OMG, yay: The Moundsville Police Department has added a vehicle to the fleet!

[demmiblue]

The Moundsville Police Department has added a vehicle to the fleet! I’ll tell you everything this MRAP offers- and explain how the department get it for free- tonight on @WTOV9

Link to tweet

[LonePirate]

1. Moundsville is a town of 9,000 people. They have zero need for this vehicle.

[Newest Reality]

2. Ah!

Bringing the war back home, where it belongs!

Why waste all those resources on exploitation and domination overseas when you can do it in your own backyard? We have so much to give up here.

[stillcool]

3. they're bringing us freedom?...

or do they hate us because of our freedom? I forget. Either way, I think we die.

[Baclava]

4. Maybe they gearing up for a Mothman sighting, wasnt he around them neck of the woods?

[Ilsa]

5. I hadn't realized that ISIS had targeted Moundsville.

Does this mean it's okay for citizens to have suitcase nukes?

Doesn't Superman hail from there?

[Ilsa]

6. Can you imagine this drawing in a bunch of applicants

for their police dept who do military cosplay in their free time?

[hunter]

7. Moundsville population: About 10,000 and 97.5% white.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moundsville,_West_Virginia

I need not say any more.

[matt819]

8. So Moundsville will be ready when the Taliban attacks.

It would appear that Moundsville has missed the point of the national and international demonstrations and protests.

[spanone]

9. militarization of the police...then they stop serving

[2naSalit]

10. Going to war with someone?

This is not appropriate.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

11. The operations and maintenance budget on this thing should be huge.

Big burden for a small town.

And, it won't fit through a McDonald's drive-up service area.

Stupid.

I saw one of these owned by the PD in the town next to mine. It takes up the whole road, seems to have a top speed of 15 mph.

[Mopar151]

17. No worse than a cement mixer

Or airport snowplow. Hit up the Oshkosh. Website. Or consider it a Unimog with body dysmorphia. It's anything but a toy!

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

19. A cement mixer and an airport snowplow have economic justification. They're built for a purpose.

The MRAP vehicle will sit while someone tries to think of a purpose. Other than being impressive during parades.

Yes, it's not a toy. It's a white elephant.

[Mopar151]

12. It'll make a hell of a snowplow

But it's gonna need some work, to get the sander body mounted up, along with the plow and wing hoist! One of the new euro-style articulated guardrail mowers would be appropriate. That way, it'll be out and about, warmed up and ready to go if the narcs have to drive it through a meth lab.

No foolin on the mower - note the use of the classic M-B Unimog here:

Imagine a nice BROCK sweeper truck conversion - on that (Oshkosh, IIRC) MRAP chassis - and a few discretely placed sniffers (gas, explosives), and IR scanners keeping an eye out, at street level,

Would'nt that be Homemade Security money, far better spent?

[WyattKansas]

15. If I hit the lotto...

I'm buying one of those mowers. Awesome!

[Paladin]

13. And how are Moundsville's medical facilities equipped? Everything A-OK?

Plenty of emergency clothing, plenty of masks, plenty of ventilators?

Just wondering....

[doc03]

14. I live on the other side of the river in Ohio our

Sheiff's Department has one of those. If we are invaded by ISIS we are ready. They also have an APC. We get to see them at the county fair other than that I don't know of it ever being used.

[NightWatcher]

16. MRAP Mine Resistant Ambush Protected armored vehicle.

I don't know where Moundsville is but do they have a problem with IED's?

That's what this is for. It's a weapon of war. Moundsville must have a hell of an IED problem.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

18. No one will be safe and free until everyone has their own M1A1 Abrams tank.