Police Academy Recruits Must Try Not to Laugh to Pass the 'Chicken Test' | VOANews

Among the many exercises to test police recruits, the Indiana University Police Academy uses “the Chicken Test” to gauge a cadet’s demeanor. The test is to see if the cadet can remain focused. If they fail, their “punishment” is to hold the plank position. #chickentest #policeacademy #voanews

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[cyte]

Officer: "ma'am I need to see your license and registration"
Lady: *pulls out rubber chicken*
Officer: *deep breath* "This is the moment I've trained for"

[Beyking]

Officer : "you have to stay serious"
Also officer : laughs during the whole exercise

[夕阳-nh]

The officer is having the best time of his life

[thetacticalone]

I’m so glad they teach this to officers, it’s very common for a suspect to grab a rubber chicken and squeak them next to the cops challenging them not to laugh or they’ll shoot the hostages.

[ike.]

Friend: As a police Cadet, what was the hardest part of your training?

Cadet: **breathes heavily**

[rachelann]

lowkey the guy who squeaks the chicken seems like he's having the time of his life squeaking a rubber chicken in people's ears

[thefuriousfluff]

It wasn’t the sounds that got me, but the chicken slowly cresting the horizons of their faces.

[ryanstauffer]

When my dad went military school, they had their own try not to laugh challenge. He said how it worked was that people would be put into pairs and a man would walk around to each pair. If the man made one of the guys laugh, their partner would get hit in the chest with something. Whatever it was that was used to hit them wasn't entirely horrible, but it still hurt. The person would keep being hit as long as his partner kept laughing. My dad said that the man said at one point "Stop laughing! You're killing your partner!"

[CentralVAProductions]

You can tell the guy who goes around with the chicken loves his job

[Annie_w]

Parents: the training to be police were very harsh and painful.
The training:

[stuartward]

Friends: "So why did you fail police academy?"

Me: nervous sweating

[arhat]

The duck coming from behind is enough to make me laugh my ass off 😂

[hhdbhn]

Imagine being the genius who invented this test

[natzuu]

“What your job?”
“Make people laugh”
“So you’re a a comedian?”
“No... I’m the police”

[parisshelby]

I’d be the one laughing just by hearing it in someone else’s face

[kernan]

Bro it's not even the chicken noise that would get me, it'd be the rubber chicken slowly creeping into my vision. I'd crumble on the spot

[AtlasMays]

Having it slowly enter your field of view must be an incredible experience

[visualsofvivek]

Police recruits *"train themselves very hard to join police academy"*

The chicken: _i'm about to destroy these guys whole career_

[BATMAN_]

Police: Stop right there criminal scum
Robber: *Pulls out a rubber chicken*
Police: Vietnam Flashbacks

[maximusstorm]

1:37 - This dude was on a totally different planet.