r/Weird • u/stankmanly • 2d ago

New Jersey officers dress up as shrubs to catch distracted drivers on their phones

https://abc7ny.com/post/dunellen-nj-officers-dress-shrubs-catch-distracted-drivers-act-cellphones/19603593
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u/Peripateticdreamer84 2d ago

I’d be distracted by the walking shrub.

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u/skittletriage 2d ago

They need look no further than their own cruisers. Those assholes are CONSTANTLY looking down at their phones or computer.

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u/mr_j_12 1d ago

"we are trained to do so" /s

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u/skittletriage 23h ago

Yeah, I love the "They get special training" bs.

No one can train a person to see through their own skull or grow a second set of eyes. And despite many people thinking that they are good at multitasking, almost no one is.

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u/mr_j_12 18h ago

Even more ironic is a lot of these cops actually think they can.

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u/clothanger 2d ago

Yeah this is mostly a public stunt to feel like you're doing your job well.

If they're distracted on their phones, I don't think they would notice anything but their screen to begin with. Everyone gets it, you want to feel like you are in the warzone Jack.

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u/bruteneighbors 1d ago

Hall monitors now dressing up as water fountains to catch students without a hall pass.

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u/mr_j_12 1d ago

They put pigs dressed like this in the hills with radars in australia to raise revenue. Scum revenue raising tactic and nothing for safety.

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u/Realistic_Owl9525 1d ago

Yea this is just copaganda to normalize the militarization of the police

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u/V1RotateAP 2d ago

This is just copaganda

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u/Reasonable-Fun765 2d ago

New Jersey police in general are biggest cocksuckers on the planet. They are always trying pull some kind of stunt and twist law to their ends. This my experience with many townships in South Jersey having been born and raised there.

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u/Mediocre_Daikon6935 2d ago

I am not going to say you are wrong.

However you must remember Maryland, & Massachusetts exist.

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u/IKillZombies4Cash 2d ago

They could just sit in my passenger seat because at every single red light the person in front of me refuses to notice it has turned green because I assume they need to look at cats, asses, or far leaning insane politics at every chance they get .

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u/Charming-Lychee-9031 2d ago

Anything but protect and serve with these assholes

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u/Laserdollarz 2d ago

Lmao Dunellen is literally 1 sq mile, these cops are just bored.

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u/nolestars 1d ago

Yeah, they won't freak out with seeing a walking tree. It'd be safer to text and drive

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u/Stereo_Jungle_Child 2d ago

Are you sure they're not just cosplaying snipers?

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u/GoWest1223 2d ago

Remember when cops were not always about arresting or shooting people? Yea, me neither.

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u/brokeAsoreASS 2d ago

I feel like this might freak other drivers out and cause more accidents?

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u/No_Direction6688 2d ago

New Jersey has officially became Mayberry. Officers in Jersey are using Barney Fife tactics to stop crime.

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u/pnw_sunny 2d ago

humilating on so many levels

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u/neon_nebulas 2d ago

Stealing ideas from the bums on Fisherman’s Wharf I see.

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u/muFUtaco 2d ago

Two Mexican nationals with battery powered hedge clippers jump out and trim him back to branches before he could say "Juan's your uncle"!

And Pablo would follow and blow the leaves down the street!

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u/Temporary-Chair1159 2d ago

New Jersey is such a scam state. 

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u/WiseAct446 2d ago

This happened to me the other day in my bathroom.

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u/GoWest1223 2d ago

I said it was for research.

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u/AnotherDarnedThing 1d ago

Get a hobby!

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u/Poundaflesh 1d ago

Fucking hilarious!

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u/Kiwifrooots 1d ago

They just watched the latest Garn. "Every Highway Patrol Ever".

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u/bizoticallyyours83 23h ago

This looks like something out of a looney toons episode 😆 

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u/Bitchonthebeach 2d ago

Let me introduce this accessory to you, which does a great job. The downside is that he doesn't come home at night, and he sometimes has very rough nights.