LOL - these people are morans: Ex-cops sue over Net-sex video

[Deja Q]

http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6082347.html

And one of them is a Moran - literally! :rofl:


Ronald Thaeter, Timothy Moran and Jack Maxwell were deputy sheriffs with Palm Beach County who agreed to be a part of group sex images and video distributed over the Internet.

The business model was simple: Maxwell's wife, Elizabeth (an on-camera participant), set up a Web site, charged for access and gave a cut of the proceeds to the wives of the other two men. (Moran appeared in still photographs but not streaming videos.) At least three Web sites were involved, and Moran's and Thaeter's wives were also featured.

Some of the materials featured a Palm Beach police car as a prop, with a nude woman posing on them.

Theater, Maxwell, and Moran.

Maxwell the Moran in a Theatre... boy, give me a couple hours and I'll really mop up the floor. :spray:

In the words of an internal investigator: "In one of the photographs, the female was handcuffed and nude. The second photograph showed her partially clothed. While the viewer of the photographs would certainly draw the inference that the vehicle was associated with law enforcement, there were no clear identifying marks to associate the vehicle with the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office."

Gee, can't they get any more descriptive? :(

Nevertheless, the three men were busted when an anonymous tipster reported the misuse of a Palm Beach patrol car. The Office of Professional Regulation subsequently ordered an investigation by the Bureau of Internal Affairs.

Oops!

Thaeter and Moran sued after being fired, saying their extracurricular on-camera sex was protected speech under the First Amendment.

Sorry, you horny dudes. What you were doing was not speech. Even if you were speaking as they were doing... B+ for creativity... But it's not speaking or writing. It's acting.

(snip)
"Officer Thaeter appeared in still photographs showing acts of

Oh, they do get more descriptive. Sorry!!

[GoddessOfGuinness]

1. I wonder if they used to work in MD...

A few years back, there was a controversy in an Eastern Shore town over inappropriate use of the police car...along similar lines, as I recall.