Teresa, I'd just like to take a moment to say how much I'm enjoying the return of comments to BoingBoing, and having you as moderator.

---Myca

Original available here: http://xkcd.com/335/

This is awesome.

It's actually much much more awesome because of the people freaking the hell out in "that's not FUNNY" style.

If we think about this a bit more you can see that one reason people object to the police pulling people over to reward them is because it only serves to re-enforce the power dynamic. It's bad PR because it only makes people resentful. People want to feel that there is some give and take in the relationship. Flashing your lights and pulling people over doesn't do that.

The thing, Noen, is that you started out by talking about what big ol' psychologically scarred 'fraidycats everyone who has a problem with this is, and guffawed about it a bit.

Then, when you 'thought about this a bit more' you got to where almost everyone else has been since the very beginning of the discussion: This reinforces the power dynamic. It's a shitty PR move.

Well . . . yeah.

I don't think that it's the rest of us who are having issues here.

My bumps, my bumps.
My lovely ceiling lump.

Sorry.