If you ever wondered whether you could transport a donkey in the back of a Ford Crown Victoria, the Norman Police Department have your answer.
Norman, Oklahoma police Officer Kyle Canaan happened upon a miniature donkey wandering around the 8100 block of of 120th Avenue NE on the morning of December 1, following up on a report from a woman who called in the sighting, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution says.
Wanting to keep the donkey from being hit by traffic, Canaan used feed to lure the animal off the road, then pushed and pulled the little donkey into the back seat of his P71. As the photo from Norman PD can tell you, animals of the donkey’s size can fit comfortably in the back.
Though the donkey was nicknamed Squishy by the local police, his name was revealed December 3 to be Cruz, the name given by his owner who came to retrieve him. According to the Tulsa World, owner Matt Spalding, a chiropractor in Norman, came home Tuesday evening to find Cruz had gone missing, likely escaping underneath the electric wire fence on his property. Spalding says Cruz is a retired basketball donkey, brought to charity basketball games for people to ride upon.
Cruz also became a social media darling during the past few days after his photo was posted to Norman PD’s Facebook page, as Oklahoma City ABC affiliate KOCO-TV said in the below video:
I imagine many other jackasses have ridden back there as well.
Is this somebody’s idea of a joke? I’m positive this is a far right wing conspiracy to put in my mind the image of Hillary Clinton riding in the back of a police car and I don’t appreciate it. Stop it. Stop the madness!
This donkey’s prettier, and doesn’t pick up a “convenient Southern drawl”
Now you’re just teasing.
I keep hearing too much from jackasses named Cruz as it is.
Cruz isn’t a member of the donkey party.
Facebook post caption: Haulin’ a** in my P71!
was there any increase in horsepower????
No, but it did gain one donkeypower.
(“So that’s what a donk is!”)
What’s wrong with good old-fashion police dogs?
I guess that department must really be on a budget.
Affirmative action. Donkeys have rights too:)
See? You can get ass in a Crown Victoria.
Also, I live in Norman. I have to say we have pretty good cops around these parts. Few if, if any speed traps and also very friendly.
That is the ugliest font for the word “Police” that I can recall seeing.
It could be worse. It could be any of the cursive fonts used to spell out “Brougham” or “Royale” or “Biarritz” on any of those types of cars back in the day.
I agree those would look foolish spelling out “Police”.
Comic Sans.
It’s not very readable, either.
on the way to a senior officer’s retirement party…
Cruz certainly seems to be a great name for a donkey. Of course he was lucky that the cop who found him didn’t just pull out his gun and pump a magazine full into him.
According to reclusive_in_nature, Norman has friendly cops.
I do pity the guy who had to clean the manure out of the back seat. Donkeys are not toilet trained.
Kendahl – many of the passengers in the back seat a PC aren’t toilet trained either.
That of course is why almost all cop cars have rubber floor mats and many have the Hard ABS back seat, the vinyl or the old fashioned clear vinyl over the cloth.
The interesting thing to me is that they didn’t put the bolt in the rear window track to prevent the window from going more than half way down. That is the standard for my local county’s standard CVs.
I got luck on my most recent one and although it is all white and has a push bar and spot lights it was otherwise unmarked. So it had active rear doors, window switches and no bolt to stop the rear windows half way down. Plus it has tinting that I think is darker than legal for the front windows and never had a light bar on top.
After a T-bone accident with a bus a few blocks from my workplace on the way in a few years ago, I needed a lift to work as my car was immobile from the accident. Back of Toledo CVPI is as advertised — optioned with the ABS seat, one-way doors, no switches. Normal seat belt, may have even had the ABS stuff down to the floorboards as a single piece with the seat, which I would assume had a fiddled edge (a la WeatherTech FloorLiners) to catch..uhhh..yeah.
More room than a couple CV taxis in which I’ve ridden, though! Perps don’t know how good they have it!
Nothing wrong with a little ass in the back seat once in a while. But, yeah, best you clean up afterwards.
What, there aren’t enough OU jackasses in Norman to detain? They had to put an actual jackass in a cop car?
I commuted to Norman for a while, and I’m not a fan of it. Really, I try to stay north of I-240.
A fill-in-the-blank is pulled over by a state trooper, because he has a gorilla in the passenger seat.
The trooper asks the driver what he is doing, and the driver replies “taking him for a ride.”
The trooper decides not to write him up for whatever, but lets him off with instructions to take the gorilla to the zoo.
A few days later, the trooper sees the same car, driver and gorilla.
Upon pulling them over, he says to the driver “I thought I told you to take the gorilla to the zoo.”
The driver replies “I did. Today I’m taking him to the beach.”
rimshot.
Vaudeville lives.
Hahahahaha. Or should I say Hee Haw! Hee Haw!
#BurroLivesMatter
Damn, I forgot that one, since the variations of “ass” have been taken above, but… (see what I did there?! ;-) )
No room (oh, a double-entendre for the season) in the holding area, so they had to go to the detective burro to wait!!
(::Drum hits of a rim-shot, long pause, then three golf claps, then crickets!::)
“I oughta haul you in to the county jail, son, but seein’ as it’s yer first time, and Matt Spalding jes’ happens to be a friend o’ mine, I’m gonna let you off with a warnin’ and take you on home. Now don’t you let it happen agin!”
Cruz is now a card carrying member of Panther Love.
Having lived in Egypt for 3 years and Pakistan for 4, seeing livestock in a passenger car doesn’t seem out of place to me anymore.
Ur ass is going to jail
Where do donkeys rate on the intelligence scale compared to horses? They certainly look dumber.
Well, according to Mr. Ed, the talking horse, they are dumber than a horse’s ass. They can’t even form one sentence.
Though judging by where he’s headed, this one may have a sentence.
But at least if it is at hard labor, it will be something he is equipped to handle.
We’d all better be careful though. All these lame jokes might be considered animal abuse by your local PETA shop.
[The hook comes out, wraps around the comedian’s neck, and…yank!]
Vaudeville may not be dead, but it’s not earning me a living.
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