Netizens Were Set Up
Some online commenters suspected that the entire thing was a hoax, and that the officers had set it all up. After all, the whole situation was a little too cutesy. And as it turns out, they were right. “We just thought, ‘Hey, let’s do something fun to celebrate his retirement,” Jacqueline Kirby, media relations manager for the Sherriff’s Office, told TODAY.com. But did Scherb deserve this honor?