Don’t speed with weed
Here’s a good rule to follow: When driving with 75 pounds of weed in the car, don’t speed.
Two Virginia men were arrested in Pocomoke, Md., on Wednesday night when Maryland State Police pulled them over for speeding and said they found 75 pounds of marijuana stashed in their car.
The trooper could smell the stink, police said, and called in a drug dog team for backup. The dogs sniffed out the bags filled with the drug, which were inside two duffel bags in the trunk.
The men were each charged with possessing more than 50 pounds of marijuana and possession with intent to distribute.
Men fight brake-biting squirrels
Two men accused of firing a blow dart and a bow and arrow at squirrels in the center of Lincoln, Neb., claimed they were retaliating against the tree dwellers who were biting through the brake lines of their vehicles, the Lincoln Star Journal reported.
The men were cited for discharging weapons in the city after neighbors saw them chasing the squirrels with weapons, police said. The two middle-aged men said they were attacking the squirrels in an effort to get them to stop chewing on the brakes.
Police said they weren’t good shots and no animals were harmed.
Man, that dude was baked
A British man was trying to grow marijuana in house, but baked himself to death instead, police said.
The 28-year-old assembled three aluminum foil-lined tents around pot plants and placed them under dozens of halogen lamps. When he was done laboring, he went to bed and never woke up. The powerful lamps sent the temperature soaring well above 100 degrees, and the overwhelming heat killed the man.
Friends broke into his house three days later and found the man dead in his bed. Police said they almost fainted when they entered the house. Oddly, no drugs were found in the man’s system.
A lesson not learned
A 54-year-old Vermont man served 20 years in prison for killing someone while driving under the influence. Within a month of his release, he wrecked a stolen car by driving it down an embankment and police said he had a blood alcohol content of .15, nearly twice the level at which a driver is deemed drunk in Vermont.
It was Douglas Gardner’s eighth DUI arrest.
“Your drinking is one issue,” a judge said before ordering Gardner held without bail. “The fact that you drink and get behind the wheel of a car makes it much worse.”
– Compiled by Freeman Klopott
