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Thursday, December 6, 2007

Datsa Spacy Meatball!

posted by on December 6 at 8:49 AM

I hate it when my boyfriend does this to me…

A US counter-terrorism police officer who says he failed a drugs test because his wife spiked his meatballs with marijuana is suing to get his job back. Anthony Chiofalo, of New York Police Department (NYPD), has asked Manhattan Supreme Court to challenge his firing.

He was suspended in 2005 after 22 years of service, for failing a random test….

Mrs Chiofalo told investigators she had put enough marijuana for six cigarettes in her meatball recipe in July 2005, according to court papers.

She testified at a hearing that she just wanted her husband “not to die of a heart attack or get killed” while still in service, the Associated Press news agency quotes the court papers as saying. “I wanted him to be around to help raise my son,” she said. She had reportedly expected him to retire in 2004 after 20 years in the force.

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1

I bet he would have kept his job if he tased her, knocked her around with a nightstick, and had her imprisoned to be subjected to sexual assault by guards. Letting her have grass around the house for medical purposes? That's a firing offense.

Posted by oljb | December 6, 2007 9:10 AM
2

Speaking of eating weed, can you republish your I can't believe it's pot butter column from last year? I failed to print it and can't find it anymore...

Posted by Mike in MO | December 6, 2007 9:10 AM
3

Google "pot butter".

Posted by COMTE | December 6, 2007 9:16 AM
4

what a waste of good dope.

zero tolerance, cop. off to prison with you.

Posted by max solomon | December 6, 2007 9:19 AM
5

Dear Dick Wolf: Please consider ripping this headline for a future Law & Order.

(And dear anyone who might think "Dick Wolf" is an inventive gay slur I'm directing at Dan: Nope, Dick Wolf's the creator of L&O.)

Posted by David Schmader | December 6, 2007 9:22 AM
6

Datsa a great headline, Dan.

Posted by Nick | December 6, 2007 9:59 AM
7

A married guy eating balls, there's more to this story. Please, intern assignment to suss out a beard.

Posted by left coast | December 6, 2007 10:20 AM
8

I can't tell from the story if this guy is claiming he was unaware that he'd eaten pot prior to the drug test. Because I've eaten the stuff ... and you would know.

Idiot.

Posted by Jo | December 6, 2007 10:52 AM
9

There's either more to this story, or that is truly the first "random drug test" I've ever heard of. Just about anywhere I've ever worked there's always a hey-there's-going-to-be-random-tests-next-month heads up. His supervisor must not like him.

Posted by Dougsf | December 6, 2007 12:35 PM
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@9: pot can be detected months after use, whereas many other (harder) drugs are out of your system quite fast. people have commented on the irony of this.

Posted by ellarosa | December 6, 2007 3:58 PM
11

damn this story is like, what? a year old?

Posted by ole dud | December 6, 2007 5:08 PM

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