Potburger: Cops Given Burgers Laced with Marijuana

• NiteWhite
  February 19th, 2008 at 9:33 pm

  I’m surprised about certain things in this story:

  1) Burger King employees usually cant afford to throw away weed (which mostly is the most expensive herb in the world per lb., unless it’s schwag which it probably was)

  2) The obese police officer would NOT have died unless he was laughing too hard and had a heart attack.

  3) Judge John Pope looks like Dumbledork.

  4) The police officer was crying over the ordeal - and he actually talked like a stoner.

• roger
  February 19th, 2008 at 10:07 pm

  Just let the cop take a dump on a burger and feed it to them and call it a day.

• NyaR
  February 19th, 2008 at 10:07 pm

  The thing is, and this is very important, you cant “lace” a burger with weed. You cant simply eat unprocessed marijuana and get high, the buds must be baked to turn THC into an edible form. Or the THC needs something to bond to, like alcohol or fat. These guys just sprinkled weed on the burger, anyone who consumed it would have green poo, and no intoxication.

• B
  February 19th, 2008 at 10:46 pm

  Some people are seriously and sometimes dangerously allergic to pot. It can cause a lot of things from panic attacks to seizures. I don’t think it’s funny and I don’t think those kids got what they deserved. In my mind, although I’m completely for the legalization of all marijuana products, what they did was poison someone.

• dd
  February 19th, 2008 at 11:00 pm

  or they could’ve cooked it on the burger, where it bound with the fat like you mentioned…

• Jman
  February 19th, 2008 at 11:19 pm

  naw i eat weeed and it gets me high. not a placebo when u do till u feel lot and lasts forever:)

• Lana
  February 19th, 2008 at 11:54 pm

  Wow, that officer needs to lighten up..Sure he had every right to get pissed, but crying?? Come on. You got high, so what. Relax.

  Oh and that judge looks like a stoner, hence such a lenient punishment

• VonSkippy
  February 19th, 2008 at 11:58 pm

  Just what Officer McChubby needs - the munchies.

• Thespian24601
  February 20th, 2008 at 1:02 am

  Haha. Nice, VonSkippy.

• Moodindigo
  February 20th, 2008 at 4:20 am

  I don’t understand why the report kept saying it was personal. Officer: “We have families”. What’s that got to do with anything?

  Maybe it will teach him to do his job rather than spending time on duty in Burger King. Then maybe he could drop a few pounds and be able to run down a perp or two.

  BTW, can anyone else see the face in the sesame seeds on the burger at the beginning of the report?

• sebenak
  February 20th, 2008 at 5:09 am

  That greasy burger did them more harm than the dope…
  I saw the face in the seeds, WTF?

• ben
  February 20th, 2008 at 10:58 am

  Having spent 15 years in the restaurant industry any human pestilence (cops, bullies, serial-non-tippers, etc.) that asks the people they piss off daily to feed them is so stupid they deserve exactly what they get. He’s lucky is was just pot.

  If you want to make a living enforcing ridiculous speed limits and generally doing taxation through ticketing then you deserve whatever you get. Maybe he’ll keep that in mind the next time he’s giving a 20 minute lecture to someone doing 30 in a 25.

  What a sniveling fat turd.

• roger
  February 20th, 2008 at 3:38 pm

  ben:

  He doesn’t set the speed limits, he just enforces them. Nobody likes a cop who gives a 20 minute lecture, but what makes you think this is such a cop? This could be the guy that you call when someone is trying to rape your mother, you know, the guy who is willing to risk taking a bullet when you run sniveling and call 911. And just because you don’t like someone doesn’t give you the right to put what you want in their food. Bullies surely are a form of human pestilence, but losers who claim they are dispensing some sort of vigilantism by messing with people’s food surely rank very high as far as human pestilence goes, and deserve to be force-fed the excrement of their victims.

  Moodindigo: as with any other job, police officers take lunch breaks.

• CausticGit
  February 20th, 2008 at 10:09 pm

  So, the real danger is if the cops got into their car and tried to drive, tried using their guns, etc. People sitting in one place and getting high aren’t a problem. If they still thought they were on duty, you could have a problem.

  But fer chrissakes, it’s a JOKE!

• Ali
  February 21st, 2008 at 12:14 am

  You know, if you’re going to be a cop and you’re going to order something at a fast food restaurant, you need to expect it to be tampered with. At least it was just weed. Remember the Dead Kennedy’s song “DMSO”? I have nothing against cops, but this guy was seriously overreacting to what was done to him and his partner.

  As for Burger King employees not being able to afford to waste pot, that’s very true. But an ounce of pot is $50-100. Seeing a cop get high for reasons completely unknown to them is just not $100 worth of funny, that’s for sure.

  But I do know one thing. These cops are being trained in some kind of magical world where they think pot will ruin peoples’ lives. Regardless of what that cop said, there was a very, VERY minuscule chance that he or his fellow officer could have died or killed anyone that evening. There are several reasons why. First, pot has never killed anyone. Secondly, most drug related car accidents that involve pot are in combination with other drugs. The strongest point on this, though, that marijuana has a highly recognizable high, whether you’ve smoked before or not. If you feel weird or tired or sick on the road, you pull over and you decide not to use a firearm. The only reason anyone ever drives while high on pot is because they intended to. Pot does not rob you of consciousness or cause you to hallucinate. I hate having to break this to people.

• sebenak
  February 21st, 2008 at 4:44 am

  I think the officer is actually weeping because his outdated “Reefer Madness” concept of marijuana has come into conflict with the reality of the situation (the judge’s decision) and he is unable to reconcile the discrepancy. He doesn’t recognize this though, and instead tries to verbalize his anguish with that gibberish about “family”.

  NiteWhite- dumbledork, perfect lmao.

• mikie
  February 21st, 2008 at 12:34 pm

  I think it’s important to question why we’re so quick to throw people in jail. I don’t see any reason that should have even been in question.

• roger
  February 21st, 2008 at 5:25 pm

  I think some people here are missing the point. Whether or not YOU think marijuana is a harmless drug, YOU do not have the right to give it to others without their permission. Just as YOU may think you are are quite attractive and your genitals pose no physical harm to others, you have no right to rub them against strangers.

  So the cop is driving down the street and starts having strange and unfamiliar feelings from the weed. He has no idea its weed. He has no idea whats going on, for all he knows its PCP or a stroke. I can see how this would be a frightening experience. He’s a victim, and the justice system didn’t recognize it. He has a right to be a little choked up.

  Those punks are lucky he didn’t step back in the kitchen and crush their faces with handle of his revolver. You don’t mess with another man’s food, punks.

  To all you filth who say “that’s what you gotta expect, being a cop”. Remember that when your sister is being raped, or when someone beats you up and steals your weed. If the cop says to you “you’re nothing but a burger flippin’ loser w/ authority issues, tough luck”, then hey, thats what ya gotta expect, being a vermin.

• Endran
  February 25th, 2008 at 8:27 pm

  well said, roger. how would the same posters felt if it was their significant other, who was getting a mickey slipped in their drink just because some punk at the bar did not like their vocation. fuck that.

• Jim Graves
  March 7th, 2008 at 2:57 pm

  The perps don’t deserve to thrown into prison. What they did was stupid but he intoxicating effects of low grade marijuana are mild. His health was not in jeopardy. His obesity is another matter entirely. A man with that much excess fat is at risk for diabetes, heart disease, etc. How is this man supposed to protect or serve me. Why should my taxes pay for his health care when he works a job that requires, at least, a modest level of fitness?

  Probation is not a slap on the wrist. Only people who have never been on probation would consider it as such. Those kids are not free. Their movement is restricted and they will most likely be drug tested. They will also have to make monthly visits to see their probation officers and pay a fee each time. Their PO has the right to show up at their house any time he wants and to search the premises. Their carefree stoner days of watching Futurama and ordering pizza are over.

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