I don’t drink. Quit seven years ago. It’s not a big deal to me, it was just something I needed to do for myself. I still enjoy going out and being around people who are drinking … and I think teetotalers are absolutely ridiculous.
City of Columbia, S.C. police chief Ruben Santiago also doesn’t drink.
How do we know this? Because he told The (Columbia, S.C.) State newspaper so this week in response to a social media scandal in which he threatened to arrest a citizen for expressing pro-marijuana views.
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Anyway …
“I don’t drink,” Santiago told the paper.
Um … really?
That’s interesting … because one of the many posts expressing outrage over Santiago’s behavior included a picture of him enjoying a beer in public (along with a bit of commentary on his fitness to provide “moral and legal lecture”).
“Lies and more lies,” the reader who submitted this tip told me.
So … which is it, (interim) chief?
I don’t care from a standpoint of covering the news, but as a former drinker who actually did quit it would be pretty disappointing if Santiago were telling people one thing and doing another.
Also if Santiago does drink, I hope he takes care not to get a ride home from his mayor … oh wait, never mind. They’ve got that covered (at taxpayer expense).
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Hey I recognize that off white leather seat.
It is the same one Colonel Cuckold claims as “his spot” in the VIP Room at Heartbreakers
He was probably there rounding up talent to take back to Chief Shorty’s sin den.
Are you sure about that because I don’t see any stains on the couch.
We clean them occationally, jj. We’re a class joint.
Even if you didn’t clean them, they are white in color for a reason.
A VIP Room in a bar in Columbia??? For who… like there are any VIP’s in Columbia or the surrounding area.
He doesn’t drink when he’s on Facebook stomping on free speech. But hey, if you make Benjamin a Strong Mayor like Little Joe, he’ll clean this mess up!
He’s just holding it so he doesn’t look like a cop.
Corona? What a fag.
Corona? He meant so say that he doesn’t drink like a man.
After arresting all the criminals in Five Pts., it’s time for a cold one!
Time to get girl drink drunk!
I don’t often stir up major controversy by saying idiotic things and threatening people via the web, but when I do…
I try to follow up by claiming not to drink just before my beer photo is snapped. I am…the Least Interesting Man in Columbia.
Ha! Very well done.
You don’t have proof he was drinking. It’s just a clear liquid in a bottle in a bar/resteraunt. Just like me on election night.
Wanna bet?
On the advice of Donnie Myers, Santiago claims the beer belonged to Jake Knotts.
I’m not convinced. Looks like Hines Ward to me.
Ha! Funny as hell.
Looks like Hines Ward to me.
Maybe Ruben should try out for the Steelers. Might improve them, as well as the CPD.
Hmmm…, and I seem to have heard some stories about him and his predecessor being drunk at the Carolina Cup, too.
Drunkeness at the Carolina Cup?
Aunt Piddy Pat, fetch TBG his smellin’ salts!!
We can not be down on the man he claims Hispanic heritage so drinking a urine based Mexican export would be in keeping with his brilliance of being bated on Facebook.
Nice watch.
It’s amazing what you can find laying in the grass after a bust of a drug dealer. Sometimes, people even accidentally leave cash lying around.
And cocaine.
… and stolen guns.
But they can’t find a decomposing body… in a broom closet… right under their noses.
That’s not a beer. It’s a pebble between his hands.
“hands”
my bad, I thought you said legs
Lying Liars Lie!…(Try saying that three times!)
could his statements on facebook be used as part of a defense in court to prove that they are illegally profiling people based on political statements and get someone off the hook with otherwise weak evidence?
He’s probably going to start drinking a lot more when he learns he out of a job…
TBG doesn’t drink anymore, either.
Nor any less.
Tries to keep it about the same.
That is a very recent photo of Chief Liar, too. If he will lie about drinking, he will lie about anything. And that is a fact. So we might as well call him “Chief Mental Illness”
Its not a bottle, its a crack pipe made to look like one.
The Columbia Police Department’s FaceBook page will now not let you post to the
site. Every one should check out the remaining posts. Ruben Santiago is circling the drain!
Is this a picture of a night out with friends for Santiago?
He also doesn’t take steroids.