Officer Delicious, aka West Palm Beach police officer Terry Golden, stands at Okeechobee Boulevard and Jog Road on Wednesday morning as he watches for cars running red lights and alerts nearby fellow officers. "I've seen people drive by eating food and when they see me, the food just falls out of their mouth" Golden said of his outfit. Another officer was dressed as a homeless person. Officers gave 77 drivers tickets in about 90 minutes.
The cops in Orange County are dressing like elves, in Palm Beach the costume of choice is hookers. When I first read this headline I assumed he was going undercover as part of a prostitution sting. But nooooo. He’s on the lookout for red light runners.
So, what? Has all the real crime in Florida been cleaned up? And is it just me, or does anybody else think Geraldine Delicious is enjoying his job a little too much? I mean look at the boots. He had to actually go out and purchase those boots in size whatever to complete the ensemble. And do we not think dressing in plain clothes would be just as effective; probably more so, in that looking like a hooker brings unwanted attention? I'm sure his parents just couldn't be prouder!
I've said it before, Florida is where crazy goes to retire.
To see Delicious large and in living color, click here.
2 comments:
Speaking of gouging the eyes out with a soup spoon...
Our officer often just leave an empty police car parked conspicuously, or leave one with our official police dummy (half-dummy, actually) in it. It works. People slow down. But every time they put out the dummy, we get calls from irate motorists about how the police officer in that car was rude and didn't wave back. One man insisted that the "officer" shot him the finger.
We have a town that we often work in that uses the dummy too. They’ll sit him at the same spot for several days. People get used to seeing him there, know it’s a dummy and go back to speeding as usual. Then they switch him out for a real cop and bust the crap out of everyone. I always thought it was hilarious. Kinda like throwing the dice, is it live or is it Memorex? People who weren’t tardos just didn’t speed through town in case it was time to switch the dummy.
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