everybody loves wii bowling. BTW I have the original asteroids arcade game at the bottom of my site... its not wii bowling but still cool for old schoolers who like meteorites.
Mike Hankey http://www.mikesastrophotos.com <!-- scroll to bottom of page for asteroids game. On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 6:45 PM, Greg Catterton <[email protected]> wrote: > Read this today, very funny to say the least... > > http://www2.tbo.com/content/2009/sep/21/undercover-drug-investigators-embarrass-polk-sheri/ > > "With guns drawn and flashlights cutting through darkened rooms, Polk County > undercover drug investigators stormed the home of convicted drug dealer > Michael Difalco near Lakeland in March. > > As investigators searched the home for drugs, some drug task force members > found other ways to occupy their time. Within 20 minutes of entering > Difalco's house, some of the investigators found a Wii video bowling game and > began bowling frame after frame. > > While some detectives hauled out evidence such as flat screen televisions and > shotguns, others threw strikes, gutter balls and worked on picking up spares. > > A Polk County sheriff's detective cataloging evidence repeatedly put down her > work and picked up a Wii remote to bowl. When she hit two strikes in a row, > she raised her arms above her head, jumping and kicking. > > While a female detective lifted a nearby couch looking for evidence, another > sheriff's detective focused on pin action. > > But detectives with the Polk County Sheriff's Office, the Auburndale, > Lakeland and Winter Haven police departments did not know that a wireless > security camera connected to a computer inside Difalco's home was recording > their activity. > > The recording obtained by News Channel 8 showed several members of the > county's High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area (HIDTA) task force entering the > house shortly after 8 a.m. According to the search warrant, their mission was > to search for drugs, stolen property and the fruits of any illegal drug > activity. > > Now there are questions on how the impromptu bowling tournament might affect > the case against Difalco. > > Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd denies it will have any effect. > > "That absolutely is not true; that doesn't invalidate the search at all," > Judd said. "Now the defendant would like for it to invalidate the search, but > unfortunately for him, it won't." > > Judd, who watched the video during an interview last week, called the > situation an embarrassment. > > "I'm not pleased that they played that Wii bowling game," Judd said. The > sheriff's office oversees the drug task force. Judd said he initiated an > internal administrative investigation of the incident. > > "That is not appropriate conduct at a search warrant," he said. "But I am > less pleased with the supervision that didn't walk in and say, turn that off. > That's what supervision should have done." > > Task force members played the video game at various times during the day, for > a total of a little over an hour of playing time. The competition proved to > be quite competitive at times. A task force supervisor from the Lakeland > Police Department, gun at his side, pumped his fist after picking up a strike > on the first ball he threw. The video showed he continued bowling frame after > frame, competing with another undercover detective." > > > > ______________________________________________ > http://www.meteoritecentral.com > Meteorite-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list > ______________________________________________ http://www.meteoritecentral.com Meteorite-list mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
