Submitted today by an NIT reader:
“This is a photo of a undercover Iowa State Patrol officer during a sting conducted a few months ago in down town Mason City. The officer posed as a homeless man asking for a beer. Sign read need beer God bless. I wanted to help the man so I stopped and gave him what he was asking for. I proceeded on my way home from work. When rounded the bend on Federal Ave. south of South Bridge Mall I was stopped by MCPD, Iowa State Patrol, and Cerro Gordo Sheriffs and told I had made a bad mistake and could be under arrest. I was searched and tested I passed and let go with a warning. I think its a shame.”