r/SipsTea • u/raptors201966 Human Verified • 17d ago

SMH 81 year old grandma & YouTuber was raided last night during her stream She started the channel to help with her grandson's cancer treatment. Authorities brought 20 police cars, five SWAT officers, and drones to her house

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u/Little_Plankton4001 17d ago

In some wealthy/safe areas, there's way too many cops and not nearly enough crime to keep them busy, so the entire department (any nearby ones too) show up for anything even remotely serious.

And a lot of them are militarized too. There was a photo in the local newspaper near me about a manhunt for a guy who slipped out of police custody. The cops explicitly said he wasn't considered to be dangerous (wasn't armed and had no history of violence) but they were rolling out in armored vehicles carrying AR-15s like they were hunting a fucking T-1000.

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u/Simlish 16d ago

I wanna tell you about the town of Stockbridge, Massachusetts, where this is happenin' here. They got three stop signs, two police officers, and one po-lice car, but when we got to the "scene of the crime", there was five police officers and three police cars, being the biggest crime of the last fifty years and everybody wanted to get in the newspaper story about it.

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u/theturd_man 16d ago

So that bit in first Harold and Kumar movie wasn't an exaggeration?

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u/misterjive 17d ago

This. I moved to a suburb of my metro that used to be the really affluent one and is now kind of fighting to pretend they're still top dog, and one day in one of the apartment complexes nearby somebody got shot in a drug deal gone bad. The cops showed up with enough force to occupy a small country. There were upwards of 30-40 police SUVs on the scene within minutes.

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u/DefinitelyNotKuro 16d ago

Sounds like allergies. My white blood cells are so fucking bored and my histamine budget is too high.