COLORADO, USA — Friday morning at the Colorado State Patrol's office was intense.
What started as a known day of celebration for law enforcement agencies quickly turned into a heated battle for two troopers over — what else: a box of donuts.
The fight was intense, but luckily both troopers made it through, and they each got a donut (or two, or three...) out of the deal.
We're kidding of, course.
That's actually the description of a video CSP posted to Twitter Friday in honor of National Doughnut Day. (Check out that video in its entirety below).
(Yes, "doughnut" is the proper spelling, but people on the inter-webs rarely spell it that way. For the purposes of this article, we'll go with the more common spelling of "donut.")
Law enforcement all over the state have been posting funny videos and other various forms of self-deprecating humor in honor of the day.
We rounded up several posts from agencies across Colorado. (Because it's Friday and you need to laugh.)
Jefferson County Sheriff's Office had a critical rescue to make.
Deputies were darn near on the verge of a meltdown when their precious cargo got stuck in a tree. Good thing the fire department was able to help them out!
The Aurora Police Department kind of went "Robert Frost" with their ode to National Donut Day.
APD had a lovely poem celebrating all different kinds of donuts — glazed, powdered sugar, cream-filled, jelly...all good — as long as they get inside their belly.
The Denver Police Department was like, "Um yeah..."
As they put it: Every day is National Donut Day.
The Colorado Springs Police Department called today their "Super Bowl."
Their clear (maybe even a bit awkward) love for donuts is evidenced on Twitter. (There's a bit of "bronuts" action going on there.)
BONUS: The Cheyenne Police Department shows us how donuts came to be.
Turns out, they gave the US the edge it needed to defeat the Soviets during the Cold War. (This isn't actually true...The Smithsonian has an article outlining the history of the donut, which came into its own during World War I, when women brought them to soldiers on the front lines.)
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