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This is… Scarily accurate to what happened to a friend just a few days ago.
He just got his first child and the kid had trouble sleeping at night (I’m not sure why) so I recommended him to read your comics to take his mind off things (when the baby was actually ASLEEP) and he figured he’d go take the kid for a drive if it woke up in the middle of the night.
Two days later, he called me. He told me this exact thing happened, just a slight different conversation (his wife said something among the lines of “If you call my husband a p–ophile again I will personally…”) I… Leave the rest of it to your imagination.
As for why the cop he thought he was one, it was because their kid had just wet himself so he was in the middle of changing diapers. In the middle of the night. In the trunk of a car. Yes. It was an amusing tale. Also, he kinda-sorta hates me for laughing so hard at it. …Am I bad a person for laughing my behind off at it? I dunno.
See people? Proof positive that police officers will hassle you for the stupidest things imaginable. Like changing diapers.
Hey! The baby could be crapping C-4! It’s a terrorist plot I tells ya!
Biological agent more like it. Trust me, little tykes poop is toxic stuff.
Oh I know all about it. Some of that stuff that comes out, colors no human body should contain.
Given the way they behave at their house, you would think the cop must’ve been called out there before the baby came…
I think he’s at least familiar with the house. And the neighborhood. Heck, from what I hear in my town, the cops never actually leave this neighborhood.
Well, wasn’t there a crack house next door?
There still is.
Ha, of course he knows which house this is. Why do you think he’s in such a hurry to get out of Puck’s reach? 😛
Keep in mind, some areas do treat sleep deprivation the same as driving drunk. There’s even some laws covering it.
It’s true. And they’ve found that sleep deprivation pretty closely mimics the effects of alcohol, so you see where they’re coming from.
In the U.S. Army, we had a regulation that said that if we didn’t have at least four hours of sleep a night, it was illegal for us to drive. Hell, you’re actually *more* likely to wreck if you’re drowsy than if you’re drunk.
Okay, so he was just protecting Colin from his own recklessness, good man. that said, he still woke the baby.
Semi Truck drivers are only allowed to drive 11 hours at a time. They must take a 10 hour break to sleep, get something in their stomach or something else but drowsy driving is no joke.
Ten hours of sleep sounds so good to me right now. Mind you, eleven hours of driving does not.
down south in the usa the regulation is that drivers can go for 16 hrs at a time. yet the big cab rigs never stop as they have 2 or 3 drivers in there at all times with bunkbeds and mini fridges. this is what a friend of mine older brother does. he said at a max one of the living room cabs stops for five minutes while on the road to switch drivers. he even said that some times they dont even stop rooling while switching!
That sounds fast yet … somewhat expensive.
That makes total sense. The U.S. Army knows what’s going on.
Yeah, but… he was *parked* when the cop arrived on the scene. That’s what you’re *supposed* to do if you’re too tired to drive!
But he could have driven AT ANY TIME!!! He was a maniac behind that wheel! An accident just waiting to happen! Just, just… CRAZY!
Domestic is about to get disturbing all over that cop!
Poor cop. Just doing his job, dealing with the city’s lowlifes.
I love how you used the line from the mask there “come on serve and protect man!!” ha ha
I think that was a subconscious ref. The line felt like it needed to be there. Now that I think about it, I probably was cribbing that line from The Mask.
What a wise (police)man… ^^
I love the phrase ‘known to police.’ It explains so much…
The smart man knows when to flee.
Doesn’t this imply that Colin might be – *gasp* – smart, somehow? 😉
Colin is actually quite smart, I’d say. He simply chooses to ignore his native intelligence most of the time. Just like I do in my life.
There’s a webcomic I really enjoy it’s entitled My life with Fel it’s a great read.
Alonso’s a friend of mine. My Life With Fel is one of my favourite comics. I would give a kidney to be able to draw/paint half as well as he does.
You borrowed Puck’s outfit from Flashdance too.
Yeah, sorta. This is more just a big, ugly t-shirt (which she’s been wearing since the first freakin’ strip!) as opposed to a sweatshirt with the collar ripped off. Also no leg warmers.
Deal, Puck! Deal. Colin tried and that’s admirable now it’s your turn to quell this child’s incessant wailing so that he can catch a few “Zs”. Baptism of fire and YES, it sucks. All parents know this.
It really doesn’t take a newborn long to adjust to sleeping at the appropriate times (at least for my wife & I). A warm bath and bottle at night will make getting three straight hours of slumber seem like a gift.
BTW, I am just smitten with the way you drew that baby dangling in her little onesie. Adorable. 😀
I just love the way babies dangle. (Insert Michael Jackson joke here.)
Why not ask Alonso for some pointers.
Fact: Cops will do close to anything to hassle you.
How about putting Charles Dickens books in Puck.
I think that Puck would probably object rather strongly to any attempt at putting a book in her, no matter who the author was. (Insert clever play-on-words involving Dickens and novel here, I’m too tired to make one up for you.)
How about having Puck read Charles Dickens to Miranda.
This is a bit of a random spot for mentioning this… but shouldn’t this webcomic in general have some sort of a warning label that it is mostly about spawning? Like maybe something in the description on TWC?
Like that it is mostly about a human and some ancient elf-thing going through the reproductive process and very rarely some unrelated things happen too?
Maybe. Though the other things get more prominent in other comics.
Why didn’t the cop ring the doorbell? Are they too poor to afford one?
(Munces thoughtfully on his popcorn.)
I’m guessing if they have a doorbell (and I don’t remember ever drawing one), it’s broken.