The Pepperspray Cop: The Funny Side of a Loathsome Act

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A Meme is a powerful thing. Once your infamy has seeped into the confines of the internet, a tricky task to prevent these days, you are then at the mercy of the web’s underbelly. The dark humour that goes into many of the memes of today make them all the more viral and it was only a matter of time before the contemptible actions of Lt. John Pike, the UC-Davis Pepperspray Cop, came into the line of fire.

The FastCompany were quick to display some of the most cutting and hilarious memes that have hit the web. It was only right that Tumblr take full charge too, where the most comprehensive set of Lt. John Pike memes can be found on peppersprayingcop.tumblr.com. Although the issue is deeply worrying, where a man entrusted to protect and serve does quite the opposite, it is often humour that allows the right message to spread the furthest. Below are some of the finest:

“Even if there is only one possible unified theory, it is just a set of rules and equations. What is it that breathes fire into the equations and makes a universe for them to describe? The usual approach of science of constructing a mathematical model cannot answer the questions of why there should be a univAAAUAAAAGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!” // Source: peppersprayingcop.tumblr.com

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..got a smile from me thanks

nice one charlie! cos brutes and stooges need to know they are ridiculous

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