If you saw the hilarious but weird
Napoleon Dynamite, you know where Preston, Idaho is. You have probably seen most of Preston in that movie. So what is Preston Police Department getting? From the
October 5, 2013 Idaho Reporter:Now, nine years later, the movie world of “Napoleon” has come face-to-face with the Preston City Police Department.
That is, Preston Police Chief Ken Geddes a few days ago announced his department’s acquisition of a mine-resistant armor protected vehicle, or an MRAP for short.
“The vehicle comes at no cost to Preston City,” Geddes wrote in an Idaho State Journal column “It is a 2007 model with very low mileage.”
Indeed, the military, which no longer uses the mammoth vehicles following the troop drawdowns in the Middle East after years and years of war, has been handing them out to police agencies across the country. At least four Idaho departments, Boise, Preston, Post Falls and Nampa, received the surplus equipment.
I want to laugh -- but why in the world does a small-town police department like Preston need weapons of war? Pedros brothers are getting mortars?
