Tuesday, June 29, 2010

Mall cops

Has anyone else seen the show "Mall Cops: Mall of America"? These are the biggest geeks I've ever seen. Basically take a nerd cop with an attitude, take away his gun, flashlight, cuffs, and night stick, and what you are left with is a mall cop. These are the guys in high school who got picked on or played the chimes in the high school marching band. This is their way of getting back at the people who called them out for wearing their solid white band shoes everywhere they went. Now they've traded in the shoes for a radio and a can of mace. They walk around like they are armed to the T and no matter what goes down at the mall today they will be ready. They talk about their job being serious and critical for people's safety. These nerds wouldn't know what to do if something broke out. They would probably drop their radio calling for help, try to spray the mace and hit themselves in the face with it. And you know they sit around after work talking about what happened. I would imagine the conversation between Darryl and Gary would look like this:

Darryl: How'd your day go? Any problems?
Gary: Oh yeah, I was stoked about what happened today.
Darryl: Well tell the 10-60(details) about it.
Gary: Well I had a code 12-87 today down at Sears. When I arrived on the scene,
there was Coke spilled everywhere.
Darryl: No way!
Gary: Yeah way. It was a pretty bad scene. I coned off the containment area from
all the pedestrian traffic. From the looks of it, it was a spill and run.
Darryl: Stupid vigilantes.
Gary: Your telling me. The splatter from the Coke was about a 10 perimeter even
splashing up on a few shelves. It was a real mess and somebody was going to
get hurt if I didn't get the situation under control. You know this was one
of those situations you dream about at Securitas Training Academy. It was
time to shine. After 30 minutes of cleanup, I had the situation under
control.
Darryl: Man, that's great. I wish I could have been in Sector B with you and seen
the carnage. What did Sgt. Humpback say?
Gary: He just gave me a pat on the back and a well done soldier. We then reviewed
the security cameras and saw that the perpetrador was a 10 yr. old little boy.
Darryl: What waste of space for a human. Just think, if we would have been good
enough for the police academy we'd see this stuff everyday.
Gary: Yeah, you can bet next time I catch him in my mall, his butt is mine.

Anyways, this show is a complete joke. I usually like watching shows like "Deadliest Catch", "Dirtiest Jobs", and "COPS", but this is a joke. It's almost funny at the lack of respect they get when they do confront someone who is "doing something wrong". They pick out the smallest thing to complain about or get on to someone about so they can show authority, only to have it thrown in their face. And the funniest part is when a real cop shows up and steals the show. Good show if you too wore white shoes in high school. Come to think of it, I think the "anchor" played the trumpet and was a majorette in high school.

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