Your statistics, and frankly your attitude, are bullshit. If you want to point fingers, point them at the court systems that put criminals back out on the streets before the cops finish writing the arrest reports.
And come on - ask Rodney King? What an incredibly fucking stupid thing to say. Ask Kitty Genovese? Tell me something, dumbshit. How is her murder the fault of the cops when nobody that heard her screaming bothered to call them?
Sorry, my bad. I forgot that trying to use logic on someone with a closed mind is a losing proposition.
Hey now! My dad was a cop for over 30 years, does that mean I get to make wild claims about laws and their enforcement? Woohoo!
Ummm, let me think of something appropriately crazy, it might take a while to come up with something as silly as advocating a superhero vigilante though.
(BTW, my old man is in his 50’s now and could probably still whup my ass, although I’m no shrinking violet, he’s a something-degree black belt in Tae Kwon Do)
I think you misunderstood Kyle. I think he was claiming experience as a vigilante. I’m sure he was a good one, but then he got fat and no longer fits into the tight spandex costume. This explains his dislike of fat cops. Face it, a fat pudgy vigilante is worse than a fat out of shape policeman, because the cop can hides the rolls of fat with the kevlar vest, while the vigilante has to resort to sort of draping his cape around the front. Besides looking gay, it tends to cause one to trip while chasing after the evil-doers. I guess he could solve that problem by getting rid of the tight spandex outfit and replacing it with a toga (which, if it’s flowing enough, keeps a design element of a cape). That’s important, because a vigilante should have a bit of flair (but not so much that he looks gay, which is the problem with the cape held tightly around the beer belly). I’m not sure if a bad guy would be scared off by a fat guy who looks like he’s on his way to a fraternity party though, so maybe a toga isn’t the best bet.
Back to my point, which was, uh, hell I forgot. But dressing a fat vigilante is not easy.
On the one hand, we have Clothahump. If you run his post through the Destupidizer™, you get something like: “We, as a society, should consider stricter sentencing of criminals. Discuss.” On the other hand, we have Kyle Rayner1. If you run his post through the Destupidizer™, you get something like: “We should consider modeling our society after that contained within superhero comic books. Discuss.”
Tell me with a straight face that anyone beyond the age of twelve (besides the obvious) would take the latter seriously.
While very glib, you undermined your own point vis a vis dressing the +sized vigilante. Firstly, not all costumed vigilantes wear spandex. The Green Hornet, for example, wore a trenchcoat. A trenchcoat, I think you will agree, would be excellent for covering up a few extra pounds without unnecessary risk of looking gay. IIRC, the original Sandman and The Question also eschewed spandex in favor of what was essentially middle-class-businessman-in-a-mask attire. Neither of them looked gay (though there was The Sandman’s somewhat ambiguous relationship with Sandy).
Secondly, if you were a criminal, why would you not be frightened by a fat guy in a toga leaping out of the shadows at you? Many criminals are repeat offenders who have already had a stay in The Stoney Lonesome. After a couple of experiences in the showers that they would prefer to forget, I’m willing to bet that lots of malefactors are very afraid of semi-clad fat guys. Especially ones with lots of tatoos. Moreover, in the dark a toga could be mistaken for towel. I think you discarded that whole idea too hastily.
Anyway, people who think fat guys couldn’t be costumed vigilantes are just fat-hating bigots who want to impose their own standards of beauty on everyone.
Well, the trenchcoat costume has the risk of making the wearer, especially in the summer, look like a flasher on the prowl and thus putting him at risk of being the target of another vigilante.
You’d probably be better off claiming that all of your posts in this thread were made under the influence. It’s astonishing that someone could believe the bunk you’ve posted while sober.
Please be sure to include a response to the issue of underage drinking.
You’re right, Dag. If we end up with two vigilantes, we might end up with more; so many more, in fact, that they’re liable to form a department. Now, would we really want a group of people in uniform dedicated to law enforcement?
Well, considering the designs of some of the costumed vigilantes get-ups, the Fab Five should have been consulted early in the process. Let’s face it, the QEftSG dudes have much better fashion sense (including having mastered the art of helping straights not looking ‘gay’), and could help the heterosexual hero come up with appropriate, straight-looking, crime-fighting uniforms.
Having had fun with Dag’s post, this hetero will express his displeasure with the use of gay as a pejorative.
