Cop leaves female journo phone message discussing her 'giant breasts'

A woman journalist in the US was left an unintended phone message by a sheriff's deputy who discussed her apparently "giant boobs", "bad teeth" and that his wife thinks she's a "b*tch".

Deputy Sergeant Zach Farnam from the La Plata County Sheriff intended to leave a short phone message for journalist Chase Olivarius-McAllister.

Farnam thought he'd hung up the phone before turning to his colleagues to tell them: "My wife worked at the Herald. She f*cking hated that b*tch."

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Another unidentified officer then asked: "She hot?"

Farnam then replied: "Not hot. I mean, she’s got an OK body. I mean..."

Another unidentified officer chimed in to say "Giant boobs" to which Farnam concurred.

"F***ing giant, dude. I mean, not like quadruple Ds or anything. But at least a solid set of Ds, probably double Ds," Farnam said.

One of the unidentified officers then suggests Olivarius-McAllister's apparently large breasts result from the "fish and chips" she ate, as she grew up in London.

"You know what? It’s that UK fish and chips. UK women have big tits. It’s how they’re — how they’re grown over there. I don’t know why," he says.

The sheriffs go on for a while longer, commenting on Olivarius-McAllister's teeth – which of course are bad because she's from the UK – and how she "doesn't have a real pretty face and all".

One of the officers then says he does not understand why they "have to be so hard on her".

The journalist did not listen to the full message at first, instead forwarding it to her editor who soon turned to her and said: "These people are very opinionated about your body."

When Olivarius-McAllister did listen to the whole message she described it as "sickening", Jezebel reports, pointing out the men were all on duty at the time.

“I felt incredulous that people who are in uniform, on the job, and trusted with protecting the public could express so much contempt for women,” she said.

“The misogyny is horrifyingly casual. How can such attitudes not affect their police work?”

The sheriff later contacted the reporter to say he was taking the matter "very seriously" and offered that the conversation was "unprofessional".

Morning news break – August 29