bullet sponge
n.— «You get three kinds of cops: The loose cannon loner who follows his own rules, the ineffective bigoted fat redneck, and the bullet sponges who couldn’t hit the broad side of a barn and have the IQ of Dan Quayle.…Noone (except maybe the bullet sponges) ever has to worry about wether the training they recieved is going to be enough in those few moments of terror they may have to face one day.» —by Adam A. Hart Usenet: alt.law-enforcement May 19, 1994. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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