying to avoid saying about the police ? And why were you avoiding saying it ? Afraid of Police ? You should be. That’s my point, geniuses. ---
**Author:** ![common\_good](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f475e1/32.png) [@common\_good](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/common_good)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2014, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cops-show-comes-to-omaha-1-dead/696680/248 "2014-09-09T21:30:19Z")
> [@naita](#): > > Would you want to engage with an obnoxious troll like yourself in any way? Yeah, you probably would. Never mind. I’m willing to engage anyone. And you’re not. Never mind. ---
**Author:** ![FXMastermind](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fxmastermind/32/7289_2.png) [@FXMastermind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FXMastermind)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2014, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cops-show-comes-to-omaha-1-dead/696680/249 "2014-09-09T21:54:37Z")
> [@common\_good](#): > > Tell me, again, how off-base I was. I know many of you will. If you ask for a good old internet beatdown, and you get your thread thrown in the pit, don’t complain when people actually empty their sawed off thought guns into you at point blank range. ---
**Author:** ![common\_good](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f475e1/32.png) [@common\_good](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/common_good)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2014, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cops-show-comes-to-omaha-1-dead/696680/250 "2014-09-09T22:02:08Z")
> [@FXMastermind](#): > > If you ask for a good old internet beatdown, and you get your thread thrown in the pit, don’t complain when people actually empty their sawed off thought guns into you at point blank range. Who’s complaining ? You ? I’m stating. “Sawed-off thought-guns” [correct punctuation mine]. I’m not familiar with that particular weapon. Why don’t some of my critics try making some fucking sense ? Just try. I know some of you can do it. ---
**Author:** ![FXMastermind](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fxmastermind/32/7289_2.png) [@FXMastermind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FXMastermind)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2014, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cops-show-comes-to-omaha-1-dead/696680/251 "2014-09-09T22:19:05Z")
Sense, logic and reason, you will not find that here. ---
**Author:** ![andros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e480ec/32.png) [@andros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/andros)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2014, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cops-show-comes-to-omaha-1-dead/696680/252 "2014-09-09T22:44:49Z")
> [@Marley23](#): > > **Boyo Jim** , you are worse than Food Co-Op Hitler. Well. _I_ got it, **Marl**. And I think we can all agree that’s all that matters. ---
**Author:** ![Morgenstern](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Morgenstern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgenstern)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2014, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cops-show-comes-to-omaha-1-dead/696680/253 "2014-09-09T23:04:51Z")
> [@Skywatcher](#): > > Somewhere there’s a bridge missing a very pathetic troll. And he’s gained several pounds feeding on this thread. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2014, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cops-show-comes-to-omaha-1-dead/696680/254 "2014-09-10T02:01:08Z")
> [@Morgenstern](#): > > And he’s gained several pounds feeding on this thread. [The previous one as well.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=726389) ---
**Author:** ![common\_good](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f475e1/32.png) [@common\_good](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/common_good)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2014, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cops-show-comes-to-omaha-1-dead/696680/255 "2014-09-11T00:24:16Z")
I’m 62, in good shape, have all my hair and it’s not white, and my wits. I’m not the type that your wives would marry, ‘cause I’m a working-class man. I’m the type your wives cheat on you with. That pisses you guys off. Most of you are techno-bores whose entire lives were spent over some keyboard. When you were kids, you were bullied on the playground and didn’t like it but wouldn’t fight back. So, now, here, YOU guys are getting revenge for being pushed around a lot. You have become rhetorical bullies and you wanna’ stomp me and gain some revenge because you think I’m a stupid former jock. Well, I’m not. I played sports and could handle myself with bullies on the playground; but I’m also an intellectual and can hold my own with you academic types and I happen to be smarter than the majority of you. But not all. Those are the ones I want to converse with and the rest of you suffer from insecurity and can only find fault, or try anyway. But, I have never sought popularity and never had it. I’m interested in and trust in science and have immersed myself in the study of countless subjects in the natural sciences, history, psychology, and in biographies of the great and the not-so-great, and so on. I want to be friends. But I don’t need it. ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2014, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cops-show-comes-to-omaha-1-dead/696680/256 "2014-09-11T00:34:14Z")
Dude, this isn’t a dating site. ---
**Author:** ![Hamlet](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hamlet/32/2818_2.png) [@Hamlet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hamlet)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2014, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cops-show-comes-to-omaha-1-dead/696680/257 "2014-09-11T00:47:15Z")
> [@common\_good](#): > > … the rest of you suffer from insecurity … Says the guy who has to post how fit, well coiffed, and tough he is. ---
**Author:** ![Hamlet](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hamlet/32/2818_2.png) [@Hamlet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hamlet)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2014, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cops-show-comes-to-omaha-1-dead/696680/258 "2014-09-11T00:48:15Z")
> [@El\_Kabong](#): > > Dude, this isn’t a dating site. How you doin’? ---
**Author:** ![Morgenstern](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Morgenstern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgenstern)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2014, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cops-show-comes-to-omaha-1-dead/696680/259 "2014-09-11T01:04:23Z")
He forgot the part about having a 16 inch penis. No delusion of grandeur is complete without such a reference. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2014, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cops-show-comes-to-omaha-1-dead/696680/260 "2014-09-11T01:48:59Z")
> [@common\_good](#): > > I’m 62, in good shape, have all my hair and it’s not white, and my wits. I’m not the type that your wives would marry, 'cause I’m a working-class man. I don’t think you should describe yourself with the word “wits.” Or “class.” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cops-show-comes-to-omaha-1-dead/696680.md?page=12) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cops-show-comes-to-omaha-1-dead/696680.md?page=14)