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Police officer just says no to doughnuts

ELKHORN, Wis. (AP) — What kind of officer swears off doughnuts for a year?

In this case, one who ate 13 of them in three minutes, good enough to earn the title of world champion doughnut-eating officer.

Walworth County Jail Training Sgt. Howard Sawyers, who accomplished the feat last month at a law enforcement convention and said since then he has not been in a hurry to have another one.

Sawyers finished third in the competition last year but said he discovered a championship technique this year — dunking the doughnuts in water to make them soggy.

"You rip 'em, you dunk them and you shove," he said.

But doesn't a soaked doughnut lose its taste?

"When you have 13 doughnuts in three minutes, you're not worried too much about taste," Sawyers said.

Besides helping to reinforce a good-natured stereotype of officers' snacking habits, he said the win netted him a free street-survival training seminar and a Sig Sauer .40-caliber pistol.

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What I particularly like about this story is the fantastic and entirely appropriate prize he won for eating doughnuts.