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RandySF

(59,185 posts)
Tue Feb 25, 2020, 03:55 PM Feb 2020

Denver Fire Chief Resigns After Sex Toy Stunt

Denver Fire Chief Eric Tade resigned from the department following the annual Firefighters Ball during which a sex toy was raffled off during the event, CBS Denver reports.

Multiple firefighters also posed with the sex toy in a photo booth.




https://politicalwire.com/2020/02/25/denver-fire-chief-resigns-after-sex-toy-stunt/

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Denver Fire Chief Resigns After Sex Toy Stunt (Original Post) RandySF Feb 2020 OP
TTIUWP jberryhill Feb 2020 #1
The sex toy incident happened last year. Kaleva Feb 2020 #2
Inexcusable behavior of the firefighters. LiberalFighter Feb 2020 #3
You Got That From... jayfish Feb 2020 #5
He must've been ready to collect his pension. No reason to resign over this. Last year, maybe. brush Feb 2020 #7
No picture. I'm thinking of the line in Animal House: "Does it talk?" CaptYossarian Feb 2020 #4
Trump Johnny2X2X Feb 2020 #6
Puritan America is a drag RGTIndy Feb 2020 #8
It's a... it's a rocketship!!!! Initech Feb 2020 #9
Sure it was a sex toy? edbermac Feb 2020 #10

Kaleva

(36,340 posts)
2. The sex toy incident happened last year.
Tue Feb 25, 2020, 04:01 PM
Feb 2020

"However several sources say Tade’s job announcement is related to the most recent Firefighters Ball which was held last Saturday at a downtown Denver hotel. The firefighters union, local 858, had said in advance that the party would be “the night of your life.”

Several attendees told CBS4 an emcee at the event and a comedian joked at length about sex toys, a topic that caused problems at the same event a year ago.

In his resignation letter to Hancock dated Feb. 24, Tade wrote, “Last year, I promised you, the Mayor, that the nature surrounding the 2019 Denver Firefightres Local 858 and Protective Associations’ Firefighters Annual Ball, Retiree Banquet and Awards Ceremony would not occur again. Strategies were implemented and assurances were made to prevent these actions from being repeated. Unfortunately, this year’s event did not prove to live up to those expectations or mine. New strategies and a fresh perspective are beneficial to foster continued improvement. In that, I have offered to step down as Chief of the Department to the Mayor for consideration.”

In 2019, at the party, a sex toy was apparently raffled off at the annual Denver Fire Department gala, prompting Tade and other city officials to condemn the action as inappropriate, unprofessional and of poor judgment, after photos emerged of what had occurred."

https://denver.cbslocal.com/2020/02/25/eric-tade-denver-fire-chief-resigns/

It was the course humor at this year's ball that finished off the chief.

jayfish

(10,039 posts)
5. You Got That From...
Tue Feb 25, 2020, 04:05 PM
Feb 2020
Denver Fire Chief Eric Tade resigned from the department following the annual Firefighters Ball during which a sex toy was raffled off during the event, CBS Denver reports.

Multiple firefighters also posed with the sex toy in a photo booth.Denver Fire Chief Eric Tade resigned from the department following the annual Firefighters Ball during which a sex toy was raffled off during the event, CBS Denver reports.

Multiple firefighters also posed with the sex toy in a photo booth.


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Did you forget the tag?

Johnny2X2X

(19,113 posts)
6. Trump
Tue Feb 25, 2020, 04:10 PM
Feb 2020

We have a President who has gotten away with assaulting women his whole life. Seems there's a rash of men doing the same thing thinking they'll get away with it too.

Men need to grow the f*** up in this country.

 

RGTIndy

(203 posts)
8. Puritan America is a drag
Tue Feb 25, 2020, 05:07 PM
Feb 2020
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