Bailiffs Busted Getting Blitzed on Breaks

2008_11_bailiffs.jpgEven though their job descriptions consist less of coming up with catchy ad pitches and more of watching over prisoners while they're fully armed, that hasn't stopped local court officers from drinking on the job like they're Don Draper. Tonight's Inside Edition will feature an undercover investigation where they caught on tape at least sixteen court officers violating court policy and drinking during their lunch breaks. One officer drank up to six beers during his lunch hour on 13 occasions. And when another found the criminal court's local watering hole Whiskey Tavern closed one day, he simply went ahead and brown bagged it while still on the clock. A spokesman for the court officers told Inside Edition, "At lunch hour, apparently they weren’t being watched, except by you. If in fact the allegations you bring to us are proven, the court officers will be disciplined.”

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Hey... is that Tim Robbins hunkered in the shade, a strange little smile on his face, watching them drink his beer?

in soviet russia beer drink you!

"One officer drank up to six beers during his lunch hour on 13 occasions."

This is pretty ambiguous language (I know it comes from the Post article).. this guy could have had 6 beers once, and no beers all the other 12 times they observed him, and the statement would still technically be true.

This doesn't excuse any of the drinking, of course.

The point is, these guys are carrying around guns and ferrying around prisoners in a close quarters environment. The last thing we want is for them to be remotely impaired.
Now if they could only take away their parking placards.....

"The program said Officer Christopher Furlani was seen drinking on seven lunch breaks, knocking back as many as three beers and two shots in 90 minutes."

Screw the boozing--these guys get 90 minute lunch breaks?!

I honestly think it's more fucked to invade people's privacy, than for them to kill a few beers. Especially when it's just a few beers.

I cannot imagine having a job that frowns on beer guzzling at lunch time.

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