Help IAD Do Something Useful

As you may have heard here and elsewhere, IAD is calling down the entire desk crew from the 014 District so they can find out who faxed a humorous "Certificate of Recognition" that lampoons the 14-year-old police impersonator, the 003 District and gently tweaks J-Fed.

We were wandering around our station the other day and we found this posted on a nearby bulletin board:Click the pic for a full screen shot. It loses a lot of clarity, but you'll get the idea.

The text reads as follows:

• In that, on 24-Jan-2009, you entered the 003rd District police station in an illegally obtained obtained police uniform and brilliantly by-passed the elaborate Homeland Security system to secure a radio (that you did not know how to operate) and a citation book (that you did not know how to fill out since your 8th grade class had not covered that yet), proceeded to assign yourself to a traffic car and in 5 hours came in with more activity tan any other officer in the 003rd District. We stand in awe that as a 14 year old juvenile, you accomplished all of this without a star, a gun, or a police I.D. Congratulations, and stand proud that you now have more experience on the street than our very own Superintendent.

We immediately thought of removing the item and faxing it directly to IAD (5-6931) because we'd hate to see any of our desk personnel get in trouble over such lighthearted and childish nonsense. But then we thought, if 014 got in trouble for sending this to 003, who knows what would happen if we sent this directly to IAD from our desk? Instead, we thought we'd do the right thing and make all our readers aware of the offending material, make sure they recognized it and made sure they knew exactly where to send it. Just include this handy little note in the cover sheet:

• To: IAD
  From: Anon E. Moose
  Subject: Fake Certificate
  
  R/O located this item hanging on the wall in the XXX District. R/O is faxing it to you so that you can continue to spend valuable time, money, and resources chasing down the perpetrators.

Remember, it's up to everyone to keep our workplaces free and clear of nonsense and IAD is leading the charge to eliminate humor from the hallways and keeping the jokes where they belong - running the Department.