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To serve, protect and … vandalize?
Three Newton, Mass., police officers were caught by fellow men in blue in Framingham last month after they had egged a house, the MetroWest Daily News reported.
The victim? A Newton police sergeant.
The action took place in the wee hours of Dec. 11, the Daily News reported. Officers responding to a report of “teenagers” egging a house saw two people drive away in a red car, according to the Daily News.
The driver confessed after the car was pulled over but said the egging was “a prank – a joke between friends,” the Daily News quoted a Framingham police spokesman as saying.
The third off-duty Newton officer was picked up as police headed to the house to talk with the homeowner, the Daily News reported.
The eggers were not identified, and no charges have been filed. The eggee said he would handle the incident as an internal police department matter, according to the Daily News.
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Eggselent reporting...
They were caught with Egg on their face......
here is a stupid question what if the superior had shot at the idiots outside his house because after all it was an assault and they could have been throwing something more damaging, he was in fear of his life and others and a fire fight erupted.
WHO WOULD BE AT FAULT OR TO BLAME ?
Every stupid question deserves a stupid answer: Whoever hired the superior should be prosecuted for hiring a cop dumb enough or scared enough to perceive an egg as a deadly threat.
Egg = deadly threat? Are the posters here that STUPID?
The victim will be handling it internally. They aren't off the hook.
The Sergeant will have much more fun getting back at them for the next six moths.
Someone needs to grow up!
Sometimes it IS hard to determine who are the grown ups in this world!
"internal police department matter", BS charge them with criminal mischef just like anyone else. They of all people should get no break. They should grow the F up!
How many kids get charged for that...ZERO. In they did their parents would be calling the media crying how their kids are being treated unfairly. Look at the photos. They didn't even hit the house.
Throwing at a moving car or a person is one thing. This isn't even news. Look at the YouTube videos where kids are bragging about it.
they were probably on their way to the police station to write up a report on themselves. lol
NO CHARGES FILED??? Oh, what a surprise. All the kids in this town (Newton) should go out tonight and egg the police sargeant's house. haha.
Wow ! Deb you made a great point ..
How many kids are arrested for the same act? doubt any? It's an egg.
As role models and legal stewards, they should be charged, and if found guilty, receive the harshest sentence that has ever been given out for a similar crime.
The legal system has the ability to hand out misdemeanors to people for this time of stunt... they should experience the same process of being arrested, the social stigma, potential loss of job and all the other negative consequences that come from that. If not they're basically saying they're above the law.
I'm pointing out that there needs to be a better or at least more consistent way to mitigate petty crime... the story is hilarious and I actually wouldn't really expect more than just get a slap on the wrist... its just not right that some people have received much harsher treatment for similar circumstances
That would probably be (1) clean up the mess, (2) grounded for a month, (3) no friends over to visit, and (4) no video games.
Is the National Guard going to be called out this Halloween? I heard that the NRA is calling for armed security in the dairy section of every market this October.
I love these losers that think every prank is a national news item. Now let's go after a real problem of morons shooting up schools and other areas of large congregations of people.
Boys will be boys.
Yeah, but it isn't unreasonable to expect our law enforcement officers to be adults.
Guess who's going to be walking their NIGHTSHIFT patrols, for a very long time.
egging a house is national news? really?
I think the national news part is that these idiots were cops. If these were dishwashers at you local diner, not so much, but they are authority figures that you and I would normally trust. Personally I would fire them all.
The fact that so many have no life and see it as news. I can't wait for Halloween when the national news trucks are out trying to catch someone egging something.
What's a little egging between friends, eh?
Handled internally ? How can this be ?
If this were me or you we would be behind bars right now !!!!
Are tickets taken care of the same way I wonder ???
Of course. Crooked cops are a plague.
As you have no victim, what do you think is crooked? Losers that have no life and no future might see it that way.
Behind bars? You're either a drama queen or an idiot. Do you get just as upset when a bird craps on your house because that actually can cause damage.
Maybe you should look at the numerous YouTube videos posted by kids doing the same thing. Where's the outrage that they haven't been arrested?
What a moron. If you knew what you were talking about, the "victim" took it as a joke and will no do anything. Go back to mom's basement and play with your Nintendo game like a good little loser.
sayitlikeitis is a plague. when are you going to get out of your command center in your mommy's basement?
Their job is not to "serve and protect", as we have been reminded by the (now irrelevant) SCOTUS. Their job is to collect taxes for the banks.
So a cop called the cops on some cops...
Just typical...pigs protecting their own. This case needs to be taken over by the DA's office and the officers involved should be charged and prosecuted just like anyone else. The police department should not allow this to go unprosecuted, anymore than cops catching another cop speeding should allow it to go unprosecuted. This is the problem today, cops covering for other cops, and meanwhile a citizen who rightfully gives a cop the finger is falsely arrested. These crooked cowboy cops need to be purged from the system. Scum like this exists on every police force in every city. Send lawbreaking cops and the cops who protect them to prison where they belong.
They are not pigs, they are police officers who did an indiscretion. Why must they be scum? Just because they egged a house as a prank? Big deal! Sounds as if you do not like cops. They are human and do stupid things like the rest of us. Really, prison for egging? Get over it. Make them clean it up
sayitlikeitis is also the idiot who wants American soldiers who go Afghanistan to get shot! check earlier postings. more rantings from a computer commando! this is me giving you the finger! hahahaha
What a moron. Prosecuted for what? No damage and no victim.
sayitlikeitis is expert in pigs. was passed down from parents
Fire the overpaid, undereducated, hypocritical pigs
Poor Brian. they fire you from the fry cook job and you need an outlet for your frustration?
Does anybody believe that if the eggers had been civilians they would have been allowed to drive away without at least a citation? Equal justice remains a bad joke.
I don't see what the big deal is. Why charge anyone for such a trivial matter, and tie up the court system, the officers more than likely would loose there jobs. Is this what we have become? They will pay for their prank at work. I was caught as a kid doing the same thing, no police involvement, just had to clean the mess. This is how it should be. Get over it people.
Decent kids or adults don't egg peoples houses. And FYI, chemicals in the eggs damage paint and require repainting wherever an egg landed on a painted finish. It IS a big deal, especially when done by pigs/cops, and you are too stupid, ill-bred, and uneducated to get it. The fact that you as a child were egging other peoples homes speaks volumes about the kind of person you are. The fact that as an adult you still think it is ok and not a big deal simply tells me that you were not punished properly. No doubt you are trailer trash or the near equivalent... You should be the poster child for the dumbing down of America.
wanting American soldiers who go to Afghanistan to get shot shows what kind of mentally unbalanced person you are!!!!!!!!
check this nuts earlier posts and view the rantings of a real computer commando.
You must have been brought up in a cave. It's been going on for years. You're clueless. nothing going to happen. MSNBC is desperate for news. But as they are all reject reporters that can't get a real job this is news to them.
These officers should be fired. Their immaturity and conduct is not conducive of being a professional police officer.
THIS IS NEWS!??!?!??!! On the way to work today, I cut a guy off and he was angry. If you'd like to interview me, I'll be available M-F, 8a-5p.
Whats this f*cking world coming to????
"OH MY GOD, HE'S GOT A EGG".
No doubt some would try to justify shooting someone for throwing an egg. My car gets hit during Halloween by your kid, I'm dragging his to the side and beating the crap out of him, them filing charges.
You ask that after 27 people are gunned down in a school because someone didn't bother to secure their guns from their kid who has mental issues.
Okay Scalzo, we get it. You're just one of those liberal gun-grab p u s s i e s who has to interject your ass-backwards agenda on everyone else. After we ban guns, lets ban freedom of speech and the rest of the constitution. The killings happened in gun-free zones and in states with the strictest gun laws in the country. Tell you what; start practicing kneeling down naked and crying while some criminal holds you, your wife and kids at gunpoint and is getting ready to rape you all. Have your children train to kneel for executions in schools........hell, have them go out into the parking lot so the killer will just not have to walk so far and if he gets tired, he can just run them over. Want to be a helpless little p u s s y? You're already there.
Oh and as for beating the crap out of kid for throwing an EGG at your car and THEN thinking YOU can press charges, just shows how far up your @ss your head is lodged.
Is this news? So...some guys threw eggs or toilet paper at their boss's house. They did not fire a weapon, or use expletives and start a fight. They were being silly and letting off some steam. Maybe the like the boss and they were being silly boys showing their "buddy fun"...or they disliked the boss and wanted to show some rebellion. Is this news? We've got police shooting and killing homeless people and mentally ill people who need sympathy, support and love. That should be the news. Not some police officers goofing around with each other. What is the matter with you people. Putting cameras everywhere and catching every person going to bathroom, shouting or having some silly fun. What is wrong with the US that it cannot separate serious stuff from silly, trivial and stupid stuff? People dying folks and you are giving this news space?