CANADA — It takes a rare kind of tough – or stupid – to want to fuck with a Hell’s Angel. Whatever it is, constable Christa Pennie has got it. She’s also got a fine for 20 hours of overtime pay, thanks to precisely how much of “it” she has.As the media tells it, the good officer was involved in the raid of a home inhabited by an Edmonton, Canada Hell’s Angel.
While in the process of doing whatever it is that police officers do while raiding the homes of suspects, Pennie thought it would be a brilliant lark to leave her mark on the man’s life; perhaps in the hopes of motivating him to never do again whatever he was accused of doing.
Whatever her motivation, she set aside her official duties long enough to use the man’s home computer to download and install an “I love gay porn” desktop theme.
Apparently – and unsurprisingly – the someone either did not share her sense of humor or her love for all-male erotic material, because the issue when she mentioned the prank to her supervisor, it earned her official disapproval in the form of the lost revenue.
Charged with discreditable conduct after she confessed her actions several days later, she was found to have kept herself quite busy during the light-hearted and “somewhat chaotic” situation that arose during the raid. In addition to the unauthorized download, she stuffed a gargoyle with dental floss in its mouth into the man’s freezer and tucked a knife and some more dental floss into the mouth of a different figurine.
Whether it was because she knew she would eventually get in trouble or because she’d forgotten to delete the image as she claims was her intention, Officer Pennie admits that “My actions did cause me to lose a lot of sleep over the weekend and I was very upset with myself.”
Pennie offered no information about whether she had planned to run an anti-viral or anti-spyware scan once she deleted the potentially offensive desktop background.
