Now it feels like summer
Prior to yesterday, it felt like I had just dipped my toe into summer, because I had. I fired up the grill on Memorial Day and spent several hours at a water park, but I hadn’t yet made a trip to the pool.
That ended yesterday. After I sent over Screencaps to the editors, the soon-to-be kindergartner and I hit the backyard for an intense Nerf gun war.
Despite having a clear strategic advantage, I ended up on the losing end of the battle.
It was still early, but it was already starting to get hot and while the little guy lacks strategy and execution, he does not have a shortage of energy.
So I may have technically made myself a sitting duck. I may have also let him take me out to put an end to the madness that was a middle-aged man and his small child running around and hiding behind trees.
I lost the battle, but it put us on a path that ended with us taking a trip to the neighborhood pool. In the end, I did some winning.
There's something about putting on the sunscreen and taking a dip in a pool that has so much chlorine in it that your eyes get sore that screams summer. It's the best.
Cop pulls a Kool-Aid Man during a foot pursuit on a backyard fence
Let's start things off in Oklahoma, where an officer pulled off the Kool-Aid Man entrance on an innocent backyard fence during a foot pursuit. It's a move straight out of an episode of Reno 911, and just part of the overall humor in this police chase.
A suspected car thief crashed the stolen car after failing to pull over and decided to take off on foot. He then jumped a fence with impressive ease. An officer in pursuit attempted and failed to taser him from the other side of the beat-up fence.
A second officer squeezed through a spot in the fence that was missing a few boards before a third officer arrived and bulldozed an entire section of the fence without hesitation.
This cop played some ball in high school - I assume. He saw an opportunity to relive some of his gridiron glory and took it.
Adding to the overall hilarity of the police chase was the fact that one of the officers was caught in the taser crossfire. That officer ended up being tased during the foot pursuit.
Despite the officers ruining a fence Kool-Aid Man-style and tasing one another, they managed to eventually catch up to the 20-year-old suspect and take him into custody.
The suspect was also hit with the taser and before taking his free trip to the Cleveland County Jail, he was checked out at a nearby hospital.
What a police chase. It has completely unnecessary destruction, it has laughs, it has tasers, and it has the good guys finding a way in the end to find themselves on the winning side.
Speaking of someone that needs a trip to jail
I know I've talked about this before. I'm not sure if it was on a Sunday Screencaps or if I tackled it with another jerk failing to return their cart story, but this lady is the worst.
Not only does she think it's okay not to return her cart at the grocery store, she's making a video flaunting that fact in everyone else's face.
Look, I'm not a fan of those cart jerks who head out looking to confront and harass people who don't return their carts, but given a choice between them and people like this lady, I'm on the cart harassers' side.
We're trying really hard to live in a civilized society. We can't have carts all over the parking lot when we're trying to do our grocery shopping.
What if everyone just left them wherever they pleased and nobody put them in the cart returns? It would be pure chaos. Haters keep giving people like this dirty looks.
They're planning a different brand of baseball in Texas
Grills and meats.
- Homebrew Bill in NE writes:
Hi Sean,
Please see attached photos of a sirloin tri-tip I did on Memorial Day on my Kamado Joe egg smoker. I've also become quite adept at pork butts and ribs on it but haven't done those in a couple months. I also use a Weber Genesis propane grill for every day things. That's really all I need and have room for.
You're doing a heck of a job filling in for Joe.
SeanJo:
This is awesome Bill. It looks like you were getting after it on Memorial Day. Feel free to send over more of your meats throughout the summer as you fire up the grill.
That goes for everyone else in the Screencaps community as well. I'd love to showcase the work being put in every week during the grilling season.
Whenever you fire up the grill, snap a few pics, send them my way, and let me know what you're working with. I'll toss them up every week on Sunday Screencaps. Keep sending your meats my way.
That's it for this morning. As always, the inbox is open. Send me what you've got cooking on your grill this week and whatever else you want to sean.joseph@outkick.com.
