A police officer who was sacked after lying about something involving a hat wants his job back?


Am I close? Couldn't be arsed to RTFA as this is the bizarre green light of the day.

Perhaps not the most elegant way to state it, but the headline accurately conveyed what the story was about. But then, I'm not an illiterate mongoloid like submitter.

Something about his trooper hat, possibly being lost or damaged or otherwise unfit or unavailable for use, and a lie told to his superior regarding said issue.

Yes, people can get fired for lying about lapses in dress code.

/checks article
//Yayy literacy!

"looked for 2 hours for his hat"? There's your tipoff to bullshiat right there.

hat fibs take precedence. they make good officers.

is a hat fib some kind of bird?

Sorry about your retardation, subby

Caught sayof?

Free hat

Extreme parity we canadian dollar also

Trooper does have a point. Fired over a hat when there are guys farking in patrol cars who.. wait, there are cops farking in patrol cars?

Never let a hat fib back in.

I'm going to start a movement to exonerate this officer...

Ricket: Never let a hat fib back in.

This is the credited response.

Cagey B: Perhaps not the most elegant way to state it, but the headline accurately conveyed what the story was about. But then, I'm not an illiterate mongoloid like submitter.

I understood it, but it still made my head hurt.

How insecure do you have to be in your job to lie about losing a $45 piece of equipment?

"I lost it."
"Here's another one, and you owe us $45."
"Ok."

/DNRTFA

That's the most incoherent headline of today? Today is unprecedentedly coherent, then.

Also:

What a FIB may look like...

Thomas C. Wetherington, 22, told The News & Observer of Raleigh that losing his job in a misunderstanding about his hat is especially galling considering the kind of misconduct other troopers have committed without getting fired.

So his argument to get his job back is that "Other cops get away with stuff."

hat fib

Dammit, that's my self-destruct activation phrase. Goodbye, cruel world!


/Goodbye, cruel lamp...

Why would they fire someone just because their hat fib wanted back in?

That headline is a lot more readable than a lot of the ones I see on the Politics tab.

Did anyone catch the part where the cop that left his pistol behind after having sex in and on his patrol car wasn't fired? Didn't the children get to shoot the gun before it was returned?

FIBS! FIBS! FIBS!

Best. Headline. Ever.

So the suspect really was hatless?

including a trooper who received a five-day suspension in 2002 after he was caught repeatedly having sex on duty in and on his parked patrol car.

Chief says I can't have sex in mah patrol car no more, Betty Sue.

He din't say nuttin about on the police car, now did he?

Betty Sue, you is the best wife, sister, cousin, ex wife, daughter-in-law a man can have.

Take me, law man.

/pretty funny if you use Cleetus and Brandine's voices.

Trooper is hatless. Repeat: hatless.

gorgor: fib is the father

I have not seen an fb reference in some time.

Ooh! He card read good!

Redneck poofter fin-wrist thrift. Baa baa

colinspooky: A police officer who was sacked after lying about something involving a hat wants his job back?


Am I close? Couldn't be arsed to RTFA as this is the bizarre green light of the day.

Yes. You are correct. but without RTFA, your cynicism marks you as a waste of reading.

AHEM!!!!

Thomas C. Wetherington, 22, told The News & Observer of Raleigh that losing his job in a misunderstanding about his hat is especially galling considering the kind of misconduct other troopers have committed without getting fired.


Right!?!?!!?!

Hey Tommy!! Snitches get stitches...

this guy's too immature to be a trooper, come back when you grow up.

I've hat fibbed a few times, but I felt really guilty about it afterward.

I accidentally the whole base

JC

One trooper was quoted as stating: "Frog blast the vent core!" before running toward another trooper & exploding.

In several cases, those involved were not fired, including a trooper who received a five-day suspension in 2002 after he was caught repeatedly having sex on duty in and on his parked patrol car. On one occasion, the trooper inadvertently left his handgun behind, where children later found it, the newspaper reported.

Yeah, I can see his frustration.

Cagey B: Perhaps not the most elegant way to state it, but the headline accurately conveyed what the story was about. But then, I'm not an illiterate mongoloid like submitter.

That's wasis.

This guy can't get back out of the private sector fast enough.

WHO WAS PHONE?

They gave me a hat. I have the hat to this day. I have the hat.

/obscure?

Ricket: Never let a hat fib back in.

How much does a hat fib weigh?

His farking hat blew off. The highway patrol is BIG about troopers wearing their hats during stops. He couldn't find it, and believed it to be lost, blown away by the wind. The jackass he stopped stole his hat, and even though the troopers name was in it, he never returned it. The troopers supervisor said that the officer was lying about his hat, and fired him.

/that about covers it.
//beyond that, it's hard enough to get people who WANT to be police officers in this day and age, and to fire one over some bullshiat like this is retarded. Of course, they could always lower the test scores, and get some more minorities in to fill the slots. Don't think it doesn't happen.

It's just something editors do. 'Hat Fib' isn't the worst headline consolidation out there.

For example, I just hate when headlines call the mother of a missing/killed child 'Tot Mom'. I'm not fond of the word 'tot' for kids. Maybe it also has something to do with my loathing of Nancy Grace, who started the whole 'Tot Mom' thing.

I'm ok with Tots of the Tater variety, though. They're delicious. Go figure.

//I seem to have wandered off the point. Sorry about that.

The trooper probably wanted to be a cop his whole life. Now not only is he out of a job, but he might never get to be a cop again. I understand his desperation.

But seriously who leaves after the cop? How did this guy get his hat? Why was it still in his car? Why didn't the trooper who found it just give it back to the guy discretely?

Maybe he's too much of a jerk, or not enough of a jerk, I forget how it works with them.

Don't know why, but this hat fib incoherent headline reminded me of this from the Simpsons: 'Deadbeat dad beat dead'.

my head hurts