James Moss – Bangs Porn Star on TN Resident Dime
The text below is from the post The 6 Most Spectacularly Failed Attempts to Look Cool by Chris Fox at Cracked.com on November 11th, 2012 about an event that happened back in May of 2007.
It was just an ordinary day for Tennessee Highway Patrol trooper James Moss — that is, until a hot-pink Honda Accord money-shot past his speed trap at 20 mph over the posted limit. Moss pulled the car over, and inside he found alcohol, a bottle of Vicodin and one innocent-looking young gal by the innocent-sounding name of Barbie Cummings.
Apparently being no stranger to traffic stop protocol, Barbie got straight to conveniently mentioning that she was a purveyor of the pornographic arts. Intrigued, Moss had her sit in the front seat of his patrol car while he used his (state-issued) laptop to pull up her website, the contents of which (lots of Pomeranians, probably) were apparently the digital equivalent of a “Get Out of Jail Free” card.
So he tossed the pills and booze into some nearby bushes and invited Cummings to join him for some backseat shenanigans in his patrol car. And if that sounds like routine corrupt cop stuff rather than showing off, you should know that Moss captured the entire incident on his cellphone, and afterward he had the bright idea to ask Cummings to post the photos on her blog so his friends couldn’t call bullshit when he bragged about banging a porn star.
Cummings obliged him by posting the photos and blogging about the incident in detail.
But unlike most employers, it appears that the Tennessee Highway Patrol isn’t too keen on its employees using work hours to film self-starring porn. They put Moss on paid leave and launched an immediate investigation — “investigation” in this case meaning “repeated awkward viewings of your co-worker’s sex tape.”
When the event hit the headlines, it didn’t take long for other women to come forward to report inappropriate traffic stops by Moss, and he was indicted on six counts of official misconduct, two counts of official oppression, two counts of tampering with evidence and several counts of grossing out other highway patrolmen. He resigned just before the Tennessee Highway Patrol could fire him, and his going-away gift was four years of probation.
And how did Cummings come out in this whole deal, you ask? Moss still gave her the speeding ticket.
