When police egg a house

Dispatcher: "Report of a house being egged at ______ in Framingham."

Three people, initially reported as teenagers, egged a house in Framingham, Mass. (for you midwesterners, Framingham is 22 miles WSW of Boston) on December 11.

When investigators finally caught up with them, it turned out they weren't teenagers, after all. The culprits were three police officers with the Newton (Mass.) Police Department. Newton is about halfway between Framingham and Boston.

What did the cops have to say? It was "a prank, a joke between friends."

Yeah, sure...

The short article, published in today's Northwest Herald, wound up with "No charges were filed, and the Newton officers were not identified."

Anyone think the "Thin Blue Line" doesn't still exist?

Now, I wouldn't have any problem with this if, had the eggers been teenagers, they would have been treated the same way - no arrest and no identification released. Why do I doubt that local teenagers would have been treated as those officers were?