[Hemingway's Ghost]

With apologies to the famous bathroom wall poem:

Here I sit
Broken-hearted
Tried to sh*t
But only lost my gun and became a laughingstock the world over . . .

[Hemingway's Ghost]

Ladies and gents, it gets even better.

A local paper is reporting that the lost gun wasn't the dude's service weapon at all, but an "off duty weapon":

Plymouth police Chief Michael E. Botieri confirmed that Rogers’ gun is missing and that it was taken after he put it down inside the Cranberry Highway courthouse Monday afternoon.

Most area police carry 9 mm semi-automatic pistols such as Glocks, which can hold from 13 to 17 rounds, but Botieri could not say what kind of gun Rogers lost.

Wareham Lt. Kevin Walsh said it was an off-duty weapon, a small handgun, but was not certain of the make. It is not clear how an on-duty weapon differs from an off-duty one, and whether both are issued by the department.

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This story needs to go national.