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| Always Blow on the Pie! | |
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| Topic Started: Oct 29 2009, 06:05 AM (21 Views) | |
| Sayf Udeen Ismaeel | Oct 29 2009, 06:05 AM Post #1 |
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[flas=500,415]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P2oVTULyWZk[/flash] 'Always blow on the pie' hit for Kiwi cop A DEADPAN joke about the safety of eating overheated meat pies has catapulted a Kiwi cop into internet super-stardom. YouTube and Facebook can't seem to get enough of police dog-handler Guy Baldwin, who was captured on camera dishing out unusual advice to a late-night carjacker caught in the act. When the teenage criminal claimed hunger as an alibi, saying he was just on his way to the petrol station to buy a meat pie, the sergeant came up with this quick-witted reply. "It will be thermo-nuclear - always blow on the pie. Safer communities together," Sgt Baldwin said, using the long-standing New Zealand Police slogan. "Three o'clock in the morning, that pie has probably been in the warming drawer for about 12 hours." The deadpan delivery of the joke, which was sadly missed by the young offender, has captured the imagination of the online world. More than 175,000 people have viewed the YouTube clip, which screened on the Kiwi cop show Police 10-7 this week, and it has been a sensation on Facebook. It has given rise to rap songs, music remixes and even a South Park-style homage. The line "always blow on the pie" is now printed on T-shirts on sale across New Zealand and is looking set to become a part of the Kiwi vocabulary. Americans, now well-versed in Kiwi humour thanks to the musical TV duo Flight of the Conchords, are among the most enthusiastic of Sergeant Baldwin's new fans. The policeman, for his part, told TVNZ this week it was meant as a joke to lighten the mood. "As a policeman if we can make people laugh then great because in reality what we do isn't funny," Sgt Baldwin said. "I was speaking to a chap we had been looking for... I was making up conversation, using a bit of humour. Unfortunately, he didn't get it." He admitted he was a bit bamboozled by his sudden fame, especially as the footage was shot five years ago. And he's modest about what it means, saying that this year's gimmick T-shirts bearing his now-famous line will be next year's house painting garb. Meanwhile he's been getting "plenty of stick" from his cop colleagues. "My God, you'd think he was a bloody celebrity or something," one of his colleagues said, laughing. "He sure thinks he is, in his own little head." http://www.news.com.au/story/0,27574,26276016-23109,00.html |
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