Officer Friendly
Sep23
I don’t know if I’d ever heard of an “Officer Friendly” before I came up with Sharron, but it just seemed right. As far as I know there’s several instances where the name was adopted for school programs, but not for a comic. Like Jaz, Sharron’s turned out to be more popular than I expected.
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"Roxanne Jackson?" The police officer extended a hand to Rocky and introduced herself. "I'm Officer Sharron Friendly. We spoke on the phone."
"A pleasure," Roxanne said in her southern drawl. "But I reckon you would have called if you had good news."
"I've had to deliever worse news," Sharron said. "The good news is that your grandfather did check into a shelter before the storm."
"And the bad news?" Rocky asked.
"No one knows when he left or where he went," said Sharron.
"A pleasure," Roxanne said in her southern drawl. "But I reckon you would have called if you had good news."
"I've had to deliever worse news," Sharron said. "The good news is that your grandfather did check into a shelter before the storm."
"And the bad news?" Rocky asked.
"No one knows when he left or where he went," said Sharron.
I believe there were some PSA ads for him to go with the school programs back in the… ?’60’s?
It’s also been used in several TV shows to refer to an unknown cop.
Program was a little bigger than that: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Officer_Friendly
…Man times have changed. Now they send School Resource Officers to beat up the kids.