Cops Play Wii Bowling While on Drug Bust
Whatcha gonna do?
Nearly three years after the launch of the Wii, still the game that most common people – especially non-gamers – know about the Nintendo console is bowling in Wii Sports. It's a simple and intuitive game, and undercover cops seem to really like it too.
During a drug raid near Lakeland, FL undercover investigators searching the home suspected of illegal activity found themselves distracted by something other than methamphetamine, marijuana, drug paraphernalia and weapons. They found a Wii.
A security camera connected to a computer inside the home was active and captured a Polk County sheriff's detective putting down her work to play Wii Bowling. After she hit two strikes in a row, she celebrated with her arms above her head and she jumped and kicked.
The Wii Bowling playing time among the investigators lasted a little over an hour. The entire raid of the property lasted nine hours and cost taxpayers more than $4,000.
"I'm not pleased that they played that Wii bowling game," Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd said to Tampa Bay Online.
"That is not appropriate conduct at a search warrant," he said. "But I am less pleased with the supervision that didn't walk in and say, turn that off. That's what supervision should have done."
There is now talk of the entire investigation being invalidated due to the conduct of the investigators, but authorities don't believe it will have an effect on the legal findings.
"That absolutely is not true; that doesn't invalidate the search at all," Judd said. "Now the defendant would like for it to invalidate the search, but unfortunately for him, it won't."
"Obviously, this is not the kind of behavior we condone," Lakeland Police Chief Roger Boatner added. "There was a lot of down time, but that does not excuse the fact that we should act as the consummate professionals."
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Games>drug search
For some reason I thought today was 4/1/09 after reading the headline.
If I was a lawyer, I'd have a field day with this. Most likely all charges will be dropped because the pigs don't know how to choose work before play.
This will have zero impact on the case itself. Stop watching TV crime shows.
This is awesome, something i'd consider doing instead of working if i had the oportunity. Who wouldn't?
Quick! Call Google... That peski flying saucer has been found that keeps stealing their O's. And Hurry! It's getting into PROBE position!
This is pretty dang funny
Come on, the raid lasted nine hours. Most jobs give you an hour off for lunch if you work 8 hours. A bit of fun's not the end of the world for some cops - that kind of thing can keep morale up and make their investigating more effective. Granted doing it in a home they were searching probably wasn't the best idea in the world but I'm sure other police officers have done a hell of a lot worse.
why do drug dealers have a security camera pointed at the wii?
why do drug dealers have a security camera pointed at the wii?
that is a good question
How about you go fuck yourself, asshole. Unless the law enforcement officers violated the law in relation to their investigation of this crime, then nothing will be invalidated. It was not the best idea to do this, but law enforcement is run by humans and they all need breaks too.Since the raid lasted nine hours, that one hour could be considered their break, which they should receive if they are working 10+ hours a day. When I was in law enforcement, we would find all sorts of ways to make what we were doing a little easier to handle.doomtomb, you show a little damn respect for law enforcement. You might be a little thug piece of shit, but you will learn manners.
LOL ok, so going into their home and playing their video games was apart of the investigation. Taking a break by playing their Wii ya ok buddy. Go out and take a smoke break. You sound like you need your nicotine.
I hope it wasnt marijuana they got arrested for.Marijuana has no right to be a crime.Im glad this is what my taxes are paying for.
I wonder if they confiscated it for the office....
^__^ I'd prefer tax payer money to go to that rather then the loose holes in the system.
@ CoryInJapan: It was meth, illegal and stolen guns, and $30,000 worth of stolen stereos, TVs, game consoles, and other stuff. These were some really bad guys that broke into many innocent peoples' houses.
@ Doomtomb: You brought this on yourself when you used the word "pig" trying to sound like a wannabe thug on the interwebs. Some day when you need the cops, I hope they take their time showing up. You're a worthless piece of shit, keyboard commando.
Seems they're doing ..'other practices' than bowling on that picture...
I'm not sure which balls they where handling...
Photo surely looks faggish!
After the photo, they plugged in a version of GTA4, and kicked some more balls!
Well as far as I can see, this opens plenty of doors for having the case tossed out of court. If this activity is what the LEO is doing, who is to say that there was not other activity that was say more scrupulous such as planting or altering evidence? I mean come on, I work security detail and it's boring but to be paid as a LEO to play games on a alledged criminal's WII while on an investigation....REALLY that person has no place in policing.
Since the raid lasted nine hours, that one hour could be considered their break, which they should receive if they are working 10+ hours a day. When I was in law enforcement, we would find all sorts of ways to make what we were doing a little easier to handle.
bet you were fired just like these jerks.
Well as far as I can see, this opens plenty of doors for having the case tossed out of court. If this activity is what the LEO is doing, who is to say that there was not other activity that was say more scrupulous such as planting or altering evidence? I mean come on, I work security detail and it's boring but to be paid as a LEO to play games on a alledged criminal's WII while on an investigation....REALLY that person has no place in policing.
This is what I've been trying to say but for some reason we got all these pro-lazy cops on the topic thumbing me down.
Proof that games are more addicting than drugs.
This is awesome, something i'd consider doing instead of working if i had the oportunity. Who wouldn't?
Me.
I would play something better...
This is what I've been trying to say but for some reason we got all these pro-lazy cops on the topic thumbing me down.
The reason for you being thumbed down is for calling police officers "pigs"; if you are outraged by the conduct of officers in the article you can make your point without being insulting (the same goes to some responders to your post).
As for officers playing Wii games while serving a search warrant this shows their lack of professionalism (and in our country an breach of the search warrant), but this is hardly a reason for throwing out possibly collected evidence or even the entire case against the suspect's.
Well if there is downtime it is understandable that they'd want to do something to kill the time. It is still embarrassing to the department, but only because we make it so.
bowling? lol, can it be more redneckish?
*sigh*
At all of you who think it's cool to negatively comment to the article or others, you're wrong.
It doesn't make you a bigger, better or more intelligent person so cease and desist.
Facts:
YES it IS wrong for the officers to play the Wii games on a crime scene.
YES the officers in question should get an official reprimand or at the least a small fine for doing this.
NO the case should not be dismissed because of this since the people in question did have illegal firearms, drugs and or other illegal substances or illegitimately acquired goods in their possession/stored away in their home.
Furthermore I believe that if you want to truly be wise you should try to refrain from commenting if you have nothing positive to add.
(directed at doomtomb, camopantsal and even montezuma)
Other than that, this should never have happened quite obviously. Shame on the officers involved and it should never happen again.
In this case no innocents were hurt and the crime scene wasn't contaminated, but matters could have escalated and this is just something that should not be tolerated.
Bottom line, don't cry over spilled milk. Just make sure you don't spill the milk again.
My two cents,
Mike
You people think they are superman? You never take a break? Always working non stop? Extra hours are your life? Give me a break. I bet that 95% of all who wrote comments here stay on internet at work more than they should. As for the cops? I agree that what they did is not quite appropriate, but seem very human to me, as humans tend to do things that are not appropriate when not constrained by environment, rules etc. And for those of you who dream about the Captain America type of cop ... I would tell you that such cops probably hide big problems behind the curtain. We all have our demons, and the "play Wii in the suspect's house" demon is so much smaller than "take money from bad people" demon, or other cop corruption type. So give me a break. An by the way ... I HATE lawyers that say "My client is innocent because the cops played with his Wii". They are much much worse than these unfortunate guys.
Good thing the cops involved weren't drug-testing an Olympic athlete. Then the defence would be:
"Your honour, I would like to see this case dismissed as my client's Wii was tampered with".
bad cops bad cops *do do do do do* bad cops bad cops
It was a she cop.., I was wondering why the cops ass was so big.
This is typical of the police force in and around the central Florida area. I have lived here most of my life and this is just typical Florida police. Yes, it is wrong, mainly cause well the Wii and the big screen t.v., based on the reports of drug activity, could have been bought with the drug money which in turn makes them evidence and these dumb cops are now tampering with it.
However, this is by far not the worst thing any cop anywhere has ever done. I mean the played a few games on Wii it's not like the beat up a guy in a wheelchair (that has happened here not to long ago) or get busted for child porn (that was this month http://www.orlandosentinel.com/new [...] 31.story). But oh, how dare they quick launch an investigation and waste more tax payer money. All for what a few games on a Wii?
At least thats my opinion.