r/comics • A Penny For Your Thoughts • 29d ago

OC Airport Security (OC)

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u/ignoremeplsokthank 29d ago

Did he really or was he just drugged out and said random bs? 

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u/Ragnarok314159 29d ago

No, he is a cop at the grenade store.

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u/RaizePOE 29d ago

"grenade cop" definitely sounds like one of those professions you're convinced you're gonna work as when you're like 4

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u/Bitter-Value-1872 29d ago

I'm imagining a cop on a battlefield with a radar gun, writing tickets to people that throw their grenades too slowly

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u/VTcamperguy 29d ago

“People who throw their grenades too slowly” seems like a problem that would take care of itself.

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u/Bitter-Value-1872 29d ago

In those events, the ticket goes to the Commanding Officer

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u/thecraftybear 29d ago

What if the commanding officer was fragged the previous night?

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u/NeedToThinkWitty 29d ago

You just keep passing it up the chain until you get to someone that isn't filled with shrapnel that can pay the fine.

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u/BreadNoCircuses 29d ago

The Iraqi military used to (maybe still does?) buy a "bomb detecting device" to the tune of several thousand dollars per. Every checkpoint during the Iraq war had a soldier with one of these devices. So it was kind of a real thing?