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Drunk Priest Offers Oral Sex to Police Officer
March 5, 2011 By 22 Comments
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The only good outcome I can possibly see of priestly celibacy: At least this guy doesn’t have a beard wife like he would as an evangelical.
Whenever I see these videos of holy figures making a fool of themselves, I get a mix of emotions. I think the hypocrisy of funny, the irony dissapointing, and a tinge of sorrow knowing that this mans life is pretty much over.
Hell of a way to errupt from the closet for this poor, repressed bastard.
Meh. I doubt that this is a career-wrecker for him. He’s a Catholic priest. They’ll just shuffle off him to some other diocese where no one has ever heard of him.
Completely O/T but this is just so appalling I hope one of the admin will pick it up -
http://www.examiner.com/atheism-in-national/rock-beyond-belief-canceled-us-army-being-sued-federal-court?fb_comment=30451511
The US might as well ‘come out’ as a theocracy and join its natural ally Iran, be cause the constitution has just been royally f***ed in the ass and the b*****ds didn’t even buy it a drink first.
Thank you for flagging this, Mike. Japanther must be heart-broken :-(
Damn right. This sort of hypocrisy is why this nation is going down the tubes, and we’ll be well rid of it as far as I am concerned.
The USA is not what it was, and deserves to go the way of the USSR. At least the USSR was honest about what they were trying to do!
I can understand how a reporter would read the police blotter and see that someone known as a priest locally had been arrested for DUI and would want to write a story about that. What I don’t understand is why the police department felt a need to also release the video tape along with a list of things he said and did while in custody — things for which no additional charges were filed. While it’s true that everything someone does while in custody is potentially a matter of public record, it seems that this department went out of its way to embarrass this guy.
Perhaps they thought it would serve as a public service announcement, telling people not to go to his church.
Why would that be their responsibility? And wouldn’t knowledge of the fact that he’d been arrested for DUI be enough in any case? I’m guessing that if this had been a hetero preacher would did stupid stuff while in custody (and still intoxicated) this vid wouldn’t have seen the light of day.
The reporter mentioned that they only record an inmate’s actions when they start acting up. Now I don’t know, but what I took away was this was their way of covering themselves from a lawsuit. If someone is intoxicated and starts acting up, they might hurt themselves; if no record other than a his-word-versus-theirs account exists, they could get into some legal trouble.
I agree completely. If someone in custody starts harming themselves or starts trashing their cell or attempts to harm an officer, then I’d want that recorded too, if for no other reason than to cover the department’s rear end. But nothing this guy did falls into any of those categories and nothing he did in his cell warranted additional charges, as noted in the vid. He just acted stupid while still drunk. If this police department routinely releases vids of people acting stupid while in the drunk tank then I’ll withdraw my complaint, but for now it still seems that this has much more to do with his gayness than anything else.
I’m more alarmed that the USA doesn’t have some kind of data protection act that would have prevented the release of this footage tbh. It’s not being used as evidence in a trial or to bring charges and it was shot by a public servant in an official capacity. There’s no reason whatever that it should have been blithely handed over to a news outlet.
It’s undoubtedly subject to the state’s freedom of information/public information laws – legally they wouldn’t have the option to withhold it if asked for it.
And as for the video – oooh, so cringeworthy!
I feel for this guy. My first experience with being extremely (see: dangerously) intoxicated culminated in me offering oral sex to one of my best friends. And I wasn’t even handcuffed in a jail cell.
Me too! I was drunk and having a panic attack in the back seat of a friend’s car. My boyfriend was in the front seat, and I had another friend sitting next to me. In the middle of my drunk omfg-I’m-gonna-die I turned to the guy sitting next to me and asked if he wanted a blow job. And the only reason I realized that wasn’t right when my boyfriend turned and said, “it would be nice if you would ask me if I’m ok with it first.”
Please tell me you two are being sarcastic here.
Dead serious. Are we really the only two people that do embarrassing things when drunk?
Yes, pretty much.
This is entertaining yeah, but was there really any news value in that? Must’ve been a slow news day.
News value? Nah. Just entertainment!