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How Bill O'Reilly Tried to Get His Wife's Boyfriend Investigated By the Cops
John Cook · 08/30/11 10:36AMLast summer, Fox News anchor Bill O'Reilly came to believe that his wife was romantically involved with another man. Not just any man, but a police detective in the Long Island community they call home. So O'Reilly did what any concerned husband would do: He pulled strings to get the police department's internal affairs unit to investigate one of their own for messing with the wrong man's lady.
Drunk Alleged Rapist Cop Has Airtight 'Didn't Mean To' Defense
Hamilton Nolan · 08/24/11 04:45PMMichael Pena, the off duty NYPD officer charged with raping a Manhattan woman last Friday night (not to be confused with the on-duty NYPD officers charged with raping a Manhattan woman) allegedly showed a gun, pulled the woman behind an apartment building, and raped her. Police arrived and found him still in the act, drunk, with his gun and badge next to him.
Rapper and Compton Sheriff Squash Twitter Beef
Jeff Neumann · 08/18/11 04:36AMLast Friday, not so great rapper The Game tweeted a phone number that his followers should call about getting a music internship. The number was the Compton Sheriff's office, which was unsurprisingly bombarded with calls. After a little more shittalking, The Game decided to apologize on CNN: "My sincerest apologies to the Sheriff's Department.... It was a joke gone wrong." He then blamed the "mishap" on a friend and the L.A. County Sheriff's Department accepted. Oh God, is it still August?
Illicit Milk Kingpin Arrested on Conspiracy Charges
Jeff Neumann · 08/04/11 05:33AMFederal agents are once again busy cleaning up the streets of Venice, California. No, they're not taking out sophisticated cocaine smuggling operations or prostitution rings. They're dismantling an underground syndicate of raw milk pushers and connoisseurs that operate under a front called Rawesome Foods.
Trigger Happy 'Taser Expert' Charged with Tasering Dad, Fellow Cops
Jeff Neumann · 08/03/11 04:20AMWest Reading, Pennsylvania police Sgt. Matthew Beighley has a thing for Tasers. Not long after becoming a certified Taser expert, Beighley zapped two fellow officers in March. He also Tasered his dad, and recorded it on his Blackberry. Here's how police investigators say the incident happened, from the Reading Eagle:
Watch Police Give Suicidal Man Life-Saving Wedgie
Lauri Apple · 07/30/11 01:29PMDrunk Cop Crashes Truck Pulling DARE Trailer
Jeff Neumann · 07/29/11 06:41AMA 38-year-old cop in Indiana, John Newcomb, was arrested Wednesday night after he side-swiped a parked car with his truck and then plowed into a tree, apparently while he was drunk. A woman who heard the crash and saw the immediate aftermath gave some details of the scene to local news channel WAVE 3. The best part of this otherwise average drunk driving-cop story is the trailer Newcomb was pulling :
Fugitive Taunts Cops on Facebook, Gets Caught
Max Read · 07/28/11 10:51AMNYPD Can't Stop Leaving Documents in Trashcans
Hamilton Nolan · 07/28/11 09:19AMPolice Beat 'Gentle' Homeless, Mentally Ill Man to Death
Lauri Apple · 07/26/11 10:04PMThis video, shot on July 5 by a student in Fullerton, California, ostensibly features the sounds of 37-year-old Kelly Thomas crying for his father while being Tased by police officers after he supposedly resisted arrest. Thomas was also beaten so badly that he was placed on life support. He died several days later.
Heatstroke Apparently Leads Man to Bite Zookeeper, Get Killed by Police
Max Read · 07/20/11 06:11PMIt's hot, huh? The whole country is burning up. Make sure you stay cool out there! Especially make sure that you don't get heatstroke, bite a zookeeper, attack a police officer, and get yourself killed by the cops.
Cop Obliges Shirtless Tractor Thief Who Wanted to be Tasered
Jeff Neumann · 07/19/11 05:30AMLong gone are the days of tipping cows to wile away summer nights in rural America. Now it's all about doing stupid shit so you'll get Tasered. An Emmitsburg, Maryland man named Ronald L. Divel is facing charges of burglary and failure to obey a lawful order after he stole a man's tractor, put his juvenile accomplice in the wagon, and took off into a corn field. And, according to court documents obtained by the Frederick News Post, he resisted arrest in the cornfield because he wanted to be Tasered. Why not, right?
Officers Shot During Kiddie Porn Bust at Harry Potter Movie
Brian Moylan · 07/18/11 03:03PMcops were injured by "friendly fire" while trying to apprehend a child pornography suspect while he attended a midnight screening of the most recent Harry Potter movie. There are so many inappropriate "wand" jokes to make right now.
Swedish Police Have a Sperm-Sniffing Dog
Jeff Neumann · 07/18/11 06:27AMPolice in southern Sweden have a new tool for fighting sex crimes — a dog named Rapports Opus that is trained to sniff out sperm at crime scenes. According to English-language newspaper The Local, police in the town of Karlskrona have arrested a 23-year-old man and charged him with rape after Rapports Opus was brought to a park in the town where a woman was sexually assaulted:
Ronni Chasen Murder Case Closed, Still Baffling
Hamilton Nolan · 07/15/11 08:22AMLast November, veteran Hollywood publicist Ronni Chasen was shot and killed for no apparent reason while driving her car (pictured) in Hollywood. After a couple of weeks of conspiracy theorizing, police pinned the crime on a random guy named Harold Smith, who shot himself dead as the police closed in on him. Now, police are officially closing the case. But uh... hmm.
Don't Say 'Doo Doo' Near NYPD Cops
Jeff Neumann · 07/13/11 05:21AMA 17-year-old kid says he was beaten by cops in the Bronx after he walked past an officer who was scraping dog shit off his shoe and said, "It smells like doo-doo." Tyre Davis told the Daily News that he was then berated by the cops, handcuffed and later punched several times in the head. Who wouldn't laugh if they saw a cop step in dog shit?
'Officer of the Year,' Relationship Coach Arrested for Selling Meth
Max Read · 07/06/11 07:02PMCook-off Cop Fired for Tossing Tear Gas at Rivals
Lauri Apple · 06/29/11 07:57AMMeet the Woman Who Sprayed Cops With Her Breast Milk
Max Read · 06/27/11 08:46PMPolice in Delaware, Ohio, were called to the Bridgewater Banquet & Conference Center early Saturday morning to handle a domestic violence call. What they found was Stephanie Robinette, 30, a charter-school teacher, who, while attending a wedding at the center, had "gotten drunk and struck [her husband] several times before locking herself in a car." Here is how Delaware County Sheriff Walter L. Davis III describes what happened: