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By Jessica Remo | NJ Advance Media

Sexual harassment. Homophobic games. Racial slurs. Testicles on a soda can. A chief who points his gun at his officers. A computer riddled with porn viruses. And, to top it all off, a big blue dildo.

These are among the many, many antics alleged by Mountainside police officers and borough employees against other officers in a recently filed lawsuit — a 46-page tale that suggests the craziest things happening in the teeny, sleepy, fewer-than-7,000-residents borough of Mountainside have been occurring inside the police department.

In official statements, Mountainside's mayor and police commissioner said some of the allegations were made in February and the borough hired experts to investigate them. Those claims were also referred to the Union County prosecutor and some unspecified action was taken in response, the statements said.

The two officers at the center of the suit and the police chief have been put on paid leave as the investigation continues. None of the officers involved returned our requests for comment.

Here are the claims from the lawsuit. Stories that, if true, put every slapstick cop movie ever made to shame.

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From left: Lt. Thomas Murphy, Chief Allan Attanasio, Detective Sgt. Andrew Huber. (Mountainside police Facebook page)

The tale of Big Blue, the dildo that terrorized police headquarters

First we meet "Big Blue," a large dildo and for sure the most memorable character in the lawsuit.

The suit says the dildo's owner is, ironically, an internal affairs officer, the head of the detective bureau, the PBA's 2014 "Cop of the Year" and, at one point, the school district's resource officer, Detective Sgt. Andrew Huber.

Huber, 44, allegedly would "wave around Big Blue, throw it within the detective bureau and throw it at people walking past the detective bureau." When he was not waving it around, it had a home in a coffee mug, according to the suit.

Other Big Blue allegations from the lawsuit:

That Huber slammed Big Blue against a wall near a dispatcher's head, saying, "I have something for you, and it's blue," all while another officer, Lt. Thomas Murphy, 54, the second highest ranking officer in the department, encouraged him, saying, "Get him. What's it smell like? I hope it doesn't smell like what I think it smells like," or words to that effect.





That Huber chased the borough's fire chief, Anthony Pecorelli, with Big Blue, all while current Chief Allan Attanasio "chanted words of encouragement, including 'Get him!' and 'Put it in his mouth!'"





That the fire chief, in turn, once put on another officer's raincoat and "threaded Big Blue through one of the openings at crotch level" and then began to swing it in a fire official's face.

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Sgt. Huber, the Mountainside PBA's 2014 "Cop of the Year" removes Big Blue from a filing cabinet.

Twice officers attempted to get rid of "Big Blue," by throwing it in the garbage, but "notwithstanding the foregoing, Big Blue once again reappeared in the shift commander's office," the lawsuit says.

The suit also says that during a sexual harassment seminar a lawyer explained sex toys were grounds for termination, at which point Huber left the room, and that when another officer complained about Big Blue he was told he needed to "lighten up."

And, yet, another dildo: The suit also claims that at a PBA dinner dance, "in full view of all in attendance," another dildo appeared, brought by Murphy, and that he "waved it above his head and in guests' faces," including directly in front of a fellow officer's wife.

When confronted by the officer, Murphy called the wife a prude, the suit says.

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Surprise, I'm naked

The suit claims that on several occasions Huber would hide quietly in a stall of the men's locker room, completely naked, in the hopes of surprising another officer.

On one occasion a dispatcher almost sat on Huber "due to the surprise of Huber hiding on the toilet," the lawsuit says.

As a result, the dispatcher "was reluctant to use the bathroom at police headquarters out of concern that he would encounter Huber," it says.

It also alleges that Huber, multiple times, stood on bench in the locker room so that when an officer walked in "Huber's penis would be face level to the officer" and that he would also "drop his towel for no reason or bend over while naked and try to cause physical contact."

Finally, it says, Huber would frequently "tuck his penis and testicles between his legs to look like a woman's groin area," and then approach other male officers "and touch or try to touch the officers while he still had his penis and testicles tucked."

One time, he chased a retired corporal "out of the men's locker room, into a common hallway and into the gym" this way, the suit says.

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(File photo)

Brace yourself for 'braining'

Braining was a reference to Huber or Murphy "taking his testicles out of his pants, and placing his testicles on someone's food, drink or person," according to the suit.

The "braining" officer would take a photo of the "braining," and then, after the target had consumed the "brained" food or drink, would say "he had a funny picture to show him," it says.

In 1998, one officer witnessed Huber "brain" a fellow officer's soda when he left it unattended. Attanasio, who was not then the chief, snapped a photo and then showed the targeted officer when he returned and began to drink from the bottle, the lawsuit says.

It says Huber frequently asked other officers and civilians, "Are you sure you want to eat/drink that?" in reference to Huber "possibly having brained their food."

The suit also says there is a video of Huber in police uniform and a chef's hat inside a kitchen at a Mountainside restaurant where Huber says to "throw a little wang" in another officer's meal.

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Chief Allan Attanasio (left) and Lt. Thomas Murphy (right). (Mountainside police Facebook page)

Sniffing female dispatcher's chair, offering to inseminate her

The suit says a part-time female dispatcher, one of the plaintiffs, received some of the worst of the alleged harassment.

It claims Murphy would tell the woman that he "wanted to sniff her chair," or words to that effect, and that another officer said he saw Murphy do just that when she left the room.

The suit also says that Murphy offered "if you need help, I can help you," referencing the woman having another child.

It says that when the dispatcher said that she was done having children, Murphy said, "If you were my wife you wouldn't have a say in that. We would be popping kids out all of the time."

Also, the lawsuit claims that after seeing a photo of the dispatcher where she and her daughter were in zebra-print bathing suits, Murphy frequently said he wanted to see her in it, asking "when's the zebra coming out again" and making "zebra-like noises" (whatever those are) in her presence.

It also alleges that another time, Murphy asked her where she lived so, he said, he could look through her windows.

Huber also harassed the woman, the suit claims, saying he put his hands on her shoulders for an extended period of time, making her feel uncomfortable.

The dispatcher now goes in to work early and attempts to leave early to avoid Huber and Murphy, the lawsuit says.

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Chief Allan Attanasio has been put on paid leave. (File photo)

Chief accused of pointing his gun at officers

The department's current chief of police, Allan Attanasio, 53, (who has since been placed on paid leave) is alleged to have mounted a laser sight on his revolver, which he would then point at officers inside headquarters.

The suit says doing so amounts to criminal charges of aggravated assault.

One time, the suit claims, the chief asked an officer if he had brought in bagels as punishment for being late, and when the officer said he didn't, he pointed the gun at him.

The incidents were so common that officers would warn "don't disagree with Al or he will point a gun in your face," the suit says.

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(File photo)

Making a fake call of an officer in distress, then stealing another town's police car

When headquarter hijinks got lame, the officers took to the streets, the lawsuit suggests.

It claims Huber and Chief Attanasio once made a "false" call of an officer in need of assistance at a bar in a neighboring town, saying the officer was trapped and cornered in the basement.

"They then took up a position so that they could observe Berkeley Heights officers frantically responding to the distress call," it says.

While those officers entered the bar, Huber used his universal fleet key to unlock and steal one of their police vehicles, the lawsuit says.

It says both Huber and Attanasio laughed and bragged about the incident.

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Detective Sgt. Huber gets his new shield from Chief Allan Attanasio. (Mountainside police Facebook)

The homophobic 'gazer' game, which we wish we could unlearn

The "gazer game" is a simple game, according to the lawsuit.

It involves one officer pointing down at his fly and waiting for another officer to look, at which point the officer would yell out "gazer!" insinuating that the target officer who was gazing was gay.

The suit claims Huber and Murphy did this every day from 2014 to 2016, and that even Chief Attanasio played the game, on one occasion standing on top of a sink and pointing to his zipper.

When the officer looked, the chief "laughed and yelled at (the officer) that he was a gazer," it says.

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'Flinging excrement-soiled toilet paper'

Yup. You read that right. The "paper" would be flung at another officer using the urinal, the lawsuit alleges.

It also says that Huber would ask officers to guess what he had for lunch, and would then "present the officer with soiled toilet paper from under the stall."

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Pooping in another officer's boots

Huber even "defecated in one officer's boots," the suit says, though, strangely, he missed his target — Huber meant for the attack to be against a different officer, it says.

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Tickling a dispatcher so bad he had to go home

The suit says Huber, Murphy and another officer, Michael Perrotta, pinned a male dispatcher to a table and began to tickle him.

"The dispatcher was so distraught about the incident that he had to leave his shift early," the suit says.

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Videos of sexual and racist jokes

The suit alleges there are several other videos of certain incidents, including:

Video of Big Blue's many attacks (like the video at the top of this post)

A video where Murphy dressed as Santa and waved a white dildo, saying he was giving it to one of the officers as a Christmas present. (See it also in the video at the top of this post.)

A video of Murphy simulating masturbation and fellatio with his arm "until he pantomimes being ejaculated on in the eye."

Video of Murphy making a racist joke while showing off his pet goats, where he allegedly says he never had a problem with his white goats until two died and he replaced those with black goats. He also used the N-word in the video, the suit claims. (Murphy is also alleged to have made a comment during a body camera training that "we just need them for the [N-word]'s.")

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Double-dipping salaries

The suit alleges Huber was paid to coach youth athletics by the school district, but when the district stopped paying him and he became a volunteer, the department picked up the slack. It says then-Chief James Debbie adjusted Huber's hours, adding the coaching hours to his police pay.

Then, years later, when the school district again paid him to coach, Huber was being paid by both the district and the police department, the lawsuit says.

Debbie was told of the double-dipping by another officer but made no changes, the suit claims.

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Running a fruit stand while on duty

The suit claims that for 20 years Murphy has been allowed to run his private armored car business while on department time and that, in 2016, Murphy opened a fruit stand in downtown Mountainside and spends on-duty time at home, in the armored car business and at the fruit stand.

It claims that Murphy sometimes uses police department vehicles when at the fruit stand and hides the vehicles from view by parking them elsewhere.

The lawsuit also says that police administration knew about the fruit stand time, and that Councilman and Police Commissioner Keith Turner even made a comment about it in front of several other officers, saying Murphy "could always be found at his fruit stand."

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Big Blue's sidekick, the flashlight, also allegedly made appearances

The suit alleges that Murphy had "a practice of taking his flashlight and ramming it into the anus area of other male officers" on multiple occasions over three years.

Officers would attempt to walk with their backs against the wall so they would escape its wrath, the suit says.

It also alleges that on one occasion an officer was hit so hard with the flashlight that it hurt for him to sit down.

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Nepotism in hiring and discipline practices

The suit says Huber and former-chief, now borough administrator, James Debbie are close friends and their families socialize together.

It alleges that Huber assisted in getting employment for family members of Debbie, and that Debbie looked away when Huber didn't show up for an overtime assignment.

The lawsuit says that in 2016 Huber also bragged about how the department was hiring a friend of his from the NYPD, and then two weeks later, the department announced the hiring, but said Mountainside residents would be given preference. However, it claims, the NYPD officer, Stephen King, who was the only non-Mountainside resident considered, got the job — even though he didn't even have a New Jersey license, which was a requirement.

Also, officer Murphy employed Debbie's son in his armored car business and the son was later hired as an officer, a violation of the borough's anti-nepotism policy, the suit claims.

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Corrupt borough officials and promoting process

The lawsuit claims other borough officials also acted out of line with regards to Huber. It says Mayor Paul Mirabelli and Councilman and Police Commissioner Keith Turner have a relationship with Huber where Huber provides them and their families with personal favors.

It says Huber refers to Turner as "Uncle Keith," bartended for the mayor's birthday party and has been photographed with the mayor and his family down the Shore.

The suit also claims that during promotional interviews, Mayor Mirabelli would ask other officers how well they worked with Huber, and that one of the plaintiffs was not promoted because he did not get along with Huber.

Both Huber and Murphy have been promoted up in ranks despite scoring at the bottom of tests, the lawsuit says.

The suit also says there is a video of Murphy where he says, "When you come out dead-last on your lieutenant's exam, you have to have an ace in the hole. Thank you Uncle Keith," a reference to Turner, the suit says.

Once, Huber bragged about a promotion in advance of getting it, scored in the low 50s on the test, but was promoted anyway by the borough council, it says.

Mayor Mirabelli denied these claims in his recent statement on the lawsuit, saying promotions were made on a number of factors "to ensure that the best candidate was promoted." He also denied having any "special relationship" with Huber or Murphy that would hinder investigations into complaints about them.

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An underage drinking party swept under the rug

The suit also alleges that in April 2017, a party involving underage drinking and drug use was broken up but the matter wasn't investigated any further "due to the involvement of a family member of an employee in the borough."

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Surfing the internet for pictures of transsexuals

For three years, one officer saw Murphy "search for and view pictures of transsexuals on Craigslist on the shift commander's office computer," and if the officer happened to be nearby, Murphy "would say 'Check this one out' or 'Look what I found' or words to that effect and laugh excessively," the suit says.

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A computer riddled with viruses from porn

The suit claims Huber forwarded pornographic, racial and racist emails from his borough account to other officers on their borough emails.

It also says that in 2013, when the borough's IT expert attempted to assign Huber's old computer to a new detective, he found it was "riddled with computer viruses related to pornography and the borough was forced to purchase a new computer."

The suit says the borough business administrator James Debbie (the former police chief) must have had knowledge of the incident because he had to buy a new computer, but no action was taken.

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One officer was allegedly harassed to 'whip out his unit'

The suit alleges that Lt. Todd Turner, the brother of Moutainside Councilman Keith Turner (who also serves as police commissioner), would make comments about a certain officer's penis size.

Turner would "repeatedly ask him to whip out his unit," the suit says, and also commented that, "he just got off the phone with his girlfriend, who was breaking up with him, because (the officer) had sex with her the night before and because he was so big."

The suit claims then-chief James Debbie (now Mountainside's borough administrator) was aware of these incidents but took no action.

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Threats with a knife

The suit claims Lt. Todd Turner also had pen knife that he would flick open and closed and hold near officers' throats, commenting "that he was going to stab them in the neck or cut their jugular."

Turner also told another officer, "I hope you get on the road today and fucking die," and "I hope you get shot and killed," the suit says.

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(Mountainside Police Facebook page)

'Buzzing' another officer by driving by quickly

The suit says that on "dozens of occasions" Murphy would "buzz" one of the officers by driving (in either his personal vehicle or police car) extremely close to the other officer's vehicle at a high rate of speed, surprising him, causing his vehicle to wobble and sending up dust and road debris.

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Testicle grabbing, humping

On several occasions, Huber grabbed or attempted to grab male plaintiffs' testicles, crotches and rear ends, despite the plaintiffs' protesting and attempting to defend themselves, the lawsuit alleges.

Huber attacked one male officer three days in a row, the suit says.

Another time, it claims, Huber walked into a room where another officer had his back turned, "crept up and bent his knees so that his genitals were at height of officer's buttocks, then pressed his crotch into his buttocks, reaching around with his right arm to tickle the officer's stomach."

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Penis drawings, of course

Huber in 2005 drew "I

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