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This would be so funny if it wasn't true - hell, its true and its still funny! In Polk County (Tampa Bay, Florida), a drug task force on a sting operation was caught on video playing Wii Bowling at the house of a known drug dealer.

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. Link


This is beyond embarrassment.
Its the donut eating cop that can't let go of his powdered sweets while chasing down a suspect.
Hey, undercover cops are humans too! They get bored during a raid and a video game is a nice reprieve while gathering evidence. Pfffft!

Well, I'm waiting for this video to come out onto YouTube!
Just another hurdle public officials need to overcome.
Meanwhile - lets laugh!

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0 # aion guides 2009-09-23 07:38
Wii is a good game, but is it that good for the police to forget that they are there to raid? If you have good online games like WoW or Aion Online installed in your PC better keep them safe as well incase someone raids your room XD
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