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Beavis and Butthead lab n. “There was a level of sophistication here,” he said. “It’s not just a Beavis and Butthead lab.” [English Drugs Police Slang] [full cite] (Mar. 19, 2007)

Beavis and Butthead lab n. But most labs are much smaller—so-called “stove top” or “Beavis and Butthead” labs run by small-scale dealers in suburban areas. [English Drugs Police Slang] [full cite] (Mar. 19, 2007)

Beavis and Butthead lab n. In police jargon, the lab on Waverly Lake was a classic “Beavis and Butthead lab,” not much different from any of the small-scale operations that Minnesota cops now bust on a daily basis. [English Drugs Police Slang] [full cite] (Mar. 19, 2007)

Beavis and Butthead lab n. The lab appeared to be small, a “mom and pop or a Beavis and Butthead lab,” Burden said, and was probably used to supply meth to just Lobue and a couple other users. [English Drugs Police Slang] [full cite] (Mar. 19, 2007)

Beavis-and-Butthead lab n. The amount of “hazardous wastes” from an average Beavis-and-Butthead lab is relatively small. For “Nazi method” labs, such as the ones that are found in the Dakotas, it’s even smaller. [English Drugs Police Slang] [full cite] (Mar. 19, 2007)

bladed stance n. I’m not a cop, but a bladed stance is where, rather than being directly lined up and with both feet the same distance from who you’re facing, your body is angled with one foot further away than the other. One reason some people in higher-risk situations do that is to be in a more stable stance to keep from being knocked on their ass if the person they’re addressing decides to attack them. [English Police Jargon] [full cite] (Dec. 17, 2007)

blue canary n. Col. Rich Greenwood, UHP deputy director, said the troopers who arrive at an accident first are usually the ones in the most danger. He said the program will prevent those first-responding officers from becoming victims. “Officers will no longer be a blue canary.” [English Firefighting Police Slang] [full cite] (Jun. 3, 2006)

blue canary n. The report says the department does not outfit all its vehicles with gas detectors or binoculars, which would enable rescue workers to identify a hazardous material by a placard from a safe distance. Instead, some rescue workers say they would use the “blue canary” system, relying on the reactions of other personnel. “It’s a terrible thing, but if the police officers are falling over next to the scene, then you know not to go near it,” one medic said. [English Firefighting Police Slang] [full cite] (Jun. 3, 2006)

blue canary n. “This is a different kind of training, because usually an officer rushes right in. Here, we get them to approach slowly and size up the situation,” said Chinn, a former narcotics officer who first got anti-terrorism training to deal with threats from Colombian drug lords. “We don’t want firefighters to use police officers like blue canaries. If a firefighter counts down until he finds the last police officer, that’s not a good thing."…"Identify. Isolate. Notify. Stay uphill, upwind, upstream and at least 300 feet away.…Don’t be a blue canary. Don’t be a coptometer.” [English Firefighting Police Slang] [full cite] (Jun. 3, 2006)

blue canary n. As miners once used caged canaries to warn them of poisonous gas underground, the greatest fear of these two streetwise veterans is a “blue canary,” a police officer or emergency worker who unknowingly walks into his or her demise. [English Firefighting Police Slang] [full cite] (Jun. 3, 2006)

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