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Bad Cop - No Donut

Quarter-Ton New York Cop Denied Fatter Disability Pay

Talk about news of the bizarre... from Workforce Week online:

A district judge in New York denied a 500-pound police officer an increase in his disability pay, upholding a ruling by the city’s pension board that the officer’s morbid obesity, not an injury, was to blame for his inability to perform his job.

Posted by Wanda on January 23, 2008 6:38 AM |

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