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Busted Australian Cops Steal Maiming Techniques, Fashion Tips From 'Reservoir Dogs'

STV · 10/31/08 03:15PM

The influence of Quentin Tarantino's Reservoir Dogs has finally broken out of the film-school ghetto and into the real-world application where it really belongs: law enforcement. A disbanded troupe of rogue Australian cops was exposed this week in a report citing four decades of skull-cracking work by the "Armed Offenders Squad," which had in recent years taken to amending the conventional cop uniform to include black suits, sunglasses and lyrical poetry talents in lieu of Tarantino's more confusing non-linear storytelling: