Police Chief Resigns After Questionable Photo Hits Facebook

In a different example of what-happens-on-Facebook-happens-in-front-of-everyone-in-the-world-please-stop-posting-private-crap-on-Facebook-it’s-going-to-get-you-fired-or-arrested news, a Confluence, Pennsylvania police chief has resigned after a questionable photo made its way on the site.

The photo seen above of chief Tom Keller and a woman packing serious heat popped up on Facebook.

In his defense, Keller claims to have been the victim of a hacker that’s “just trying to embarrass him.” That would explawithin the incontrovertible fact that photo wound up on Facebook, i suppose. But explaining the photo itself, well, that’s a further task.

According to Somerset County’s the Daily American, Keller has resigned his position after being suspended without pay.

“This photo was meant to be private,” he said. “It’s a propped photo, a family photo of me and my wife just having fun.”

In response to the location, town mayor Allen Gyorko said,

“In the winter, people get a bit, what you call, cabin fever, you understand. They usually do goofy things..We’re a touch distraught about it.”

[CBS Pittsburgh via CNET]