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   ¥ UltraMan ¥ presented the following explanation :   
   >> NYC cop fired after claiming he ate pot-spiked meatballs   
   >   
   >> Associated Press   
   >> Originally published 07:09 a.m., August 24, 2007   
   >> Updated 07:09 a.m., August 24, 2007   
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   >>   
   >> NEW YORK - So much for the meatball defense.   
   >>   
   >> A veteran counterterrorism detective's claims that he flunked a drug   
   >> test because his wife served him marijuana-spiked meatballs "simply   
   >> weren't credible," and he has been fired by the New York Police   
   >> Department, NYPD spokesman Paul Browne said Thursday.   
   >>   
   >> With the dismissal, Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly rejected an   
   >> earlier recommendation by an administrative judge that the detective,   
   >> Anthony Chiofalo, be reinstated. Kelly has final say on firings.   
   >>   
   >> An attorney for Chiofalo did not immediately respond to a telephone   
   >> message seeking comment.   
   >>   
   >> Chiofalo, a 22-year-veteran assigned to the Joint Terrorism Task   
   >> Force, was suspended without pay in 2005 after a random drug test   
   >> found marijuana in his system. The officer denied ever using drugs   
   >> and demanded a hearing.   
   >> During an investigation, his wife said she had secretly substituted   
   >> marijuana for oregano in her meatball recipe in hopes of forcing him   
   >> to leave police work.   
   >> The detective's lawyers presented evidence that she had passed a   
   >> lie-detector test, and offered testimony from a toxicologist that the   
   >> excuse was valid.   
      
   Was he ever their when she was cooking becsuse the oregano has a   
   distinct smell, so does marijuana.   
      
   I won't even go with this as regards how it should have tasted.   
      
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   Count Baldoni   
      
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