It’s recently come to our attention that the police are the night watch security of a certain grocery store on Barrington St.
The store leaves its sale items (easter leftovers) outside the store over night and rather than the police out catching criminals who break into cars to steal their cd decks, break into apartments to steal laptops and cellphones, or drunk people wondering into houses, or girls getting pulled into alleyways (all taking place up the street in the South End of Halifax) they’re camped outside the grocery store’s door watching 16 carts of chocolates and stuffed bunnies!!
Nice to know taxpayers’ money is paying for the safety and security of grocery store profits.—Jamal
This article appears in Apr 1-7, 2010.
I don’t think ALL of the police in all of Halifax were there..
This is going to sound like an asshole question, but I really don’t mean it that way… are you sure they’re ACTUAL cops? That company employs a rent-a-cop service for their security needs…
beware the bad bunny napper, i will creep into your fridge and wisk all your goodies away, like the thief in the night, that i am. hey coppers, save some for the rest of them.i saw you last night snitch that foil egg and rabbit.
Pictures! Get pictures! FRANK magazine would have a field day with this. So would The Chronicle Herald, CBC, and ATV. Plus there is a TIM’s next door where the cops chill ALL the freakin’ time for donuts and coffee!
Many police officers work “private” security assignments on their days off. They wear their proper police uniforms, but are paid by the client, not the taxpayers.
I’m not sure about the particulars of this exact case – I’m just saying it’s really common to “hire” police.
sebastion, and don’t forget the occasional free bunny.
The cops are probably there waiting for the fresh batch of donuts to be ready at Timmy’s next door. Speaking of that Timmy’s, anyone else notice that that location is the new spot for bums to hang out at? They catch you coming out of the drive-thru now, and there are always cracked-out bums hanging around. Like the big dude with the flourescent vest. Bus ticket or loonie guy likes the area, too. Short balding mullet dude with the shades also likes that Timmy’s, as does crutch-man and crackhead black dude. Doesn’t help that there’s a crackhouse across the street! If only the Lighthouse was still around.
Gotta love sketchy South-End Halifax! It’s not all mansions and rich people.
I found out the other day that easter candy is kosher.
It made me LOL a bit.
It all depends on how you kill it, PK.
Hey “Jamal”,
What up, dawg? Do you love free, unguarded chocolate or just disagree with how your tax dollars are being spent and used? I’m not quite sure. Help me out here.
I saw loads of fertilizer sitting out a grocery store on Easter Sunday on my way to work and no one around.
Kosher easter candy? Fuck sakes is there anything that isn’t tainted anymore?
*checks his porkchop sandwich to see if it’s kosher*
It’s not passover kosher, but apparently my cousin, who’s becoming a Jew saw a label on some easter candy that said it was kosher.
HA.
That’s disgusting.
Now I want some Matzoh Brie made with a bunch of dead pig in it. If the Jews can have kosher Easter candy then us goyims can have some pork-fried Jew-food.
I mean, first, they kill Jesus and then get candy made for His resurrection?
PORKCHOP SANDWICHES!
Anyone else excited about that new sandwich from KFC? The bun is MADE OF CHICKEN.
Like whoa. srsly.
It’s only going to be available in the US.
Funny thing was, 2 weeks ago I walked by a pallet of Tim’s cups in front of the SUB. No guards around or cops, or even Tims employees. I could have won me something sweet by just walking away with a box and carrying it on the bus. Problem was, I think they were testing me, and the students at Dal. I left them be, but I still wonder, what if?
Indeed police officers in some jurisdictions ARE surprisingly still allowed to moonlight.
Most progressive and professional forces have banned this archaic practice – after all, who wants a guy with a gun stalking around the city with red-eyes and a short temper becuase he’s on 3 hours of sleep trying to pay for a new fishing boat?
It’s ridculous to think that some forces still allow their officers to use public resources to work in the private sector.
There should be a “maximum on-duty time” for ANYONE with a gun. period.
I dont know how it works here in Nova Scotia, but you can request the service of an off duty police officer as a security member for a function in Ontario, paying them to do so. There is nothing illegal, out of sorts, or on the tax payers dole to go with this. who are any of you to say who can and cannot work another line of paying job, on their free time. dig your fucking heads out of each others ass’s and grow the fuck up.
“”There is nothing illegal, out of sorts, or on the tax payers dole to go with this…””
Oh really? Because this morning when I pulled my head out of my ass to read the morning paper in Waco, TX…It’s all about the indictment of 8 of the city’s “finest” on double dipping charges.
And as for the “tax-payer’s dole”…who do you think pays for the training, the cars the uniforms, the guns the steroids etc etc?
In the worst case, as here in Texas, it’s a felony, in the best case it wastes MY money becuase I’m paying for a law enforcement officer whose not giving 100% to his or her job.
Your blanket support for moonlighting cops says that either you have a distant relative that’s one, or you’re a frustrated wannabe yourself, having to be content with a “lesser” role in “law enfocement” –
“hey, you kids, if you don’t buy nothin’, you gotta move on!” “There’s no skateboarding in the parkade fellas!”
scram rocky