Check out this news story on YouTube: the guy who (might have) tried to hold up a bar containing twenty off-duty police officers. I saw this on This is True (a fine publication, by the way), and had to go track the surveillance video down. Basically a guy ran into a bar wearing a bandana and holding a hand in his clothes, as if he was hiding a gun. He rushed in right behind two off duty police officers, part of a group of four. He was confronted and quickly tackled by the off-duty cops, who - their beers still in their hand - forced him onto the ground and kept him there until an on-duty officer arrived and arrested him for disorderly conduct.
A funny story, I think, although I wish the media wouldn't assume that someone arrested (not even tried, as I write this!) for disorderly behavior was actually planning on robbing a bar. Luckily, wiser heads are prevailing: according to a local paper, Eau Claire Police Chief Jerry Matysik is planning to "look at that to determine if they acted professionally and properly". So I guess we can all laugh a little easier.
(Do I overanalyse things? I guess I do, but for me a joke has to be perfect. Not good, not great - perfect. High standards, I guess.)
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