Police Use Chevy Tahoe Prank in Attempt to Connect with Community
A simple prank involving an unpainted Chevy Tahoe patrol car becomes an overnight social media sensation.
Over the course of history, rebellious youth and police officers have rarely seen eye to eye. In our younger days, we all tend to just want to have a good time. And good times often entail activities that aren’t always necessarily legal. Thus, the rift between law enforcement and teens carries on. So, many police departments try various “outreach” programs to bridge that gap and improve relations, like the Bath Township Police Department in Michigan.
That particular department, like many these days, is pretty active on social media in an attempt to better connect with the community. Thus, they used Facebook to post a pretty funny prank disguised as an attempt to “bridge the gap” between law enforcement and younger folks. The attention-grabbing stunt featured the department replacing the typical “Police” graphic on the side of one of its Chevy Tahoe patrol vehicles with the slang term, “PoPo.”
Funny? Definitely. Real? Unfortunately, no. The idea came from officer Michael Lapham, who simply used Microsoft Paint to add the graphics to the photo of an unpainted Chevy Tahoe patrol car. And this little joke obviously worked as planned, because the original post has well over 8,000 likes and nearly 5,000 shares and 900 comments (as of this writing). So, maybe a little bit of humor does go a long way in community relations?
As usual, some people didn’t get the joke. Or didn’t understand that the image was fake. But most people found it pretty funny, as did we. And if stuff like this helps smooth over the relationship between law enforcement and our local communities, we say, why not? And if it involves some help from a Chevy, even better!
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