ORLY?
/bitter

I would've shoved it up my ass and saved it.

At least he was honest about it. He was probably hoping that he'd get better treatment if he said something rather than waiting for them to notice the mistake & get angry.

Still... how many of us would have gobbled that cake down instead of telling the cops? (That would have been able to tell what it was, that is. I wouldn't have known until it started kicking in.)

SuperCatBarf: I would've shoved it up my ass and saved it.

Hey, I wanna go to THAT jail!

Why did he only nibble it? I would have eaten the whole thing. It would have made the time served much more entertaining.

tokyogirl79: At least he was honest about it. He was probably hoping that he'd get better treatment if he said something rather than waiting for them to notice the mistake & get angry.

Still... how many of us would have gobbled that cake down instead of telling the cops? (That would have been able to tell what it was, that is. I wouldn't have known until it started kicking in.)

i can taste when a brownie is "special", though my wife can't. i think when you know the taste it's pretty easy to tell right away, just like any other herb (rosemary, sage, basil, etc.).

i would have to agree with the assessment that he was looking for better treatment. it'd be similar to finding a bank error in your favor. sure, you could spend it, but you know someone's going to find out sooner or later, and honesty is always the best policy.

i need to make some of these. i hate going to the movies anymore because i want to smoke while im watching the movie. ill bake before the movie, but after popcorn kicks in im all sober =(.

Uh...oops?

Arrested for growing pot in the Netherlands? I thought pot was legal there? Or am I confusing it with somewhere else?

samiam00: tokyogirl79: At least he was honest about it. He was probably hoping that he'd get better treatment if he said something rather than waiting for them to notice the mistake & get angry.

Still... how many of us would have gobbled that cake down instead of telling the cops? (That would have been able to tell what it was, that is. I wouldn't have known until it started kicking in.)

i can taste when a brownie is "special", though my wife can't. i think when you know the taste it's pretty easy to tell right away, just like any other herb (rosemary, sage, basil, etc.).

i would have to agree with the assessment that he was looking for better treatment. it'd be similar to finding a bank error in your favor. sure, you could spend it, but you know someone's going to find out sooner or later, and honesty is always the best policy.

My bet is that he just didn't feel like getting high right then and there. Never been in one, but I imagine a jail cell is a bit of a buzzkill. Besides... can you imagine getting the munchies and not being able to go out and get some junk food? Eeesh.

Hallo dere! It's me Captain Stefan Van Der Haast Graacht of the Amsterdam Police viz my partner - and also, I'm very happy to say, my lover - Ronald.

SuperCatBarf: I would've shoved it up my ass and saved it.

You've said that in every thread this year, including the one about the 747.

LordJiro: Arrested for growing pot in the Netherlands? I thought pot was legal there? Or am I confusing it with somewhere else?

It's still a controlled substance there. Can't grow it or possess it.

You guys need better heroes. I'd've given this a Dumbass tag.

Does this remind anybody else of a biatcharlie Chaplin did?


Except Chaplin got cracked out of his gourd. Man, it's been years since I saw that. Does anybody know what I'm talking about, or have I gone nuts?

12inpianist: biatcharlie

Haven't gotten filtered in a while. "...a bit that Charlie..."

Luthiel

Never been in one, but I imagine a jail cell is a bit of a buzzkill.

Depends on the circumstances to be quite honest, sometimes holding cells can be an awesome night, least from my experience, if you run out of smokes everyone has some, if you have smokes handing out one or two is always met with an appreciative thanks etc.

Even though anti-smoking bylaws are in effect most RCMP will just let you do it. Which is nice, you get to meet some interesting people whom just like you made a mistake or two.

I've met some lifelong friends in holding cells, just a few folk who were picked up for silly things like rowdy behaviour at a sporting event, etc.

It wouldn't have helped his case if he was still high hours after being arrested

SuperDuper28: LordJiro: Arrested for growing pot in the Netherlands? I thought pot was legal there? Or am I confusing it with somewhere else?

It's still a controlled substance there. Can't grow it or possess it.

You can grow or possess quantities suited 'for personal use'. It's still illegal, but the policy of non-prosecution has been enshrined in jurisprudence. Growing up to 5 plants, and possessing up to 5 grams of cannabis won't lead to prosecution, if you give up the goods. Smoking in the streets might be prohibited by local authorities, so you might get ticketed.

The cake is a lie gets you high

=Smidge=

LordJiro: Arrested for growing pot in the Netherlands? I thought pot was legal there? Or am I confusing it with somewhere else?

No, pot is officially still illegal, mostly because of international treaties. However, you can semi-legally sell it and the city council in every town allows a certain number of 'coffee shops'. You can't however, grow more than 5 plants or carry more than 5 grams on you. There is also a very low limit on how much a coffee shop can have in stock.

This leads to the really strange situation that coffeeshops can legally sell pot, but there is no legal way for them to buy it or store significant amounts of it. Usually the shops have a small cache of pot they sell and a larger quantity 'nearby' so they can replenish their stores.

Now and again the discussion about complete legalisation resurfaces, lots of politicians and even police chiefs are in favour of complete legalisation but thus far we're still in this weird in-between state.

LordJiro: Arrested for growing pot in the Netherlands? I thought pot was legal there? Or am I confusing it with somewhere else?

BorgDrone: No, pot is officially still illegal, mostly because of international treaties. However, you can semi-legally sell it and the city council in every town allows a certain number of 'coffee shops'. You can't however, grow more than 5 plants or carry more than 5 grams on you. There is also a very low limit on how much a coffee shop can have in stock.

If my memory serves me correctly, the city determines how much pot a coffee shop can store without getting in trouble (something like 500 grams officially).

And the guy in the article probably grew A LOT, or otherwise he wouldn't be in jail. Either that or he was importing large quantities of foreign pot.
A friend of mine got nabbed once with 50 plants growing on his (rather sizable) balcony. He hadn't realized that his neighbor was a policeman :) He got fined 500 guilders (about $160) and that was the end of it.

BorgDrone: This leads to the really strange situation that coffeeshops can legally sell pot, but there is no legal way for them to buy it or store significant amounts of it.

The Dutch version of "don't ask, don't tell."

we're just throwing the hero tag around these days. Lost all its meaning

I decided to spend part of my day posting "festivus miracle", non-sequitor posts in fark, but damn- that really is a festivus miracle.

He probably figured, that the cops were trying to set him up. They could charge with with possesion, destruction of evidence and probably a whole load of other stuff.

That reminds me of the time my cousin got arrested for possession of marijuana. He told me the story after he sold me a bag and I think we smoked half of it before I left. He got pulled over and his truck smelled of freshly smoked cannabis. The cop searched him and found a bag on him. Anyway, the cop told him that he should have hidden the bag under his sack because "Unless we think you have a weapon, we never search there." Anyway, they threw him into the clink and because he was out of smokes, they gave him a bag of loose tobacco and some papers that someone had left behind, and commented, "You do know how to roll don't you? That's what you're in for." Needless to say, he did. Anyway, the moral of this story is that if you buy pot from my cousin than smoke it with him, he'll tell you a story to convince your paranoid ass to drive off with a bag of dope under your nuts.

/true story.

Flange!: He probably figured, that the cops were trying to set him up. They could charge with with possesion, destruction of evidence and probably a whole load of other stuff.

I'm not so sure a charge would stick when they gave it to him as part of his lunch. But he prolly thought that they were farkin with him.

Flange!: He probably figured, that the cops were trying to set him up. They could charge with with possesion, destruction of evidence and probably a whole load of other stuff.

this was in the netherlands, so probably not.

The charges don't have to stick to make them a giant pain in the ass. How much money would you spend just on the lawyer to defend yourself?

I've seen good cops, but I've also seen bad cops that do crap like this.

So were the jailers arrested for dealing? The lunch trustee is culpable as well.

In America you could eat it demand hospital care and then sue.

FeeltheIllinoise: we're just throwing the hero tag around these days. Lost all its meaning

Catch.

someone got into the Christmas baked goodies

I agree with random stranger, someone farked up the tag. Unless the tag is for the officer serving him lunch... I wonder....

If that happened to me, I'd freak out and start thinking that they wanted their drug test to be 100% accurate..

/Paranoid

12inpianist: Does this remind anybody else of a biatcharlie Chaplin did?


Except Chaplin got cracked out of his gourd. Man, it's been years since I saw that. Does anybody know what I'm talking about, or have I gone nuts?

Modern Times. Probably one of my favourite sequences in that whole film.

That's cool. They store evidence just anywhere. I would have thought it would have been in like say an evidence room or something, unless maybe the cops were planning on having it with their coffee. oops.

eat it, freak out, sue, collect $$$, buy hookers.

Flange!: The charges don't have to stick to make them a giant pain in the ass. How much money would you spend just on the lawyer to defend yourself? zero

I've seen good cops, but I've also seen bad cops that do crap like this.

In my experience, the type of people that grow pot don't pay one red cent for an attorney. Although there is theoretically money in it, we all know people that have grown pott- how many of them are loaded or living on the high hog?(pun intended). Anyway, if you're suggesting that there are cops that would plant evidence, I can't really say. But if cops gave it to him in a jail and then charged him with possession, and these facts were known to the judge, the charges wouldn't stick, which means that his defense attorney, paid for by Joe Taxpayer, would file a motion to dismiss and that would be the end of it. Lawyers, in theory, can cost a lot for the people that actually pay them, but a motion to dismiss is nothing- particularly since his attorney would be paid a flat fee to begin with to defend the guy, and wouldn't get another red cent because of some additional charges. That is why public defenders always want to settle- they have to go to trial if the defendant wants to, but in most states, they get the same amount whether they settle or go to trial. I realize this article is about another country- I'm responding to a comment from an American farker about seeing bad cops that would do this.

Eat the cake Annie Mae.
jk

Eat the cake Annie Mae.
Anna Mae

jk

gross misuse of the Hero tag

MurphyManifesto: Modern Times. Probably one of my favourite sequences in that whole film.

Modern Times. Thank you. I saw that at the Egyptian Theatre when I was a kid. They had an organ repaired, and had just reinstalled it under the main screen. To celebrate, they showed some Chaplin. They brought in an old timer to play the organ. Good times were had by all.

Another vote for the Dumbass tag. Even if I wanted to kiss-ass with the coppers, I'd have eaten at least half of the cake (or more, just make sure I leave enough to hand back) before "noticing" that something was different in it.

"Nibbled"? What a puss.

mmmm, only here to say I am going to amsterdam the day after christmas and I hope to avoid any such shenanigans. Though I look forward to the culinary mastery specific to that fair city.

Eating hash is definitely not the same high as smoking a joint. I wouldn't want to eat hash in jail. I'd be passed out for days. Not a good thing to be totally oblivious in jail.

Yeah but will it affect the taste?

Wondering how the incident might affect the 'other case' -- do they have similar 'chain of custody' rules ??
Smart defense attorney - "What? Some farker ATE the state's evidence?"

\G.O.O.J.F hilarity guaranteed.