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The greatest!
Reverse psychology attempt?
OLD!
still made me LOL
technically its not a stakeout, it’s a speed trap.
CAPTION FAIL!!!
I can’t believe they left their window open.
They have to air out the marijuana smell somehow.
Nah, the chocolate in the brownies covers that up.
You’ve obviously never made them.
I havn’t, but time is going really really really really slow.
i think i’m dead! please help!
OMG, win. That was my favorite fail ever.
Yeah, I got a pretty hearty lol out of this one. What a considerate sign!
i think sara was referring to the weed brownies fail.
You’ve obviously never been a seagull.
Well…there WAS that one time…
Or maybe it’s the smell of doughnuts?
You = autofail. Cops patrol with the windows open so they can hear what’s going on.
here comes captan funkiller
You = auto-fail. Nobody gives a shit about what the police are REALLY listening to, and “autofail” should be hyphenated.
Warning Win surely – Cops fail by default, because they are cops.
I hate someone coming to my house and saving me when I’m being robbed. Too bad they won’t let you smoke pot too.
Police are like Americans. As a large group they are full of fail. There are occasionially educated, open minded ones that buck the trend though.
Why would you say we are full of fail? Are you not on failblog? On the internet? You’re welcome. And I’m sorry if I like having police around. Anarchy is for teenagers that want to piss off their parents.
Tim Berners-Lee (who invented the internet) is British. Just thought I’d point that out
No silly. Al Gore invented the internet.
Yeah and Bush invented the iPod…
Ahem. Manbearpig.
hahaha.
Rabble rabble rabble.
LOL Manbearpig!!! Half man, Half bear, Half pig!!! FTW lol
Do you really want examples of how much you fail?
China is kicking your ass in the olympics and you wont admit it – Sport Fail.
George Bush – Leadership Fail
Iraq & Afghanistan – Foreign Policy Fail
Looking after hurrican Katrina victims – Domestic Policy Fail
Obesity – Personal hygiene Fail
Your Economy – Money Fail
Carbon Emissions – Looking after the world Fail
America is full of fail.
Blow whatever country you’re in into glass if we felt like it…. WIN!
morality FAIL!
Might is right and ends all counterarguments WIN!
Logic fail.
It’s unfortunate, but Stratoty87 is partway right. Might is not intrinsically right, but it does have a tendency to silence argument. Nothing shuts someone up like a bullet to the brain. It’s a logic win, but a morality fail.
bush = fail
Hot air that America never backs up FAIL
unless your last name is hussein (no not your middle)
hangmans noose WIN!
Tell that to Japan.
nuclear WIN!
Ironically, it was also a win for Japan as well. Japan had made it’s intentions clear that it was going to fight to the last man. If we had attempted a land invasion, the death toll, both military and civilian, would have been catastrophic. Japan would probably have been burned to the ground in the process. The atomic bombing, by convincing Japan to surrender, actually saved countless lives. History is often weird like that.
There, that should silence any “morality fail” attempts.
Apostrophe fail. (You said it’s when you needed to say its.)
CURSE YOU GRAMMAR!
CUUUUUUUURSE YOUUUUUUU!
mental issues win
Unless there’s oil and a silly grudge to pull out some half-assed excuse to do that, they wouldn’t.
Threat fail.
If we invaded Iraq for oil, why did Iraq invade Kuwait for oil… Seems like if Iraq already had a lot they wouldn’t go through the trouble of invading a country and getting all that negative global attention. The war is not about oil. You can’t believe every little movie or website that some idiot teenager makes.
*sigh* so naïve.
Actually, Detlef has a point. If we wanted to invade a country just to get oil, there are plenty of better choices, although oil was probably a side benefit. We invaded it because our leadership is corrupt, and the people in the leadership all personally profited while this war ruined us. Hell, this whole anti-American sentiment, the very reason that we’re having this argument, is because our leadership screwed us and took a nice hefty chunk of green away from it.
Ironically, you would think gas prices would be lower if we invaded Iraq for oil. Reality WIN!
Iraq didn’t invade Kuwait for oil. That was the lesser of three reasons for the invasion.
1st) Sadaam was at least starting the slide towards megalomaniac at that point. He thought he could invade with impunity. The biggest reason for doing it was to prove that he could go out and wina war – both to his people and to the rest of the world.
2nd) Kuwait would have given Iraq much better access to the sea and therfore all the commerical traffic moving through Kuwait. Oil is only useful if you can sell it in large volumes.
3rd) Yeah there is a lot of oil there.
4th) I suspect the Soviets had a lot to do with it, they largely provided Iraq’s weapons and wanted to see how they shaped up against the West.
there were 4! kindergarten fail!
loved that comment!!!!!
I love all the hostility on this website.
9/11, conspiracy win. Not that that’s a good thing.
You must live in a perfect country!!!
Please, tell us which one!
Iceland
HavUTheenMaFail
Numerous times!
I work with retards.
Let ‘em run….
Captain Obvious is self-employed.
You spelled “hurricane” wrong- Spelling Fail to Iceland… just saying.
I’m not from Iceland. Identifying the person who made the post fail.
yeah I’m not from Iceland either. understanding the joke fail.
Making joke FAIL,
Punctuation FAIL.
And? It could be 100 times worse and it still wouldn’t suck compared to the third (or fourth, fifth, whichever is the case for you) world country you live in.
Have you looked round your country recently? I was up in Niagra last year and made the mistake of wandering over to your side of the border.
After the retinal scan conducted by armed men with dogs I went and had a look and was disgusted by the poverty there.
I’m English and very grateful to be.
stupid brit we overthrew you years ago…….don’t you remember that…… fail
Ignore the guy above me. He’s an idiot.
You seem to be suffering from a case of “see a part of it, seen all of it” syndrome. You can’t base an entire country off of the tiny sliver that you saw. It’s a huge country, and we’ve got a bigger population. therefore, there’s going to be a proportionally larger section of the population that’s down on their luck. Hell, more often than not, we’re given grief about living so much in /luxury/.
*thumbs up*
Most reasonable comment I’ve seen thus far in this thread. Others above seem to have a bad case of overgeneralization.
I second that.
I didn’t vote for the war criminal who is our prez, and the current administration in no way represents me, my ideals, values or morals. Yet I’m constantly judged as if it did. It gets old.
Cheers for backing my belief up that Americans individually can be cool.
I’m not judging you, and would never presume to. The problem is that most of what I see is the effect that your foreign policy has on the world.
Lets face it we Brits have an unelected leader who is not supported my the majority. Our Capital is being run by Boris Johnson – look for videos of his speaches if you fancy a laugh. Even though a million of us marched in the streets our leader at the time was so spineless he still took our armies to war – and we didn’t make a whole lot of money out of it either!
It’s easy to take the mick out of the biggest kid on the block when you know he isn’t going to smack you one. I’ll be the first to admit I took a cheap shot for laughs – and having got some am happy to say that while I dispise some of the decisions your leaders have taken I don’t have a problem with most Americans.
There’s poverty in Niagra? Srsly? Did you take a wrong turn and end up in Eastern Kentucky? My sister-in-law is Candadian, she and my brother go back and forth between Canada and the US all the time, they’ve never had to do a retinal scan. Also, don’t even try to claim that there aren’t poor people in you country because that would be a lie.
Seriously. Have any these Canadians ever been to South
Downtown in Vancouver. As bad as any city I’ve been in.
Including Mexico City.
quit being a prick unless you want to tell us what country you’re from so we can list all of your fail
The original poster said that Americans are full of fail. Only later did everyone start discussing America. Our leadership and foreign policy are definitely failures. Our economy is also not so hot right now. But most Americans are dissatisfied with all of this and, consequently, approval for congress and Bush are extremely low. Americans (redneck, scary, Evangelicals aside.. who do not comprise our majority, no matter how loudly their presence is felt) are decent people the same as everyone else. However, much thanks to the British for the internet. It’s my favorite!
Lol. America, world police, we will annex your sorry ass country, wherever it may be, with our SUVs. We win wars all the time, eat fried chicken, are totally ignorant, we’re all in the KKK and EVERY ONE of us voted for Bush. You are so. . . WIN Beren, you are just so spot on. Someone give this man an Olympic medal for his completely correct observation of the state of affairs in the U.S. and abroad.
“because the oil industry has our leadership in its pocket”
Well, Bush IS part of the oil industry.
America, China, and Russia are kicking your butts in the Olympics.
What? Russia? Russia is fourth in the medal count, and we’re first. Where the hell did you get the idea that they were beating us?
No the US are 2nd in the olympics. America used to use the same method of counting medals as we do until someone started beating the USA… then it miraculously changed to a method by which America can still claim to have one.
huh…
What method do you use? I’m actually curious. I was talking about total medals, as in tallying all of them up regardless of what kind they are.
it’s a point method, as in 3 points for a gold, 2 for silver and 1 for bronze. or something along those lines.
Obesity hardly counts as personal hygiene. Don’t get me wrong, it’s not good, but it’s actually a health fail.
Year fail. Spelling fail. Getting some good points across… Priceless.
Hah, you try writing a response that long without making a few typos. Thanks man!
Just goes to back up a point made previously:
You don’t have to spell every word correctly or be compulsive
in grammar usage to make some excellent points in a very
persuasive and diplomatic manner.
Good on you Winter.
How can obesity be a personal hygiene fail? Like you get fat from not brushing your teeth? Beren = English Language FAIL
Hygiene – Definition
1. The science that deals with the promotion and preservation of health.
2. Conditions and practices that serve to promote or preserve health.
You Fail in accusing me of fail.
Winter – Sorry several of my points were tongue in cheek and were not meant to be taken seriously. The ones that wern’t have already been said so many times that it is not worth me countering them as it seems you mostly agree with me. As I intimate in a post further up, our government has also acted shamefully with respect to Iraq.
self loathing fail is you.
He didn’t want to be left out.
Ok buddy apparently your an idiot.
First off china DID win more gold medals in THIS series of olympics
this ONCE. So we cant really sport fail if we’ve won alot more in the
other olympics. Second off, why is george bush a fail? He WAS our
president. Oh you mean George W. Bush oh okay then, considering
they are two different people. Now that we know who your directing
the alleged ‘fail’ at, would you care to point out how he has failed?
The war in iraq? Your right, why liberate a country from a corrupt
dictatorship and prevent another terrorism attack on our country.
Which leads to the foreign affairs policy. How have we failed again?
By being an ally to every major country in the world? Ya thats
failure for you there moron. Next, whats a hurrican? Ya moron learn
english. Everyone else speaks it, your gonna have to learn it one
day too. So why is looking after hurricane victims a fail? Your
right lets leave our citizens to rot and fend for themselves, while we
do nothing but promote chaos and civil unrest. Next obesity, ah the
thing we Americans are quite renown for. So first its economic
freedom, and freedom of choice. So why not shutdown McDonalds?
Sure it would solve alot of health and weight issues, but thats called
a dictatorship dumbass. And our economy, ah perfect! If you know
anything, you would know that every country, no matter who you
are, will at one point in time suffer in some economical way. Its
history idiot, look it up. Also BOTH world wars, we had to bail most
of europe out. (Excluding some of england.) We are in debt so
much, because we do so much for other countries. And finally
carbon emissions. So since we drive cars and have factories we
have failed the world? Last time i checked so does everyone else. We
are the number one nation in research and production when it comes
to alternate energy. Just because everyone cant afford hybrids
doesnt mean we fail. It means we just aren’t a utopia. And lastly, we
are the worlds biggest super power, we have enough fire power to
literally destroy our world. So i’d shut my mouth, because one day,
we will probably be saving your ass.
Ok, let me explain to you how we don’t fail in these aspects:
China:: Has girls in olympics that are too young to legally compete. No american fail there!
George Bush:: Obama is ten times worse, as he has tripled our nations debt in the time he’s been elected. So, I guess we failed there.
Iraq & Afghanistan:: Getting rid of some pretty nasty people, are we not?
Looking after hurrican Katrina victims:: The governer should have used money given for the levys ON THE LEVYS! One single person failed there, and it wasn’t the president
Obesity:: Ok, good point. That’s gross
Your Economy:: Again may I just say. Obama. Tripled the debt in much less time. Way to Fail
Carbon Emissions:: Who the hell cares?? O.o
America is NOT full of fail
You’re welcome.
actually tim berners-lee invented the world wide web not internet.
The internet was created in the US. Just thought I’d point that out.
correction the internet was still created in britain it was a join project between a university in england and somewhere in america
I really dont care the phone was invented by a Scot and without that there would be no internet
Oh please, of course he is. Who else would have such a pretentious last name. “Oh, I’m British, so I have to frigging HYPHENATE my last names. I’m too good for just a first and last name.” Unless you can convince me he’s female and wants to retain her maiden name, it sounds like a douche name. Not the name of a douch product, but the name of an actual douche.
haha, wow, someone has an inferiority complex. can’t think up an argument so you try to make fun of his name… good one. without him we wouldn’t have this thing we’re using called the world wide web. gratitude fail.
Lord and Lady Douchebag!
Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web in the late 80s (And lives in the US)
DARPA (USA) developed the internet in 1964
History FAIL!
Yes, but I was refering to the world wide web, as in casual parlance it is referred to as ‘the internet’. He invented the web as we know and use it today. Regardless of where he now resides, he is British and developed the web at CERN in Switzerland.
Just to clear that up.
Trying to explain away his FAIL – FAIL!
Trying to make it look like someone else failed- FAIL!
Oh for Christ’s sake, who cares?!
Win!
So technically, Switzerland developed the “web” as we know it today, unless he was working for a British company based in Switzerland. Regardless, the Internet and the “World Wide Web” are two separate concepts – your casual parlance could possibly get you in hot water someday. For example, though NAACP stands for North American Association for Colored People, I’m sure calling a black person ‘colored’ would most likely not end well. Specifics matter, whether it be for the betterment of Mankind, or to gain the approval of some douche bag on the Internet – which was developed by DARPA in 1964. Now, suck it. Suck it dry.
You mean the web. He invented the web. Which is not the Internet. It’s, instead, the web, which runs on the internet, and why isn’t my text rendering on screen when I go past the width of the text box? Am writing more and more and more text to see what happens and this is all weird and I can’t see much of what I’m typing….
I think all the ICHC-owned sites have that problem with their comment text-rendering boxes. At least in some way or another. It might just be a small error in their code, or – Crap, it just happened to me. Maybe it doesn’t like long sentences?
that happens to me at home (firefox) but not at work (ie)
No, T B-L invented the WWW, the *internet* was invented by ARPA.
Common fail to make
Wrong.
Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web. The internet was invented as part of ARPA-NET a US military government project. He worked on this project with a Belgian.
So the internet was an American invention. So was the PC for that matter.
So it’s moot to argue.
yes but the telephone was invented by a brit, as mentioned above. :p
Tim Berners-Lee didn’t invent the internet. Far from it. The internet had been in working existence since long before he came up with HTTP.
Oversensitivity-on-the-interwubs fail.
So I’ve noticed, it is no longer possible to be patriotic and not sound like a douchebag. Give up, cops are dicks with typically nothing better to do than harass a innocent people.
Oh, and thanks Failblog for not letting me see my own typos when they run out of the textbox.
what a great analogy.
occasionally*
Cheers
And oops – I fail at spelling, obviously.
oh for phuks sake, i come here to laugh, if you want to bash America please go to the BBC website like the other haters.
Awww and I thought free speech was for all not just those who didn’t think America was largely a flawed concept.
I also come here for a laugh, I dont bait Americans all that much but it is fun once in a while. Just as I don’t take it personally when someone takes the piss out of me and mine.
I was going to have a rant about you being extremely narrow minded to think that everyone that hates America could fit onto the BBC. However, that would be too easy.
Just because you don’t appreciate a particular joke doesn’t mean there isn’t humour there. Just that it ain’t a flavour you appreciate.
In short – get over yourself.
To be perfectly honest, when you made the Cops/Americans joke, I laughed. We’ve got to learn to laugh at ourselves and our flaws. At least you went a little farther than most in saying that some of us were in fact worthy of existing, but I can understand being angry when you say that the rest of them are stupid.
Largely flawed? We’ve got the oldest working governmental document in history,if there was something wrong with it, it would’ve come out by now. In fact, the whole problem with our leadership today is that that they’re NOT sticking to the Constitution.
And, ironically, free speech /isn’t/ for those who believe that the concept of America is a flawed. Protecting free speech, and similar rights, is the core around which the whole Constitution was built in the first place.
Plus, you need to be a US citizen to get Fourth Amendment protection. I’ve come to understand that you are most definitely not. I’m not sure what they have in the UK to protect free speech, what with that whole unwritten constitution thing you have going. I have no doubt that you’ll enlighten me.
*cough cough* REVOLUTIONARY WAR *cough cough*
Ron Paul ‘08
the way it should have been.
Oh you mean the guy that supported
Pat Buchanan for president in 1992?
No thanks. We’ve had enough nut case conservatives.
Free speech is in the First Amendment. Fourth Amendment deals with searches and seizures.
Oh right…
I was thinking of the whole wiretapping fail the administration tried to pull on us. Bill of Rights fail on myself.
it really bugs me when people say you have to be an american citizen to be protected by the bill of rights. the bill of rights enumerates the rights that all people have inherently, which government is not allowed to take away
and if the constitution has protecting rights as it’s core, why are they amendments? (rhetorical question, i know why)
Thanks
That’s the flaw though is it not? Your system of government left itself open to being corrupted. Personally it seems to me that the constitution was just there to keep the masses happy while a small group of power wielding individuals held power. I am not just holding America up to this criticism though. Democracy in it’s current form is a corrupting influence and whilst there will always be people in politics for the right reasons the ones that rise the fastest will generally be those in it for the sake of power.
I really hope Obama wins this time round as it will not only prove me wrong but will hopefully do a lot to shift the power away from those who have had it for far too long.
We have the right to free speech – as long as we don’t talk about terrorism, or overthrowing the Queen.
Excusing previous failures in communication, this, good sir, is win.
Democracy…. Hmmm.. I think it’s more of a Capitalist Republic myself.
true- there’s no such thing as a true democracy anymore… really, a true democracy is pretty much indistinguishable from anarchy
Hah, you’ve got a point. I think the Founding Fathers were being a little bit more idealistic than that though. That was back when being a politician used to be a position of honor, something to be proud of. We’ve since fallen from lofty hieghts, I’m afraid. I share your sentiments for the upcoming election, and hope that this unfortunate trend can be turned around.
I believe it was Winston Churchill who said that “Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others that have been tried.”
Just an aside – Obama won.
*flavor
Americanize your language, you limey prick.
Oh, and get over yourself.
Because of course that is the right way, Faucet makes so much more sense than a tap.
Do you even know what limey means? Weak. I’m sure with your vocabulary you can do better.
Oh and the revolutionary war? Try looking up General Lafayette and figure out how America wouldn’t have had a chance in hell of beating the British without help from the FRENCH. I know, you didn’t progress past the 6th grade to be taught this, so take that as a free lesson. Trained soldiers vs farmers with muskets? Please.
Haha butt-hurt. We still won. Hows your empire now? Oh wait. . .
Calm down, Talons. We’ve lost much of our empire, too. The Philippines? Cuba?
And, yes, we did win, but that’s no reason at all to make them drop the “u” from “flavour”. Just because we do things one way, doesn’t mean they have to be the same.
They’re British, we’re American. It’s been like that for 227 years.
Indeed. I’m actually a big fan of these things:
1. Seeing countries let go of former of colonies or satellite territories.
2. Languages, dialects and accents.
3. England
And some of my fondest friends are British. . .good people. Proper people.
I hope we all realise the humour of it all.
I’m afraid Talon has a point, although he could probably stand to be a little less… ethnocentric. You can laugh all you want, but the fact remains, farmers with muskets /did/ beat trained soldiers. It had a little to do with the fact that we refused to line up in a neat little row and be shot at, and a little to do with the fact that there really wasn’t much training that you needed back then that the average citizen didn’t already have.
As for using the French, that isn’t an insult. That’s just a diplomatic victory, using your enemies to get what we wanted. Besides, the Continental Army won a number of engagements without any help whatsoever.
another way of looking at it, is we were terrorists
guerilla warfare is quite effective, it worked for us in the revolution, it worked against us in vietnam… do i even need to mention iraq?
As a side note, I always wondered why “limey” was considered an insult.
“Hah! You keep a healthy diet and don’t get scurvy!”
See, it doesn’t work…
i’ve been stopped by a cop several times just for walking down the street. on the flip side, a cop has never done shit to help me.
and i’m not even black!
RACIST!
No you just need to wear clothes next time.
Or be a hot, teenage girl next time.
Always the dependable voice of experience — you know K’s been there.
Accuracy win!
Yay I won!
What did I win?
Total fail haha XD. didnt want to say it but first
you really shouldn’t have.
the sign is next to a pawn shop in the ghetto.
a PWN Shop?
for all your pwning needs!
just received a new stock of pink rubber fists!
Only slightly used!
Previous fail mention WIN.
Win on behalf of reckless drivers methinks?
English tense fail. A present continuous should be used.
Not if they do it on a regular basis.
Example : porka fails at grammar.
That’s true. But in this picture I am assuming that the cops do not do this on a regular basis.
By the way: did you know that I hold an MA in English literature?
But I admit I had to take every grammar exam twice.
So yes, epic porka fail.
Boo Hoo for me.
Porka lifeblogging WIN!
If the cops didn’t do this on a regular basis then the pawnshop owner wouldn’t take the time to erect (indeed, erect) a sign regarding their whereabouts…
Porka selfdiagnose… definately fail. Bigtime fail. *nod*
Mmm, love being the French Troll. Correcting people’s grammar in a language that’s not your mother tongue rocks.
I suck at French though.
I know how you feel. For me, it was the silent letters. If I hadn’t had a pronunciation guide on my trip to France then I would have been completely unintelligible.
I was in Nice last month and was horrified at how many tourists didn’t even attempt to speak French. It seems to be worse in the big cities as I’ve been all round the country before and hadn’t heard it quite as bad.
It’s just plain rude. Whereabouts are you from DrMan?
Made up grammar WIN.
Old chestnut fail (but funny anyway).
Chestnut?
Hey Fuzz! Care to explain this one? I don’t know where to begin.
_____
Chestnut:Slang sense of “old, stale or venerable joke or story” is from 1886, probably from a joke (first recorded 1888) based on an oft-repeated story in which a chestnut tree figures. The key part of the 1888 citation is:
.
“When suddenly from the thick boughs of a cork-tree –”
“A chestnut, Captain; a chestnut.”
“Bah! booby, I say a cork-tree!”
“A chestnut,” reiterates Pablo. “I should know as well as you, having heard you tell the tale these twenty-seven times.”
1888) <= 188+8+) <= 1888 )
Ah! Thank you for the etymology lesson. Very much needed.
Again, thanks very much.
THE cop hides behind this sign. He probably put it there himself.
No donut for you, cops.
Well, they are getting the traffic to slow down so EPIC WIN ;DDD
I guess that’s what’s important, right?
True, just like Britain’s policy of mentioning where speed-cameras are. To get people to slow down, not to fine people.
not to mention painting them bright yellow.
Too bad that idea won’t fly in America.
it sure does, at least where i live: “30 MPH Radar Enforced” for example. i guess it’s not exactly the same thing but it sort of is.
In the end….they are doing everything they can to get your money. Painting a camera bright yellow and informing the public of where they are is completely un-economical, from Big Bro’s point of view. (since cameras were mentioned)
Actually, warning drivers of a *speedtrap* and getting them to slow down, cuts down on the likelihood of damaging, injurious, and even potentially fatal motor-vehicle accidents is a PUBLIC SAFETY WIN.
You know, kind of like “Big Bro’s” overt PURPOSE.
*sigh*
“overt PURPOSE”
…?
What rock did you crawl out from under?
Obvious overconsumption of Hater-ade fail.
actually, that idea works perfectly fine in America
depends on how you define “works”
in my town, the speed cameras are quite obvious- so people slow down to just below the trigger speed (usually 10mph over the speed limit) for the 100 feet between lights and cameras, then speed up again as soon as they pass… i know this because i’m one of them
not to mention that when that camera was first installed, it caught me (flash damn near blinded me) and i got my picture in the mail, but they never sent me an actual ticket, that was in january…
The first several months after a new camera system goes up, they send out warning letters instead of tickets. This helps them avoid the “I didn’t know it was there” defense. It also helps them ensure that the system is properly calibrated.
And, the cop doesn’t have to chase anyone down. So, it’s an easy day win for him.
it’s not technically a stakeout.
caption FAIL.
speed trap init?
eugh i hate that word, ‘init’. *shudders*
I hate it too. And it’s ‘innit, at least spell it right!
i meant initialization.
Oh. Recognition of meaning fail.
i didn’t actually mean initialization. gullibility fail.
urban dictionary says it can be spelled either way though.
i guess loz =/= luvinit
recycled picture WIN
I fought the law and the law FAILED!
LOL!!
or, in the words of jello biafra,
i fought the law and i won
I think a cop is hiding behind the sign.
Really?
What gave you that idea?
Just a hunch.
Now you sound like a cop.
It’s not called a stakeout. Failblog is pretty terrible lately. Sup, dudes? You get dumped or something?
Sign large enough to actually hide police car….failure.
Yes, shop owner. Please just move the sign so the cop can’t hide there anymore.
Why would it be a failure? That means more people can see it from further away. I’d say advertising win.
The people who wrote that there are traitors and probably terrorists.
They should win a vacation to Guantanamo Bay.
YEAH!
Only if I can perform the waterboarding!
o rly?
In Soviet Russia, the sign hides behind cop.
In Soviet Russia, cops don’t hide.
Communist threat win.
In Soviet Russia, you couldn’t pour piss out of a boot if the instructions were on the heel.
OMG WIN.
That’s a little overkill, but win anyways. I think I just got hung up on the piss in a boot. Who the hell pisses in boots?
Someone who’s bonnet is jammed shut?
that made me laugh so hard i woke up the neighbors
ok not really, but still pretty loud
Piss-in-Boots.
BWAH!
Yeah, that is what I meant.
The text is a pain is the ass isn’t it? Sort it, failblog!
Old pic FAIL! This has been floating around for a long time.
It’s worse than that He’s dead Jim.
this is great!
Cop: “I wonder why I never pull anyone over on this traffic stop…hmm…”
*walks around sign*
Cop: “Holy hell! What is this?!”
THE cop? how big is this town?
Population of ten.
The mayor.
The cop.
The fireman.
The doctor.
The mailman.
The owner of the general store.
The town drunk.
The town pervert.
The town perverted drunk.
The guy who put up the sign.
That’s not a stakeout fail — that’s a speedtrap avoidance WIN!
Cops who put their lives on the line to protect and serve, standing up against bad guys who would steal from or murder the rest of the population – those are awesome people. I respect and appreciate them. I thank them for their service.
Cops who pretend they are doing good by extorting money from everyday people by writing tickets for asinine traffic violations – those are donut-filled buckets of FAIL.
Stop insisting that traffic cops are anything other than fundraisers struggling to justify their own existence. Take a page from the Girl Scouts and sell cookies if you’re hard up for cash to fight real crimes.
Did your last speeding ticket stop you from speeding ever again? No.
Does the guy waiting around the corner of the “No right turn” sign make the world a better, safer place? Not even a little.
COP BURN WIN!
Thank you, Mouse! My husband got pulled over for speeding the other day, and there were two people pulled over in front of us and two behind us by the time we pulled away. Damn dirty pigs.
The real kicker is when they come door to door begging for money!
the real travesty is photo radar- oddly, i’d rather be pulled over by a real cop than have my picture snapped
i wouldn’t, i’d crap myself if the police pulled me over. and that would be hard to explain away.
why would you crap yourself? i’ve been pulled over multiple times, it’s never been scary, though it has ranged from annoying to nondescript
Everyone on this page = Arguing Fail.
Group Hug?
IM CEREAL
Good point!
With a sign like this, who needs the cop?
“Can’t make ‘em speed, chief.”
“Try hiding.”
Justifying lawbreaking because you don’t like the law: FAIL
The cop in the photo and this entire thread is black and white and fail all over.
I remember seeing this sign in person a while back and laughing my ass off. When we looked a bit closer, we saw that it gets even better: the cop in that car isn’t even real!
i read this whole thread fail.
this is why cops dont have to go to college, reading is optional.
Sign FTW!
Sign WIN
Epic Sign Win!!
I can only say: Bilboard WIN!!!
shouldn’t it be “speed trap” not “stake out?”