Graffiti: "I Love Cops!"

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I spotted this graffiti in San Francisco's Mission District. I've never seen vandalism declaring one's love for the police before (assuming that "SFPD" is referring to San Francisco Police Department).

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The two beat cops in my neighborhood in SF were 6'5" and handsome. I ♥ed them a lot.

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#2 posted by Anonymous, August 17, 2009 3:00 PM

I work at a charter school in Kansas City and about 15 minutes ago I saw a parent wearing a shirt with text on it saying "I Love policemen". And then this. Too weird.

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#3 posted by Anonymous, August 17, 2009 3:11 PM

Where I come from, they call that irony.

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Love tha po-lice, comin' straight from the underground...

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#6 posted by Anonymous, August 17, 2009 3:25 PM

I'm too chicken to test it, but I wonder if you'd get arrested for graffiti if a cop saw you writing that you love cops...

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SFPD? come now.

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You may heart them, but they may club you.

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It is actually SFOO, but the spray can dripped on the first O. In this case, it is obviously well put satire about Strategies For Outsourcing Operations, since the entire workforce of green glen linen was outsourced to China.

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You may ♥ them, but they may ♣ you.
FTFY
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MDH: FTW! ;D

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@#4 - I think you mean "Romani ite domum"...

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Years ago, I saw a bumper sticker that said "I ♠ my dog."

Anonymous 3, but this is in San Francisco. They're fully three thousand miles from irony there.

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#14 posted by Anonymous, August 17, 2009 4:07 PM

The cops that came to the grocery store last week when we had a rash of fraudulent payroll checks were delicious looking-one buff, dark haired with royal blue eyes and a gorgeous smile, the other tall and fair haired with piercing green eyes. I know there are at least a couple of cops that I love...

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It's actually SupercaliFragilisticexPialiDotious, not San Francisco Police Department.

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#18 posted by Anonymous, August 17, 2009 4:40 PM

I saw this last week and actually really enjoyed it... SF cops couldn't care less about public drinking or 420, which is a long-shot from a lot of other American cities.

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#19 posted by Anonymous, August 17, 2009 5:07 PM

I love seafood!

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@17

Spelling Fixers Police Department: I think its actually SupercaliFragilisticexPialiDo*c*ious

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I don't want to offend anyone, but for some reason this reminds me of an old Don Martin cartoon where there's a fella with a brush and a bucket of paint writing on a wall, "my wife is an immense, fat freak". .

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#22 posted by Anonymous, August 17, 2009 5:51 PM

My brother-in-law used to work as an attendant in a parking garage, and he made up a bunch of club and spade stickers, just big enough to stick on over top of the heart symbols on people's bumper stickers. On his breaks he'd go out and "modify" people's bumper slogans....

"I ♠ my German Sheperd"
"I ♣ my honor student"

etc., etc., etc.....

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#23 posted by Anonymous, August 17, 2009 6:14 PM

ahem

Layin' on a mattress in th' hot Texas sun
I fucked th' law & th' law cum . . .

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I love Sea FoOD

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Let's see:

Life of Brian (check)
NWA (check)
they club you (check)
witty ref to green glen sign it's on (check)

So much win in this thread.

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#26 posted by Anonymous, August 17, 2009 6:39 PM

I'd like to see that NWA song continue, so here we go:

Love tha po-lice, comin' straight from the underground

Pick up my rescue greyhound from the dog pound

color coordinated so you think

Ikea did that based on my kitchen sink.

Some new version of yuppie rap or dinky hip-hop...

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#27 posted by Anonymous, August 17, 2009 7:27 PM

sexually fatal pelvic disease?

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#28 posted by Anonymous, August 17, 2009 7:45 PM

we used to sport custom embroidered hats:

I (HEART) COPS

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or like Cobain's "Stop Vandalism" tags. I ripped that one off more than once.

god, people thinking cops are hot just creeps me right the fuck out.

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#30 eh? some cops ARE hot. Just like any section of the population.

Plus, men in uniform = oh yes.

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I love a woman in a uniform! Or I would if she'd give me a chance...

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@30,

My wife and I are both cops, and I think she's beautiful (hot), and I would hope she thought the same of me. Not all cops are bad, it is mainly in how you treat them when they contact you on how they treat you in return.

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#34 posted by Anonymous, August 18, 2009 10:58 AM

I thought it was a poor abbreviation for "I love seafood".

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Pffff, yea, love the Police, until they're tazering you bro!!

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@ 31, 32, 33

sure sure. i know that "cops are people, too."

but it is true that it is a self selected group, and that the power over others very often attracts the wrong kind of people. like, not all politicians are evil, but lots of evil people go into politics.

and @ 33...having grown up as a scruffy looking long-hair in the deepest of the deep south, I can tell you that it is NOT all simply a matter of how you treat them. many asshole cops will judge you by appearance. and then you, of course, learn to judge them. :)

it is creepy to me. fetishizing authority. sure, individual cops can be hot, but thinking they're hot because they're cops (@31) is creepy.

like some weird throwback to sexual selection and its interaction with the evolutionary rise of state-power. (not straight causal)

it's all about the intelligent, hot, independently-minded, strong, and at-least-level-one-outlaw women for me.

:)

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offateandchance,

Contact me if you want your account reinstated.

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he didn't get kicked off just for that, did he Antinous? if not, i don't need details, of course.

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Repeated blog-whoring. If they don't pay attention to the requests to stop, I have to get their attention somehow.

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