One of them slips into a garbage bag and hurtles down the slide in full uniform – gun, badge and all.
There are well-known staples of the Fourth of July weekend: fireworks, cookouts – and having so much fun the neighbors call the police.
Two Asheville, North Carolina, police officers responded to a complaint Sunday morning over a homemade slip-and-slide allegedly blocking a road in the Oakley neighborhood. Kids and adults built the slide to cool off from the 85-degree heat; the officers quickly determined there were no issues.
“I’ m not here to break up your fun, ” Carrie Lee, one of the officers, said she told the crowd.
Then she one-upped the kids by slipping on a garbage bag and hurtling down the slide in full uniform – gun, badge and all – to the cheers and high-fives among the residents. Videos of her slide, along with fellow officer Joe Jones, were posted to Facebook and quickly went viral.
“We’ ve gone viral! Slip and slide Officers Jones & Lee were live on @morningdosetv this morning! Great start to the 4th! pic.twitter.com/9xuc0EhAvv”
– Asheville Police (@AshevillePolice) July 4,2017
“It was her idea, ” Jones said in a Twitter video afterward. “I thought I was going to be able to get out of it, because I’ m too big to fit in a trash bag.”
But the neighborhood kids were motivated to get the towering cop down the slide and produced a raft large enough for his frame. He took a ride with a young boy in tow.
“Oh, big guy!” a resident filming Jones said as he careened down the hill. Jones came to a stop in the pool.
“My butt is wet, ” he said. A resident filming the ride shot back over laughter: “But don’ t it feel good?”
Katlen Joyce Smith, who lives in the neighborhood, snapped a photo of the officers with five neighborhood kids.
“I still can’ t handle the amazing-mess of it all, ” she wrote on Facebook. “I hope the neighbor who called them saw it all go down!!”
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