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Old 02-19-2008, 02:06 PM
Bombard Bombard is offline
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Originally Posted by BonoVox View Post

My wife used to own a donut shop right off the 105 freeway. She gave free coffee to police officers and they hung out there a lot. Guess what? Even though she was only 4 offramps down the 105 from Compton. She was never robbed.
I once had Bill Rosenberg, the guy that started Dunkin Donuts, as a guest speaker in class. He said in the early 50's, before they were franchised, they were robbed a lot, so he put in a "cops don't pay" policy. That both ended the robberies, and led to the stereotype of cops eating donuts.
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