"The vehicle, valued at $689,000, was not paid for by the town or tax dollars. It was acquired through the Federal 1033 program run by the US Department of Defense’s Law Enforcement Support Office.
The program transfers weapons, equipment and vehicles from the military to civilian law enforcement agencies."
oh…ok
…why?
A while back, I did a search for the manuals for vehicles like this and figured out they, by default, they are all keyed alike. So, unless your local law enforcement agency is filled with intelligent, forward thinking individuals bright enough to get them rekeyed (and can convince the accountants/comptrollers to pay for the rekeying), you can figure out what the key is through the manuals (because pigs are idiots and host them unsecured) and order them on Amazon or whatever.
Would be funny if they were all at the bottom of lakes and canals
Also, all of your local cop cars are probably keyed alike, too. And busses don’t have keys at all.
You could probably get some good cash taking it to your local mafia run chop shop.
My chop shop is collectively run
Yep, Buses use start buttons to engage the engines, for the longest time, they utilized air starters for their reliability. Though electric starters have become more dependable and robust in the last few decades.
The only hard part now is patience, give it 45 or so seconds for the system to build air so you can actually use the brakes properly. Then disengage the parking brake (pressing the yellow diamond down)
Edit: some buses do not have a parking gear. To “park” some buses you put it in neutral then pull the parking brake tab up.
Boomers: “Kids these days can’t drive manual!”
GenX/Y/Z/A: Pops parking brake and shifts into gear
Boomers: Ah well, nevertheless!
“The means of colonial violence turn inward to control the domestic population?”
Libs love to repeat Foucault’s definition of fascism, but they cover their ears when you bring up the boomerang.
high water rescues
the other stuff; no but strip the armor off it, paint it yellow, but a cool “PROSPER SWIFT WATER RESCUE” logo on it and only do that
then give it to the fire department
high water rescues
They’re being bullshitters and they know it.
Merced, CA had a flood last year and they literally used an ARFF rig for rescues
Yeah, I have never seen the
ever attempt a rescueThe most I ever seen them do for the public good was pull a chunk of bumper out of the road before I could
Damn and I thought it was wild that my city got one with a population of ~60k
Nothing has ever happened here that something like that would be useful for. Even when some MAGA chud shot a couple cops out in the mountains this thing wouldn’t help because it wouldn’t fit on the roads up there. Like it would literally cause a fuckin landslide before it got anywhere where people are armed in any significant way.
You people think the american empire doesn’t ever learn anything, but here’s proof
They learned how effective IEDs are for an insurgency, and gave these to domestic police
I’m glad Grave Digger got new life after being retired from the monster truck circuit.
Mine-Resistant Ambush Protected vehicle
we’ll see
“Resistant” is doing the heavy lifting here.
Not an occupying force tho
Damn it’s like the tools of imperialism are coming back to the homeland, like a boomerang or something
Burgerpunk truck
This truck is actually a de-escalation tactic, if any acorns attack the cops the detained people in the back of the truck are way safer
Ok, I identify as a “law enforcement agency” now. WHERE’S MY FUCKING TANK!
Mine Resistant Ambush Protection Vehicle
Gets stopped in it’s fukin tracks by a water balloon full of paint and sand tossed at its windshield.
Mine-Resistant lol ask Ukrainians about that.
$300 Chinese drone + $100 grenade from the top
Tax dollars don’t pay for military equipment now?
