OT: One More Off Topic Off Season Thread

[Stoneman89]

You are so right. More concerned of catching the IG moment than helping a fellow human being. Pretty sad eh.

Also, the bolded doesn’t absolve the officer from having to pay the f*** attention when driving 4-5000 pounds of steel. I have zero patience for inattentive driving for personal reasons.

I cut the cops a lot of slack because it’s a thankless, but oh so necessary role in our society. To any officers, fire responders, EMTs and all first responders reading this site, thank you for doing what you do.


My response wasn’t directed at you. It was to the video. Where did you catch the news on this matter? Would be interested in learning more.

Very much agreed on the cop not paying attention, and yes, a big time screw up there. Not sure what the hell he was thinking. But as you say, they have a tough job, and unfortunately, mistakes can happen.

'Extremely unfortunate accident': Video emerges of Edmonton police cruiser running over woman in parking lot

Edmonton police say major collision investigators are probing an incident in which a fellow police officer was caught on video running over a woman in a parking lot, calling it an "extremely unfortunate accident."

edmontonjournal.com

 

[Spawn]

Very much agreed on the cop not paying attention, and yes, a big time screw up there. Not sure what the hell he was thinking. But as you say, they have a tough job, and unfortunately, mistakes can happen.

They do have a tough job. Not running over someone prone on the ground while there are about half a dozen people trying to point them out isnt the tough part though.

This isn’t a “mistake.” This is negligence.

 

[5 Mins 4 Ftg]

the "news" is a f***in joke now

Wait till Wednesday

 

[rboomercat90]

Russian court fines Google $2 decillion

I hope this doesn't get flagged as political, but I find it absolutely hilarious that this Russian court "fined" Google for this amount. An amount more than all of the estimated wealth of the world.

It just seems like something Dr. Evil would do if he was in charge of a country.

Nah, Dr Evil would have only asked for 1 million dollars.

 

[brentashton]

Wait till Wednesday

You should see what is going on down here. 200+ candidate supporters set up at an intersection here in Phoenix near my house on Saturday. supporters sat at all 4 corners with flags, signs, music blaring through speakers. When you stopped at the light you definitely were entertained by the participants.

Then, later on Saturday afternoon, I encountered (and I’ve seen these before during the 2020 election) probably a 30-40 vehicle caravan all flying flags out the bed of the truck, driving up and down the Carefree highway between Cave Creek and the I-17. Think Coutts style flags etc.. I only drive a Ram1500 4x4 not lifted, and it’s not diesel, doesn’t have oversized tires. I would have felt inadequate participating.

Watching football yesterday was interesting to see who seemed to buy the most advertising during the various games. Hint - she must have raised a lot of money to spend. I would say she had 80% of the ads that were related to the presidency vote.

 

[Fixed to Ruin]

Wait till Wednesday

All i know is that the Oilers play the Golden Knights on Wednesday.

 

[Slats432]

Ladies and Gents, with approval from the Mods, I am posting a link to a raffle from Edmonton's SSAC for Oilers Tickets. Funds support our youth hockey team. Not tons of tickets so your chances are way better than the 50/50. LOL

Raffle Rocket

go.raffle-rocket.com

 

[Mr Kot]

Ladies and Gents, with approval from the Mods, I am posting a link to a raffle from Edmonton's SSAC for Oilers Tickets. Funds support our youth hockey team. Not tons of tickets so your chances are way better than the 50/50. LOL

Raffle Rocket

go.raffle-rocket.com

i purchased EXACTLY 1 TICKET

 

[Slats432]

i purchased EXACTLY 1 TICKET

 

[Stoneman89]

All i know is that the Oilers play the Golden Knights on Wednesday.

They might be the "Atlantic City Knights" by then.

 

[fancy dan]

cops don't deserve the benefit of the doubt. cops need to be scrutinized much more, not less.

 

[Stoneman89]

cops don't deserve the benefit of the doubt. cops need to be scrutinized much more, not less.

They are not above the law, agreed. But if you think it's an easy job, then perhaps you should suit up.

 

[timekeep]

cops don't deserve the benefit of the doubt. cops need to be scrutinized much more, not less.

What are you talking about? Seriously?

 

[BIeucheeseWithWings]

cops don't deserve the benefit of the doubt. cops need to be scrutinized much more, not less.

This isn't reddit, bro.

 

[CantHaveTkachev]

nm..political

 

[BIeucheeseWithWings]

When did HF remove the unmoderated page? It blows that there is not one place to discuss real life issues on this platform. Too many sensitive p***yes.

 

[McDNicks17]

When did HF remove the unmoderated page? It blows that there is not one place to discuss real life issues on this platform. Too many sensitive p***yes.

It was awhile back now. The problem was the Politics board wasn't unmoderated, so you had a bunch of people who volunteered to moderate hockey talk then forced to constantly deal with stuff in there.

And probably 80% of that board was posters who only posted on that board, so it wasn't really worth the headache.

 

[K1984]

When did HF remove the unmoderated page? It blows that there is not one place to discuss real life issues on this platform. Too many sensitive p***yes.

Had to be 5+ years ago now, and I don't get it either.

When it ended it was "not doing this anymore!" re: mods coming in there. Maybe a solution there would be to just.....ignore it?

 

[BIeucheeseWithWings]

 

[McDNicks17]

Had to be 5+ years ago now, and I don't get it either.

When it ended it was "not doing this anymore!" re: mods coming in there. Maybe a solution there would be to just.....ignore it?

There's no way a company would ignore something like that. Especially with what was said in there.

I don't think it ever made sense to have a politics section here, personally.