[meteorite-list] OFF TOPIC - police raid house, end up playing wii

From: Mike Hankey <mike.hankey_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2009 20:36:14 -0400
Message-ID: <f0a794130909221736p4bd8d75ctbca3f1925bb48c09_at_mail.gmail.com>

everybody loves wii bowling. BTW I have the original asteroids arcade
game at the bottom of my site... its not wii bowling but still cool
for old schoolers who like meteorites.

Mike Hankey

http://www.mikesastrophotos.com <!-- scroll to bottom of page for
asteroids game.

On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 6:45 PM, Greg Catterton
<star_wars_collector at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Read this today, very funny to say the least...
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> http://www2.tbo.com/content/2009/sep/21/undercover-drug-investigators-embarrass-polk-sheri/
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> "With guns drawn and flashlights cutting through darkened rooms, Polk County undercover drug investigators stormed the home of convicted drug dealer Michael Difalco near Lakeland in March.
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> As investigators searched the home for drugs, some drug task force members found other ways to occupy their time. Within 20 minutes of entering Difalco's house, some of the investigators found a Wii video bowling game and began bowling frame after frame.
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> While some detectives hauled out evidence such as flat screen televisions and shotguns, others threw strikes, gutter balls and worked on picking up spares.
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> 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.
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> While a female detective lifted a nearby couch looking for evidence, another sheriff's detective focused on pin action.
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> 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.
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> The recording obtained by News Channel 8 showed several members of the county's High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area (HIDTA) task force entering the house shortly after 8 a.m. According to the search warrant, their mission was to search for drugs, stolen property and the fruits of any illegal drug activity.
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> Now there are questions on how the impromptu bowling tournament might affect the case against Difalco.
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> Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd denies it will have any effect.
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> "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."
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> Judd, who watched the video during an interview last week, called the situation an embarrassment.
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> "I'm not pleased that they played that Wii bowling game," Judd said. The sheriff's office oversees the drug task force. Judd said he initiated an internal administrative investigation of the incident.
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> "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."
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> 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. The video showed he continued bowling frame after frame, competing with another undercover detective."
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Received on Tue 22 Sep 2009 08:36:14 PM PDT