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Vermont Inmates Hide Image Of Pig On Police Decals

Seeded on Fri Feb 3, 2012 10:10 PM EST
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Look at the cow underneath the tree. Embedded within the cow's spots is an image of a pig, which as the Burlington Free Press reminds us is the '60s-era epithet used by protesters to refer to police.

Reuters reports that it was likely put there by inmates. The state, Reuters adds, "contracts with correctional facilities employing prisoners to make some print products, including the cruiser decals." One or more inmates somehow accessed the computer program holding the image and rejiggered it. The quality assurance department failed to notice it and as far as the state police know, the modified decal was used on as many as 30 Vermont State Police cruisers.

Some weren't laughing.

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Simplistic Reality

It'll cost police $780 to correct the decals. The money will come from the small profits made by the prison division that makes things like license plates and stationery for state offices.

Lol....

  • 7 votes
Reply#1 - Fri Feb 3, 2012 10:10 PM EST
o'stephanie

Prison labor strikes back.

Love this.

  • 4 votes
#1.1 - Fri Feb 3, 2012 11:01 PM EST
ERich-356044

Ya get what ya pay for....

:)

  • 3 votes
#1.2 - Sat Feb 4, 2012 12:02 AM EST
The Logical Truth

That is just so funny! After all didn't the cops use the word pigs to describe Pride Integrity and Guts?

  • 3 votes
#1.3 - Sat Feb 4, 2012 2:43 AM EST
Citizen Kane-473667

Does the spot by the tail look like a fisted hand with the pinky finger and forefinger extended? Of course that spot underthe "pigs" ass kinda looks like a pork chop too.

I gotta quit smokin' this @!$%#...

;o)

  • 4 votes
#1.4 - Sat Feb 4, 2012 3:24 AM EST
ambivalent

Looks like thumb and forefinger, lol.

  • 4 votes
#1.5 - Sat Feb 4, 2012 7:34 AM EST
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ambivalent

Why do I get satisfaction out of this article? Perverse.

  • 5 votes
Reply#2 - Fri Feb 3, 2012 10:19 PM EST
Simplistic Reality

:D

  • 4 votes
#2.1 - Fri Feb 3, 2012 10:25 PM EST
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Tiredofit-946833

Are the longer spots on bottom part of the cow "bacon" ??

  • 2 votes
Reply#3 - Sat Feb 4, 2012 12:01 AM EST
Polka14

They deserve it. The blue shirts are pigs of course.

  • 3 votes
Reply#4 - Sat Feb 4, 2012 12:50 AM EST
PamelaGeeWhizz

Made me soooo happy!  Thank you!

  • 2 votes
Reply#5 - Sat Feb 4, 2012 8:58 AM EST
mzcats

I don't believe pig is hidden at all. Thats a profile of a pig quite plain!

  • 1 vote
Reply#6 - Sat Feb 4, 2012 4:29 PM EST
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