Police on Social Media

A lot of police departments around the world use social media. And people follow these accounts to get updates on detours, crime in the local area and more. And sometimes, they even put random, funny stuff on here. It's always good for a giggle. Plus, you have got to hand it to the police; sarcasm always seems right for the job. And it's not just police departments in America. Included in these are police departments from Canada, the UK and more

Ironically enough, these officers are with the Delhi Twp Police Department in Cincinnati, Ohio. I live in Delhi Twp. I see the two male officers running around a lot in their gray and black SUVs

1. Cool Not Cool

2. Please assist!

3. You know the drill

4. Even police nerd out

5. Every name in the book

6. Coins, spice and everything nice

This has to be in the UK. First indicator is the pound symbol

7. Cuddle up

8. Cahj Friday

9. Go to the dark side

10. My shoes

11. Real life Mario Kart

12. Riding bareback

13. List of events

14. Too Cold

15. Finally have proof unicorns exist

16. Bad to worse

17. Sean Connery now does traffic reports

18. #annoyed mums

19. Eat your way to freedom

20. A great show

21. Full moon tonight

22. Don't be an Avenger

23. Nee-naw!

24. It's a beautiful day in the neighborhood...

25. 30 MPH

26. It seals everything

Octopussy (1983)

One more installment in the James Bond series with Roger Moore playing the famed British agent

Summary

-James Bond is off on his next mission. This one involves a fake Faberge egg, a fellow agent's death and a nuclear attack on NATO being disguised by an international jewel-smuggling ring

Cast

-Roger Moore: James Bond

-Maud Adams: Octopussy

-Louis Jordan: Kamal Khan

-Kristina Wayborn: Magda

-Kabir Bedi: Gobinda

-Steven Berkoff: Orlov

Did You Know?

-In a book called As You Wish: Inconceivable Tales from the Making of the Princess Bride, Cary Elwes says that prior to becoming an actor, he worked as a production assistant on this movie. One of his tasks was ferrying Sir Roger Moore around. He states he was a "nervous wreck" when he had to drive. He was constantly afraid of getting into a wreck and killing them both. On one occurrence, Roger Moore looked up from the paper he read and said "You can speed up a little if you want to."

-While filming this movie, a doctor had misdiagnosed Roger Moore with heart problems. Maud Adams had a boyfriend, who was a doctor, check him out and state that Moore was medically fit and that there were no heart problems

-Robert Brown's first appearance as M. He replaced Bernard Lee, who had passed away between 1979's Moonraker and 1981's For Your Eyes Only

-The blue-ringed octopus, which is featured in this movie, is a highly poisonous sea creature. It produces something called a tetrodotoxin, which is also found in puffer fish. It's a deadly neurotoxin causing paralysis and then death. There is no known antidote for it and one milligram can kill a person

-A list of several actors was compiled to do screen tests as James Bond. The reason for this is because Roger Moore was fifty five at the time and some felt he was too old. But producers ignored this and decided to retain Moore so the film could go up against 1983's Never Say Never Again with Sean Connery

-Kabir Bedi is the only actor out of Bollywood to earn a role in a James Bond film

-Vijay Amritaj is a professional tennis player trying to make a break into acting. Parts of the role he plays included inside jokes to his tennis career

-While filming in India, most of the cast and crew had diet problems

-A location in India had been chosen initially for 1973's Live and Let Die, but had not worked out. Later on, it became a possibility and even chosen as the location for this movie because location scouts discovered the city of Udaipur and were stunned by the beauty of the area and the architecture

-In the game Texas Hold 'Em, a hand of cards with a pair of eights is called an octopussy

-The island Octopussy lives on is located in Udaipur, India. It's the Jag Mandir or "Lake Garden Palace"

-Producer Albert Broccoli first met Vijay Amritaj at a Wimbledon match when Amritaj was still playing tennis

-In the scene where a fight breaks out in Octopussy's bedroom, a man is thrown into the aquarium where a blue-ringed octopus lives. It attaches to the man's face and is almost the size of his head when in reality, the species of octopus is actually the size of a golf ball

-This is the second film with Roger Moore to be filmed in India. The first was 1980's Sea Wolves, along with David Niven and Gregory Peck. As an interesting side note, Roger Moore's mother was born in Calcutta (Kolkata), India

-For this film, Roger Moore had to grow out and lighten his hair to make him appear younger

28 International Police Uniforms

Every police department around the world has a unique uniform signifying them as police. And usually one big indicator is either a windbreaker that says POLICE on it, a Kevlar vest with POLICE or if it's the case of a foreign language, the word POLICE will be in that language. For example, in Columbia, the police that patrol the Jose Chavez International Airport have jackets saying Dirandro on them, meaning they are the police of the airport. Or at Fumacino Airport in Rome, the police wear jackets with POLIZIA on them.

1. Japanese police - Himeji, Japan

2. Italian Carabinieri

-It seems like even being a police officer in Italy is fashionable...

3. Britain - Constables / "Bobbies" (London Police)

-It's only in London that the nickname "Bobbies" are used. Everywhere else in Britain, the more common "police constable" or "PC" is used

4. Private First Class in People's Armed Police Guard - China

5. Garda Siochana - Ireland's National Police

6. Australian Federal Police

7. Bundespolizei - Austrian Federal Police

8. Royal Canadian Mounted Police aka "Mounties"

9. Royal Bahamas Police Force Band

10. Punjabi Police - Punjab, India

11. Belgian Federal Police

12. Gendarmarie Nationale - One of two police forces in France

13. IPS - Indian Police Service

14. Bundespolizei - German Federal Police

15. Russian Police

16. North Korean Police

17. South Sudan Police

18. Palacio de Carabineros - Chilean Police

19. NYPD - U.S.

-Like most if not all countries, police can even look like soldiers with Kevlar vests and helmets, but only in tactical situations

20. Denmark Police

21. The police of Jordan

-It's interesting to see that, even in Jordan, women who are police observe the custom of wearing a hijab

22. Police of Iceland

23. Swedish Police

24. SAPS - South African Police Service

25. Vietnam People's Public Security

26. Spanish Police

27. Serbian Police

28. Federales - Mexican Federal Police

-These are the ones you usually see patrolling around Mexico, usually around the border crossing. They're usually armed with military-issue M16 rifles

For Your Eyes Only (1981)

The first James Bond film of the 1980s

Summary

-James Bond is off on his next mission, which involves finding a missing British ship armed with a weapons encryption device and keeping it from falling into the hands of enemies

Cast

-Roger Moore: James Bond

-Carole Bouquet: Melina

-Topol: Columbo

-Lynn-Holly Johnson: Bibi

-Julian Glover: Kristatos

-Cassandra Harris: Lisl

-Jill Bennett: Jacoba Brink

-Michael Gothard: Locque

-John Wyman: Erik Kriegler

-Jack Hedley: Havelock

-Lois Maxwell: Miss Moneypenny

-Desmond Llewelyn: Q

-Geoffrey Keen: Minster of Defence

-Walter Gotell: General Gogol

Did You Know?

-Towards the end, when Bond is climbing a mountain, he uses his shoelaces to create a Prusik knot, which attaches himself to his climbing rope. This is an actual technique used by mountain climbers to add additional safety. This technique was created by an Austrian mountain climber named Karl Prusik

-During the bobsled chase scene, a 23 year old stunt man named Paolo Rigoni died during the filming. The track was poorly designed in that it had a severe turn. He was not the only person to die there. One other person died there as a result of that severe turn during an actual bobsled race. The track was later changed to make the turn less dangerous

-On the tombstone of Bond's wife is the phrase "we have all the time in the world". These were the last words uttered to Bond in the 1969 film On Her Majesty's Secret Service

-With Roger Moore suffering from vertigo, the rock climbing scenes were made more difficult. He had taken a Valium and drank a large beer before filming. Stuntman Rick Sylvester dangled over a twenty foot drop while Roger Moore only dangled over a four foot drop

-Cassandra Harris, who plays Countess Lisl, was married to Pierce Brosnan at the time of filming. He would later go on to play James Bond. Five years later, he was offered the part of James Bond, specifically for the 1987 film The Living Daylights. He had to refuse the offer because of scheduling conflicts with the 1982 TV program Remington Steele

-At the time of filming, United Artists was all but bankrupt. The studio had just completed filming on the 1980 film Heaven's Gate, which was a commercial failure. For Your Eyes Only raked in $195 million and saved United Artists from bankruptcy. The people there decided to focus way less on personal movies and focus more on movies that would be successful

-In the film, James Bond rejects advances from Bibi (Lynn-Holly Johnson), due to the presumable assumption she is too young for him. He later has a relationship with Melina (Carole Bouquet), who seems much older than Bibi. In reality, both actresses are a year different in age

-The final scene with British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher marks the first time a government official appeared in a film, especially a James Bond film. Thatcher was played by Janet Brown, who was known for her accurate impressions of Thatcher

-Prior to the credits, the helicopter scene was filmed at the Beckton Gas Works. When Stanley Kubrick filmed his 1987 film Full Metal Jacket, he used this location to transform it into a Vietnamese village

-According to Sir Roger Moore, of all the cars he's driven in the Bond films, the one he states is his favorite is the Citroen 2CV

-Despite being a highly skilled cross country skiier, Roger Moore was not injured from skiing. Stunt man Willy Bogner handled any dangerous stunts

-The name of the main Bond girl, Melina, is a reference to Honey Rider from 1962's Dr. No. In Greek, "melina" means "honey"

-During the ice rink brawl scenes, replica jerseys of hockey teams were used. They included replica jerseys of the Montreal Canadiens as well as other U.S. and Swedish hockey teams with their logos removed

-The character Milos Columbo was named after Gioacchino Columbo, who designed the Ferrari engines, specifically the engines for Ferrari 125, which Ian Fleming was fond of

14 Weird Stories from Librarians

Librarians have probably seen it all. They deal in books, CDs and media of all sorts and while checking these items back into the system to be used by others, they've probably seen it all. And who's to say librarians can't be shocked by things that happen in that hush hush world?

1. Cat in a box

-I work at a public library in an urban area. One day a man brought in a tomato box that contained a dying cat. He put it on our circulation counter and asked us if we could watch his cat for a few minutes while he went outside. So that was a thing.

2. Color Me Confused

-My current job, in an academic library:

Patron: "I chose color on the copier. Why didn't it print it in color?"

Me: "Your original is black and white."

Patron: "So?"

Me: "It can't print what's not there."

Patron: "But I chose color."

Me: "So how does the printer know which colors to use if you just put a black and white picture in there. It can't fill it in like a kid with a crayon."

Patron: "Oh."

Still looking slightly bewildered, she walked away - I don't know if she ever truly got it.

3. Weird with a capital W

-Another time, two kids came into the library one with a harmonica and the other with one of those aboriginal instruments and they played it for a solid 40 seconds in the center of the library and then left. this was at about 9 pm at night, midterm week, so it was very busy, soooo weird.

4. Can I get yo number?

-I worked for a library in a rural community when I was 16-17. On one occasion when I was closing for the evening, a man (~25) hid between the shelves while we were locking all of the main doors. He revealed himself right before I left. He must have wanted my full attention when he asked me "Can I have your number?" I was very taken back and complied (which I do not think I would have done if I hadn't been surprised). Nothing bad came out of my experience, but be careful to sweep for people before locking yourselves in, guys!

5. Regular Joe or Tommy

-In my library, I have Tommy. Who comes in every day with a stack of copies of a newspaper article about a boxer (supposedly him) who won a fight against Muhammad Ali, will corner anyone he can to tell them about it.

6. Gang of weirdoes

-People are very interesting in libraries. Oh, these chaps...

Bag Man - a guy with an external borrower membership who regularly turns up with his blazer pockets filled with plastic carrier bags leaving a trail of stink in his wake.

The Alcoholic - the weekend team has to deal with this guy more often - he turns up stinking of vodka and just rumbles around talking/shouting at himself.

"Vicky Pollard" - this young lady is a curious one; never wants to leave, gets argumentative, drags her heels, and has often been seen wearing very weird attire (pajamas, slippers, leggings/tights with holes in [in the butt area]) and generally has a pretty far-away look plastered across her face at all times.

7. Heavyweight Champ

-Oh man, the urban libraries!

Yesterday I had to tell a former middleweight boxing champion that he couldn't come into the library drunk asking for cash.

A few hours later a patron informed us that our steel grating had been removed. It's like 200 plus lbs. Definitely swiped for scrap metal cash.

Just a TYPICAL DAY!

8. Anger management anyone?

-I work the evening/night shifts at a university library and we have many regulars and two stick out in my mind at the moment. Firstly, Baking Tray Fort Man. When clearing the building one evening (at about 23:50 or so - we shut at midnight) I wandered up some steps to a mezzanine level to tell a chap I'd spotted that we were closing up. It was only halfway through my sentence that I noticed he'd built a little fort of baking trays around the study carrel he was in, then as he turned to acknowledge me I saw he was also hugging one across his midriff. My colleagues didn't quite believe me until someone else spotted him doing the exact same thing a week later.

The second guy is much more irritating. He's obstreperous and combative all the time; started an argument with me because I refused to let him plug a two-pin international plug into our UK 3-pin sockets. Early in January, we were tasked with closing at 9 pm because of the "extreme weather" (some snow) and this was publicized all over the uni website, Twitter, Facebook as well as physical posters and announcement boards in the library lobby informing everyone of this. Simple, right? But, nay, an angry man came and tried to chew me out when the closing bell rang at 20:45. He wanted us to just lock him in and leave him until midnight as it was his "human right" to stay until midnight. Security had to remove him and he later threatened a manager that he'd call his embassy because we'd closed three hours early. Needless to say, he's not banned and still regularly skulks around as I secretly glare at him when he's not looking

9. You Got Any Hard Drives?

-There was this one time a woman who was down on her luck (was struggling with job searches, a divorce, hospitalizations, etc.) came in and asked me if we had a spare hard drive she could have, since her computer had passed the night before. You know, just one lying around that we weren't using.

10. The Mysterious Rapper

-There are A LOT OF crazies where I work as well, one of our homeless people in town writes raps. When I was a shelver, I would watch this guy and observe his behaviors. He would place his unfinished raps in our teen area in a graphic novel. I observed also that all the guy reads are M.C. Beaton mystery novels... lol he’s just one special character. 

11. How does that song go?

-I shelve books in the children’s section at a public library, so nothing too wild happens. But there is this one older guy who comes in a few times a week asking the librarians if they can help him figure out the title of a song. Sometimes he isn't even sure what the lyrics are but has a general idea. The librarians are super nice and try to help him every time.

12. A movie just waiting to be made...

-I've worked at a few branches of a well-known library, and every branch has the strange.

Blanket Lady - sadder than anything else. She covers herself with large fluffy blankets I think because she sleeps on the street.

Hoarder Lady - buys lots of discard magazines/books. A coworker carried some of her purchases to her car for her one time and said the car was filled with books/magazines. Every spare inch.

Ninja Dude - a guy in his mid-twenties? who dresses like a ninja in a white outfit. I remember he seemed to love Naruto and never washed the suit.

Buns of Steel - the older dude who used to bike from his house to the library every week to either renew or check-in/out our copy of the Jane Fonda workout VHS. Eventually, it got so warped I don't think he could watch it anymore.

Super Dog - didn't come much but it was always awesome to see this guy roll up with a dog riding in a cage on the back of his bike. He had him set up on this pole so the cage was much higher than the seat.

13. Kids and pickles

-Well… yesterday I had a pickle thrown at me by a kid after signing him up for a card, just because I wouldn't let him check out video games due to his card type.

14. Student aid

-This library is in this slim 8+ floor building near LA. Every time there was a decent-sized earthquake, they'd have to hire a lot of students to help pick up all the books that were thrown to the floor because the building vibrated like a tuning fork.