Drunk and Disorderly

[JBE 328]

Another black eye for the fire service.

Gotta admit, he looks better in that bikini than I would. I'm more of a one piece with some sheer material around the cleavage kind of guy.

Edited April 5, 2007 by JBE

[Guest]

Oh. My. God.

[JustSomeGuy 0]

This article is actually pretty ignorant. I tell you what drive to the village an you will see stranger things then this.

[Guest partyrock]

This article is actually pretty ignorant.  I tell you what drive to the village an you will see stranger things then this.

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Sadly this is how they think out there in most of the rest of the country. Think if it had just been a DWI he would have been suspended?

[Guest alsfirefighter]

Funny enough..one time where I actually don't think it was that big of a black eye. He was drinking, had a lapse in judgement and decided to flaunt his feminen side in a park. Dumb a** yes...at least he was not on duty, not in uniform and not admitting to doing a department function. If he did have the bikini on it would have never made the paper.

Let me ask this: If he was on his way to line up for some of those "Marti Gras" parades I have seen some of you have...would it have been a black eye? Or would some of you start screaming the cop was being ridiculous being he was going to a parade?

[Guest partyrock]

Come on now ALS I think even the most feverant defenders of parades on this board aren't going to try and defend drunk driving.

[Guest alsfirefighter]

I'm defending the drunk driving part...anyone who knows me personally would know exactly why I would never. I'm just referring to the section of the article that talks about him being in the park and witnesses seeing him.

[Guest partyrock]

Misunderstanding. I thought you were expecting people to defend his intox if he had been going to a parade as oppose to hangin in the park.

[JohnnyOV 2]

not only is this on firehouse.com, its now on msnbc.com so now the entire world can see.....freaking great

[Remember585 815]

Here's the MSNBC story

[Guest]

Also here

http://web1.thesmokinggun.com/archive/year...05071drag1.html

[JBE 328]

Funny enough..one time where I actually don't think it was that big of a black eye. He was drinking, had a lapse in judgement and decided to flaunt his feminen side in a park.  Dumb a** yes...at least he was not on duty, not in uniform and not admitting to doing a department function.  If he did have the bikini on it would have never made the paper.

Let me ask this:  If he was on his way to line up for some of those "Marti Gras" parades I have seen some of you have...would it have been a black eye?  Or would some of you start screaming the cop was being ridiculous being he was going to a parade?

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This whole thing goes back to two things I have been stressing since I joined this board. Higher standard, and public perception. Total dumb@$$ move on this guys part. People in the emergency service need to realize that we are not held to the same standards as those we protect. When one of us does something like this it makes ALL of us look bad. Granted, none of us are totally innocent and pious types, but most of us should know better. Once again, when something like this happens, the disparaging thoughts or comments will come out from those we protect. Gotta think before you act sometimes.

[xfirefighter484x 234]

Dumb a** yes...at least he was not on duty, not in uniform and not admitting to doing a department function.  If he did have the bikini on it would have never made the paper.

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Harphant then said he saw the bikini-clad person hop into a parked blue Ford F-150 pickup truck with red emergency lights on top and he realized the person was a man.

Does anyone know if it was a labeled vehicle, or more of a POV with lights and no markings on it?

Regardless, it is a showing that someone associated with the Emergency Services was, well, you draw your own conclusions.

[mikeinet 37]

... made the front page headlines of MSNBC. Great..........