{"id":10218,"date":"2013-08-05T18:00:35","date_gmt":"2013-08-05T22:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/?p=10218"},"modified":"2013-08-06T11:49:55","modified_gmt":"2013-08-06T15:49:55","slug":"flooring-questions-and-videotape-in-watertown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2013\/08\/05\/flooring-questions-and-videotape-in-watertown\/","title":{"rendered":"Flooring, questions and videotape in Watertown"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"WatertownSheriff\"<\/a>OK, it’s actually not videotape, it’s digital phone video. But a very strange story has made its way out of the Home Depot in that fine Jefferson County city:<\/p>\n

It all begins last Tuesday morning, when Chad A. Claflin was working at the Watertown Depot and caught sight of Jefferson County Sheriff John P. Burns, set aside the flooring machine he was working, and approached him, phone camera in hand. The video he took is below — why not take a moment for viewing? It’s very short.<\/p>\n

Anyway, no one comes off particularly well in this video (here’s Watertown Mayor Jeff Graham’s take on it from his blog–note also the comments!<\/a>), but what happened afterwards is interesting. The Watertown Daily Times reported Monday<\/a> that after telling an increasingly-annoyed sheriff that he didn’t work for Home Depot but rather as a subcontractor for Kellermeyer Bergensons Services, he was fired on Wednesday evening.<\/p>\n