What are your thoughts about this? If you are a paid firefighter for a city, county or otherwise AND you wear your official badge on your bustier while topless in a parade - should you be disciplined? (For the record, it really doesn't matter what the parade is - the point is about being topless in public while displaying your employers official badge).
We hear out in San Fancisco that an off-duty firefighter was photographed multiple times over riding topless with Dykes on Bikes during their big Gay Pride Parade. Sabine Balden, a 10 year veteran, wore her official badge pinned to a blck and white striped bustier. And just so we are clear, fire department rules state it is against the rules to wear a badge off-duty unless the chief approves. Fire Chief Joane Hayes-White said the situation is under investigation.
Balden said of herself, "I'm perfectly happy to be riding topless in the parade. That's what gay pride is all about." I think the issue is your badge - not your boobs.
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