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Cop fired after waitress poses with rifle on police car
Posted: Sat Aug 22, 2009 8:53 pm
by age_ranger
http://www.krld.com/pages/5041284.php?c ... Id=4544001
MIDLAND, Texas - A Texas sheriff fired one deputy and suspended three others without pay after a scantily dressed waitress holding a rifle posed for photographs on the hood of a patrol vehicle.
Police said Round Rock officers were dispatched to a restaurant after someone reported the waitress with the weapon, which had been given to her by one of the Midland County deputies who had been attending a training session near Austin.
The incident occurred last week in the parking lot of a Twin Peaks restaurant, which promotes its "fun, friendly and sometimes flirty atmosphere!"
I would imagine if these guys are married, they're really getting an earfull tonight!! So much for open carry of a rifle, huh? Guess it makes a big difference when it's the department rifle!!
Re: Cop fired after waitress poses with rifle on police car
Posted: Sat Aug 22, 2009 9:25 pm
by boomerang
age_ranger wrote:So much for open carry of a rifle, huh?
I read the article twice and it doesn't look like anyone was charged with a crime.
Re: Cop fired after waitress poses with rifle on police car
Posted: Sun Aug 23, 2009 7:38 am
by G.A. Heath
These were Midland Co. deputies if I am not mistaken and round rock SO/PD (I forget which) and county atty. were "investigating" the four midland deputies while considering disorderly conduct charges. This was the last I knew of this matter.
Re: Cop fired after waitress poses with rifle on police car
Posted: Sun Aug 23, 2009 8:33 am
by android
G.A. Heath wrote:These were Midland Co. deputies if I am not mistaken and round rock SO/PD (I forget which) and county atty. were "investigating" the four midland deputies while considering disorderly conduct charges. This was the last I knew of this matter.
How can it be disorderly if nobody notices or cares but cops and jealous tattletales?
Re: Cop fired after waitress poses with rifle on police car
Posted: Sun Aug 23, 2009 8:55 am
by KC5AV
boomerang wrote:age_ranger wrote:So much for open carry of a rifle, huh?
I read the article twice and it doesn't look like anyone was charged with a crime.
No one has been charged, but it seems that someone called the police about a (scantily clad) woman with a gun.
Re: Cop fired after waitress poses with rifle on police car
Posted: Sun Aug 23, 2009 9:01 am
by KD5NRH
KC5AV wrote:No one has been charged, but it seems that someone called the police about a (scantily clad) woman with a gun.
"Dudes! You gotta come see this! It's like an Oleg Volk photo shoot in person!"
Re: Cop fired after waitress poses with rifle on police car
Posted: Sun Aug 23, 2009 9:50 am
by A-R
I doubt a "crime" was committed, but as an LEO and employee of the taxpayers of your area, you need to utilize just a few more brain cells than were exhibited with this little photo shoot. I have no problem with taking photos of pretty girls, even pretty girls with firearms sitting on top of cars. But that's not YOUR firearm, nor YOUR car and SOME of the taxpayers who do own that weapon and that car DO have a problem with such things.
They deserve to be fired/suspended for this, IMHO.
Re: Cop fired after waitress poses with rifle on police car
Posted: Sun Aug 23, 2009 11:10 am
by pedalman
Williamson County is tough enough as it is. Why set one's self up for certain failure by using bad judgment?
I'll have to agree that I don't think a crime was committed, but the deputies in question embarrassed their department and sheriff. I would think that they also violated department policy when releasing control of a department firearm to a citizen.
Re: Cop fired after waitress poses with rifle on police car
Posted: Sun Aug 23, 2009 12:16 pm
by android
BTW: If anybody has a higher resolution copy of the photo, I'd certainly like to study the "evidence" in much closer detail.
Re: Cop fired after waitress poses with rifle on police car
Posted: Sun Aug 23, 2009 12:58 pm
by wheelgun1958
pedalman wrote:I'll have to agree that I don't think a crime was committed...
Try telling that to David Olofson! I smell a double standard.
Re: Cop fired after waitress poses with rifle on police car
Posted: Sun Aug 23, 2009 1:13 pm
by nitrogen
I don't think anyone needed to be fired over this.
Considering the misconduct that officers can get away with, this is nothing.
I certainly cannot blame a deputy for wanting to take a picture of an attractive woman holding an M-4. I'd probably have cleared the weapon first though.
The officers probably deserved a repremand, but not to be fired. Honestly, I'd have spun this as community relations or something positive.
I can understand some folks getting upset, but getting fired seems way too out of line for this.
Re: Cop fired after waitress poses with rifle on police car
Posted: Sun Aug 23, 2009 1:29 pm
by Drewthetexan
android wrote:G.A. Heath wrote:These were Midland Co. deputies if I am not mistaken and round rock SO/PD (I forget which) and county atty. were "investigating" the four midland deputies while considering disorderly conduct charges. This was the last I knew of this matter.
How can it be disorderly if nobody notices or cares but cops and
jealous tattletales?
I'm reading between the lines.. I think I read you loud and clear.
Re: Cop fired after waitress poses with rifle on police car
Posted: Sun Aug 23, 2009 1:37 pm
by A-R
android wrote:BTW: If anybody has a higher resolution copy of the photo, I'd certainly like to study the "evidence" in much closer detail.
Yeah, me too
Re: Cop fired after waitress poses with rifle on police car
Posted: Sun Aug 23, 2009 1:39 pm
by geoelectro
age_ranger wrote:http://www.krld.com/pages/5041284.php?c ... Id=4544001
MIDLAND, Texas - A Texas sheriff fired one deputy and suspended three others without pay after a scantily dressed waitress holding a rifle posed for photographs on the hood of a patrol vehicle.
Police said Round Rock officers were dispatched to a restaurant after someone reported the waitress with the weapon, which had been given to her by one of the Midland County deputies who had been attending a training session near Austin.
The incident occurred last week in the parking lot of a Twin Peaks restaurant, which promotes its "fun, friendly and sometimes flirty atmosphere!"
I would imagine if these guys are married, they're really getting an earfull tonight!! So much for open carry of a rifle, huh? Guess it makes a big difference when it's the department rifle!!
Hey, where can I get this poster??
Geoelectro
Re: Cop fired after waitress poses with rifle on police car
Posted: Mon Aug 24, 2009 9:40 am
by barres
nitrogen wrote:I don't think anyone needed to be fired over this.
Considering the misconduct that officers can get away with, this is nothing.
I certainly cannot blame a deputy for wanting to take a picture of an attractive woman holding an M-4. I'd probably have cleared the weapon first though.
The officers probably deserved a repremand, but not to be fired. Honestly, I'd have spun this as community relations or something positive.
I can understand some folks getting upset, but getting fired seems way too out of line for this.
There is some speculation (and I must say it is likely only speculation) that the officer fired might have already had a history of poor decisions, and this incident was "the straw that broke the camel's back" as it were.