Fired police chief walks home in his underwear in snow, says 'I did as ordered'

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Richard Lee, the chief of police in tiny Croydon, New Hampshire, had to walk home from his last day of work in his underwear during a snowstorm after the city unexpectedly dissolved the department.

Richard Lee, the chief of police in Croydon, New Hampshire, had to walk home from his last day of work in his underwear during a snowstorm after the city unexpectedly dissolved the department.reported that the town's three-member board of selectmen voted to end the one-man police department on Tuesday. The order was effective immediately, meaning that Lee was made to strip off his town-owned clothes and could not use his police car to return home.

It was snowing in Croydon on Lee's last day, but he set out for his home in nearby Newport in just a hat, boots, T-shirt and underwear. He made it a little under a mile before his wife came in their personal car and picked him up.

 

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The town finally woke up to a one man police force when they have the state police

He was both cop and prosecutor? That's illegal.

This is small town Cow Hampshire politics writ large. Forget small town charm. What you really have is flinty redneckism.

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