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
I always enjoyed the irony of the Jack Daniels distillery being located in a dry county.
Natural Ice is a good cheap beer.
You like it?
That is ironic.
Does thhe same distillery also make Evan Williams?
Don't know what we'd so without em' Nateman..............NOT!:)
Yup, that is the real point. I bet that town is just like mine where I have seen a group of local LEOs taking breathalizers at the bar and giving the keys to the one who blows the highest number. :-/
Oooh, that stuff gives me a wicked hangover, plus I refuse to drink anything made by Anheiser-Busch.
Yuengling Lager is my preferred swill, but I would also get Pabst - but the price went up 2 bucks a case lately because it is getting popular, which makes it only slightly cheaper than Yuengling.
Dry county horror story:
1991 Tyler (TX) road race (bicycle). The race was mostly in Smith County, which was dry. The Coors Light pro cycling team was invited by the event's main sponsor, the East Texas Medical Center. The team was placed under house arrest thanks to some busybody claiming that they were advertising alcohol in a dry county. It didn't stop there. I was racing for the Lone Star Sports Club, which was NOT sponsored by Lone Star Beer (the sole sponsor at the time was Katy Schwinn). Didn't matter, I was told I was advertising for Lone Star Beer. My reply was then "what about Lone Star Natural Gas, Lone Star Steel, Lone Star Cement, or even the Lone Star State?"
Nope, the JD distillery is in Tennessee, while Evan Williams hails from Heaven Hill Distilleries, Bardstown, KY.
No arguments there -
The Gipper let us know that any government powerful enough to give you everything you wanted, was also powerful enough to take away everything you had.
Bob Dole (speaking against HillaryCare) tried to remind us that the government's main job was to prevent harm, not to "do good".
This stupid 'law' should be repealed, and we can hope this action leads to that end.
As someone else has posted on this thread, when it comes to trampling on privacy and rights, I fear Little Brother (do-gooders & nanniers) as much as Big Brother.
Or anti-police.
I can remember trying to enjoy a picnic at a park with my wife and baby and being unable to because of scum of the earth types who think they are entitled to get drunk, scream at the top of their lungs and generally make a nuisance of themselves.
It appears to me that FR is full of these jerks who think anyone who wants to be free from alchohol in public places is some kind of weirdo.
There are good reasons why these parks do not allow alcohol. It is the law and this guy was flaunting it because he is too damned sorry to obey the rules. Probably thinks he can do whatever he wants because he is a cop.
As a matter of fact if this guy was simply drinking a beer and not bothering anyone, I would have just let it go. He did get in his vehicle and drive away tho.
No kidding! These public servants deserve to let their hair down once in a while!...What's next? Smoking a cigarette during their break? These acts don't bother me as much as those airline pilots who fall asleep at the wheel.....
Gone are the days when cops had the ability to excercise judgement in performance of their duty.
When I was 16 a couple of undercover cops watched my buddies and put a case of beer in the car at the grocery store. They pulled us over and after talking to us determined our lives would probably end if our parents found out. Instead of taking us home or to jail they made us pour each can into the gutter.
At age 18, a party I was at off of the Blue Ridge Parkway got busted up by a Ranger. He marched everyone out to the parking lot and asked who was driving. When all the drivers had been identified he checked each one and took the keys from those who looked drunk and gave them to the those who were not and told them to drive. We left the Parkway in a caravan with a blue light escort.
Depends. Was this person sited for doing the same thing? They should have to follow the same rules.
...don't take this personally....but we enjoy going to a fine restaurant, enjoying the atmosphere...only to have it interrupted by shrill screams of kids running back and forth from their table whose parents can't or won't control their behavior. Same thing happens in department and grocery stores too. Ask the checkout teller...they'll tell you the same thing.
One beer in ninety minutes.
The humanity!
Do you hate kids? Wild kids bother me as much as anyone else? That has exactly nothing to do with the subject at hand.
"I'm shocked! He wasn't a Rosco Coltrane in cahoots with Boss Hogg. A cop drinking beer off-duty in a park? Oh gee, I wonder what the penalty would have been if he smoked a cigarette there..."
I dunno what the motivations of the video-taper were, but I wonder how quickly said officer would have ticketed/arrested a citizen having a beer in the same park?
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