Your Tax Dollars at Work: Drug Cops Spend Hours Playing Wii Bowling During Raid

Nick Gillespie | September 23, 2009

In the midst of a drug raid on a house that apparently took nine full hours and cost $4,000, cops apparently were distracted by Wii bowling. Reports say they started the game up within 20 minutes of entering the house and spent hours playing it.

More here. I suppose it wold have been better if they had been doing Wii Pilates.

Hat tip: Alan Vanneman!

Comments

|9.23.09 @ 2:36PM|#

At least they weren't shooting anyone.

The Raidee|9.23.09 @ 2:41PM|#

Ha! The stash was in the controller!

Joe M|9.23.09 @ 2:41PM|#

The link for "cost $4000" is pointint to reason.com.

|9.23.09 @ 2:42PM|#

I love the cop jumping up and down when he scored a strike, like a little girl getting a pony.

Dello|9.23.09 @ 2:43PM|#

Valuable lesson: Leave some candy out for the cops, and they MIGHT NOT shoot your dog.

Abdul|9.23.09 @ 2:44PM|#

JW,

That was a female cop, and Nick's right, she could use some Wii pilates.

WWJGD|9.23.09 @ 2:47PM|#

The story wasn't depressing enough for Balko to post so Gillespie did it instead.

Boston|9.23.09 @ 2:51PM|#

Interesting thing about this story is the apprehended the suspect outside of his house. So by the standards of current police work these jokers should get a fucking gold medal for not going in guns blazing.

In what Judd called "brilliant police work," the task force placed Difalco under surveillance and took him into custody, away from his home and weapons, during the early morning hours of March 6, in the parking lot of a Circle K convenience store on Highway 98.

Link in Name.

|9.23.09 @ 2:54PM|#

"Brilliant police work"? That sounds just plain smart.

It seriously takes "brilliant police work" to figure out you should take a guy down away from his guns and hiding places? Seriously?

We are so F'd.

Abdul|9.23.09 @ 2:54PM|#

I wonder if the guy who got raided can get the evidence excluded at trial because the cops reset his high score?

P Dier|9.23.09 @ 2:57PM|#

this kind of shit pisses me off almost as much as shooting dogs... just more proof that cops think of themselves as some kind of ruling class. and they wonder why nobody respects law enforcement

|9.23.09 @ 3:06PM|#

That was a female cop, and Nick's right, she could use some Wii pilates.

Meh. Hard to say either way. Let's just call it/he/she "Officer Androgyny."

Ravac|9.23.09 @ 3:11PM|#

Would it have been too ironic if they were playing GTA IV instead?

|9.23.09 @ 3:19PM|#

JW, the correct term is "Officer Pat".

Our $2 Trillion Bridge to Nowh|9.23.09 @ 3:32PM|#

"Your Tax Dollars at Work: Drug Cops Spend Hours Playing Wii Bowling During Raid"

Well if it keeps them off of the streets for nine hours I'm fine with it.

Solanum|9.23.09 @ 3:58PM|#

Thank god Nick didn't forget to give Alan his hat tip...

Russ 2000|9.23.09 @ 4:02PM|#

How could a person with a functioning brain NOT get bored with Wii bowling within 15 minutes? They had to be gambling.

Plant Immigration Rights Suppo|9.23.09 @ 4:05PM|#

This would be a great scene in a sequel to the Big Lebowski.

Layman|9.23.09 @ 4:08PM|#

I saw the cops' representative/supervisor/apologist attempt to explain this behavior. He said something like: "We don't condone what they did, and we're looking into it, but you know what? (dramatic pause) We have (X number of) officers, and not one of them is perfect".
I threw up on my dog a little.

Ska|9.23.09 @ 4:33PM|#

The truth of the matter (that at least 4 hours of a call like that is spent standing around collecting overtime, er, evidence) makes it even more infuriating.

|9.23.09 @ 5:12PM|#

Another example of the new professionalism that Justice Scalia likes to talk about, I guess.

Alan Vanneman|9.23.09 @ 5:15PM|#

"Thank god Nick didn't forget to give Alan his hat tip..."

Damn straight!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

hmm|9.23.09 @ 6:10PM|#

Too bad it wasn't Halo or another FPS. I would could have taken comfort in knowing a few cops got teabagged.

|9.24.09 @ 12:55PM|#

The cops should looked inside the bowling pins, 2 kilo's of coke in each one. They missed the big score.

|9.24.09 @ 3:42PM|#

no guys, cops are heros, they collect all the revenue that corrupt politicians need to keep this corrupt system going. Sometimes they even taser old ladies or people in wheelchairs.