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A bad joke with a Taser stun gun ended with a Collier County sheriff’s deputy being reprimanded for inattention to duty.

Around 2 a.m. Dec. 4, 2009, Cpl. Wilmer A. Arencibia entered the housing area of the Collier County jail’s medical unit and was approached by a female deputy who read a message off her iPod to him, according to a recently released internal investigation. Arencibia reached for his agency-issued Taser, and chased the female deputy.

When he caught up to the female deputy, reports say he gave her a shock in the rear.

While the female deputy was yelling at Arencibia, she accidentally activated her agency radio and transmitted a minor profanity, reports said.

“It was just a spur of the moment thing,” Arencibia told investigators of the joke gone bad.

After shocking the female deputy, Arencibia apologized to her. He told investigators that his behavior was “shameful,” and a “disappointment to my lieutenant, probably my peers.”

“I mean, it obviously happened,” Arencibia said. “I did it. I wasn’t supposed to do it. I broke policy.”

In addition to the reprimand, Arencibia was also given a final warning.

Lt. Rich Gibbons of the Sheriff’s Office’s Professional Responsibility Bureau told NBC-2 that the incident doesn’t appear to be malicious.

“It was horseplay utilizing a Taser,” Gibbons told NBC-2. “My reaction is that it’s not tolerable.”