{"id":1228,"date":"2006-06-28T09:42:15","date_gmt":"2006-06-28T17:42:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2006\/06\/while_it_may_appear_unprofessional_it_was_hardly_the_worst_thing_in_the_world_or_protect_lob.html"},"modified":"2006-06-28T09:42:15","modified_gmt":"2006-06-28T17:42:15","slug":"while_it_may_ap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/06\/while_it_may_ap.html","title":{"rendered":"While It May Appear Unprofessional, It Was Hardly The Worst Thing In The World, Or, &#8220;Protect &#038; Lob&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/news\/regionalnews\/nypd_brass_misses_the_yolk_in_brooklyn_cops_egg_fight_regionalnews_philip_messing.htm\">citizens don&#8217;t find on-duty egg fights very funny<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Sgt. Salvatore R. Carola, 38, was punished after the Internal Affairs Bureau got a videotape from an East Flatbush resident who witnessed the Father&#8217;s Day shenanigans.<\/p>\n<p>Sources said Carola, an 11-year veteran, was in charge of some two dozen rookies taking part in a citywide program to flood high-crime areas with extra cops.<\/p>\n<p>But first, they decided to have a little fun. For 10 to 15 minutes, Carola and the rookies, all in uniform, hurled water balloons at each other and pelted NYPD vans with eggs.<\/p>\n<p>No one was hurt and no property was damaged, but one annoyed citizen recorded the &#8220;fun&#8221; and turned over the videotape.<\/p>\n<p>The timing of the horsePlay, on Nostrand Avenue near Farragut Road, could not have been worse. It came after a five-hour period that saw 10 people shot or stabbed in the precinct.<\/p>\n<p>One veteran police supervisor said, &#8220;This was an incident of some cops letting off some steam while they were dealing with the stress of keeping the public safe.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It wasn&#8217;t dangerous and, while it may appear unprofessional, it was hardly the worst thing in the world.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently citizens don&#8217;t find on-duty egg fights very funny: Sgt. Salvatore R. Carola, 38, was punished after the Internal Affairs Bureau got a videotape from an East Flatbush resident who witnessed the Father&#8217;s Day shenanigans. Sources said Carola, an 11-year veteran, was in charge of some two dozen rookies taking part in a citywide program [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brooklyn","category-law_order"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1228\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}