Fouled-up Fast Food Order Gets Polk Deputy Suspended

[The Straight Story]

Fouled-up Fast Food Order Gets Polk Deputy Suspended
Restaurant workers told to show their driver licenses.

LAKELAND | A Polk County deputy was suspended in April after an investigation found he demanded driver licenses from Burger King workers and called a police officer after the restaurant incorrectly filled his wife's order.

Deputy Jason Platt, 31, called the officer, a personal friend, to the U.S. 98 restaurant in Lakeland but she refused to get involved, a report on the investigation says.

"I find it disturbing that a deputy sheriff would tarnish the image of the Polk County Sheriff's Office by getting involved in a dispute over a cheeseburger order at Burger King," wrote sheriff's Capt. Kevin Widner in a memo to his supervisor included in the investigation report.

Widner is captain of the sheriff's northwest district and is the commander over Platt.


http://www.theledger.com/article/20110513/NEWS/110519728?p=1&tc=pg

[DURHAM D]

1. Unrec for failure to mention in what state it happened. nt

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2. Oh no! Now what will I do???? (there is only one state it could be...FL) (nt)

[DURHAM D]

7. I guess you don't get out much.

There is a "Lakeland" in at least 5 states.

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14. Yeah, but something this dumb would only happen in FL :) (nt)

[MineralMan]

11. Not so. There's a Lakeland not 15 miles from my house in

Saint Paul, MN. We have stupid cops here, too. Could have happened in any Lakeland.

[11 Bravo]

3. Rec to counter your inability to click on the link and read the words "Lakeland, FLA".

[DURHAM D]

6. NMJ

[DJ13]

4. I guess "have it your way" MEANS "your way"?

[Billy Burnett]

5. Have some heart and have pity upon us liberals living in Floriduh.

It ain't easy. :banghead:

[angstlessk]

8. got yu to the greatest page n/t

[Bake]

9. A cop throwing his weight around?

Wow. Imagine that!

Bake

[dorkulon]

10. "Platt, who was on duty at the time, was suspended for 16 hours..."

Wow, that's some tough discipline, there.

[Liberal_in_LA]

12. abuse of power

[Odin2005]

13. FUCKING PIGS!!!

[petronius]

15. I actually think the Lakeland officer needs a serious talking to as well, unless

"refused to get involved" means told this clown to hit the road. If she just stood by, she was out of line too...