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K9 Officer Eats Hash Brownies, Hilarity Ensues
A Dearborn, MI police officer (ironically, a K9 handler), now retired, is in the news today for “bogarting” someone’s “stash”: Dearborn police declined to pursue criminal charges against an officer last year, even after the cop admitted to taking marijuana from criminal suspects and, with his wife, cooking it up in brownies. Apparently, he made some hash brownies, and “freaked out,” calling 911. I heard the 911 tape on the way in to work this AM, and it was absolutely batshit crazy. “We made brownies and I think we’re dead, I really do…” He continued to ask the operator if she knew the score of the Red Wings game, because he thought he was dreaming. As an added touch, the officer initially threw his wife under the … Read entire article »
Filed under: Democracy is Great!, Drug War Rants, Michigan
Junk Bonds & Junkets
+++ I fixed the links +++ The two have a common thread here in Michigan… If it’s not bad enough that the Michigan state pension fund is dominated by junk bonds, (Ford, General Motors), now the State intends to spend (by my estimate) close to $3000 per person, to send a delegation of 80 people to fucking Hawaii for a week – while simultaneously pressing for a new business tax to replace the repealed SBT, cutting services and laying off police officers, cutting school funding – the list goes on… And now they’re spending a quarter of a million dollars on a week-long junket to Hawaii. Many attendees are rarely, if ever present at pension meetings – this is troubling, but not as Oakland County Commissioner Mike Rogers, who opted … Read entire article »
Filed under: Democracy is Great!, Michigan