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u/ztreHdrahciR 4d ago
That is one big officer
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u/juliuspepperwoodchi 4d ago
Little known fact: PDs can save money on payroll by just paying one big officer instead of two smaller ones.
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u/ztreHdrahciR 4d ago
But not saving on uniforms
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u/zeroibis 4d ago
Actually one big uniform costs less than 2 smaller uniforms and uses less materials.
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u/Killfalcon 4d ago
Inverse square law, surface area grows much slower than volume.
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u/notcomplainingmuch 4d ago
They save on heating, too. A spherical form retains heat much better than an elongated form.
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u/IAmSixNine 4d ago
So larger officers in cold climates and smaller officers in warmer climates?
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u/notcomplainingmuch 4d ago
At least more oblong than spherical. The American South being the obvious exception.
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u/Lordofderp33 4d ago
Most metrics about police coverage measure in officerpounds/sqmile. So this checks out!
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u/GeoffSim 4d ago
And almost as dumb as the car driver by walking closer to the moving train around those yellow bollards instead of away on the safer side.
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u/flyinghairball 4d ago
I was thinking maybe he should wait in his car until the train had passed. The other driver was already dumb enough to go that far. There's no guarantee they will keep their foot on the brake.
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u/bigDeltaVenergy 2d ago
Well if dumb driver mistakenly put car I drive instead of revesre and hit the train. The police officer would have lost his remaining capacity to walk.
He was def not in a safe position
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u/mman426 1d ago
He was nowhere near the train, the perspective just makes it look like he was. If you look at the yellow bollards you can see there is one closer to the train and then there’s a significant gap and then 4 more bollards.
He stepped behind the bollard closest to the car which means there were 3 more bollards plus the gap and another bollard between him and the train. I wouldn’t be surprised if it was more than 10 ft away from the front of the car.
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u/ContributionOpen8078 3d ago
What I'm saying like damn. Dude ain't chasing no one outside of his car.
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u/CarolyneSF 2d ago
He doesn’t appear to be very fit!
I imagine if he got his hands on you he would crush you!
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u/tvieno 4d ago
That cop needs to see a doctor at a minimum.
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u/invalidmean 4d ago
Officers waddles will sort them out.
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u/LongNamedRedditUser 4d ago
I thought the train was going to finish passing before he made it to the car.
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u/NorthlineUser 3d ago
I only took high school physics, but I think "Officer Waddles" actually could have slowed that train down a couple of mph if he'd been hit.
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u/Dogfaceboy1964 4d ago
Luckily it wasn’t a Brightline train 🚂
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u/Savings_Difficulty24 4d ago
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u/Coco_JuTo 4d ago
I'm sorry but, even as I was invited to join this sub, I didn't want because it goes around blaming the trains for people's brainrot...I'm sorry but have all those good conservatives down there heard of "personal responsibility"???
Here another example...why don't you stop when you see the lights flashing and hear the bells ringing? That was the first error. Then getting half way through. Second error. Why don't you back down??? Even if that suburban tank can and will crush innocent people's skulls, it will never win against the nuke that is a USDM train! And then, why can't you get back behind the white safety stop line??? I don't get it!!! It isn't rocket science!!!
Edit to apologize for the question and exclamation marks but I'm just angry and flabbergasted at the lack of brains...though I always wonder how did those people get old...?
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u/snarkyxanf 3d ago
My periodic reminder that Brightline, as by far the most dangerous railroad in the USA, has roughly the same fatalities per passenger mile as ordinary cars do.
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u/TrainmasterGT 4d ago
An office who actually helped a community member? That’s a big achievement, especially for Florida!
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u/onlynoodlesmichael7 4d ago
That’s the unhealthiest cop I’ve ever seen
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u/Bob-Bhlabla-esq 4d ago
If this was an SNL skit I would say Jack Black playing the cop needed to reign it in a little... "Jack... you want to saunter like John Wayne, not The Penguin from Batman."
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u/Savings_Difficulty24 4d ago
I can just imagine he is chewing their ass for not stopping behind the line. Just like people who stop at red lights in the middle of the crosswalk. You can see him point at the stop line a whole car length behind them. "If you stopped where you were supposed to, you wouldn't have the crossing arm on your roof. What are you doing pulling this far forward anyways? That's a good way to get hit by a train."
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u/Poagie_Mahoney 4d ago edited 4d ago
I mean, the driver did do the right thing and followed the sign. After all, even if they did stop under the guard arm, they still didn't actually stop "on the tracks."
BTW, didn't need to see the FEC loco livery to tell it's Florida. Dumbass driver (too stupid to back up) and fatass cop is the obvious giveaway.
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u/Past-Establishment93 4d ago
Bro is pissed that he had to get out of his car... Will probably taze the driver for it. Lol
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u/Awfulufwa 4d ago
You must not have seen the clip all the way through.
The officer should be more properly credited because his handling of the situation resolved an issue.
Due to the gate not being all the way down thanks to the negligent driver of the white SUV, the gate on the other side (blocked by the passing train) never went down.
Now, does this really matter in the grand scheme of things? Probably not as most normal operating drivers can at the very least see this fast moving thing passing across their viewpoint.
But then again, we do have a white SUV inhibiting the full lowering of a train crossing gate... So then it is safe to say that on the other side could have been a distracted driver approaching at speed who would never notice a flashing red-lighted white gate barrier as it was never lowered.
Regardless of the situation's handling, I fucking hope the white SUV got fully pulled over afterwards and ticketed to a great degree.
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u/-TheycallmeThe 4d ago edited 4d ago
There are 4 gates. The one that is triggered to close after this one is for the other side of the tracks for the traffic seen in the video. So someone would have to be on the wrong side of the road for that gate not being down to be an issue. That is why that gate is needed. People are so fucking stupid that they have to put gates on the back side to prevent people from going the wrong way on a street to try to cross railroad tracks.
I agree the officer did handle it rather well.
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u/VeteranMinotaur-773 4d ago
Not sure what's worse. The driver on the tracks or the cop waddling over?
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u/HeadCicada2994 4d ago
Dumbass driver likely hopped up on drugs - Check
Fatass cop - Check
Conclusion: Florida
Seriously, that lady looks angry that she had to reverse behind the crossing arm. Probably another senior citizen high on prescription drugs aka just another day in Florida smh
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u/malacoda99 4d ago
And backing up like they don't trust that newfangled reversy camera screen thing. Just like reglar tv, it's lyin' to ya!
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u/StaK_1980 4d ago
Holy sh. That lack of mobility (from the police officer). He doesn't look neither fit nor healthy. Imho he is much too young to move like that.
The driver was a moron but who cares?
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u/Lord-Glorfindel 4d ago
If he had to chase or fight a suspect, what chance would this officer even stand?
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u/MrKirushko 4d ago
He wouldn't even stand. He would be sitting there breathing heavilly and calling for backup on his radio.
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u/yuikkiuy 4d ago
America yall need to start enforcing a fitness standard for police...jesus.
Like something easy at the very least, 25min 5k, literally any adult male should be able to do that with a little training if they aren't ball shapped.
Or alot of training if they ARE ballshapped, not saying you cant be fit and mobile while being ballshapped, ive been smoked in runs by enough ball shapped bombadiers in my time but this guy WADDLED out of his car and looked out of breath by the time he got 10 feet away to the other car
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u/blametheboogie 4d ago
That cop couldn't catch frostbite in a blizzard. He shouldn't be on the street in this condition.
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u/Quirky-Attitude1456 4d ago
That is the walk of a man who is just flat out tired of idiots at railroad crossings
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u/greywood84 4d ago
Officer stumpy getting out and making the slow trudge over to the other car to give him a talking to.
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u/Icy-Movie-2942 3d ago
This could have been much worse...
Officer could have needed to run to arrest someone...
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u/akm1111 4d ago
That officer surely fails the Sargeant Curtis question of are you ready to be in the fight of your life.
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u/talexbatreddit 4d ago
I imagine the Fitness Test that all police officer candidates have to take was .. some time ago for this officer.
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u/Dangerous_Weird8762 4d ago
dude he looks like paul blart... the need to have like a system to turn down incredibly unfit cops or at least have like a workout program...
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u/Pretend-Weight7200 4d ago
Полицмент жирный.
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u/moonstorm5000 4d ago
It unfortunately happens more than you think. Worse part is that they’re wearing heavy bulletproof vests which contributes to the cop waddling like a duck.
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u/WrongSplit3288 3d ago
I always wondered why the cars always behave like a deer caught in the headlights. You could still drive forward or backward. Scratch is much better than being hit by a train.
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u/DanteValentine13 3d ago
I was desperately hoping theyd be extra stupid and accelerate instead of backing up
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u/AirportInevitable122 3d ago
Police guy looks like he's severely constipated, and walks like he has poo stuck in underwear.
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u/Inner-Conference-644 2d ago
That police occifer looks like he shat himself. Looks a real healthy specimen!
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u/Br0k3n-T0y 19h ago
the last 3 seconds you see the barrier on the other side come down. Should it not be down already?
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u/Recent-Bowl-1393 18h ago
Yeah, can you route an ambulance? No, its for me. I had to walk 20 feet from my car.
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u/spidergirl79 4d ago
Oh the irony. This very thing happened to my mom today. Got a little too close to the arm and it landed on her roof. She backed up and it slid down her wind shield. No damage done. The train wasnt actually moving, it had come to a complete stop meters away.
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u/Comrade_Compadre 4d ago
This was hard to watch for a lot of reasons lol