Mass. cops caught egging superior officer's home
NEWTON, Mass. (AP) - Massachusetts police responding to reports of teenagers tossing eggs at a house last month got quite a surprise when they tracked down the suspects.
A department spokesman tells The MetroWest Daily News the three people who egged the house in Framingham early Dec. 11 were fellow law enforcement officers serving with the Newton police. They were off duty at the time.
They told Framingham police the egging incident was "a prank, a joke between friends."
The homeowner is a Newton police sergeant and their superior officer. He says he is handling the matter internally.
No charges were filed, and the Newton officers were not publicly identified.
A department spokesman tells The MetroWest Daily News the three people who egged the house in Framingham early Dec. 11 were fellow law enforcement officers serving with the Newton police. They were off duty at the time.
They told Framingham police the egging incident was "a prank, a joke between friends."
The homeowner is a Newton police sergeant and their superior officer. He says he is handling the matter internally.
No charges were filed, and the Newton officers were not publicly identified.
If our police are under the impression that egging someone's house is amusing and is joke material, I certainly hope the "internal" process of dealing with it teaches them otherwise. I expect better of law enforcement. Obviously, very little brains have trouble coming up with truly amusing pranks. My hubby is a prankster. His best friend, after a long and exhausting day, trundled the block from his car to his house, carrying his lunch box that almost seemed to get heavier with each step. When he got into the house, he opened it and instantly called my hubby to call him names. There were about ten pounds of nuts, bolts, etc in it, and he knew exactly who had done it. The two of them constantly pulled stuff on each other. It was never dangerous, and never something that would take hours to clean off, but still makes all of us grin to recall.
What a waste of eggs
So that argument works huh? I remember toilet papering houses for a prank when I was a kid. For 1 year I had to clean any and all houses that where TPed in the city I lived in. The Officer's should have been cited for atleast disorderly conduct.... So the next time you get caught egging houses just say it was a prank and you will not get into trouble by the police.
A couple of dozen eggs thrown at a home or especially a vehicle is a serious factor for the paint job...think about the uses for egg whites and yokes.
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Never will forget the time we egged//water melon/cantalouped//tomatoed/ peached/etc the police in lincoln city in the 1960s on Halloween on top of the old movie theater with the flat roof and false front that we hid behind....3 scores on the traffic cops until they figured out where we were hiding...cops only got one of us out of 5 or 6...and poor steve fell into a very old septic tank...Â
Perhaps the Newton PD should stop hiring prepubescent officers..
Hey, with all the sad, serious stuff in the news these days, it's nice once in a while to hear / read something that's just funny..! Â Â Nobody killed, nobody injured... and the worst that will probably happen is there will be some cops spending some of their off-duty time washing the mess off their superior officer's house..! Â Â :-)
There should be a ban on assault eggs.
@dkgiovenco ......because you never know just when they will turn into assault chickens.....
 @WendyTeagarden  @dkgiovenco Wendy, they would never make it past the BBQing process.
@dkgiovenco Cue SleeplessKnight:
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Well, at least they used eggs and not figs.
 @Mikey ~  ...or rotten tomatoes...
Cops that couldn't pull-off a high school prank without getting "busted"...lame. Of course; there has never been an investigation of greater importance with greater public resources thrown into resolving the "crime" than this major crime. I bet the Sergeant didn't spare a single public resource until this crime was solved and the perpetrators brought to justice.
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Ultimately, I would bet 3:1 that no matter how many resources were squandered this case was likely solved like every other childish prank that cops refuse to squander public resources...back on the playground of the middle school where the perpetrators bragged and the rumor spread.
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I have never heard of a case of egging that involved a police investigation and I have never heard of a case where the police "tracked down the suspects".
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What a bunch of idiots....or should I say: Super Troopers. Another example of tax payer dollars at work.
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@Icarus I'd wager he sends the cleaning bill to the city.
Let the egging wars commence lol
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@lee986321 Hear comes the shell shocked claims.
 @lee986321 "Hey Sarge, how do you like your eggs...scrambled or thrown?"
"No charges were filed, and the Newton officers were not publicly identified."
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However their houses have been TP'd.
It was a very juvenile yoke.
It made me laugh. I liked it!
dumb news, who cares
 @LostSoul And yet you took time to read AND comment.
 @LostSoul Yeah... how dare they post something weird like this in the Weird section.