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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSo sick of seeing "law enforcement" parading around in those stupid cattle cowboy hats.
Real macho.
PTWB
(4,131 posts)But its Texas. Just part of the culture.
Lars39
(26,109 posts)Weak as water. Tap dancing around. FBI needs to take it over.
jimfields33
(15,823 posts)EYESORE 9001
(25,941 posts)Not all traditions are worthy of preservation.
Blues Heron
(5,938 posts)Its not the fifties anymore.
leftieNanner
(15,124 posts)That's where they want to push us.
Back to the fifties. In everything.
Ugh.
Wounded Bear
(58,670 posts)SWBTATTReg
(22,133 posts)the youngest of the young in TX, even with all of their guns (estimated from 300 million to 400 million today). The extra guns (100 million) didn't still help.
When will they figure out that more guns aren't the answer?
When will they quit jumping into bed with the Gun Lobby and also quit listening to the Gun Lobby for their stupid unworkable solutions to this recurring problem?
anarch
(6,535 posts)Aristus
(66,388 posts)It just wouldn't satisfy the longing of those pot-bellied doughnut-munchers to be seen as steely-eyed gunslingers.
onenote
(42,714 posts)At least cowboy hats are a common item worn in Texas as opposed to Park Ranger style hats.
Aristus
(66,388 posts)if one didn't rope cattle for a living was kind of stupid. Just a pathetic attempt to adopt a (largely inaccurate) look. Most real cowboys wore either slouch hats, derbies, or the kind of flat-crowned, flat-brimmed hat that used to be called a sombrero (before the highly decorated, brocaded, huge-brimmed Mexican hat became associated with the term.)
onenote
(42,714 posts)Everybody and their cousin wears baseball style hats these days -- including some police -- but they're not baseball players.
DPS troopers wear those bullshit hats in East Texas too. They look fucking dumb.
anarch
(6,535 posts)LastDemocratInSC
(3,647 posts)Solomon
(12,311 posts)Wonder if they wear 'em to bed.
Tree Lady
(11,474 posts)And a cop was parked across from local school and we stopped to ask him a question. He got out of his car and his uniform looked like he was ready for military attack! I mean this is ridiculous. Why have we come to this?
And he pranced around like he had all the power in the world.
The Magistrate
(95,247 posts)When young we moved to a smallish suburb for a while. The local police didn't just wear Stetsons. They wore jodhpurs and knee boots. All in army olives except the boots, which were of course shiny and black.
Seen few things struck me so funny as first sight of these local yokels.
Paladin
(28,264 posts)Concentrate on all their poorly-disguised fuckups at that elementary school, instead. Many thanks.
Solomon
(12,311 posts)Kind of the point. The hats make them look stupid because they're fuck ups.
MineralMan
(146,317 posts)It's a point of honor or something.
Lurker Deluxe
(1,036 posts)It is Texas. I know it is popular to belittle those of us who live here, it is what it is.
Hats have uses.
Stetson is a status symbol, expensive hat.
They come in various shapes and materials for different uses. Straw to keep the sun off your head, felt to keep the rain off your head, half straw/half felt for sunny rainy days, and fancy to go to the rodeo.
Some do not like the look. Some do.
I do have a very funny "cowboy hat" story. I had purchased a new Chevy Traverse and the damn dash board lights would randomly dim so they were unreadable during the day. It was undrivable, so I went back to the dealership for help. No one could address the issue until I got to the right person. He sat in the passenger seat and began some small talk as I grew more and more frustrated with the whole thing. He then turned to my new Stetson sitting on the dash, when did I get it, what kind did I have before, how often do I wear it. Really nice hat ... yea yea. I was about to go insane, damn truck is undrivable and all you can talk about it my stupid hat. Finally ... "if you stop putting the hat over the light sensor on the dash the problem will most likely go away".
ROFL!
Doc Sportello
(7,522 posts)As they say in Texas and as the fearful fellows in the hats showed by waiting to go in.
hamsterjill
(15,222 posts)Have no choice. Its uniform code. They are taught to even walk in step when two of them are walking together. The look is very important to them.
There are still some good people in that organization but who knows how many.
Beachnutt
(7,324 posts)So stupid looking, cow boys costumes,
Do Minnesota cops wear viking hats ?
onenote
(42,714 posts)Is that less silly than a cowboy hat in Texas? And for the record, not all police departments in Texas have cowboy hats as part of the uniform and there are a number of police departments in other states, including California, where cowboy style hats are part of the police uniform.
And you often see police in baseball caps these days. Is that any less silly than a cowboy hat?
What should police hats look like and why?
It seems like folks can find something to be outraged about no matter how trivial.
ThoughtCriminal
(14,047 posts)than a Soviet Field Marshall.
WarGamer
(12,449 posts)Get outside of town in Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska... Wyoming, Montana, Idaho... aww nevermind, lots of States.
Heck, get out in rural California and cowboy hats are common...
So you don't like them?