Maybe there should be an IQ test for police officers. What was first thought to be one of the largest marijuana seizures in the Corpus Christi Police Department’s history turned into an embarrassing incident for the cops, as the clueless officers spent a busy and exciting evening harvesting hundreds of harmless weeds from a city park.
The revealing incident began when a teenager riding his bike through Waldron Park in Flour Bluff discovered what he thought were pot plants growing there about 8 p.m Thursday, reports Bart Bedsole of KRIStv.com. The would-be junior narc wasted no time in excitedly reporting his “find.”
Police then self-importantly hauled away 300 to 400 medium-sized plants that they, too, believed were marijuana.
Exhausted officers only stopped collecting the harmless plants because it got too dark to work; they planned to return bright and early in the morning to look around for more marijuana. Trouble is, after spending more than an hour laboriously removing and tagging hundreds of plants, and then hauling it all to the police department downtown, testing revealed that none of it was marijuana at all.
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And what did they do after their shift? Go down to their local “cop” bar and drink legal “poison” ie: alcohol.
What a hypocritical idiotic world this is!
If the use of ANY substance (alcohol, weed, coke, Twinkies, whatever!) cause some people to commit criminal acts, then deal with the criminal act, not the consumption of the substance, which in the majority, causes no one any problem whatsoever.
So what kind of weed were they? This happened were I used to live when some kid was carry a few garbage bags of what he thought was weed, but was just industrial hemp from the old rope factory that used to be there.
What a joke. I live in Corpus Christi, Texas and it’s the current joke of the town. They better not check my yard. Or maybe they should. They can pull my weeds for me.
Nice to see the Police Department pitching in and helping out the Department of Parks and Recreation.
Unlike most police mistakes, this one actually improves the community. Maybe they should just give the cops lawnmowers, so they can keep busy between crimes.
Gardeners rejoice! Weeds getting to be to much for you? Call the police and they will remove your weeds for you. Now, that is what I call protect (against weeds) and serve (taking out the garbage).
P.S. That was probably the first honest work those officers have done in a while.
fUNNY..
They havnt been trained?? to ID the smell of MJ??
They werent RAISE near anyone that USED MJ, in their lives?
WHERE were these people born/raised/educated..
SMART people RARELY raise MJ outside.. it does work. Nature does a good job.
But, to find a CROP close to a road/path? even nature isnt that dumb.
Hey! Let’s not forget the cops are paid to “protect and serve.” (I know, it’s really “harass and intimidate” but go with me on this.) Therefore, I say let them “profile” these unsightly weeds and do their job.
And until the rest of the country pulls it’s head out, like Arizona did, I see no problem with any cop “profiling” even dandelions. After all, they might really be poppies! (I’m ROTFLMAO here.)
So? Hemp used to grow wild in TN up to 14 feet tall. Some people called it ditch weed.
Getting high on the plant would have been an effort. It was introduced as a crop to make rope, cloth, and paper before being outlawed.
Did the cops read them their Miranda rights?
Dave, glad to see you are still harassing the cops. I’m sad you haven’t done a story about the policemen that were recently killed in Arkansas by homegrown terrorists. That would be hysterical. The cop killers didn’t like authority either!
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YEP..
Think of all the business it would have killed.
we could make:
WALL BOARD, for building NOT CEMENT BOARDS.
SHOES.
CLOTHES..
OILS, for cooking and FUEL..
REPLACE 50% of the crops SHIPPED OUT from the USA.
MAKE REAL durable GOODS IN THE USA..NOT plastic-COTTON TYPE Clothes.
CANVAS that does not wear out..NOT PLASTIC SHEETS.
Wish I had some gold futures to sell to those cops. Har!
I have grass growing behind the cracks in the parking lot of my apartment building. Maybe the police should haul away the grass before some kid smokes it. My landlord won’t do any gardening.
LOL – see what stupidity does to a police force! I’d like to know how many murders, muggings, thefts and other serious stuff when on when these obsessed ‘serve and protect’ dudes did the weeds…..
Don’t they even screen these guys?
@ECA
Please, stop making sense. It confuses the conservatives.
Hey! Free weeding done by your police department! I’m getting tired of ripping out these prickly stalks, that look a bit like a MJ plant, but aren’t. Perhaps if enough citizens request the service. Officialdum will give up on being the Weed Nanny. And just let people grow whatever the heck they want to. Pit Bulls are far more dangerous, and they don’t stop anyone from growing and selling those!!
16,
Fun isnt it..
HOW many people use a micro wave to make instant meals..
OVER LEARNING HOW to do it on a stove.
How many KIDS(under 20) know how to COOK without a microwave?? because the person that NEEDS to be home IS WORKING.
Anyone notice all the sales on food? which means OLD products are being dropped for NEW MORE expensive food stuffs? ALL are going up 10-30%..