When We Attempt To Deceive

Whatever happen to a husband and wife discussing their feelings with each other? It seems a former New York detective had to find out about his wife's feelings the hard way.

Detective Anthony Chiofalo has filed a lawsuit to get his job back after being fired from the New York Police Department, which rejected his assertion that he failed a random drug test because his wife had spiked his meatballs with marijuana.

The detective, a 22-year veteran assigned to the Joint Terrorism Task Force, was suspended without pay in November 2005 after a drug test found marijuana in his system.

Mr. Chiofalo’s wife, Catherine, said she put marijuana in a meatball dish in July 2005, hoping a failed blood test would force him to retire, court papers say. Mrs. Chiofalo, please learn how to communicate with your hubby.

On another note, a priest felt his collar could rescue him from the long end of the law. Telling him, “Not even the collar can protect you from prison,” Judge Janet Bond Arterton ordered a 37-month sentence Tuesday for the Rev. Michael Jude Fay, the Roman Catholic priest who admitted pilfering $1.3 million from the church he had led in Darien.

Rejecting calls from Father Fay’s supporters for an alternative sentence, Judge Arterton told a crowded courtroom in Federal District Court here, “A sentence of probation would be impunity for a crime of enormity.” She said the priest’s crime was “enormous” in terms of the amount taken and its impact on parishioners and the public trust.

Do the time father and remember these words, "don't do the crime if you can't do the time."