Discussion: Capitol Police Arrest Man Impersonating Secret Service Officer

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It was easy to impersonate the Secret Service. Just sunglasses and an earbud with a curly wire.

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Half of the people in the House should be arrested for impersonating Congressmen.

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Don’t forget the hookers and blow.

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They try to leave those behind when they go to the Capitol.

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“The incident is another blow to the Secret Service”

Really? How so?

“Crazy person impersonates SS agent” = “blow to the SS”?
“Crazy person impersonates SS agent” = “Drunk SS agents drive gov’t vehicle into WH barrier”?
“Crazy person impersonates SS agent” = “Negligent SS agents let knife-wielding maniac hop WH fence”?

Since when?

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How was this “another blow to the Secret Service” since this man was not of the Secret Service and the Secret Service is not tasked with guarding the House Leadership?

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It isn’t. Just makes a catchy headline.

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…was charged with false personification of a police officer

False personification? Is that really a thing? What happened to impersonating a police officer?

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If he’d showed up drunk with a stripper, no one would’ve suspected he was a fraud.

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And your shirttail hanging out of your fly.

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Haha…

per¡son¡i¡fi¡ca¡tion
pərˌsänəfəˈkāSH(ə)n/
noun
the attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form.

Yes, personification of a police officer or SS agent would by its nature, be false. Isn’t it usually called “impersonation”? Or did someone with a troubled lexicon write the DC law?

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Well, except it wasn’t in the headline.

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“false personification of a police officer” ??

That would be wrongly turning a police officer into a person. It’s debatable if that is even possible.

I believe you mean ‘impersonating a police officer’, which would be pretending to be a cop.

Now, everyone hates me, right? Sorry…

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Poor Man…
He just went there for some Scalisian- Majority Whipping …

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Reports say police initially became suspicious because the man wasn’t drunk, wasn’t stoned, and seemed to have an air of overall competence about him.

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Don’t leave home without them.