While it’s perfectly reasonable to make every effort to protect kids at Halloween, this Florida police program is kind of a headscratcher.
Understandable, but unfortunate name.
Published: 07 November 2007 1:36 AM UTCPosted in: GB, MISC
While it’s perfectly reasonable to make every effort to protect kids at Halloween, this Florida police program is kind of a headscratcher.
I think that is perfectly fair. Child molesters and rapists should really have less rights than that to begin with anyway.
Not my point.
It’s unfortunate they decided to call it after, y’know, Ghostbusters.
Next year I hear they will be cracking down on Halloween pranking. It’s called Operation: Goonies. And the Goonies taskforce will work in tandem with Operation: Fright Night and Operation: Tootsie.
So does this mean Ghostbuster is street slang for child molester? Im so confused now… Would have been more apt for them to call the ‘entity’ Operation Men in Black… a little bit closer, no?
Exactly – I’m not sure what group meeting they had to decide to call it Operation: Ghostbusters, but like you, I’m confused.
Operation: Boogieman, something, anything. But why Ghostbusters?
It’s a headscratcher.
They are the ‘busters taking out the evil demons of the neighborhoods? I don’t get how you guy’s are seeing this wrong. When I first read it, it made since considering they are monitoring the evil which is pretty much what the ghostbusters do.
Well, think of it like this: the b@st@rd sex offenders are the ghosts and the cops are the Ghostbusters. They’re making sure that the ghosts they’ve already busted once don’t come on the screen again. I agree that the name needs work, but it makes sense and is a sort of honor if you look at it.
Sure, I do get that. By why do it? Why promote it using the Ghostbusters name? It could have been an operation without a name. It could have been a generic or non-pop culture name, like Operation: Safety. But they choose Ghostbusters.
Presumably it made sense to them, being Halloween, but to a fan, it just seems like it doesn’t fit.
Particularly, as ever year, more and more fans dress up and participate in the revelry, as part of the fantasy of protecting the world from ghosts.
It would be just as weird to me if they were used to promote good oral hygiene, or a shoplifting crackdown.
I don’t know that I find it an honor. Ghostbusters aren’t police. So, for the police to use the Ghostbusters as the face of something as unsavory a subject as sex offences, don’t sit right with me.
But that’s just me.
And you can say “bastard.”
I’m not sure why it exactly bugs anybody considering they are just using a name of a movie you just so happen to like. And so what if they use it for an “unsavory” subject? I think its sorta neat myself but thats just my personal opinion.
Yeah, but why Ghostbusters, why not Operation:Monster Squad or Operation:Buffy The Vampire Slayer or named after any other film/tv show where the main characters battle supernatural beings????
in New york and Los angeles, its not called no “operation bla bla bla” its just a standard thing that happens on halloween to keep child rapists and molesters in doors. it does not need no name.
“Operation: Boogieman” and “Operation: Monster Squad” seem like the perfect names for such a task (“Monster Squad” would be my preference), if you feel like cribbing a name from a pop culture film franchise. Ghostbusters makes no sense as a name because sex offenders aren’t ghosts, which by definition, is what a Ghostbuster busts. So whether the name is used in reference to the Ghostbusters films or not, it just plain doesn’t fit with the task they’re assigning it to.