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Tmaster148
12/30/19 10:42:27 PM
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https://www.cbsnews.com/news/mcdonalds-junction-city-controversy-kansas-police-officer-fabricated-story-about-being-served-mcdonalds-coffee/

A Kansas police officer "fabricated" a story that a McDonald's employee wrote an expletive on his coffee cup over the weekend, Herington Police Chief Brian Hornaday said Monday. Hornaday said the officer, who no longer works for the department, had originally claimed he had been given a coffee cup on Saturday that had "f***ing pig" written on it.

"We found that McDonald's and its employees did not have anything whatsoever to do with this incident. This was completely and solely fabricated by a Herington police officer who is no longer employed with our agency," Hornaday said at a press conference.

The officer, who has not been identified, was with the Herington Police Department for only two months, Hornaday said.

Hornaday added that his investigation concluded the accusation "was meant to be a joke," and said the officer "should have come forward immediately ... prior to this becoming a nationwide incident."

"This is absolutely a black eye on law enforcement," Hornaday said. "I hope [the former officer] understands the magnitude of the black eye that this gives the law enforcement profession from coast to coast. None of us can be excluded from that."

Dana Cook, the owner of a McDonald's in Junction City, said in a written statement after the allegation was made that the store had video showing it couldn't have been an employee. Cook did not speculate at the time about who may have written the words.

"My McDonald's have the utmost respect for all members of law enforcement and the military and were troubled by the accusation made," Cook wrote in the statement. "We thoroughly reviewed our security video from every angle, which clearly shows the words were not written by one of our employees. We look forward to working with Chief Hornaday as he continues his investigation."

The alleged incident gained attention after Hornaday said in a Facebook post, which has since been removed, that one of his officers was handed the cup Saturday when he went through the McDonald's drive through in Junction City.

Hornaday wrote the officer was offered a "free lunch" and that "A Big Mac and large fries doesn't make up for it." The post included a picture of the cup. "This behavior has been, is and always will be wrong," Hornaday said in the post.

"There is a whole lot more to the story than what is being portrayed online. Hopefully, McDonald's will follow through with showing me the video that didn't exist when I met with them Saturday night," Hornaday told the station, adding, "It doesn't appear this matter is going to be resolved anytime soon."
After Monday's discovery, Hornaday said he would be more careful with how he uses social media in the future.

"I sincerely hope it doesn't ever happen again, but I assure you that I assure you that I will often question my decision about posting anything on social media because of the impact that it could have, mostly because everything we do, everything we say in the public eye is always brought into question," he said.

Capt. David Gilbert of the sheriff's office in Geary County, where Junction City is located, said in an email Monday prior to the announcement the incident had been fabricated that it is "saddening to see this incident in our community no matter who wrote on the officer's cup." The statement, which also was posted to Facebook, added that "WE will stand together as a community while the incident investigation is completed."

Other restaurant chains have also attracted scrutiny over claims that police officers were mistreated. Earlier this month, Starbucks apologized after two police officers in Riverside, California, were allegedly refused service at one of its cafes. In November, Starbucks also apologized after a server in Glenpool, Oklahoma, allegedly wrote "PIG" on a police officer's cups.

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squee
12/30/19 10:43:17 PM
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Tmaster148 posted...
"This is absolutely a black eye on law enforcement,"

interesting choice of phrase there
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Shablagoo
12/30/19 10:43:45 PM
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Talk about a fuckin persecution complex. The last time a cop did this (recently, I might add), at a Starbucks, the barista even got fired for it IIRC.

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RickyTheBAWSE
12/30/19 10:43:57 PM
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Freddie_Mercury
12/30/19 10:44:06 PM
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Medussa
12/30/19 10:44:17 PM
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everyone, please. I beg you. the world sucks way too much already to keep making shit like this up. I don't care who you are, what you do, or who you vote for. stop.

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darkprince45
12/30/19 10:45:51 PM
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Shablagoo posted...
Talk about a fuckin persecution complex. The last time a cop did this (recently, I might add), at a Starbucks, the barista even got fired for it IIRC.
Its a thing happening everywhere. Just recently, a black kid lied about nazis calling him slurs. As well as a white kid doing the same thing the opposite way

anyways, looks like he was a cop for 2 a months and rightfully already fired.

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12/30/19 10:46:42 PM
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CM_Ponch
12/30/19 10:47:40 PM
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squee posted...
interesting choice of phrase there
Have you never heard that phrase before?

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squee
12/30/19 10:48:06 PM
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CM_Ponch posted...
Have you never heard that phrase before?

no. I heard of 'black mark'
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Shablagoo
12/30/19 10:49:29 PM
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darkprince45 posted...
Its a thing happening everywhere. Just recently, a black kid lied about nazis calling him slurs.

You-

did you

did you just

did you just go full mask-off?

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BeyondWalls
12/30/19 10:50:50 PM
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Cop plays prank on boss.
Dumbass boss posts it on Facebook.
Cop is like, "Um....."
Dumbass boss realizes he fucked up, fires cop.

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darkprince45
12/30/19 10:51:12 PM
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Shablagoo posted...
You-

did you

did you just

did you just go full mask-off?
What? Anyways
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/black-girl-who-said-3-white-boys-cut-her-dreadlocks-n1060411


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monkeysRfunny
12/30/19 10:51:41 PM
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darkprince45 posted...
Its a thing happening everywhere. Just recently, a black kid lied about nazis calling him slurs. As well as a white kid doing the same thing the opposite way

anyways, looks like he was a cop for 2 a months and rightfully already fired.
Dont forget that girl who lied about her classmates cutting her dreads. That paper really showed their bias there. The initial story mentioned white classmates cutting a black girls hair, but when she admitted to lying, they removed race from the title and instead used Virginia girl.

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RickyTheBAWSE
12/30/19 10:53:11 PM
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darkprince45 posted...
Shablagoo posted...
Talk about a fuckin persecution complex. The last time a cop did this (recently, I might add), at a Starbucks, the barista even got fired for it IIRC.
Its a thing happening everywhere. Just recently, a black kid lied about nazis calling him slurs. As well as a white kid doing the same thing the opposite way

anyways, looks like he was a cop for 2 a months and rightfully already fired.


lies set a bad precedent. many relatively innocent people have been given life sentences and death row because cops lie. these are supposed to be professionals, but it's the culture.
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Shablagoo
12/30/19 10:53:30 PM
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darkprince45 posted...
What? Anyways
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/black-girl-who-said-3-white-boys-cut-her-dreadlocks-n1060411

Oh I gotcha, way you worded it was like we should be worried about some nazis getting hurt by lies about them when nazis would/do use slurs against black people anyway.

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RickyTheBAWSE
12/30/19 10:54:32 PM
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monkeysRfunny posted...
darkprince45 posted...
Its a thing happening everywhere. Just recently, a black kid lied about nazis calling him slurs. As well as a white kid doing the same thing the opposite way

anyways, looks like he was a cop for 2 a months and rightfully already fired.
Dont forget that girl who lied about her classmates cutting her dreads. That paper really showed their bias there. The initial story mentioned white classmates cutting a black girls hair, but when she admitted to lying, they removed race from the title and instead used Virginia girl.


oh, is this a "Blacks lie too" thread now?

"cops still lying, eh?
"but Black people!"
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darkprince45
12/30/19 10:56:53 PM
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RickyTheBAWSE posted...
oh, is this a "Blacks lie too" thread now?

"cops still lying, eh?
"but Black people!"
No, everybody is doing it. That was one of two examples

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Anteaterking
12/30/19 10:57:47 PM
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ScazarMeltex
12/30/19 10:58:23 PM
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Protecting and serving.

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monkeysRfunny
12/30/19 10:58:24 PM
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RickyTheBAWSE posted...
oh, is this a "Blacks lie too" thread now?

"cops still lying, eh?
"but Black people!"
Its a lol Ricky is having melty getting super defensive topic now by the looks of it

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Shablagoo
12/30/19 10:58:44 PM
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darkprince45 posted...
No, everybody is doing it. That was one of two examples

Heres the thing though. How many cops are there in the nation vs. how many non-cops are there? You gave us 2 examples against our 2 examples yet you are drawing from a far smaller pool of people.

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darkprince45
12/30/19 11:01:59 PM
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Shablagoo posted...
Heres the thing though. How many cops are there in the nation vs. how many non-cops are there? You gave us 2 examples against our 2 examples yet you are drawing from a far smaller pool of people.
well thats par for the course of everything. So . Theres always going to be asshole cops just like literally every other profession in the world. Besides putting out robots with 0 discretions, its bound to happen. But he was fired right away. What else can you do

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RickyTheBAWSE
12/30/19 11:03:55 PM
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hopefully he doesn't get hired at another department. it's sad to be so nonchalant about an entire corrupt culture.
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Shablagoo
12/30/19 11:05:18 PM
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I looked it up. There are approx. 750,000-800,000 sworn officers in the U.S. vs. 326.2 million non-police citizens.

So lets do the math.

2/850,000 = 0.00000235

2/326,200,000 = 6.131208e-9

can someone better at math than I am tell us how much larger of a percentage that is? I think we get the idea but itd be neat to know an actual number.

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darkprince45
12/30/19 11:07:33 PM
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Shablagoo posted...
I looked it up. There are approx. 750,000-800,000 sworn officers in the U.S. vs. 326.2 million non-police citizens.

So lets do the math.

2/850,000 = 0.00000235

2/326,200,000 = 6.131208e-9
Okay, then look for the same two groups and how many occurrences this situations has happened for each group. Lets see the difference in numbers. I bet you theres wwaaaaaaay more instances of regular people doing it

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Shablagoo
12/30/19 11:08:39 PM
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darkprince45 posted...
well thats par for the course of everything. So . Theres always going to be asshole cops just like literally every other profession in the world. Besides putting out robots with 0 discretions, its bound to happen. But he was fired right away. What else can you do

I was just mainly sad that the Starbucks employee got fired over something they didnt do.

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Anteaterking
12/30/19 11:09:10 PM
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darkprince45 posted...
What else can you do

Honestly, one thing we can do is stop caring when a random cop gets their fee-fees hurt. That's why people fake these stories. Because they want the national attention that other stories like this have gotten.

Replace "cop" with "assistant manager of local business" and it isn't news.

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gunplagirl
12/30/19 11:09:27 PM
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Shablagoo posted...
Talk about a fuckin persecution complex. The last time a cop did this (recently, I might add), at a Starbucks, the barista even got fired for it IIRC.

The trans woman who was supervisor or manager for that shift got fired despite going above and beyond what company regulation was. She was made into the scapegoat for the police getting it to become national attention.

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RickyTheBAWSE
12/30/19 11:09:55 PM
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how can people compare an ethnicity to a profession, then conclude that they equate each other?
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darkprince45
12/30/19 11:10:13 PM
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Shablagoo posted...
I was just mainly sad that the Starbucks employee got fired over something they didnt do.
Thats a different story

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Duncanwii
12/30/19 11:10:30 PM
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Anteaterking posted...
Honestly, one thing we can do is stop caring when a random cop gets their fee-fees hurt. That's why people fake these stories. Because they want the national attention that other stories like this have gotten.

Replace "cop" with "assistant manager of local business" and it isn't news.
The thing is the average person respects cops. It's only on places like here and reddit that the majority dislikes them.

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Shablagoo
12/30/19 11:10:32 PM
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darkprince45 posted...
Okay, then look for the same two groups and how many occurrences this situations has happened for each group. Lets see the difference in numbers. I bet you theres wwaaaaaaay more instances of regular people doing it

IDK what makes you certain of that, I just ran the numbers after all. You can provide that evidence if youd like, though.

But regardless, that girl who lied about her hair getting cut isnt getting paid by the state to do it.

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monkeysRfunny
12/30/19 11:11:16 PM
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Shablagoo posted...
I looked it up. There are approx. 750,000-800,000 sworn officers in the U.S. vs. 326.2 million non-police citizens.

So lets do the math.

2/850,000 = 0.00000235

2/326,200,000 = 6.131208e-9

can someone better at math than I am tell us how much larger of a percentage that is? I think we get the idea but itd be neat to know an actual number.
If you don't see why this logic is extremely stupid, then I don't know what to say...

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DrunkieBrewster
12/30/19 11:12:08 PM
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Shablagoo posted...
darkprince45 posted...
Okay, then look for the same two groups and how many occurrences this situations has happened for each group. Lets see the difference in numbers. I bet you theres wwaaaaaaay more instances of regular people doing it

IDK what makes you certain of that, I just ran the numbers after all. You can provide that evidence if youd like, though.

But regardless, that girl who lied about her hair getting cut isnt getting paid by the state to do it.


That last part is the part they keep conveniently glossing over as if it's an insignificant point.
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darkprince45
12/30/19 11:13:41 PM
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DrunkieBrewster posted...
That last part is the part they keep conveniently glossing over as if it's an insignificant point.
Is it really? New hire cop for two months, does something stupid, gets fired for it

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RickyTheBAWSE
12/30/19 11:14:34 PM
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darkprince45 posted...
DrunkieBrewster posted...
That last part is the part they keep conveniently glossing over as if it's an insignificant point.
Is it really? New hire cop for two months, does something stupid, gets fired for it


isolated incident #58273754729364817
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Anteaterking
12/30/19 11:14:35 PM
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Duncanwii posted...
The thing is the average person respects cops. It's only on places like here and reddit that the majority dislikes them.

That doesn't make it news though. You can respect cops without thinking that any disrespect anyone shows them is worthy of coverage.

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darkprince45
12/30/19 11:19:17 PM
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RickyTheBAWSE posted...
isolated incident #58273754729364817
Is it really not though? There are over 100 million police contacts a year

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lil_GoodOlJr_69
12/30/19 11:20:08 PM
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Doesnt matter if it was a hoax, jussi..... I mean the cop was spreading awareness about people discriminating against his brothers
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Intangible
12/30/19 11:22:38 PM
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No shocker here. They've gotten sloppy because they're used to getting away with these things. Even their new hires get in on the action because it's so normal. Glad he's fired and hope he doesn't get transferred.

The strawman arguments and false equivalent comparisons are also not unexpected. Just disappointing.


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dave_is_slick
12/30/19 11:55:11 PM
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squee posted...
no. I heard of 'black mark'
You've seriously never heard of "black eye"? I call bullshit.

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dave_is_slick
12/31/19 12:01:06 AM
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monkeysRfunny posted...
then I don't know what to say...
Well that's obvious since you didn't even attempt to explain what was wrong with it to begin with.

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Shablagoo
12/31/19 12:03:42 AM
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gunplagirl posted...
The trans woman who was supervisor or manager for that shift got fired despite going above and beyond what company regulation was. She was made into the scapegoat for the police getting it to become national attention.

Jesus. Youd think Starbucks would rectify the situation once they learned the truth, but I cant find any updates.


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YugiNoob
12/31/19 12:06:40 AM
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dave_is_slick posted...
Well that's obvious since you didn't even attempt to explain what was wrong with it to begin with.
Comparing a static number of incidents (especially when it's just two examples) rather than the actual amount is dumb af. That was pretty obvious to me.

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ultimate reaver
12/31/19 12:07:37 AM
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No shit

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Shablagoo
12/31/19 12:09:55 AM
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YugiNoob posted...
Comparing a static number of incidents (especially when it's just two examples) rather than the actual amount is dumb af. That was pretty obvious to me.

I asked @darkprince45 to compile these statistics for me with the implication that I would adjust the variables in the equation. So were just waiting on that for now.

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YugiNoob
12/31/19 12:13:23 AM
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Shablagoo posted...
I asked @darkprince45 to compile these statistics for me with the implication that I would adjust the variables in the equation. So were just waiting on that for now.
There's literally no reason for anyone to go that much out of their way to compile all that data for a video game forum. I'm not going to pitch in either; I just wanted to say that it was quite obvious as to why your comparison was so poor.

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cjsdowg
12/31/19 11:06:47 AM
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Will Republicans talk about this for ever like they did with that black actor who lied about being attacked ?

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