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TheTowerBard t1_jbzjzrp wrote

I know exactly one person who became a VT State Trooper and I also know exactly one person who assaulted someone while in college for their criminal justice degree so they could become… a VT State Trooper. Interesting that the police didn’t believe his victim and then he became one… 🤔

Interestingly, the only other thing I know about VT state troopers is they steal expensive items from their evidence lockup.

Oooh! I got another one, they’ve completely stopped even attempting to enforce traffic laws. Spent a few hours on 91 just today with all our weekend visitors heading south and didn’t see one single VT cop along the way. It would of been easy pickings out there, too.

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rescuespibbles t1_jbzpo3d wrote

Really? I saw at least 5 yesterday on 91

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TheTowerBard t1_jbzvrj1 wrote

Not even one today. I rarely see them anymore. A few years ago I’d see at least one every trip between 89 and Mass border. Multiple on a Sunday with all the skiers headed home. I’ve made that trek twice a week for a decade now. I’ve noticed similar in CT. The Mass Staties haven’t let up though. They’re still always out, multiple every trip.

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VTPeWPeW247 t1_jbzybqy wrote

During Covid they were told to focus on more important things besides harassing working folk who don’t have up to date inspections etc, looks like they are still doing important stuff 😉.

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TheTowerBard t1_jbzzhvt wrote

Important things like showing a presence on a Sunday afternoon when we all know the road south is going to be full of well-off entitled pricks like the masshole in the the BMW today that almost took my kids and I out as he weaved through traffic at literally 95 mph as the rest of us were slowing down for a construction zone that brought us to one lane? Idk man, doing something, literally anything to prevent that and make our roads safer would be nice. The lazy assholes don’t even have to be there, just park a few of their SUVs in the median here and there. Problem solved. They literally just don’t give a fuck, and yes, it started exactly at the pandemic and hasn’t changed. Wonder why… 🤔

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ImpossibleMeatDonut t1_jc1f86x wrote

They parked a patrol car in the u turn part of I95 in Maryland once. It was destroyed by vandalism.

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random_vermonter t1_jc2u3xn wrote

I'm wondering where the staties and/or SBPD were when I got passed by an asshole in a red BMW on Route 7 north on Saturday night. Fucker flicked their lights and everything. Who in the fuck drives 70 at night?

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random_vermonter t1_jc2tw91 wrote

Important things like posting on social media that they'll always be there for youuuuuuuu.

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Nucl3arMoos3 t1_jc1h0ym wrote

I was on 89 back in October and there was a BMW and a Range Rover racing each other going about 90 in the left lane. Two state troopers are sitting in the median and the racers see them once it’s too late. They start to pull over to the shoulder but the cruisers haven’t moved. They just completely ignored these guys. Been pissed off about that ever since.

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TheTowerBard t1_jc1l9u8 wrote

I had a similar situation in CT recently. I was even close enough to the cops to get their attention and gesture while mouthing “what the fuck is wrong with you, go get them” and they just continued their chat like it was a nice Sunday afternoon on a park bench without a care in the world. Cops have collectively given up and it happened exactly in 2020. I genuinely don’t understand how more people aren’t noticing it and calling them out.

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