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I've been looking past this little film on Clark Baker's site, always having about a dozen better things to do. But, Baker is an ex-cop (LAPD) and tends to have interesting takes on things Law Enforcement, especially in the LA basin. And now I have some spare time, waiting for my van to be repaired; I'd thought I'd give it a go.

When the police officer walks up to the car window, his first line is "Habla Ingles?" That made me smile.

At 6 minutes, I was worried that the idea was going to play itself out too quickly, but every time my interest began to flag, along would come lines like "your [BMI] is just over the legal limit!" or my personal favorite, "My carbon footprint had six toes!"

The husband-and-wife exchanges (such as when they give different weights for the husband, simultaneously) are telling, especially if one has been married.

There is more than a little Marx Brothers in this skit; I don't know if it's intentional or not. But the office's lines are particularly Grouchoesque.

I recommend this to anyone who thinks CA (and as CA goes, so goes the nation?) seems to be in some sort of hand-basket, on some sort of zip-line, headed to some warmer place. It's pretty good therapy, I've discovered, to sometimes just laugh in the face of it all.

If you don't want to link over, here's the YouTube version. Plus, it makes a great illustration for this site. I like pictures in my blog posts.