Tilted Forum Project Discussion Community  

Go Back   Tilted Forum Project Discussion Community > Chatter > General Discussion


 
 
LinkBack Thread Tools
Old 05-26-2010, 04:40 PM   #1 (permalink)
WHEEEE! Whee! Whee! WHEEEE!
 
FuglyStick's Avatar
 
Location: Southern Illinois
Corpus Christi cops make HUGE drug bust!! Oh, wait...

Texas cops mistake actual weed for marijuana, spend hours doing yard work | Raw Story
Quote:
Like the old song goes, one of these things is not like the other...

However, remind a police officer in Corpus Christi, Texas of those famed Cookie Monster lyrics and they're likely to give you an annoyed look.

That's because a recently discovered cache of plants, initially pegged by officials speaking to local news as "one of the largest marijuana plant seizures in the police department's history," turned out to be a relatively common prairie flower of little significance.

Texas officers ultimately spent hours laboring to tag and remove up to 400 plants from a city park, discovering only after a battery of tests that they had been sweating over mere Horse Mint, a member of the mint family -- effectively turning their ambitious drug bust into mere yard work.

The plants, which bear very few aesthetic similarities to cannabis, were reported by an unnamed youth who came across them while riding a bike in the park around 8 p.m. on Thursday. Upon visual inspection, police apparently agreed that the inoffensive plants had to go.

Ultimately, officers were reduced to conducting chemical tests to learn their "weed" was really just that: an actual weed.

"That shows exactly the caliber of police work that is done in Corpus christi, Tx," commenter Derick Sillers opined in a local NBC affiliate's comments section.

"The resident of corpus and nueces county should seriously be concerned with how their tax dollars are spent," he continued. "[This] is the same police department that serves, protects and investigates you.... does it really take that long to find out you don't have marijuana."

"Officers did not explain how their big 'drug haul' will be disposed of, now that they’ve spent untold hours and plenty of taxpayer money clearing weeds of the the city park," writer Steve Elliott summarized for News Junkie Post.

The tale is, at very least, a compelling argument for accurate, non-fear-based drug education in public schools, which advocacy groups say is sorely lacking.
__________________
AZIZ! LIGHT!
FuglyStick is offline  
Old 05-26-2010, 05:04 PM   #2 (permalink)
Let's put a smile on that face
 
blahblah454's Avatar
 
Location: On the road...
Well I hope it was a nice day for them while they were gardening.
blahblah454 is offline  
Old 05-26-2010, 05:16 PM   #3 (permalink)
 
ring's Avatar
 
Location: ❤
Mint? They should send it all, to the next tea party.
ring is offline  
Old 05-26-2010, 05:32 PM   #4 (permalink)
Her Jay
 
silent_jay's Avatar
 
Location: Ontario for now....
They mistook this for weed?

Back to identifying marijuana 101 for them.
silent_jay is offline  
Old 05-27-2010, 12:37 PM   #5 (permalink)
Degenerate
 
Aladdin Sane's Avatar
 
Location: San Marvelous
On the positive side, this pretty much gives Corpus Christie pot farmers the green light to plant wherever they want.
__________________
Ceterum censeo Carthaginem esse delendam.
Aladdin Sane is offline  
Old 05-27-2010, 03:45 PM   #6 (permalink)
With a mustache, the cool factor would be too much
 
Fremen's Avatar
 
Location: left side of my couch, East Texas

"That's some fine police work there, Lou."

------

Is it true police departments try to hire officers with average IQ's?
__________________
Google
Fremen is offline  
Old 05-27-2010, 04:12 PM   #7 (permalink)
MSD
The sky calls to us ...
 
MSD's Avatar
 
Super Moderator
Location: CT
Quote:
Originally Posted by silent_jay View Post
They mistook this for weed?

Back to identifying marijuana 101 for them.
If watching documentaries about police is any indication, the average officer's knowledge of illegal drugs might just be enough to graduate from the DARE program. The cops I know in real life know better, but they're also not the type to care all that much about someone smoking weed unless someone's driving or otherwise endangering people while high.
MSD is offline  
Old 05-27-2010, 05:05 PM   #8 (permalink)
 
ring's Avatar
 
Location: ❤
That flower on the left in the background, is a Gazania.
ring is offline  
Old 05-28-2010, 04:33 AM   #9 (permalink)
Pickles
 
ObieX's Avatar
 
Location: Shirt and Pants (NJ)
I always thought one of the best ways to force legalization would be for everyone who smokes to go out and play "Johnny Weed Seed" and toss seeds just everywhere they go. Soon enough there would be more wild do0b growing that eradicating it would be too costly or difficult.
__________________
We Must Dissent.
ObieX is offline  
Old 05-28-2010, 06:09 AM   #10 (permalink)
Junkie
 
And people actually -wonder- why I don't trust Government and don't care much for cops*. This. This is why.


*As distinct from Peace Officers.
The_Dunedan is offline  
 

Tags
bust, christi, cops, corpus, drug, huge, make, wait

Thread Tools

Posting Rules
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts

BB code is On
Smilies are On
[IMG] code is On
HTML code is Off
Trackbacks are On
Pingbacks are On
Refbacks are On



All times are GMT -8. The time now is 01:26 AM.

Tilted Forum Project

Powered by vBulletin® Version 3.8.7
Copyright ©2000 - 2024, vBulletin Solutions, Inc.
Search Engine Optimization by vBSEO 3.6.0 PL2
© 2002-2012 Tilted Forum Project

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128 129 130 131 132 133 134 135 136 137 138 139 140 141 142 143 144 145 146 147 148 149 150 151 152 153 154 155 156 157 158 159 160 161 162 163 164 165 166 167 168 169 170 171 172 173 174 175 176 177 178 179 180 181 182 183 184 185 186 187 188 189 190 191 192 193 194 195 196 197 198 199 200 201 202 203 204 205 206 207 208 209 210 211 212 213 214 215 216 217 218 219 220 221 222 223 224 225 226 227 228 229 230 231 232 233 234 235 236 237 238 239 240 241 242 243 244 245 246 247 248 249 250 251 252 253 254 255 256 257 258 259 260 261 262 263 264 265 266 267 268 269 270 271 272 273 274 275 276 277 278 279 280 281 282 283 284 285 286 287 288 289 290 291 292 293 294 295 296 297 298 299 300 301 302 303 304 305 306 307 308 309 310 311 312 313 314 315 316 317 318 319 320 321 322 323 324 325 326 327 328 329 330 331 332 333 334 335 336 337 338 339 340 341 342 343 344 345 346 347 348 349 350 351 352 353 354 355 356 357 358 359 360