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Giant Banana Pulled over in Montana Driver Says Cops Have Stopped Him 100s Times

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Giant Banana Pulled over in Montana Driver Says Cops Have Stopped Him 100s Times

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Giant Banana Pulled Over in Montana: Driver Says Cops Have Stopped Him 100s Of Times
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For 15 years, Steve Braithwaite has driven a 23-foot banana across the country and, on Wednesday, just like hundreds of times before, he was pulled over…

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  • Pommes_für_dein_Balg@feddit.org
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    Often officers simply wanted photographs.
    Other times they invented reasons to start a conversation.

    Exercising your power over people, disrupting their day and putting them in a stressful and possibly dangerous situation, just to satisfy your own curiosity, is a dick move.

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      Have you met cops?

      • agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works
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        Right? Using your authority to do nothing but satisfy your curiosity about a banana car is best case scenario

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      Mandatory ACAB

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      If you would do that in the workplace it would be harassment. Isn’t the public the workplace of the police though?

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    Probably doesn’t help that hes dressed like he stole it.

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      I think the fact he isn’t dressed in a gorilla suit (or as Donkey Kong) is a missed opportunity

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        You’re not wrong.

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    Montana Banana is good, but it would be better if he was based in Alabama.

    • BarrelAgedBoredom@lemmy.zip
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      Alabanana

    • agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works
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      Better yet, Savannah, GA.

      • bigbangdangler@reddthat.com
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        Oooh hadn’t considered that. Good call.

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    Slippery little guy.

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      When the traffic stop was over he peeled out

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    banana for scale

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    I see the appeal.

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    https://youtu.be/JZpxaiNV_sM

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