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by Paul Taylor on April 2, 2010 at 12:00 am
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  1. ziggy78eog
    April 2, 2010, 12:18 am | # | Reply

    I am really starting to feel sympathetic towards this cop. I wonder if he is purposefully sent to respond to this neighborhood, knowing that she (meaning Shelly) is the cause of the disturbance, and can do next to nothing about it. Besides, I thought one could not touch an “on-duty” cop because that was technically “assaulting an officer”. Maybe I just watch too many cop shows.

    • CrashFu
      April 2, 2010, 12:36 am | # | Reply

      It’s only “assaulting” the officer if they don’t like it. I don’t watch many of those cop shows, but I’m willing to guess all of the people who ever “assaulted” the officers weren’t that good looking.

      If a person is cute, they can’t by any legal definition “harass” you. They can only flirt. 😉

    • SoWhyMe
      April 2, 2010, 12:56 am | # | Reply

      I think the other guys back at HQ must like sending him on these calls for laughs. If they were serious about doing something about it they would send a female cop. Of course here I am talking about a comic as if it were real. I’m not sure that’s healthy.

      • Sonicthunder
        April 2, 2010, 5:05 pm | #

        Knowing Shelly’s past though, it’s not guaranteed a “female” cop would get any better results. (>^_^)>

      • Fairportfan
        April 3, 2010, 11:33 am | #

        …or, perhaps, “worse”, depending on the female officer in question’s personal attitude…

      • Dusty668
        April 3, 2010, 3:53 pm | #

        When you no longer realize it’s a comic, that’s when you worry. Except of curse you won’t cause you’ve og loopiededoo.

      • Dusty668
        April 3, 2010, 3:53 pm | #

        *gone loopiededoo.

    • HeySo
      July 26, 2018, 6:12 am | # | Reply

      In any place I’ve ever lived in the States, it’s “assaulting a police officer” if you do *anything* they don’t like. Do keep in mind that assault is defined as being any verbal threat that strongly indicates imminent threat, while battery is the term used to reference actual physical violence.

      Since the police officers get to both define the nuances of laws and apply them as they please, in most areas of the States, there’s no real limit to what a police officer can ascribe “assaulting a police officer” to. Of course, as an extension of that, you can see why it’s so easy for them to get away with murder, even the literal kind. Anyone they claim is a threat to them, usually becomes one officially (barring an atypically upright local police hierarchy or significant enough public outcry, though all too often even those two elements are easily bypassed).

      But yes, much like giving you a pass on a parking ticket, a police officer also has the ability to *not* charge you with things. And, of course, if the local force *is* unusually upright, then “this woman fainted into my arms, so I had to arrest her” would be something the cop wouldn’t actually want to push. More likely, though, it’s just that he’s one of those all-too-rare cops that actually takes his job seriously, rather than exploitatively. ..or even more likely, Paul decided to write in the cop as he did for the sake of the joke, without thinking too much about the negativity surrounding pervasive corruption within United States law enforcement.
      In a more general sense, despite the escalating ill-feeling in the States arising out of continuous police misconduct, police do still have a historical “good guy image” that the strip is playing to. In fact, to make it more realistic, perhaps it’d be easier to just interpret the officer in this strip as a modern firefighter, rather than a modern cop. 😛

  2. Tessa
    April 2, 2010, 12:23 am | # | Reply

    Now Shelly’s just being creepy.

  3. hewolf
    April 2, 2010, 12:35 am | # | Reply

    Hahahahahahah!!!

    Brilliant!

    • hewolf
      April 2, 2010, 12:35 am | # | Reply

      As an aside, I think I see her horns showing. ^_^

  4. symbiote01
    April 2, 2010, 12:48 am | # | Reply

    Waitaminute… is Shelly possessed? This seems very unlike her…
    …and look at that arm! Is it just me, or is her buffness…er, bigger than it used to be?

    • SoWhyMe
      April 2, 2010, 12:52 am | # | Reply

      Yeah. I think it’s time for Shelly to bulk down a bit. I doubt it’s all that attractive to most guys. Tight buns included.

      • Sonicthunder
        April 2, 2010, 5:07 pm | #

        Nah, she’s had Popeye arms for awhile now. The comic animation is not always consistent, but flip through the archives. Ever since the GGG debuted, whenever Shelly is shown working out, she’s got bigger arms than any man in this comic, as well as Lakshmi.

      • Beth
        April 3, 2010, 4:18 am | #

        Shelly is fit because of her work and lifestyle. There’s even a strip where she remarks that some people have to go to a gym to be as fit as her. It would be highly out of character for her to purposefully “bulk down” to be “that attractive to most guys”.

        This comic features strong female characters, some of them are literally that way too and most of their lives are not dictated by what they think most guys will like about them.

  5. sco3tt
    April 2, 2010, 12:57 am | # | Reply

    She’s subtle, I’ll give her that, lol. Like a sledge hammer to the forehead subtle.

    And great flex, looks like she’s been hitting the ez=bar hard! Smokin.

    • WilliamTheWolf
      April 2, 2010, 2:16 am | # | Reply

      To be fair, a sledgehammer could be rather subtle if you didn’t scream your head off in some battle cry

  6. NOTDilbert
    April 2, 2010, 12:59 am | # | Reply

    Ah, Spring, the time that the body’s internal ice jams break up, letting hormone floods rampage through the brain.

    And, er, yes, you can illegally be sexually harassed by cute people.

    • Papuasblya
      April 2, 2010, 2:05 am | # | Reply

      I can? Please tell me how.

  7. Fairportfan
    April 2, 2010, 1:03 am | # | Reply

    The other boys back at the station must have it in for Officer Buns to send him out on these…

  8. Valis_kr3
    April 2, 2010, 1:10 am | # | Reply

    I’m sorry doesn’t Shelly know about the internet? go to I need a man.com and there ya go.

  9. LW18(LADYWOLF)
    April 2, 2010, 1:17 am | # | Reply

    I work out at a fitness club, maily doing things like kick boxing. If I were to get big bulky muscles like Shelly, I’m pretty sure that my boyfriend would dump me in a heartbeat.

    • Zespara
      April 2, 2010, 1:28 am | # | Reply

      I’m sure some guy would be there to pick you up afterwards. 🙂

      Shelly’s one of my fave chars!

      Z

      • Tessa
        April 2, 2010, 3:22 pm | #

        Or be picked up by you.

    • Carina
      April 2, 2010, 4:50 am | # | Reply

      If your boyfriend would dump you for your looks, you need a better one. Seriously.

      • Opus the Poet
        April 2, 2010, 6:47 pm | #

        Dittoes on the stupid boyfriend. You need one that wants you for who you are, not what you look like.

    • Meander
      April 2, 2010, 7:12 pm | # | Reply

      You would totally get a better boyfriend in no time.

    • The Old Wolf
      April 4, 2010, 7:24 am | # | Reply

      Ladywolf, live for yourself, and then honor yourself by choosing a boyfriend who will honor you!

  10. Swann
    April 2, 2010, 1:26 am | # | Reply

    I think Shelly needs to leave the garage door open next time she’s working on a car, the carbon monoxide appears to be killing brain cells.

  11. CaptXpendable
    April 2, 2010, 4:59 am | # | Reply

    I might be jumping to conclusions a bit soon, but it seems to me that while Officer T.B. is annoyed, he doesn’t seem to be trying all that hard to dissuade her either.

    • ziggy78eog
      April 2, 2010, 10:55 am | # | Reply

      No, not really. Methinks he doth protest too much.

      • Tessa
        April 2, 2010, 3:22 pm | #

        Ooooor he realized she could break him in half.

  12. Jim
    April 2, 2010, 7:38 am | # | Reply

    Heheheh . Pucker power , in the last panel .

    I’m diggin’ Shelly’s hair .

    • jwhouk
      April 2, 2010, 7:23 pm | # | Reply

      I have this anime flashback going with her hair as of late…

      • ChrisHerself
        April 3, 2010, 4:08 pm | #

        Yeah, after reading it again I realized……”VEGETA! THAT’S who she looks like!” @_@

      • BigBadRichard
        September 30, 2010, 9:38 pm | #

        HER HOTNESS LEVEL IS OVER NINE-THOUSNNNNNNNNNNNND!!!!! D:<

  13. The Old Wolf
    April 2, 2010, 8:00 am | # | Reply

    Pablo, you are a funny, funny man. Wapsi is part of my daily insanity diet. 😀

  14. Chris Mayer
    April 2, 2010, 8:42 am | # | Reply

    Man, shelly’s got it BAD for this guy…doesn’t she realize he could arrest her for this?

    • bornbitter
      April 2, 2010, 11:20 am | # | Reply

      …I’m thinkin’ that Shelly wouldn’t mind being handcuffed by this officer. Perhaps that is what she is hoping for. I just don’t see her trying to resist arrest or the pat-down that said arrest would, by obligation, require. …And since he can’t call in backup… I guess it would have to all be done by this officer.
      Too bad, so sad.
      Well played, Shelly. Well played.

  15. Centaur1971
    April 2, 2010, 8:47 am | # | Reply

    I also didn’t notice how ripped Shelly is…WOW!!!

  16. Fatuncle
    April 2, 2010, 9:20 am | # | Reply

    Hm. I wonder if this is the first time Shelly has blown up a grill while at this address? I would think that otherwise Officer Tight Buns would know what he was getting into.

    • eschmenk
      April 2, 2010, 9:51 am | # | Reply

      I don’t think it was the first time. I think that’s why he said, “Oh! It’s you again” yesterday. Paul’s version of Minneapolis’s finest don’t ever seem to know quite how to handle Monica, Bud or Shelly. It’s funny.

      • Fatuncle
        April 2, 2010, 2:20 pm | #

        …at that address.

        If I dealt with that scene at that address last year, I assure you, I would recall that address – and someone else would answer that call!

      • eschmenk
        April 4, 2010, 3:09 pm | #

        Perhaps that’s why no one is making a comic strip about your life. 😉

        Not mine, either 🙁

    • eschmenk
      April 2, 2010, 10:00 am | # | Reply

      … also on Wednesday she called it her “yearly cleaning of the grill of mice nests and cordial meeting with sexy officer tight buns”. I think the “yearly” applied to both the cleaning and the “cordial meeting”.

  17. Matthew
    April 2, 2010, 9:31 am | # | Reply

    Personally, when she passes out, I will take it as my exit window to leave.

    • ziggy78eog
      April 2, 2010, 10:58 am | # | Reply

      Maybe for you, but not Officer T.B. I believe he would be obligated to call in the Paramedics, should that happen.

      • vince
        April 2, 2010, 5:14 pm | #

        Besides the fact that with Shelly’s arms on him in such a way, when she goes down, he’s gonna get dragged down by her body weight……

  18. kingklash
    April 2, 2010, 11:09 am | # | Reply

    “So, how did it go at that Wahnee girl’s place?”
    “She held her breath at me.”

  19. Fnord
    April 2, 2010, 11:31 am | # | Reply

    “Dispatch, unit 21”
    “Go ahead, 21”
    “Cancel code 10-73, Wahnee residence.”
    “10-4, 21”
    “Dispatch, 21. Requesting 10-6.”
    “Granted, 21.”
    “*GIGGLE*”
    “Unit 21, repeat your last.”
    “10-4, dispatch. Unit 21 10-6 … STOP THAT! … 10-6 for 30 mikes.”
    “10-4, 21. Do you require back-up?”
    “Uhh … negative, dispatch. Unit 21 out.”
    “*GIGGLE*”
    “Dispatch to unit 21. Be careful out there! Dispatch out.”

    • Julie
      April 2, 2010, 12:59 pm | # | Reply

      Aww…I want to get the joke, but I don’t speak cop codes…anyone able to translate?

      • eschmenk
        April 2, 2010, 1:26 pm | #

        http://radiolabs.com/police-codes.html

      • SoWhyMe
        April 2, 2010, 4:33 pm | #

        His request was to change channels? I don’t get it. It also says 10-73 is “How do you receive.” That doesn’t make sense either.

      • Fnord
        April 2, 2010, 6:25 pm | #

        Try the official APCO 10-codes:
        http://www.angelfire.com/wi/scanner/apco10.html
        10-6 is “Station is busy” (This is sometimes used to indicate “Personal Business”).
        10-73 is “Smoke Report”.

      • SoWhyMe
        April 2, 2010, 7:34 pm | #

        Some of those codes are just silly. It takes longer to say the 10 code than just saying the word, like 10-34 … riot. Why not just say riot?

      • Fairportfan
        April 2, 2010, 9:21 pm | #

        The 10 codes have several purposes, but the main one is to make quick and accurate communication feasible over radio links that may be less than high-quality, used in circumstances of noise and stress.

        Since you know what the person on the other end has to be saying, they’re more likely to be understood, and, since they are specific and invariant, there is no risk of misunderstanding what the speaker is trying to convey.

        I mean, the number of ways to convey “10-100” alone is amazing.

        If you think 10 codes are strange, check out Q codes.

      • Fairportfan
        April 2, 2010, 9:23 pm | #

        Isn’t 10-7 generally used for meals?

        And i see that list doesn’t include 10-100…

      • ziggy78eog
        April 3, 2010, 2:02 am | #

        The tricky thing with those codes, I believe, is that they are not universal across America. I do believe that every police department has its own 10 codes. So while a 10-7 in one department might mean “going to grab a bite to eat”, in one city, it will mean “following a potential DUI suspect” in another.

      • Fairportfan
        April 3, 2010, 11:32 am | #

        There is a standardised list, and it is used by most departments.

        Note “most”.

      • eschmenk
        April 4, 2010, 3:03 pm | #

        I just posted the first thing I came across when I used Google. I would have thought that a company that sold scanners would have had a fairly accurate list. It certainly doesn’t match Fnord’s APCO list very well, though. 🙁 Since, APCO is the Association of Public-Safety Communications Officials, which offers training and certification, I assume they know what they are talking about as well as anyone.

        I think the 10-6 code, “Change channel” in one case and “Station is busy” in the other, basically match, though. If you are 10-6 you won’t be able to communicate on the channel, but the radio and officer are not officially out of service.

    • Jim
      April 2, 2010, 2:11 pm | # | Reply

      Heheheh .

    • Matthew
      April 2, 2010, 5:09 pm | # | Reply

      How about 5150? That means mental case located.

      • Fnord
        April 2, 2010, 6:25 pm | #

        That would have applied to Bud’s UFO report.

      • SoWhyMe
        April 2, 2010, 7:38 pm | #

        They should all have that code written on their foreheads.

      • Fairportfan
        April 2, 2010, 9:24 pm | #

        You mean the GGs?

        That would be a hoot, since it’s a symbol on its forehead that brings the original legendary golem to life.

    • jwhouk
      April 2, 2010, 7:28 pm | # | Reply

      At least he didn’t ask to be “10-7 for 30 mikes” The dispatcher would have had to take a break from the laughter.

  20. Wafflebob
    April 2, 2010, 10:21 pm | # | Reply

    I’ll see if I can get one of my cop friends to decipher, LOL.

    And this sort of thing isn’t that uncommon. From both attractive and unattractive women. It’s the uniform more than the tight buns.

    And most cops wouldn’t go so far as to actually charge them with assaulting an officer as long as they seem relatively harmless.

  21. The Old Wolf
    April 2, 2010, 11:20 pm | # | Reply

    Today’s strip made me laugh again when I came back to it a second time…

  22. ChunLing
    April 2, 2010, 11:44 pm | # | Reply

    It made me laugh. And then I heard about some poor woman who got shot for far less.

    But yeah, Tight-buns isn’t too unhappy about this, he’s just not sure how to cover his…buns, from a legal perspective. Cause this is not how cops are supposed to meet chicks.

  23. NOTDilbert
    April 3, 2010, 1:29 am | # | Reply

    TEN codes are also used to keep nosy listener-to-scanner people from knowing their business. In some locales if you are found in possesion of a scanner during an arrest for any other crime, it goes against you. “possession of burglar’s tools” or some such. Some law enforcement offices use an inaudible digital signal now for the ten-codes, to help protect their people – but it’s a race – measure and countermeasure.

    • Fairportfan
      April 3, 2010, 1:52 am | # | Reply

      That would be an interesting case to watch, considering that it is illegal for state or local authorities to license or control the possession or use of any radio receiver, under the original Federal Communications Act.

      Which is why most states don’t even bother to outlaw speed radar detectors, or if they did, gave it up after the first or second time they got dragged into Federal court and their law was shot down.

      Last i heard, Virginia was persevering, but (at one time at least) they were using sneaky (and illegal, if seriously challenged) tactics to avoid the Federal courts.

    • Fnord
      April 3, 2010, 4:27 pm | # | Reply

      My lawyer assures me that both my Amateur Radio Operator’s license and my Commercial Radio Operator’s license pretty much has my buns covered. All I have to say is that as a radio operator under license by the federal government, I am both empowered and entrusted to seek out all sources of “harmful interference.”

      • Fairportfan
        April 4, 2010, 9:06 am | #

        Literally, under the FCA (1938, i think) anyone is allowed to own and operate any kind of receiving equipment, which includes scanners and radar detectors; HOWEVER, it is illegal to divulge or or profit from such reception.

  24. SoWhyMe
    April 3, 2010, 2:01 am | # | Reply

    I have a feeling Shelly had a few “bracers” for courage before doing this. It would go a long way to explaining her downright childish behavior.

    • Heather D
      April 3, 2010, 3:35 pm | # | Reply

      Seconded. She’s acting more than a little inebriated.

    • ziggy78eog
      April 4, 2010, 1:48 pm | # | Reply

      So, part of Shelly’s workout routine for that day also included a few “12 oz. curls”?

      • kyraineth
        April 4, 2010, 4:47 pm | #

        That sounds about right.

  25. Phixed
    April 4, 2010, 10:28 pm | # | Reply

    if OTB asked S for a time and place. do you think S would stop acting dumb?

  26. RKSAustin
    April 5, 2010, 12:00 am | # | Reply

    Have we ever seen Shelly trying to be seductive before? Ever? Her previous flirting was never this focused. It’s cute as heck, but I think this might be a Wapsi first?

  27. Black
    April 18, 2010, 1:58 pm | # | Reply

    I approve. 🙂

  28. Elkian
    July 13, 2010, 7:04 pm | # | Reply

    Okay, THAT’S funny. But also scarily Jin-like…

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