Interview · moment 1 of 12
Bo Dietl's Yacht Wedding and Becoming a Cop
from Least Likely Cop · #114
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3 minGuest
Bo Dietl describes a lavish four-day destination wedding in Capri on a friend's 220-foot yacht, then launches into his life story: growing up in Ozone Park with a strict German father and Sicilian mother, working as an ironworker on the original World Trade Center, and randomly taking the police test on a whim.
- 0:53Bo describes his 220-foot yacht and a four-day destination wedding on Capri with a chapel, town band, and daily activities.
- 1:28Tim compares Bo's destination wedding experience to his cousin's upstate wedding.
- 1:39Tim notes Bo looks like a New York institution who knows everybody and everything.
- 1:58Bo claims he is New York and that a puddle of New York drainage runs out of him.
- 2:21Tim asks why Bo doesn't stop working—because when it's over, it's over.
- 2:32Other guys tell Bo he was a better detective and should have written a book instead of just being jealous.
- 2:52Bo joined the police force in 1970 and retired in 1985 after breaking his leg and ankle jumping out of a plane with Saudi Arabian princes.
- 3:08Bo ran a bodyguard company while a New York City detective, protecting Saudi Arabian princes who traveled the world.
- 3:44A Saudi Arabian princess invited Bo to La Jolla on a private jet, so he skipped his promotion ceremony at City Hall.
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