"Police need better training"
"Okay, we'll build a whole facility to better train them"

"How dare you, let's protest"

A drunk kid flew through an intersection and demolished their car in a ditch right outside my apt the other week. Called the state troopers and they were there in under 10 mins. They were very polite and very professional and gave the drunk kid a blanket (and some scolding) before taking him in. I know they get a bad rap, but including my being pulled over a few times last year, I’ve only had good experiences.

How dare they pull people over for speeding!

Better than Merkel any day, snow rain or sun. The man single handedly turned an entire generation of Addison county school children into fervent ACAB folks just by being a school resource officer

Regardless of political affiliation, nice dad joke there

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Annie get yer gun.

This is why I have a security system, big dog, and guns.

Fuck cops

You say that like it’s a bad thing

It clearly states in our bylaws that we the state troopers have no obligation to set down our cocoa, get out of our warm footie pajamas, and enforce the laws, during inclement weather, including but not limited to: sleat, hail, fog, tornados, windstorms, dust storms, electrical storms, thunderstorms, squalls, northeasters, southwesters, la niñas, el niños, blizzards, whiteouts, indian summers, mud season, or water spouts.

Can't wait till the bosses make them go patrol during a rain of blood/toads: technically rain, and that one cop jerked himself off on the internet with that one pic of his cop car and a statement about sun rain and snow, rain of toads is a subset of the category rain, that said insecure cop clearly promised we would do our jobs during, so get out there and patrol, you lazy locker room lawyer!

Whatever bad you can say about BF...at least it isn't Springfield

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Had to call state police when 91 was shut down Feb 24 because we were stuck on the side of the road covered in black ice and insurance said “your car is not disabled so we won’t pay for a tow even though you have full coverage so kindly call your local police and fuck right off” and I was 20 min from home, running out of insulin in my pump. The state police basically said “yeah we’re all out on the road so call us when you’re dying from your diabetic emergency thank you goodbye”.

Luckily I found the spare insulin that I keep in my car for emergencies that is probably not as effective from being frozen. But I would have been royally screwed.

The town is great, the people are what suck

I know PK's pub is still there, not sure about the shrine

When did I say trans rights aren't important? If you can't understand that Vermonters have more pressing issues to deal with, maybe you shouldn't move here...

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Massachusetts has a big LGBTQ community, Vermont depends on the area. You can see there are some backwards people who live here and are less welcoming. But I know a few people who have transplanted here that are in the community and are happy.

Yeah but this one had a shrine in the corner to sinnfein with a big box to hold donations.

Used to live in southern VT for 10+ years and state troopers would take forever (if they ended up showing up AT ALL) to respond versus living in northern VT now near Burlington, they have been pretty quick whenever anything happens on the highway. Depends on the day and area I guess

must have been something other than sun, rain or snow

Important things like showing a presence on a Sunday afternoon when we all know the road south is going to be full of well-off entitled pricks like the masshole in the the BMW today that almost took my kids and I out as he weaved through traffic at literally 95 mph as the rest of us were slowing down for a construction zone that brought us to one lane? Idk man, doing something, literally anything to prevent that and make our roads safer would be nice. The lazy assholes don’t even have to be there, just park a few of their SUVs in the median here and there. Problem solved. They literally just don’t give a fuck, and yes, it started exactly at the pandemic and hasn’t changed. Wonder why… 🤔

They don't come out on the weekends

Where were they when my driver got rear-ended in Well's River? Oh yeah, they told me Well's River wasn't in Vermont.

During Covid they were told to focus on more important things besides harassing working folk who don’t have up to date inspections etc, looks like they are still doing important stuff 😉.