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By: Michael

Michael — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 03:21:33 +0000

#27
Those pictures should never be taken, in this day and age. Potential sex offense cases? It is hard to say, what was going through the guy’s head. He still was a cop, you know!

One might get imprisoned as a sex offender, for having pictures of your kid in the tub, if they were made public! The pendulum has swung so far the other way. Normal behavior could be prosecuted as illegal. Like minors having sex with each other!

And, if I understand correctly, not reporting possible sex offense cases, involving children, is punishable by law. At least, with one of the, many, laws that I don’t, clearly, understand anymore.

By: Lee

Lee — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 13:25:34 +0000

I actually read the whole cop story all the way thru.

Did anyone else get to the part where he turn to the Utah Attorney General’s Office because he found vacation pictures he did not approve of?

I’m sure there were problems in the police department, this guy is coming across more like an asshole than anything.

By: Stephen

Stephen — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 11:58:01 +0000

“#22 | Larry Y | March 27th, 2009 at 2:08 pm

What Dave says. That is the Biblical way, after all.”

Actually it goes back to some guy named Hammurabi, ~1760 BC.

But yeah, what Dave said works for me too.

By: Tokin42

Tokin42 — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 19:05:42 +0000

RE: Midvale, Utah cop of the year

The cop in question sounds like he didn’t get the promotion he felt he was entitled to when the new administration came in. I’m sure storing explosives in a freakin closet is a bad idea, but to run to the feds with that and another officers vacation photos because you don’t like the outfits they were wearing, or that they were dancing?
He insinuated other officers were molesterers, he’s lucky he was only fired and not shot.

By: Tim C

Tim C — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 18:58:49 +0000

Huh, “nice story” indeed, so not trying to pee on the parade here – though I was expecting the lesson learned to be Wear A Helmet. Which of course is optional and this was obviously one of those really against-the-odds cases, but you can see it coming – mandatory laws for wearing a helmet when you play ball with your kids (woulda happened had this girl died instead). For that matter, I’m really surprised helmets aren’t already mandatory for skiing, not really sure why to be honest – maybe lack of statistical correlation of head vs other injuries.

By: Ben

Ben — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 18:50:49 +0000

You should have said “Don’t be fatuous, Dude”.

No, he was exactly right. Maude uses the name Jeffery with the Dude throughout the whole movie.

By: Larry Y

Larry Y — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 18:08:56 +0000

What Dave says. That is the Biblical way, after all.

By: Dave Krueger

Dave Krueger — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 18:04:55 +0000

When a cop arrests someone and lies about what happened, he shouldn’t just be fired or charged with perjury. He should be given the sentence the defendant could have received if he’d been convicted.

By: Highway

Highway — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 18:03:57 +0000

I like how ‘POST’ (Police Officer Standards and Training) found no problems with the other officer, but is now investigating the whistleblower. Of course, he didn’t follow the standards and training – No officer should ever rat out or say a bad thing about his fellow officers.

By: Bronwyn

Bronwyn — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 17:45:50 +0000

Midvale?

As in, Midvale School For the Gifted?

/Ok, I’ll go RTFA, now

By: Howlin' Hobbit

Howlin' Hobbit — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 17:41:24 +0000

KBCraig — http://www.bugmenot.com

By: Dave Krueger

Dave Krueger — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 17:39:40 +0000

Wait a sec. CNN has “editorial standards”? Did that just happen? I thought they left that behind long ago when they stopped being a news network and reinvented themselves as an entertainment channel for the highly uneducated.

By: MacK

MacK — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 17:33:57 +0000

I agree with the chief saying that the 20 year cop can longer be trusted. Said Mason. “I had simply lost all trust and confidence in him as an officer.”

All the criminal types turn on the snitches, that’s how you run a criminal organization.

I’m not saying I agree that officer Guenon was a bad policeman. I’m agreeing this Police Chief Tony Mason could no longer trust him to hold the thin blue line.

By: Bill

Bill — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 17:33:49 +0000

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By: Alaska

Alaska — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 17:15:51 +0000

You should have said “Don’t be fatuous, Dude”.

By: Bourgeois_Rage

Bourgeois_Rage — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 17:14:58 +0000

I have a friend who bought used cloth diapers for their child. I know they can be washed, but really?

By: Ben

Ben — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 16:47:21 +0000

Thanks for not leaving me hanging JS.

By: JS

JS — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 16:25:10 +0000

Don’t be fatuous Jefferey.. er Ben. :)

By: fwb

fwb — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 16:22:01 +0000

DNA issues:

http://www.bild.de/BILD/news/bild-english/world-news/2009/03/26/phantom-killer-a-myth/police-track-DNA-of-cotton-bud-maker-for-two-years.html