Talk:Fuzzbucket

Toronto Police and their slang tags…

In Toronto, during the 1970s, the local police were often referred to as 'the fuzz.' It was a slang term that seemed in place and relevant to the 'cops,' as hairstyles (from which the term fuzz was derived) were far more noticeable among certain uniformed bodies of authority, then, than today!

The next logical step was to refer to police cars as 'Fuzz buckets.' Obviously, if the cops were referred to as the 'fuzz,' then their transportation needed renaming, as well… hence 'fuzz buckets.'

I know this to be true, as it was I, Bruce Grant, (granmar) who lived in Pickering, Ontario, and worked in Toronto, driving a taxi, at night, for Able Atlantic taxi company, in Scarborough, where my taxi number was 220 and during the daytime, starting up a company called SalComm Group of Companies at 2323 Yonge Street. I had not heard of this term used prior to this time, anywhere else in the world (referring to the police), consequently, I claim this 'invention.' or rather its source. I was sitting at a taxi post in my cab, at about 03:00 with a couple of other taxi drivers on a slow night. We were discussing our evening's results and somehow, we came to discuss the police or cops, resulting in the usual derogatory remarks and using the word FUZZ for police. Full of humour, I said that all the models of cars they used were just buckets (not good models of cars) resulting in my coining the term FUZZ BUCKETS.

But, I am totally open to any disagreements, debates, claims, arguments, modifications, etc., where others might have different informational sources, as I was not, nor have I been, exposed to any other pieces or sources of information relating to the particular subject of the Police and their transport vehicles… police cars!

To the best of my knowledge, this terms originated through me.

--Granmar (talk) 08:34, 23 April 2015 (UTC)