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Deputy too drunk to receive Mothers Against Drunk Driving award
WFTV ^ | 11/09/15 | George Mathis

Posted on 11/09/2015 10:26:31 AM PST by Enlightened1

But in Florida, a 4-year deputy being honored by Mothers Against Drunk Driving for making more than 100 DUI arrests was too intoxicated to pick up his award.

Pinellas County deputy Michael Szeliga arrived at a statewide police training event "ready to party," according to WFLA.

Szeliga, who allegedly packed a bottle of liquor for the 2-day training event in Fort Lauderdale, was described as “staggeringly drunk” by a witness at the Friday night banquet where he was slated to receive the MADD award.

A 274-page report on the deputy’s behavior indicates he and two other officers went to the hotel pool, where they drank alcohol instead of attending DUI training. Szeliga drank and played cornhole until he saw his fellow deputies leaving training. Then he returned to his room to get ready for the awards ceremony.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Miscellaneous; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: award; deputy; deputydrunk; donutwatch; drunk; madd; wod
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1 posted on 11/09/2015 10:26:31 AM PST by Enlightened1
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To: Enlightened1

Szeliga drank and played cornhole ??????????????????????????/


2 posted on 11/09/2015 10:28:40 AM PST by Red Badger (READ MY LIPS: NO MORE BUSHES!...............)
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3 posted on 11/09/2015 10:29:40 AM PST by Attention Surplus Disorder (This space for rent.)
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To: Enlightened1

100 DUI arrests provided more than enough money to pay his salary.


4 posted on 11/09/2015 10:29:41 AM PST by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: Enlightened1

“Too drunk?” Is that a thing? (kidding)


5 posted on 11/09/2015 10:30:15 AM PST by subterfuge (TED CRUZ FOR POTUS!)
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To: Red Badger

Yes that’s what is being reported.


6 posted on 11/09/2015 10:30:37 AM PST by Enlightened1
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To: Attention Surplus Disorder

7 posted on 11/09/2015 10:32:33 AM PST by Red Badger (READ MY LIPS: NO MORE BUSHES!...............)
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To: Enlightened1

Well, he wasn’t driving drunk, was he?
Now, about the cornholing...


8 posted on 11/09/2015 10:32:37 AM PST by sparklite2 (All will become clear when it is too late to matter.)
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To: Enlightened1

Super Trooper!


9 posted on 11/09/2015 10:32:39 AM PST by slouper (LWRC SPR 223)
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To: Enlightened1
Cornhole? I had to look that one up.

Yep, definitely a drinking game!

10 posted on 11/09/2015 10:32:50 AM PST by SamAdams76 (It's time we sent a junkyard dog to Washington to run the low life out)
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To: Enlightened1

I had to look it up!.....................apparently it doesn’t mean what it meant 50 years ago...................


11 posted on 11/09/2015 10:33:49 AM PST by Red Badger (READ MY LIPS: NO MORE BUSHES!...............)
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Cornhole ... and if you don't have a beer in your non-throwing hand, you're doing it wrong.

12 posted on 11/09/2015 10:33:57 AM PST by NorthMountain ("The time has come", the Walrus said, "to talk of many things")
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Two years ago in VA Beach a police officer, who was the top revenue generator for the department because he was the top DUI writer, was arrested for DUI after leaving an ocean front bar and plowing his car into the rear end of the car in front of him and tried to leave the scene.

Karma is a bitch.

13 posted on 11/09/2015 10:34:35 AM PST by pgkdan (But as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.)
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To: Enlightened1

He went to the wrong award ceremony and was supposed to go to DAMM, Drunks Against Mad Mothers.


14 posted on 11/09/2015 10:36:49 AM PST by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: Enlightened1; al baby; Albion Wilde; Allegra; BufordP; EveningStar; Gefn; GunsareOK; JRios1968; ...
Szeliga drank and played cornhole . . .

DANG!

15 posted on 11/09/2015 10:38:01 AM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Democrats and GOP-e: a difference of degree, not philosophy)
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I’m a member of D A M M.

Drunks
Against
Mad
Mothers


16 posted on 11/09/2015 10:38:01 AM PST by Cowgirl of Justice
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To: dragnet2

Haha! Didn’t see your post!!!!

Great minds!


17 posted on 11/09/2015 10:39:22 AM PST by Cowgirl of Justice
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To: pgkdan

“Karma is a bitch. “

More objective evidence of the moral depravity of our LEOs! The Law is “for the little people, not us!”
Right now I’m waiting to see if the LEOS in Waco, Texas and Adams County, Idaho are able to cover up some obvious murders!


18 posted on 11/09/2015 10:40:50 AM PST by vette6387
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To: Enlightened1
A 274-page report on the deputy's behavior indicates he and two other officers went to the hotel pool, where they drank alcohol instead of attending DUI training.

Did it indicate that they were fired and/or prosecuted? Didn't think so.

19 posted on 11/09/2015 10:41:09 AM PST by Slings and Arrows (My music: http://hopalongginsberg.com/ | Facebook: Hopalong Ginsberg | Instagram: hopalonginsberg)
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he and two other officers went to the hotel pool, where they drank alcohol instead of attending DUI training

That WAS a training session. The idea was for them to get drunk, then go out to the parking lot and drive their cruisers into light poles so they can "experience" a DUI experience from the driver's perspective.

20 posted on 11/09/2015 10:41:11 AM PST by Cementjungle
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