Are local police forces over doing it with Military Equipment?

[Jimmy Higgins]

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The decommissioned U.S. Navy Virginia-class submarine was taken out of service in 2013 and mothballed for nearly 18 months before ownership was transferred to the Hamptons Police Department.


“I want to emphasize that this submersible craft came at no cost to taxpayers,” Hamptons PD representative Larry Hirsch explains in a press release. “With the blessing of the Hamptons Municipal Board, we requested such a watercraft last year under a federal program to outfit local police departments with surplus military equipment.”

 

[fromderinside]

Oh yeah!

 

[Jason Harvestdancer]

They've been overdoing it for years. They're only overdoing it obviously now.

 

[Smoker]

Yes, the more military equipment they need to keep us calm, the more is shows how fucked up the system is. Fuck the police!

 

[NobleSavage]

Is the OP link satire?

 

[bilby]

There was a brief period in 1989 when the third largest submarine fleet in the world - behind only those of the US and Soviet navies - was owned by Pepsico.

I don't know if they still own them, but I would think twice before tipping up that vending machine down by the beach...

 

[barbos]

Does that sub have ICBMs?

 

[Nice Squirrel]

http://www.danspapers.com/2015/06/hamptons-police-submarine-unit-makes-first-arrest/

“It was terrifying,” the boat’s captain, Clint Bartholomew, said after his arraignment Friday morning. “Everything went dark as this huge, black shape emerged from the depths, and next thing you know, this dude is yelling at us through some kind of loudspeaker and waving his arms so I can see him up in that tower thing,” the captain said, adding, “I have to say, it was pretty cool riding back in that thing, especially being totally baked as I was, but I’ll definitely be following my boating Ps and Qs while that thing is out there.”

 

[Earl IV]

Is the OP link satire?

Satire
Onion type
1 each

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

Is the OP link satire?

No, Hamptons, NH got a submarine.

 

[fromderinside]

Is the OP link satire?

No, Hamptons, NH got a submarine.

Knowing the perversity of those people they got it because they wanted to actually beach something.

 

[Crazy Eddie]

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The decommissioned U.S. Navy Virginia-class submarine was taken out of service in 2013 and mothballed for nearly 18 months before ownership was transferred to the Hamptons Police Department.


“I want to emphasize that this submersible craft came at no cost to taxpayers,” Hamptons PD representative Larry Hirsch explains in a press release. “With the blessing of the Hamptons Municipal Board, we requested such a watercraft last year under a federal program to outfit local police departments with surplus military equipment.”

Okay...

I know this is satire.
I want to BELIEVE this is satire.
But the idea of an East Coast police department being handed the keys to a FUCKING NUCLEAR SUBMARINE teetering just beyond the edge of what now passes for "normal" in American police departments. Not that it would be a good idea, not that it would make any sense, not that the entire project wouldn't come completely unglued once the police realize they have no idea how to effectively operate a nuclear submarine... just that there ARE police departments and there ARE politicians in this country stupid enough to try it.