http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paddywagon
>From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. A paddy wagon is a vehicle used by police to transport large groups of people who are arrested. It may be descended from the archaic racial epithet "Paddy", meaning any Irish person. A common means of demeaning the Irish is to assert that they were frequently arrested, particularly due to excessive alcohol consumption and the concomitant disruptive behavior--thus, a wagon for carrying "Paddies" became a paddy wagon. Another possibility is that the name denotes the police who in New York were (still are?) overwhelmingly Irish for a time. ---- You are receiving this because you are subscribed to the list named "UnivCity." To unsubscribe or for archive information, see <http://www.purple.com/list.html>.
