"All right, you scrawny beanpoles: becoming a cop is not something that happens overnight. It takes one solid weekend of training to get that badge"
Posted on 06/03/2004 4:21:58 AM PDT by ForeverPure
Off-duty deputy having a beer videotaped
Staff report Last update: 03 June 2004
BUNNELL -- A videotape submitted anonymously to a local television station shows the Flagler County sheriff's chief deputy drinking alcohol off duty in a public park where drinking is prohibited.
Sheriff's Office spokeswoman Debra Johnson said Wednesday the 90-minute tape showed Mark Maronski in civilian clothes drinking one beer at the Flagler County Fairgrounds with other adults after an adult softball game and driving home in his personal vehicle.
She acknowledged the park doesn't allow drinking.
The official Sheriff's Office response was short and direct:
"Sheriff Manfre has counseled his personnel concerning appropriate off-duty behavior. At this time we are concerned about the mental well-being of this person in our county who is apparently trying to secretly videotape activities at the county recreational areas."
-- Michael Reed
Regional, mostly in the Pennsylvania area down into Maryland, but they're slowly expanding. Problem is, Pennsylvanians drink it as fast as they brew it.
"All right, you scrawny beanpoles: becoming a cop is not something that happens overnight. It takes one solid weekend of training to get that badge"
I would love to try some.
That is a myth.
Which part...the "myth" of the overweight slob of a cop slamming donuts into his piehole, or the "myth" that cops actually have any intellectual ability.
I was at a Middle School basketball game on a Friday night. At halftime, I stepped out for a cigarette. Being a polite person, I walked away from the crowd so as not to offend anyone. (Although not much of a crowd at the game). Someone noticed (Tattletail, tattletail, hang your britches on a nail!) , because soon thereafter I saw a Deputy Sheriff walking towards me.
He asked if I would go to the other side of the parking lot to smoke so as no one would/could see me. I might add he was very polite. I then learned any adult having a cigarette on school property, in the dark, away from the sight of any student, positioned where no one could smell or breathe the smoke, made sure the butt was disposed of properly was still in violation of State Law.
"No way!" said I. "Way!" said the cop.
Yet we have no one to blame but ourselves, for we are the government and we seem content to accept the status quo. It ain't gonna change until we make it change. But we do not get involved, even at the ballot box (present Freeper company excluded, of course).
It would be a far better world if the self appointed do-gooders would worry about their own lives instead of mine or my kids. Something about, "Take the log out of your own eye before you worry about the speck in your neighbor's" [paraphrasing, of course]
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I do smoke - but I would much prefer they outlaw it and stop the incrementalist crapola of confiscatory taxes and smoking bans.
For years I have been saying that smoking bans are the first step toward a return of prohibition. When you think of it, while the bans effect ALL businesses it is generally only bars that are very much targetted. also if you look at the funding in the push for lower BAC and tougher restrictions on places where people can drink (such as parks) you will find much of the funding coming from the same source as for the smoking bans.
I personally don't care if the guy gets falling down drunk, but the law is the law for EVERYONE, not just those who aren't employed by the legal system. The SO was breaking the law and should have been reprimanded. Fired, no, just made to follow the same law the he would undoubtably have given someone else a ticket for. Ticket him, send him to court, fine him and let it be a lesson to him.
Most city cops I know are intellectuals.
I fear that smoking bans are a test to see what else can be banned.
I think these bans on alcohol in parks are ridiculous.
I can see it around the playground, but for picnic areas, I find them to be a bit of over kill - particularly when there are already laws on the books about public intoxication.
Having a beer videotaped while off-duty. Oh, the humanity!
"To a few older women, drinking gives them the only chance they've got."
Does it give that same chance to older men? No, they just get bitter. I didn't read anywhere in the article that it was a woman. Whomever it was videotaped a sheriff deputy drinking alcohol in a park, where alcohol is prohibited. What's good enough as a law for us non law ennforcement people, is certainly good enough for those who are suppose to enforce the law. Unless you believe cops are above the law? And if so, how do you justify this?
It was another case of individuality by conformity that came out of the '80s Punk Rock crowd. Their slogan was, "Don't drink/ don't smoke/ don't f*ck."
For the most part, I believe that they stayed to their own groups and hangouts. In the worst case, they roamed clubs and house parties like skinheads, chose people who did not hold to their beliefs and attacked them. Sometimes they'd carve an "X" in your forehead if they didn't like you or if you were a Straight Edger that fell away and drank, smoked or f*cked.
oh pipe down, for crying out loud...if you read my intro, I specifically asked that you not take this personally...it's just that some parents cannot control their kids... CHILL.
It is trivial.
They used a knife to carve an x in the heads of folks?
This anti-alcohol crusade is Communism under a new name.
Bwahahahahaha.... as a 40 yr old woman I appreciate how good alcohol makes us look!
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