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Note to public servants: Your embarrassing MySpace pages will get the tabloid once-over if you do something totally stupid. Last week, police officers Thomas Eliassen and Michael Danese were arrested after they stranded a 14-year-old boy who had been egging cars at a remote swamp. Now Eliassen's MySpace page, where he proclaims, "LET'S DO LINES OFF A STRIPPERS A--!!!", is getting attention from the boy's lawyer.
The boy, Rayshawn Moreno, claimed the officers also made him strip down to his boxers, forcing him to walk to a strip mall where a security guard called his parents. He also says the cops beat him and called him racial epithets. The cops claim they were going to pick up the teen after circling the block, but he was gone. They also deny taking his clothes, and police sources suggest Moreno stripped to "blend in" with the woods.
NYPD's Internal Affairs is investigating the incident, and lawyer Jason Leventhal said the MySpace page, which also says, "Damn, it feels good to be a gangsta" (the Staten Island Advance believes it's a reference to Office Space), "speaks for itself. This is a young officer who's not trained properly and has no respect for his shield and the authority that goes with it." Leventhal thinks the officers should be charged with kidnapping and official misconduct in addition to their current charges of endangering the welfare of a child and second-degree unlawful imprisonment.
And the posters at NYPD Rant seem to mostly think that the cops actions were just plain stupid. One says, "Anyone who is a cop...especially a NYC cop working in a renowned anti-cop atmosphere....who puts himself in a public forum such as MySpace is committing professional suicide."
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I'm going to have to agree with the commenters at NYPD Rant. The moronic nature of someone who would put something like that on the Internet has been confirmed by his actions. Frankly, however, I think stripping a kid and attaching him to a tree is pretty funny and a better punishment than sending him through the system and giving him a criminal record.
MyStupid: A place for idiots.
I'm astounded that so many people believe this instant mob punishment is a reliable substitute for the law. We tried that in the middle ages and it was shit. That's why we have the police now. Get over it.
I have no doubt that the majority of police officers are horrified that their profession is tainted with a-holes like Thomas Eliassen and Michael Danese. They bring shame to a hard working public service. They deserve all the punishment the law has to offer.
The kid should have been treated like any other vandal. It's too late now: now they made him the victim.
does anyone know the link to the officer myspace page?
if you have myspace, keep it clean.
I've always wondered if cops, in general, actually take a step back and honestly wonder why the city seems to be so "anti-cop". Every try and approach one? Ask a question?
Neil Patrick Harris (playing as himself) had a cameo in the film "Harold and Kumar go to White Castle" and he spoke the line "Let's do lines off a stripper's ass!"
It was the funniest thing in the movie... especially when 5 minutes later there is a scene with NPH standing up in the back seat of a convertible with two hookers bent over in front of him. He poured cocaine on their exposed asses, snorted the powder right off, and then proceeded to wipe the excess powder off of his nose.
It's a shame this whole incident has now tarnished my memory of the film.
That's two L's on Thomas Elliassen's name.