I usually don't share my stories about cop stupidity with too many people, but I've got a few spare minutes, so..... When I was going to college, I lived in an old, large house with three other people in a town of about 1,500. We never kept it locked and the front door was usually open, although we had a screen door that was usually closed. One of my roommates brought a flag from home that had been over the casket of his granddad who had been killed in service during WWII, and we nailed this flag to our wall. About this time, the outdoor flag to the town's post office was stolen. The flag from the post office was something like 15' x 20' (give or take) and the flag attached to our wall was something like 8' x 10' (give or take). Anyway, one day we got served with a police search warrant. The cops came into our house, told us to sit there and not say a word while they came in and thought they had found the "flag bandits". They had to unhook and move our stereo and TV to get to the flag and then they had to measure the dimensions of the flag. After careful calculations, it was determined that the stolen flag was not hanging on our wall, because (and this is what they wrote on our search warrant), "the dimensions are not the same as the flag that was stolen". Our TV and stereo did not work because they had unhooked it and they did not bother to hook it back up. (Not that big of a deal. We probably didn't want them to anyway) Okay, about a month later, we move to another house. We take the flag with us and hang it back up on the wall. About a week later, we get hit with another search warrant. As the storm troopers, er....police officers come into the house, one of them stopped and ask us: "Hey, you guys look familiar. Did you used to live on Main Street?" We told them that we did as they again handed us another search warrant. After careful measurements, they again determined that the stolen flag had different dimensions than what our flag had. Now, here's the irony of all this: To you guys who have been on this planet a little while, do any of you know the difference between an American flag from 1945 and an American flag manufactured after 1959? That's right, the number of stars on it. The American flag (that we had hanging on our wall) from WWII has 48 stars, the current flags (like the one stolen from the post office) have 50 stars. These cops were too stupid (or maybe couldn't count that high) to be able to see that our flag was manufactured before 1959. I apologize to any police office that I have offended. Most of them have my respect.
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