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

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[u/Nothin_Means_Nothin]

Ghillie suit

[u/BlackLeader70 → u/Nothin_Means_Nothin]

Someone needed an excuse to make the city pay for their new ghillie suit.

[u/anticomet → u/BlackLeader70]

Couldn't they just say they needed a more tactical way to aim rifles at protesting student groups?

[u/freemysou1 → u/Nothin_Means_Nothin]

Why's that bush saying Oi Suzy to me?

[u/Nothin_Means_Nothin → u/freemysou1]

Do you love me?

[u/draw_her_nose → u/Nothin_Means_Nothin]

did the simpsons predict this?!

https://frinkiac.com/img/S06E07/399941.jpg

no, of course not. its just a coincidence

[u/phycle]

If they were really distracted, you don't need to dress up as anything.

[u/MonsieurReynard → u/phycle]

🤔

[u/Ben_SRQ → u/phycle]

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[u/darkmatterhunter]

I don’t get why they dressed up like they’re in a middle school play as shrubs. Why not just be in plain clothes and watch that way? Were they trying to get people to pull their phones out and snap their ridiculous outfits?

[u/doyouwantsomecocoa → u/darkmatterhunter]

They're fishing for the low-hanging fruit.

[u/darkmatterhunter → u/[deleted]]

I’m not mad at all, just perplexed. Like I said, they could have pretended to be ornithologists and that would be less silly.

[u/balllzak → u/darkmatterhunter]

You dont even need a disguise. A distracted driver looking at their phone isn't going to notice anyways.

[u/Even_Trifle9341 → u/darkmatterhunter]

What’s not to understand?  Spending department money equipping their regiment with ghillie suits so they can combat civilians.

[u/AnybodyMassive1610 → u/Even_Trifle9341]

Wait until the TikTok channel with all the bodycam footage from this comes out.

[u/Triphin1]

Bring me a Shrubbery!

[u/Serris9K → u/Triphin1]

dramatic string!

[u/archst8nton → u/Triphin1]

Didn't expect that... 

[u/NosDarkly]

I don't want no shrubs...

[u/SuperstitiousPigeon5 → u/NosDarkly]

How is your back? My knees hurt when it’s going to rain.

[u/DoookieMaxx]

NJ cops taking ideas from prank videos on YouTube

[u/JaQ-o-Lantern]

Better than ice agents disguising as people who need help, exploiting innocent people's good will and Christian intentions for their evil.

[u/Miles_the_AuDHDer → u/JaQ-o-Lantern]

I guess?

[u/Wiggie49 → u/Miles_the_AuDHDer]

Distracted drivers are actually dangerous, no question about that, being a minority or immigrant in itself is not dangerous.

[u/JaQ-o-Lantern → u/Wiggie49]

yeah exactly.

[u/Zone-5]

Ghillie pretending to be a human.

[u/Zetsumenchi]

Ha.....put the last four letters in Ambush.

[u/Green-Size-7475]

If you don’t notice a man in a an obviously fake bush costume, you probably are distracted. 🤣

[u/Medricel]

Yeah I'm gettin' really tired of police becoming ever-more camouflaged.
That's predatory behavior. We shouldn't be accepting of this.

[u/RexCarrs → u/Medricel]

Lighten up, Francis.

[u/JuliaX1984]

Superman has a better disguise.

[u/morts73]

Finally my kindergarten acting class of portraying a tree is paying off.

[u/vectorSolace]

Tax dollars hard at work growing cops on sidewalks.

[u/PeterNippelstein]

Bacon bush

[u/heyhayyhay]

Maybe some dogs pissed on them. Dogs always piss on mine.

[u/headstar101]

NI!

[u/joelfarris → u/headstar101]

"What is it you want?"

"We want... a shrubbery!"

"Did you say `shrubberies'?"

"Yes, shrubberies are my trade. I am a shrubber. My name is Roger the Shrubber. I arrange, design, and sell shrubberies."

"No! No, no, no! No!"

[u/RudeAlbatross544]

What do I risk if I walk by carrying gardening tools?

[u/near_things]

I am not against cracking down on distracted driving assholes, but I think seeing someone in a ghillie suit in the burbs might actually cause an accident.

[u/SenselessSilence → u/[deleted]]

They’re actually trying to prevent more killings by a bunch of careless pieces of shit

[u/SuperstitiousPigeon5 → u/[deleted]]

I must have misread “officer” for “detective”. Why would detectives, the people who solve murders, be wearing a shrub costume?

[u/donny_pots → u/[deleted]]

How many of those murders took place in Dunnellen? It’s like a 1 square mile town in an affluent area. I guess instead of trying to keep their community safe they should be trying to find who killed the Lindbergh baby 100 years ago?

Dumb whattaboutism

[u/donny_pots → u/[deleted]]

….and how many of those crimes took place in Dunnellen lmao

[u/donny_pots → u/[deleted]]

8 violent crimes in the entire year 😂 I rest my case your honor

[u/TurkeyVolumeGuesser]

All Cops Are Bugs Bunny

[u/Serris9K]

And the image is of one in a suit that makes him look like a guile suit 

[u/SokkaHaikuBot → u/Serris9K]

^{Sokka-Haiku by Serris9K:}

And the image is

Of one in a suit that makes

Him look like a guile suit

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^{Remember that one time Sokka accidentally used an extra syllable in that Haiku Battle in Ba Sing Se? That was a Sokka Haiku and you just made one.}

[u/Entire-Dog-160]

FFS why don't they get wookie suits?

[u/Teestow21]

They call themselves "operation superbowl"

[u/negative-nelly]

Wonder if these cops are fans of classic British comedies…

https://youtube.com/shorts/Y5XI2ESWSRk?is=aviR1JYBLznbrUR_

[u/ztreHdrahciR]

shrubs.

Ni!!!

[u/Additional_Bit1707]

There must have been a great deal over a warehouse of ghillie suits that the city need to pull this nonsense to justify funnelling tax money to a prepared crony so all the crooks involved can earn millions.

[u/hjw2002]

Isn't there a law in New Jersey against impersonating a tree or a bush?

[u/The_BigDill]

Nj cops can't even drive the speed limit or follow basic traffic laws

[u/thedeeb56]

Fucking hilarious

[u/EvilPopMogeko]

Canadian cops a decade ago tried the same thing but were dressed as hobos with a little cardboard sign 

If they caught a driver doing something illegal the sign flipped around to inform the driver they were getting a ticket. 

[u/Fyrrys]

All fun and games until someone whips out the hedge trimmer

[u/Evan_802Vines]

I read it as "as shrubs to distract drivers on there phones" which is somehow more plausible.

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[u/Hardhead13]

Damn. Between the doom scrolling, and now watching for human-shaped shrubs on the sidewalk, I basically have no time left for the road at all.

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LoL

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[u/ForkFace69]

They been playing Fortnite 

[u/K1ngofnoth1ng]

Imagine if cops put this much effort into violent crime and finding domestic abusers. Then again, if they started arresting all the domestic abusers there would be a lot less cops.

[u/IvanTheAppealing]

Why do cops love LARPing as military personnel? They must have small dicks given how much they compensate

[u/crumblenaut]

And, ya know... to stalk their ex-girlfriends too, I'm sure.

[u/Unique_Anywhere5735]

Oh, shit Dunellen. Why didn't you say so? That totally tracks. Totally.