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Often officers simply wanted photographs.
Other times they invented reasons to start a conversation.
Exercising your power over people just to satisfy your own curiosity is a dick move.
Have you met cops?
Right? Using your authority to do nothing but satisfy your curiosity about a banana car is best case scenario
Mandatory ACAB
If you would do that in the workplace it would be harassment. Isn't the public the workplace of the police though?
Probably doesn't help that hes dressed like he stole it.
I think the fact he isn't dressed in a gorilla suit (or as Donkey Kong) is a missed opportunity
You're not wrong.
Montana Banana is good, but it would be better if he was based in Alabama.
Alabanana
Better yet, Savannah, GA.
Oooh hadn't considered that. Good call.
Slippery little guy.
When the traffic stop was over he peeled out
banana for scale
I love the idea of seeing this quote without any context:
Braithwaite figures he may have spent the better part of a decade as one of the most frequently pulled-over drivers in America.
Not for speeding, but simply because he was driving a giant banana.
I see the appeal.