Cops and Donuts

Is there a scientific basis for the affinity that law enforcement officers have for donuts?

———- from Peter Diggs of San Francisco, CA

There is and it lies in the criminal nature of pastry. Being toroidal in shape, donuts are the culinary equivalent of a snake eating its own tail, a perpetual motion machine, if you will. This violates the laws of Thermodynamics and any cop worth his badge has a gut feeling whenever a law is broken. So the next time you enter a donut shop and see a policeman chowing down on a baker’s dozen, keep a respectful distance. He’s risking his cardiovascular system to serve and protect.