Posted on 04/29/2010 5:09:55 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Dog ate out of peanut butter jar, which was then put back on the shelf for unsuspecting officers
If a Fort Lauderdale police officer offers you a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, run away.
Several high-ranking officers are under investigation and could face criminal charges for letting a dog eat out of a peanut butter jar and then placing it back on the shelf for other unsuspecting officers to use, according to the South Florida Times.
It's unclear how many officers ate the contaminated peanut butter, but the prank wasn't discovered until after a detective realized he had caught several officers talking about it on his audio recorder.
Now, what was meant to be a prank has turned into a dog-licking scandal that has created quite a rift in the Fort Lauderdale Police Department.
Det. Colin Cowderoy blew the whistle on the dog licking scandal Feb. 9.
According to the South Florida Times, the audio recording captured officers on the evening shift laughing about watching officers eating the peanut butter, which was located in the kitchenette that most officers used on their breaks. The recording also caught someone who works the night shift talking about how she was instructed to secretly video record officers on the day shift eating the dirty spread.
The video recordings and audio tapes have been seized and the Police Department's Internal Affairs division is investigating.
So far no one has been suspended or arrested, but Fort Lauderdale Police spokesman Frank Sousa said criminal charges could be coming soon.
Better than if Jesse Jackson had spit in it. Eeeeeww!
It reminds me of the old joke about the new cowboy on a cattle drive, who has sat down to dinner at the chuck wagon and is handed a plate that is dirty.
“Say,” he says to ‘Cookie’, “Mah plate is dirty!”
“It’s as clean as water can make it!”, replies Cookie.
The cowboy figures that even with the hardship of the cattle drive, that his plate is filthy. Covered in rancid grease, it is downright nasty, and puts him off his feed.
“Yew sure?”, he says. “It looks pretty foul if you ask me!”
“Well, ah didn’t ask yew!”, said Cookie. “That plate is as clean as water can make it!” Then he ponders for a few seconds.
“Here,” he says, taking the plate, “I’ll show you! Here, water! Here, boy!”
Then the trail dog trots up, sniffs the plate, then walks away.
“Thass what I said,” says Cookie. “Clean as water can make it.”
My cats steal food from my plate all the time. Edgar, who is a big male tom, loves fried rice. If I blink slowly or leave the table for any reason...
The first time it happened I threw out the plate. The second time, I tried to trim the edges of where he ate.
After about the fourth or fifth time, I gave up. Sometimes we have a fight over who gets the chicken.
My daughter’s chihuahua is getting braver by the day... he will stick his face in my plate while I am eating now. He isn’t afraid of much.
Now thats disgusting!
Whew, I was wondering why the officers would want to lick a nasty dog.
the dog thinks so too
What secrets do the K-9 patrol dog know I wonder?
Yes, looking at the way my cats clean the plates, I often wish I had a dog to do the job.
LOL! Me too.
Almost anyone can be a cop in S. Florida. Cops fired from other states know this well.
Cats go for quality over quantity.
Me too, I thought for sure we were going to hear some really awful stuff about “dog licking”.
I am very disappointed in the actual story. Shoulda just stuck w/ the headline.
"Mr. Owl, how many licks does it take to get to the center of a Florida police scandal?"
The world may never know.
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