# Good Morning SWAT Team! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 2, 2006, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-morning-swat-team/378865 "2006-11-02T17:27:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Mouse\_Maven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ac91a4/32.png) [@Mouse\_Maven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mouse_Maven)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2006, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-morning-swat-team/378865/1 "2006-11-02T17:27:06Z")
I work for a university. Over the course of a day, my email account gets filled with all sorts of announcements: Grand Rounds, Student Meetings, Special Speakers, etc. Since the majority of these communications have nothing to do with my little corner of academia, I arranged for these messages to go into my Junk-Mail file. This morning, I was taking the stairs up to the lab. Coming down the stairs was about [twelve men in black uniforms, wearing flak jackets, and carrying guns](http://www.bayso.org/images/New%20Look/swatgrp.jpg) . Well, I didn’t need a carbonated-caffeinated beverage after that sight! _Did one of the researchers finally crack? Is there some large, mutated rodent lose in the building?_ An announcement about the local SWAT Team using our building for training was in my Spam box. :smack: Now I’m going to adjust my Spam filter. ---
**Author:** ![Ponder\_Stibbons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponder_stibbons/32/343_2.png) [@Ponder\_Stibbons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponder_Stibbons)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2006, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-morning-swat-team/378865/2 "2006-11-02T17:36:55Z")
[QUOTE=Mouse\_Maven] Well, I didn’t need a carbonated-caffeinated beverage after that sight! _… Is there some large, mutated rodent lose in the building?_ [/QUOTE] Got your hopes up, did they? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Mouse\_Maven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ac91a4/32.png) [@Mouse\_Maven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mouse_Maven)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2006, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-morning-swat-team/378865/3 "2006-11-02T17:42:09Z")
Gasp! I’ll have you know that I’m a happily married _Mus musculus_. The nerve! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ccd318/32.png) [@Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paul_in_Qatar)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2006, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-morning-swat-team/378865/4 "2006-11-02T17:58:54Z")
(Who the heck decided policemen should wear black? Don’t they know how bad that looks?) ---
**Author:** ![mischievous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c2a13f/32.png) [@mischievous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mischievous)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2006, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-morning-swat-team/378865/5 "2006-11-02T19:42:16Z")
That’s hysterical. I’ve shared it with my lab. mischievous ---
**Author:** ![Rigamarole](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/77aa72/32.png) [@Rigamarole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rigamarole)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2006, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-morning-swat-team/378865/6 "2006-11-02T19:48:00Z")
[QUOTE=Paul in Saudi] (Who the heck decided policemen should wear black? Don’t they know how bad that looks?) [/QUOTE] Says who? Black is the new… black! ---
**Author:** ![Ponder\_Stibbons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponder_stibbons/32/343_2.png) [@Ponder\_Stibbons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponder_Stibbons)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2006, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-morning-swat-team/378865/7 "2006-11-02T20:23:27Z")
[QUOTE=Paul in Saudi] (Who the heck decided policemen should wear black? Don’t they know how bad that looks?) [/QUOTE] Maybe they’re goth police? ---
**Author:** ![Sean\_Factotum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/50afbb/32.png) [@Sean\_Factotum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sean_Factotum)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2006, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-morning-swat-team/378865/8 "2006-11-02T20:33:18Z")
[QUOTE=Paul in Saudi] (Who the heck decided policemen should wear black? Don’t they know how bad that looks?) [/QUOTE] I think it’s beacuse it looks very slimming on them. After all, as the wise man once said, it is as important to look good as to feel good. ---
**Author:** ![Mouse\_Maven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ac91a4/32.png) [@Mouse\_Maven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mouse_Maven)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2006, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-morning-swat-team/378865/9 "2006-11-02T20:47:16Z")
[QUOTE=Ponder Stibbons] Maybe they’re goth police? [/QUOTE] Goth Police: Freeze! You’re being arrested for using eyeliner appropriately. You have the right to remain surly. If you give up that right, anything you say can - and will - be used to mock you. . . ---
**Author:** ![glee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b5a626/32.png) [@glee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glee)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2006, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-morning-swat-team/378865/10 "2006-11-02T20:49:56Z")
[QUOTE=Mouse\_Maven] Goth Police: Freeze! You’re being arrested for using eyeliner appropriately. You have the right to remain surly. If you give up that right, anything you say can - and will - be used to mock you. . . [/QUOTE] If there was appropriate music, weird architecture and billowing fog, they could be Gothic Police! ---
**Author:** ![Marlitharn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/779978/32.png) [@Marlitharn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marlitharn)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2006, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-morning-swat-team/378865/11 "2006-11-03T04:20:20Z")
> [@Mouse\_Maven](#): > > Is there some large, mutated rodent lose in the building? Like [this](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGadwyconvE) guy? ---
**Author:** ![Dorjan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dorjan/32/12440_2.png) [@Dorjan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dorjan)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2006, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-morning-swat-team/378865/12 "2006-11-03T16:58:23Z")
Hmm training in University Buildings. perhaps a reaction to [this incident?](http://www.cantonrep.com/index.php?ID=99197) ---
**Author:** ![Mouse\_Maven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ac91a4/32.png) [@Mouse\_Maven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mouse_Maven)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2006, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-morning-swat-team/378865/13 "2006-11-03T17:04:59Z")
[QUOTE=Dorjän] Hmm training in University Buildings. perhaps a reaction to [this incident?](http://www.cantonrep.com/index.php?ID=99197) [/QUOTE] Hum, that’s a good point. I thought it was because we were close to the police academy. One of my co-workers walked out to her car yesterday and saw a SWAT member using it for “cover.” She wasn’t sure what to do. _Excuse me, sir. Can you hide somewhere else?_