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Watchdog: Park Service chief made gesture ‘not appropriate for work’
The Hill ^ | 06/28/18 | Timothy Cama

Posted on 06/28/2018 10:18:40 AM PDT by yesthatjallen

The head of the National Park Service (NPS) acknowledged to the Interior Department’s watchdog agency that he told a story and made a gesture that were inappropriate in an office hallway.

But in a brief report issued Thursday, Interior’s Office of Inspector General (OIG) stopped short of labeling P. Daniel Smith’s actions “sexual harassment,” since the only witness to it said he was not offended and investigators found no other witnesses that the gesture was intended to be sexual.

An anonymous employee told the OIG that she saw Smith in January in a hallway at NPS headquarters in Washington, D.C., where he “grabbed his crotch and his penis and acted out as though he was urinating on the wall.” The Washington Post first reported about the allegation.

The OIG said Smith and another NPS staffer recalled the agency chief telling a story in a hallway, “but they denied that Smith touched himself obscenely or used any vulgar language.”

“Smith acknowledged he gestured with his hands to simulate urinating while telling a story and stated that in hindsight the story and the gesture were not appropriate for work,” the report said.

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(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: nps
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Boys will be boys.
1 posted on 06/28/2018 10:18:40 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
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To: yesthatjallen

At some point going to work will no longer be appropriate for actual human beings.


2 posted on 06/28/2018 10:21:19 AM PDT by who_would_fardels_bear
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To: yesthatjallen

Liberals think getting Pissed on is a Sexual Act.

Chelsea Handler was unavailable for comment.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TwwMya7hjZg


3 posted on 06/28/2018 10:21:54 AM PDT by Kickass Conservative (THEY LIVE, and we're the only ones wearing the Sunglasses.)
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To: yesthatjallen

Did he write his name? This is why we were taught cursive, at least in show country.


4 posted on 06/28/2018 10:23:10 AM PDT by bigbob (Trust Sessions. Trust the Plan.)
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To: yesthatjallen
Now what would happen if said offender decided he felt like a woman and used the ladies' room?

would being offended make her a bigot?

5 posted on 06/28/2018 10:26:26 AM PDT by NativeSon ( Grease the floor with Crisco when I dance the Disco)
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To: yesthatjallen

Just another Leftist trying to take down a law enforcement person. Business as usual.


6 posted on 06/28/2018 10:26:31 AM PDT by DoughtyOne (01/26/18 DJIA 30 stocks $26,616.71 48.794% > open 11/07/16 215.71 from 50% increase 1.2183 yrs..)
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To: yesthatjallen

Your tax dollars at work.....................


7 posted on 06/28/2018 10:27:13 AM PDT by Red Badger (July 2018 - the month the world discovered the TRUTH......Q Anon)
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To: yesthatjallen

This whole issue won’t amount to a pisshole in the snow


8 posted on 06/28/2018 10:29:14 AM PDT by Bob434
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To: yesthatjallen

The person he was actually talking to was not offended.
Some busybody decided to eavesdrop on somebody else’s conversation. Now suddenly they are offended.
That somebody needs a strong dose of Mind Yr Own Business.
It also sounds like the accused had coworkers who don’t like him, and are fishing for reasons to cause problems.


9 posted on 06/28/2018 10:30:06 AM PDT by lee martell
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To: bigbob

... the Secret Service report is good and bad news.

...the handwriting matches Monica...


10 posted on 06/28/2018 10:33:04 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT (This Space for Rent)
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To: bigbob

With practice, you can do it in BLOCK letters.


11 posted on 06/28/2018 10:36:00 AM PDT by Laslo Fripp (The Sybil of Free Republic)
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To: yesthatjallen

NOTHINGBURGER


12 posted on 06/28/2018 10:36:27 AM PDT by faucetman (Just the facts, ma'am, Just the facts)
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To: Kickass Conservative

Or Ron Perlman’s shaking hand...


13 posted on 06/28/2018 10:36:42 AM PDT by Alas Babylon! (MAGAMarchOnWashington.com)
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To: yesthatjallen

Joke punch line...Korea? No, gonorrhea, wouldn’t touch it
for a million dollars!

Note some jokes just require gestures.


14 posted on 06/28/2018 10:41:57 AM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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Accusations are all it takes anymore. And your "boys will be boys" is no doubt offensive to some glbtqnamblaxyz someplace. 🍿🍻👍🏼😹
15 posted on 06/28/2018 10:43:45 AM PDT by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: yesthatjallen
The gist of the story the Parks chief was telling...


16 posted on 06/28/2018 10:45:38 AM PDT by mac_truck (aide toi et dieu t'aidera)
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To: yesthatjallen

maybe he was just re-adjusting his package ...


17 posted on 06/28/2018 10:51:07 AM PDT by bankwalker (Immigration without assimilation is an invasion.)
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To: bigbob
Did he write his name? This is why we were taught cursive, at least in show country.


18 posted on 06/28/2018 10:52:31 AM PDT by rjsimmon (The Tree of Liberty Thirsts)
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To: yesthatjallen
"Anonymous employee"

Anyone want to guess at what the gender of the offended employee might be?

19 posted on 06/28/2018 11:02:23 AM PDT by Fido969 (In!)
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To: yesthatjallen

Reminds me of the joke about the child of a deaf couple who begins his home practiced address to the entire student body with the phrase “It gives me great pleasure ...”


20 posted on 06/28/2018 11:43:46 AM PDT by katana
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