is placed in a holding cell containing Girl Scout Cookies, what do you think is going to happen? [img]smile.gif[/img]


Man in Holding Cell Succumbs to Cookies

CHESTER, Vt. (AP) -- A New Hampshire man being held by police was caught snacking on a handful of Girl Scout cookies and charged with larceny.

Ethan Frock, 30, of Keene, N.H., was riding in a car with his brother when they were stopped by police. They discovered that Frock was in possession of a small amount of marijuana.

He was taken to the Vermont State Police barracks in Rockingham and briefly kept in a storage room because the barracks lack a holding cell.

The room contained several boxes of Girl Scout cookies, and court documents state that police specifically told Frock to leave the cookies alone.

But Frock had a snack and was charged after police caught him. He pleaded guilty to marijuana possession and petit larceny, receiving a fine of $500.


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It would seem to me the petit larceny charge could be overturned on grounds of entrapment [img]graemlins/laugh2.gif[/img]

[ 03-05-2004, 05:42 PM: Message edited by: Rokenn ]

<font color=skyblue>Sounds like a setup.
Anybody that watched Sanford and Son would know that pot makes you desire to eat alot.

Is that why they put the seeds in Brownies?</font>

That's very true, but only after you've slept a few hours. :D

Blimey, that is entrapment alright.
If he lasted more than 5 minutes before tucking in he deserves a medal, not a conviction!

Fortunately that wouldn't happen here any more, in a bizarre act of being semi-sensible the government reclassified cannabis recently - it's still illegal but only on the same level as having prescription drugs without a scrip. They just confiscate it and send you on your way.

I'm not going to speculate on what happens to all the confiscated pot, but I know for a while in the borough I used to live in hard drugs were often found to be cut with fingerprinting powder :D

He was found guilty of marijuana possession and petit larceny ( whatever that is ) and was only fine $500? What a strange law that is.

Kakero, he had a small amount of a fairly harmless non-addictive plant, and ate a few cookies. $500 seems a bit harsh for that! He's hardly America's Most Wanted LOL.

Or is he?

http://cronus.com/images/ashcroft.jpg

Emm...from where I am, you can be jailed or even get a death by hanging sentense depending on how much drugs one person is carrying.

I guess different country view things differently.

Yeah I know the laws in your part of the world are very tough for that sort of thing. Fortunately that's not the case the world over. [img]smile.gif[/img]

As I said earlier, here in the UK it would just be confiscated, you wouldn't even be taken to a police station.

cruel and unusual punishment if you ask me.