Ken Berwitz
If you are a police officer, and you've just kicked in the wrong door, I suppose this is the door you'd want to be wrong about.
Excerpted from an article at KTLA-TV, Los Angeles:
LOS ANGELES (KTLA) -- A former beauty queen is suing the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department after she says deputies kicked down the wrong apartment door, pointed guns at her and her fiancee and watched as she got out of bed, naked.
Manos and her fiancee, Eric Otto Ryder, say deputies had a search warrant for apartment "C" but entered their unit -- clearly marked as apartment "A."
"The sheriff deputies, all of which were male and armed with guns, ordered Ms. Manos to get out of bed and then watched as she attempted to do so," it alleges.
The officers then spent a "significant amount of time" in the apartment before they realized their mistake, according to the complaint.
Too bad for Ms. Manos that she wasn't still a beauty queen. A strategically placed pageant sash could have taken away a lot of the officers' fun.
I love that "significant amount of time" thingie, don't you? "Ok, lady, I'll give you 20 minutes to prove you're not the hotti...er, perp we're looking for.....well, 30 minutes would be ok too"
This is proof that police work can be very dangerous. Remember: Rosie O'Donnell could have been living in that apartment.
OK, three bad jokes is my limit. #4 is up to you.