Tuesday, August 29, 2006

"Now to teach you boys a lessson, Officer Rabbit and I are going to sit here and make you boys smoke the whole bag..."
Photobucket - Video and Image Hosting Ah, you really can't make shit like this up!

...During law enforcement's briefing on how they were going to conduct the ATV sting Saturday, Goerdt heard two members of a rival news team talking about "something interesting" in front of the police station at 5315 Grand Ave... When that assignment was over, Goerdt returned to the police station and took a walk around the building. She found the marijuana plants. Although she said she didn't know that they were marijuana plants. She plucked one of the leaves
and brought it back to the newspaper. "I needed some evidence," she said. "I
didn't know if anyone would believe me. I didn't think it was a big deal. I just
thought it was rather amusing." Duluth City Gardner Tom Kasper was given the
leaf for inspection Monday and confirmed that it came from a marijuana
plant....

Kasper immediately traveled to the West Duluth police substation
to inform neighborhood supervising police Lt. John Beyer of the pot growing in
the front-yard planter. Beyer pointed out that he, his police officers and
the public use the backdoor entrance to the police station. The front door just
off busy Grand Avenue is usually locked and not used...

But this isn't the first time marijuana has been discovered growing in a
public place in Duluth. In 1990, a citizen pointed out to police that a 3-foot
marijuana plant was growing in the northern corner of the Civic Center courtyard
near City Hall.

Would these be classified as "insurgents" or a "sleeper cell" in the war on drugs? Does this constitute at a "siege"? I'll let Mike get into the 4th and 5th ammendment one-liners when he posts on it. Thanks to the Sludge Report for always keeping the Right distracted from substanitive things and on top of stories like this and the Chupacabra of Stephen King Country.

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