Sep 22 2009Coppers Stop To Play Wii During Drug Bust

Admittedly, Wii Bowling is pretty addictive, but I sure as hell wouldn't stop to play some if I was a drug task force member in the middle of a bust. I'd be too busy stuffing a duffel bag full of free drugs!
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.
"It was an expansive scene, a lot of searching to be done, a lot of waiting," Boatner said.
The raid cost taxpayers more than $4,000.
Wow, I don't even know what to say. Except I call next! OOH OOH -- let's tape somebody's pistol to the Wiimote first! Come on, I'll let you tase me if I bowl two strikes.
Polk undercover drug investigators play Wii during raid [tbo]
Thanks to Chip, who wouldn't halt a drug bust for anything short of a full-fledged LAN party.

Reader Comments
1. Aleksndr - September 22, 2009 6:30 PM
FIRST!
2. Billy Rapture - September 22, 2009 6:42 PM
@1
Go die in a ditch.
@Video
Amazing.
Thats the greatest thing ive seen.
3. Dream - September 22, 2009 6:50 PM
lol funny
But now they got fingerprints everywhere lol.
4. ChipPrev - September 22, 2009 7:01 PM
A-thank you...
and your right but atleast I could have beaten their high score.
5. TurboTheMechanicalApe - September 22, 2009 7:07 PM
UGH. i don't that far from lakeland, between this and that assault on Yahweh man, i'm really f.u.c.k.i.n.g. pissed at cops right now.
edit: i'm also not happy about the censorship going on in this blog.
6. QUASIMODEM - September 22, 2009 7:11 PM
"Evidence such as flat screens".
I'd love to be a policeman, it's basically just being an automatically-excused and officially sanctioned shit.
7. Lainy - September 22, 2009 7:18 PM
Hey I have one of those projector TVs and I wanna sell it or something. How much is it worth? It's a Panasonic 53"....
8. Ham Bone - September 22, 2009 7:26 PM
Yaaaaaaaaahweeeeeeeeeh!!!!! i mean STRIKE!!!
9. marcy d'arcy - September 22, 2009 7:43 PM
Polk County? My neighbor, Al Bundy, attended high school at Polk High. He once scored 4 touchdowns in a game!
10. king - September 22, 2009 8:00 PM
what do you expect from floridians
11. OtterMan - September 22, 2009 8:38 PM
Fair play. We've all done jobs where at some point there's nothing to do but sit on your hands and wish you had something to kill 30 mins or so - nothing different here. I can only hope they got a good score. :D
12. Sad - September 22, 2009 9:06 PM
I live in Polk County (Lakeland) and I can tell you this does not shock or surprise me in any way.
13. Dream - September 22, 2009 9:32 PM
@11
Agreed, that's happened to be a lot at my last job.
14. Beastman AIDS - September 22, 2009 9:35 PM
it's a good thing they didn't find the pornography stash.
15. ted - September 22, 2009 10:54 PM
at least they didn't walk in, listen to the methhead babble about jack SHEET then tazer him and let him go. this guy had shotguns. sounds violent. sell your junk to people that don't understand that METH WILL RUIN YOU! that's fine. they're too stupid anyway. but do you really need shotguns?...if the answer is yes...get a new job or watch the Man play with toys that aren't really yours to begin with and get over it. these donut eaters are didn't do anything wrong. i say give them a break. they worked for it.
unlike the douches in the tazer-and-run video, these guys actually did something.
16. meowmo - September 22, 2009 11:23 PM
it's a video www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/09/22/police-play-wii-bowling-d_n_294405.html/
also, F@CK polk county.
17. meowmo - September 22, 2009 11:24 PM
Wii Bowling is right up their alley. hahahaha
18. Brizzle - September 23, 2009 1:44 AM
Please... this is such a non-issue. Cops are people... this is the kind of crap any of us would do in such a stressful job from time-to-time. Give these guys a break. If this is the worst they do while performing a task that puts their lives at risk I'd say they're doing just fine...
19. iffizarticles - September 23, 2009 4:54 AM
Very funny!
20. Jaded Icon - September 23, 2009 8:22 AM
If you think about it, in the end it probably didn't cost the taxpayers any money since all that crap is going to be police auctioned off anyways. Considering what got confiscated from this METH HEAD, they deserved a little "Wii" time.
21. JADE - September 23, 2009 9:07 AM
That right there is funny I don't care who you are.
22. Geekogee - September 23, 2009 9:44 AM
Must See!!!
http://alturl.com/obg7
________________
23. Johnny B - September 23, 2009 9:57 AM
@6
A fan of Quasimoto (aka Madlib)?
24. Grover - September 23, 2009 10:05 AM
And who many of you posting that you're pissed about this are posting from work? You all need to die in a vat of boiling hypocrisy. Police work can be just a boring and tedious as your work, and you looking at Geekologie at work is no different than what they did.
25. Anna - September 23, 2009 10:08 AM
Nice, Lakeland is where I'm from, and this is just like those silly coppers. :P
26. Mr. cow - September 23, 2009 10:20 AM
Moo
27. LSDiesel - September 23, 2009 10:36 AM
I know people say all kinds of bad things about cops, especially when they hear these kind of stories. I personally have no more respect for them either. I happen to dislike cops very much.
But you have to admit, if YOU were a cop (and if I were a cop) I would totally do this sort of thing. Man, if I were a cop, nobody's personal belongings would be safe.
'Put down your wife sir, and slowly hand her over to me. That's a good boy. I need to perform a cavity search with my member'
28. naas - September 23, 2009 10:36 AM
body of christ? well it symbolizes something that used to be
29. Johnny B - September 23, 2009 10:43 AM
@30
When I was younger, we had an Asain preist and whenever he would say "Body of Christ" (while giving out communion) it would sound like he was saying, "Pork Fried Rice" and now thats all I hear when I hear "Body of Christ"
30. deadbodyman - September 23, 2009 10:48 AM
@31
You, Sir, just made my day.
31. naas - September 23, 2009 10:49 AM
I haven't had rice in awhile JB, as hard as it would be to skip volcano taco's in about 2 hours I may try some bacon fried rice today.
I would think an asian priest saying body of christ might sound like rowdy ronny piper, but I've never had one
32. naas - September 23, 2009 10:50 AM
...sound like he's saying rowdy ronny piper, not speaking like him
33. Johnny B - September 23, 2009 11:13 AM
@34
I just picture the preist freaking out on the altar like Rowdy Ronny Piper
And volcano taco's ROCK!!!! Wifey and I went out and got 3 each on Saturday... unfortunately that cause some magma to develop in my colon!!!
It was like Mt. St. Helen all over again!!!!
34. DrThrasher - September 23, 2009 11:14 AM
"If you think about it, in the end it probably didn't cost the taxpayers any money since all that crap is going to be police auctioned off anyways. Considering what got confiscated from this METH HEAD, they deserved a little "Wii" time."
THIS
Biased news is biased. They obviously want the person reading it to flip a shÂit, but it's not going to cost taxpayers anything and they conveniently left that out.
35. naas - September 23, 2009 11:44 AM
@Johnny B I've never had digestive problems with taco bell or thankfully spicy hot food. I've been eating it my whole life so my system is used to it.
I bet now you know why it's called lava sauce
36. Johnny B - September 23, 2009 12:25 PM
@37
I love spicy food too!!! Hell, my kids (both under 3) eat General Tso's Chicken
37. naas - September 23, 2009 12:48 PM
I bet they're cute little fireballs afterwards too. I can't imagine what they leave for you in their diapers after the generals delight, but I know I will sometime soon
38. Johnny B - September 23, 2009 1:41 PM
@39
You have NOOOOOOOOOO idea!!!
GOOD LUCK!!!!
You'll often find yourself asking, "how can something so big and stinky come from something sooooooo small?!"
Its really gross when they're new borns, because its all black like tar (which is normal, so don't freak out when it looks like your baby's back side is spewing out Texas Tea).
39. a dog - September 23, 2009 2:26 PM
how the heck is a flat screen evidence? they're just swiping crap for the government auction in order to raise revenue. lame.
also, well played #9!
40. hy - September 23, 2009 5:46 PM
my gradma lives ub lakeland lol
41. Jaded Icon - September 24, 2009 7:03 AM
@ 36
Sooooo......were you agreeing with me or not?.......I couldn't really tell.....
42. Mike Hawk - September 25, 2009 8:02 PM
The fact that this is not an Onion parody article makes it so much funnier to me...