Police in Florida stormed a home to search for drugs. Some of them searched the house looking for their booty. The others? They found a Wii game and began to play.
While some detectives hauled out evidence such as flat screen televisions and shotguns, others threw strikes, gutter balls and worked on picking up spares.
A Polk County sheriff’s detective cataloging evidence repeatedly put down her work and picked up a Wii remote to bowl. When she hit two strikes in a row, she raised her arms above her head, jumping and kicking.
While a female detective lifted a nearby couch looking for evidence, another sheriff’s detective focused on pin action.
…Task force members played the video game at various times during the day, for a total of a little over an hour of playing time. The competition proved to be quite competitive at times. A task force supervisor from the Lakeland Police Department, gun at his side, pumped his fist after picking up a strike on the first ball he threw.
…But detectives with the Polk County Sheriff’s Office, the Auburndale, Lakeland and Winter Haven police departments did not know that a wireless security camera connected to a computer inside Difalco’s home was recording their activity.
It’s bad enough that adults pass the time in their bored lives playing a childish baby’s toy, and try to pass it off as a “workout” or a coordination builder (eyes rolling). As I’ve said before, the inventors of this mindless, adolescent game are genuises – there’s no better place to sucker a bunch of grown people into flinging their bodies around like fools while screaming, in front of a TV, than a dumbed-down, public-schooled, entertainment-zombied America.
A police chief referred to this extraordinary display of blatant non-professionalism, on the part of numerous cops, as “bad judgment.”
