NOOBs Among the Constabulary

From today’s New York Times:

The following morning,  [suspected burglar Piotr Pasciak] was awakened by police officers in his [Brooklyn] bedroom. One of them said, “Easy, peasy, lemon squeezy,” first handcuffing, then dressing Mr. Pasciak, he said.

Thanks to Gigi Simeone.

5 thoughts on “NOOBs Among the Constabulary

  1. “When constabulary duty’s to be done,
    A policeman’s lot is not a ‘nappy one.”
    – W.S. Gilbert

    1. Google Ngram–http://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=toasty&year_start=1960&year_end=2008&corpus=5&smoothing=3–suggests “toasty” has always been more common in American English than British English.

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