cops/donuts meme/ride the tin

[Paul Johnson]

That's what my 4 uncles on the force called it.  Yes, using the badge to
get  something free or at a discount.

Mark A. Mandel wrote:

> 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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