saw an alert this morning and thought to myself, I must have posted an article in there last night. nope, unfunny sex slave joke. My head hurts. Sorry fella’s.
i edited it. it was clearly and obviously a sarcastic post, but meanwhile one poster that quoted it has an N word post on here and another has actual sincere sexist type posts, but hey that doesn't excuse it on my end, so again my apologies.
I mean, you can take that up with them and we can clean up the board. But if you’re taking issue with my recommendation I think your angst is misguided
Something sounds rotten in Denmark. But that plane the department bought is by no means a “private jet.” It’s a twin engine Piper. Still crazy expensive tho, especially for that brand. I wonder if they’re including the life-time maintenance costs in the price.
private plane still. They can fly it around Florida. Most people who don’t know a lot about aviation interchangeably use plane and jet.
Again, it’s a minor quibble, but when most people hear “he has a private jet,” they think of something like: Not something like:
it was a $4.4 million dollar plane. It’s nothing like that second one. Not everyone thinks $50 million+ for a private jet. $4.4 million gives you something similar to this
and for what purpose does a COUNTY sheriff need a small plane? That's the thing to quibble about... not the type of plane.
I understand that, and Piper makes a lot bigger and more luxurious planes than the Cub. They don’t, however, make anything close to the 4 million range. Which is why I guessed that the figure includes the lifetime maintenance costs. I suppose it could also include a lot of specialized equipment too. South Florida so I’m assuming drug interdiction. I read another article that said they also have several helicopters and at least one other plane and that the total cost of their fleet is in the neighborhood of $25 million. Our county has a bunch of helicopters shared by search and rescue, fire, sheriff, etc... used to patrol the coast, nab hikers out of emergency situations, life flight hospital patients, and similar uses. They might be performing similar double-duties in addition to their pure law-enforcement roles.
Not really. That’s a jet in your picture. The Piperjet has a single engine. If it was actually a twin engine piper, it was a piston prop. Most likely, it was a Seneca like this: https://www.controller.com/listings/aircraft/for-sale/152495859/2019-piper-seneca-v
Why?Pokes ability to cape for anything law enforcement related is so on brand for anyone associated with law enforcement.
yet the article says they spent $4.4 million on the plane so I’m pretty confident that the $1 million plane (if brand new) you sent is pretty far from the plane they bought.
You think it’s more likely a newspaper writer got the private aircraft details wrong or the cost wrong?
Probably the cost. You can’t really misinterpret the brand name of an aircraft. The author had to have seen that somewhere, whereas the “cost” could easily be mistaking it as purchase price rather than purchase price + operating costs.
And, FWIW, the article says that he “recently paid $4.4 million for...” not that he purchased it for $4.4 million. Either way, an absolutely absurd purchase and expenditure for a Sheriff.
wes tegg how many hours do you think you’ve spent looking at jets online you’ll never buy? brother in law is obsessed
You're looking at a little north of $1 million for a brand new Piper Seneca. So they must've sunk quite a bit of money in mods/upgrades for "homeland security purposes"