Sunday, May 23, 2010
Will the cops mow your lawn, too?
The police officers in Corpus Christi Texas, in a moment of fine civic pride, spent a few hours the other day weeding a local park. Sadly, someone had to tell them what they were pulling out was not marijuana.
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.Some poor little kid is going to get a beatdown when the cops get his name.
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.
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