‘Green’ Fail in the Outback: Police Can’t Fit Gear in Hybrids They’re Required to Drive
**Written by Doug Powers
There’s a chance, albeit slight, that the environmentally-conscious celebrities who push these “green” vehicles will loan the Queensland police some of their SUVs, Hummers and limousines so they can have enough room for their equipment, but I’m not counting on it:
Queensland Police have been left red-faced over its choice of new “green” patrol cars. The service boasts it is going green, taking delivery of 100 hybrid Toyota Camrys. Shame no one checked the boot size. Frontline officers say the boots of the new patrol cars are too small to carry all their essential equipment, including flak jackets and emergency equipment.
They can’t put it on the back seats – that’s where the criminals go – leaving them little option but to ditch it, or keep it under their feet in the front.
And the front seats are already a tight squeeze for officers wearing accoutrement belts and cargo pants.
The police union said the decision showed how far removed top brass were from the frontline that they could approve cars that aren’t big enough to be useful.
The Queensland Police Service (QPS) boasts about its green car choice in this year’s annual report, saying its “smarter vehicle purchases” meant it had “the most operationally suitable vehicles”
Proposed new rule: Nobody should be forced to drive a car that can’t easily fit Al Gore’s BS in the trunk.
In general, is it wise, given the apparent fact that an increasingly hotter planet is destined to bury everyone in several feet of snow, to be making people drive smaller cars? It’s a good thing Noah wasn’t a Gorebot, or he’d have told everybody ride out the flood in something the size of a gravy boat — and kept the Ark for himself, of course.
(h/t David Burge)
**Written by Doug Powers
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Apparently not.
Gee, what a stunner. A politically-appointed chief makes a public relations decision without consulting the troops. Now comes the finger-pointing…
“Stupid is as stupid does.”
Forrest Gump’s Mom.
Didn’t anyone in that procurement department think about checking the vehicle’s features/drawbacks before ordering a bunch of these cars?
Yes. And they went ahead and bought them anyway.
Far too many “feel good morons” out there, some making choices and decisions of consequence. We’re seeing a generation lacking in logic and science taking command. Look out.
They got MO syndrome, too much junk in the trunk!
I’ll bet even all those liberal New Yorkers could probably find a use for my Hummer these last few days. Imagine Central Park in the snow. . . if only you could get there.
Anyone who signed or agrees with the Kyoto Protocols.
Now I see why they bought theses cars. Instead of arresting criminals they will just give them a hug and release them…..
This is actually hilarious. My laugh of the day. Those old “unintended consequences” of not thinking ahead. Another bunch of regressive doofuses. Will they learn from this? Don’t count on it. Living here in Minnesota with all our snow…there is NO WAY we would drive anything except a large vehicle that can get some traction. Oh, and those little green cars? Try catching the criminals with those!
Paraphrasing the NYT reasoning:
See the melting polar ice, like, makes it snow more n’stuff? So ya know, like, the snow reflects the sunlight n’stuff? So like it’s colder ‘cause it’s warmer n’stuff.
Pure genius. Good article by Mark Landsbaum in OCR: Global warming explanations made up as they go along
Like, bullseye, dude!
Somebody needs a size 12 up the rump.
Rule #6–there is noooooooooo Rule #6!
Couldn’t they have used bicycles and really gone green? They don’t have to arrest criminals, just talk with them. No need to carry guns, an additional saving. There really would not have been a problem had not greed, not green, led the way.
So they’ve already limited their ability to do actual police work to meet their 2010 goals. What’s next? Scooters? Or firings?
What dangerous idiots….
For some yucks, check out the comments of our Aussie cultural brethren at the “not counting on it” link to the australian paper above.
Yes, Officer Kruptky? you may only exhale on alternate Tuesdays…
They are bureaucrats and the money is not theirs and they can’t be fired, so what’s the beef?
I bet you could fit 50 or so of those administrative QPS types (REMFs?) in the cars though.
After all, the circus was always able to fit large numbers of clowns in those tiny cars….
This is what happens when the illogical, shortsighted and the truly stupid are in charge.
Not enough room in the boot, and not enough engine under the bonnet. A used Cushman can outrun those hybrids.
Well, since guns have been banned in Australia, I don’t see a need for the police to carry them either. I mean, no one is allowed to own a gun so the crime rate must have gone down. Right?
Keep in mind that the Lefties are in charge of Australia now as well. They chose as poorly in their elections as we did in 2008. Good on ya mates!
Oh no baby. Not when the turbo squirrels kick in. Shazamm! It’s “Katie bar the door, John Law is comin’!” “Holy smokes Batman!”
This is what comes from the deluded concept called Democratic Socialism.
People who do not know how to do their own thinking (these are often people of ‘high intelligence’ in the memorization and calculation and taking indocrination well and getting good grades sense) can’t figure out democracy (democratic republics) and big bureaucracy don’t mix well. Ever.
They fantasize the bureaucrats are responsive to the will of the People through the People’s representatives.
It just does not work that way. It never has. It never will.
The bureaucrats are responsive to the wishes of their immediate superiors and their co-workers, but with their own personal twists and biases as to what is politically correct. And they are very hard to fire.
This is true all up and down throughout the hierarchy of the bureaucracy. That is the way all bureaucracies actually work.
So the bigger and more entrenched (usually over time) the bureaucracy becomes, the more untouchable the bureaucrats become, until you are living in a society ruled by a bureaucratic elite where lifetime government workers decide everything with no practical accountability to anyone but their immediate circle within the bureaucracy.
The larger a bureaucracy becomes, the more meaningless what kind of government you have becomes. By the time you get to full on socialism, your democracy isn’t worth warm spit. It is often actually better to have an emperor/dictator, because at least he can occasionally kill people who are gumming up the works.
This idiotic green decision will not be punished. As long as any decision by a bureaucrat is politically correct, there will be no consequences to anyone but the little guy on the front lines trying to hold an increasingly fractured system together with more and more inadequate tools.
Hey, what if they hired midgets? Smaller bodies, vests, billies, guns (give them .22 compacts), rifles (take-downs, short barreled .12 gauges). I’ll call them….
The Honda Insight is a great little hybrid.
I keep one in the boot of my LTD.
“G’day, mate. Got room for me didgeridoo in yer boot?”
Is this a surprise to anyone? And guess who will move into Afghanistan (rare earth central) after the US leaves? But it’s OK, we won’t have to worry about global warming and rising sea levels… I’m so glad we have smart people looking out for us.
BEIJING — China said Tuesday it is reducing the amount of rare earths it will export next year by more than 10 percent — likely to be an unpopular move worldwide since the minerals are vital to the manufacture of high-tech products.
There really needs to be a hunting season on Liberals. I hear they are good in a crock pot with hot sauce and beer.
I wonder if the 5 BILLION Chinese living and working in the most polluted cities on the earth are “going green” ? Oh, I forgot…they ride bicycles so it evens the “green score” OH, my sides.
I guess the police could just hook up a trailer to drag behind the car to put their ‘stuff’ in! Problem solved.
L
It might have enough power to pull one of these babies!!!
truesoldier#33,
That’s funny and about right! I didn’t know they still made these wagons. I haven’t seen one in years.
L
Empty, maybe. Add the weight of those two kids and most likely, not.
You may be seeing more of them shortly. When gas hits $6+/Gal, many of us will be towing them behind our bicycles.
How far the Aussies have fallen from Mad Max and his supercharged 1973 Australian Ford Falcon.
Come on, Doug, they’ll still need cars that can actually fit on the road.
Red Dog, I think instead of midgets, you mean “persons of recessive vertical stature” as to not tick off the left and whatever special interest group that I am sure exists…