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Friday, November 19, 2010

Dumb Cops.

Marijuana
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.

Horsemint
"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.

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Dumb Cops Eats Special Brownies Made From Confiscated Weed

33 comments:

  1. HAHAHA
    "I think were dead"
    "whats the score on the Red Wings game?"

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  2. man that cop is an idiot! They just high as hell! LOL

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  3. suspicious plants??? cmon now

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  4. LOL I love it when cops don;t even know anythign abotu their line of work

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  5. like Chief Wiggum, only human, with a real gun =/

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  6. They don't recruit cops based on their intelligence.

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  7. Fucking idiots. What the hell is wrong with people.

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  8. Yeah, what do they do with the stuff? Throw a kick ass end of the year party?

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  9. saying: dumb cop
    is like saying: round circle

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  10. ahhh, stupid cop stories bring a smile to my face and warmth to my heart.

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  11. It's good to see that our tax dollars are being well spent.

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  12. The gods for murder seemed so content Following!

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  13. well, i'm glad i don't live in the states

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  14. OMG really good :)) he wife die and he want to see the score :)))

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  15. Lol, it's guys like these that make people correlate cops with dumb

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  16. I literally laughed out loud. Love how terrible our nations police force are. I hate that there are people stupid enough to make them feel like they have real power.

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  17. Leave it to a bike-riding nark to cause all this fuss

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  19. Gee, I can certainly see there are a whooooole lotta meth/pot heads with absolutely no concern about what's most important to U.S. Our eternal salvation after this booby-trapped-lifetime of only 77ish years. Wanna learn mo, bro? Follow us...

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  20. Gee, I can certainly see there are a whooooole lotta meth/pot heads with absolutely no concern about what's most important to U.S. Our eternal salvation after this booby-trapped-lifetime of only 77ish years. Wanna learn mo, bro? Follow us...

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