Update: Chief Carmichael reported the cost as $3533.41. So the winner is longtime commenter “Fishwrapper” at $3768.79, runner up is Amy Adams at $3137. Congrats to you both, please contact our swag office with a mailing address, or if you prefer the location of a dead-drop site far from security cameras.
For the record it’s not actually paint, it’s some sort of peel off vinyl. Better than what once covered the roof of my 74 El Camino, I hope.
Update: UOPD Chief Matt Carmichael just called in to the UO M hotline with the answer, to the penny. I want to thank him for
a) Fixing the famously problematic UO police department, and in short order too.
b) Offering to explain why they pimped out their ride, and then just laughing and giving me the cost when I told him “thanks, I’ve already heard enough crap today”.
I don’t think I’m giving too much away by saying the cost (x100 to get rid of the decimal) is a prime number. Feel free to revise and resubmit your guesses. I’ll keep the contest open until Noon tomorrow. Sorry Matt you’re not eligible, and couldn’t they have thrown in some hubcaps?
9/26/2017: Submit your entries as pseudonymous comments. The winner will be whoever is closest to the number given by UOPD spokesperson Kelly McIver:
Hi Kelly, I’m writing as UO Matters guy, wondering if you can tell me how much the paint job for this truck cost: https://uomatters.com/2017/09/bloated-uo-police-department-has-money-to-burn.html
Thanks, Bill Harbaugh
UO Employees with BANNER access or inside knowledge not eligible to win.
9/21/2017: UO Police Department’s bloated budget has money to burn on Duck crap.
Thanks to Dog for the evidence:
“Shared sacrifices”…right?
Prefer this to the all black tactical look.
Why do we even have these?
$1500
$2,850
Revising my guess to $3137.00
I’m no Bayesian, but nice updating of your priors. The Prime Number Theorem shows that the probability N is a prime number is about 1 / log(N). So the news that the cost is a prime should indeed shift your best guess towards the right of your prior probability distribution, as those higher numbers are now more probable.
Also, I am a big fan of “The Price Is Right” and I heard the crowd cheering as I edited my guess.
$8,010
“There are no records responsive to this request.”
$3,768.79 – just a WAG
Put me down for $7,500. I’m sure the banner provider saw a mark when he saw one.
why don;t we get these instead?
they belong at a University far more than painted Duck Crap
https://www.livescience.com/60525-albert-einstein-letters-for-auction.html?utm_source=notification
Should I start a second contest proposing an *academic* paint-job for the UOPD to use? Einstein letters being Dog’s entry.
I think he was proposing that we obtain the actual letters and use the UOPD vehicles as roaming museum displays. It’s not like they would get stolen or anything.
http://registerguard.com/rg/news/local/35720276-75/thief-takes-uo-police-car-running-with-keys-inside.html.csp
I’d like to see a School of Music and Dance van, for use by the Oregon Bach Festival during the summer. They could use gigantic “redacted” black rectangles all the way around, which would be artistically thrifty.
$54.20 to buy the Lego set the truck came from
The total package price would be more interesting than just the paint job. Also who it was bought from and who did any and all of the custom after market work, and invoices for all.
Also why a dual cab pickup? To cary the kegs back to HQ?
$5909.87 (a little under twice what it should have cost and prime when x100).
Are you suggesting the truck is for patrolling the Autzen parking lots during home games and then transporting MIP evidence back to the station for study? The paint job is just camouflage, to blend in with the tailgaters? There’s an easy way to confirm this hypothesis. The next time you see the Duck Truck, someone run a red light and tell us if the siren goes quack-quack-quack.
And for the record, while I’ve heard lots about the UOPDs earlier, funnier days, there’s not a hint that the current chief would tolerate stealing beer from our undergraduates and loyal alumni families.
How many uopd bucks in a Helfritch? I’m pretty sure both made uomatters because of some bowl drama.