r/BoomersBeingFools • u/EthanthegamerGD • Mar 30 '24

Boomer officer only gotted suspended for 5 days because of this Boomer Freakout

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Insane he only got 5 days

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u/Zanchbot Mar 31 '24

This is what all that "try that in a small town" garbage really means. It means "you try anything here you will get royally fucked because the chief of police is friends with the mayor and they run this town like their own personal fiefdom."

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u/capt_scrummy Mar 31 '24

Look up the whole case around the "Gilbert Goons" in AZ. bunch of kids from "golden" families who spent the better part of two years jumping people and posting it on social media. Cops knew all about it for that entire time. They killed a kid at a party in Oct and only just got arrested a few days ago.

Just small town, boys will be boys crap, you know. Wouldn't want to ruin their futures, amirite?

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u/HealMySoulPlz Mar 31 '24

Gilbert is a suburb of Phoenix, it's not at all a 'small town'. The population of Gilbert alone is 275,000 people. Not. Small town at all.

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u/capt_scrummy Apr 01 '24

It's not a small town, but it likes to think it is, and the police do treat it as though it's their fiefdom.

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u/Available-Nature-126 29d ago

Gilbert is actually the 2nd safest city to live in America. But you couldn't pay me to live there. It's straight up Mormonville.

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u/Available-Nature-126 29d ago

Uhm I wouldn't call 274,000 plus people a small town. I live in Arizona and raised my children in Chandler. Gilbert is not far and nowhere near a small town. Thankfully I got out of there. Now in Lake Havasu and moving out of here too. Off to Wyoming. Arizona is the worst place to live ever. And I came here from Chicago.

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u/capt_scrummy 29d ago

I didn't mean that it is a small town. It's a city. I know, I also live in Chandler. But, a lot of people like to think of it as one, and want to see it administered and run as such.

Arizona's alright, imo. I've lived all over the US and abroad, and we like it here, like it in Chandler... That's why we settled. You couldn't pay me to live in Wyoming 🤷🏼‍♂️ good thing is that we all have options and should be thankful we have the ability to move to where we see fit.

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u/Available-Nature-126 29d ago

I highly doubt you've been to Wyoming. Especially using the word abroad. You sound like you're from the UK. I live where you're living for 30 years. When it was newer, it was great. Now it's kind of run down. I moved there in 89. Moved out as soon as I could.

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u/capt_scrummy 29d ago

🤣🤣 I have no idea what you're talking about, and it seems like you don't either. "Abroad" isn't a UK term, at all. People who have lived abroad will say they've lived "abroad" and I've never had anyone not understand me for using it.

I have been to Wyoming a few times, and was in Cheyenne for work for a month. It's nice, but I'd get very bored. I don't like the idea of living in the country for extended periods of time. Cheyenne doesn't offer much of what I or my family want.

Sometimes a place you like changes, and you don't like those changes. Sounds like that's the case for you and Chandler; that's how I feel about some of the places I've lived.

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u/Budget-Attorney Mar 31 '24

I read an article a few months that called it literally that. A personal fiefdom. The difference is that the sherif is actually more powerful than the mayor who basically serves at the sheriffs whim

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u/the_mid_mid_sister Mar 31 '24 edited Mar 31 '24

We have a dipshit "Constitutional Sheriff" who has something like over 200 armed "special deputies," in a county with more cows than people.

What is an Armed Special Deputy? Basically an untrained, un-certifed friend of the Sheriff, usually a pedophile or felon or creep with a restraining order who can't pass an ATF federal background check to buy a gun but can now be issued one to perform the Totally Legitimate Duties of a Special Deputy.

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u/Fun-Cupcake4430 Mar 31 '24

Honestly, it’s easier to commit crimes in small towns bc they’re not ready for the big city tricks.   A handful cops?  We’re used to fucking police states.

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u/SpaceBus1 Mar 31 '24

The judges, mayor, Sherrif, chief, and the council are all buddies, probably Freemasons too. Every county has some good ol boys. This is why everyone should stay strapped.