cops/donuts meme

[Mark A. Mandel]

Paul Johnson <paulzjoh at MTNHOME.COM> wrote:
     >>>>>
It seemed to me that, while  growing up in Chicago during the '40s/'50s
that cops rode the tin everywhere they could.  Lunch rooms, coffee
shops, bars (hat off, but in uniform, drinking from coffee cups)
  <<<<<

"Ride the tin" is a new one on me. = 'take stuff for free', tin = badge?

-- Mark
[This text prepared with Dragon NaturallySpeaking.]

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