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Entry: I Can Break These Cuffs

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h2. About

*I Can Break These Cuffs* is a catchphrase associated with an episode of Cops where a man with dwarfism attempted to break out of his handcuffs. It has inspired several video remixes, and YTMND pages.

h2. Origin
Background

American television show "Cops" follows various police officials as they do their job. The American television show started 1989 and has yet to be cancelled. Though the show has encountered "Copsplenty of characters";:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GD9XC_LCcDw over it's run but one character stuck out.

On February 17th, 2007 an episode entitled "Tough Takedowns Special Edition"
; followswe meet a black man with dwarfism who had been "previously arrested":http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIr7SrHafkU for solicting money. Officer Evan Rosenthal saw him waving down cars and wanted to see if he was back solicting. The man fled and Officer Rosenthal had to chase him, climbing a pole, and doing backflips. Eventually the man was put in handcuffs, resulting in the now famous line.

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The video on <a href=http://www.milkandcookies.com/link/58617/detail/>Milk and Cookies</a> also shows the
police officers during their daily patrols. On February 17th, 2007 an episode entitled "Tough Takedowns Special Edition", a man with dwarfism who had been "previously arrested":http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIr7SrHafkU for solicting money. Officer Evan Rosenthal saw him waving down cars and wanted to see if he was asking for money. The man fled, climbed a pole, and performed a backflip. Eventually the man was put in handcuffs, resulting in the now famous line.

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The video on <a href=http://www.milkandcookies.com/link/58617/detail/>Milk and Cookies</a> also shows the police
officer trying to help the man find a job.

h2. Y T M N D fad

The line really took off on YTMND. The first site was called "I CAN BREAK THESE CUFFS":http://youcantbreakthosecuffs.ytmnd.com/ and it was created by user Nitros14 on the 1st of May 2007. Alas, the fad didn't catch on until mcroix created "You can't break those cuffs":http://icanbreakthesecuffs.ytmnd.com/ in June of the year after the first site. The first parody was "you CAN break those cuffs":http://crackheadsupersaiyan.ytmnd.com/ by sghawkeyes.

h3. Notable sites

"http://thismanisamidgetifyoudidntknow.ytmnd.com/":http://thismanisamidgetifyoudidntknow.ytmnd.com/

"http://cuffs.ytmnd.com/":http://cuffs.ytmnd.com/

"http://icanbreakethisstockade.ytmnd.com/":http://icanbreakethisstockade.ytmnd.com/

"http://ibrokethesecuffs.ytmnd.com/":http://ibrokethesecuffs.ytmnd.com/

"http://thesecuffs.ytmnd.com/":http://thesecuffs.ytmnd.com/

"http://crustmnd.ytmnd.com/":http://crustmnd.ytmnd.com/

Or watch many of them one after another "here.":http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_AjLS10MoQ (Embedding disabled)

h2. Media

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