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User ID: 844465 United States 05/06/2010 10:58 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Texas Cops Need Help Getting Rid Of 200,000 Pounds Of Weed The Brooks County Sheriff's Department has a marijuana problem. They've got 200,000 pounds of pot, and they're complaining that it would be too expensive to destroy it. "This is a problem that doesn't seem to be going away and anything we can get to help us to dispose of these cases once they're done and to get ready for the next one that are coming in would be a great help," said Deputy Daniel Davila. Something tells me Toke of the Town readers could be of great assistance to the deputy. After all, at a trying time like this, we all have to pitch in, people! All of the confiscated cannabis comes from drug cases over the past decade, reports Manuel De La Rosa at KIII-TV. And for now, all that unwanted weed sits in some storage trailers, awaiting an uncertain fate. The marijuana dates back as far as 2000. According to authorities, the previous sheriff either didn't keep good records, or didn't get destruction orders from judges. It's a priority for the current sheriff to get rid of the hundreds of thousands of pounds of pot. Deputies destroyed some of the bundles of bud with two visits to the Department of Public Safety incinerator in McAllen, Texas last year, but it cost them nearly $30,000. The problem seems to be unwrapping the plastic off the marijuana, commonly used by Mexican drug smugglers, and Brooks County just doesn't have the manpower to do that. The county has a small sheriff's department, with only seven patrol officers and one criminal investigator. "(It's) very time consuming," Deputy Davila said. "Probably for preparation to get it ready a week or more, whatever trailers we are going to use to transport it up there, and it would take several officers especially to remove the plastic from the contraband." Just for the past 16 months, Brooks County has started keeping more marijuana seized from cases under Sheriff Rey Rodriguez. Already, they've filled two trailers with pot. The problem is, the dank deluge continues; the cannabis cases keep coming in, and the weed just stacks up higher and higher. The only place deputies can currently destroy the pot is at the DPS Lab in McAllen, but plans are afoot to pool resources in the Coastal Bend to destroy the weed locally. County officials believe that would be less costly and might solve their marijuana storage problems. [ link to www.tokeofthetown.com] |
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Debaser nli User ID: 568994 Canada 05/06/2010 11:31 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Texas Cops Need Help Getting Rid Of 200,000 Pounds Of Weed I'll volunteer my services! :5: |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 962582 China 05/06/2010 11:33 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Texas Cops Need Help Getting Rid Of 200,000 Pounds Of Weed I'll volunteer my services! :5:
Quoting: Debaser nli 568994Count me in |
dereistic
User ID: 846424 United Kingdom 05/06/2010 11:33 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Texas Cops Need Help Getting Rid Of 200,000 Pounds Of Weed I'm in Texas. Maybe I should make my to Brooks County to help them out. "And as things fell apart, nobody paid much attention" |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 962798 India 05/06/2010 11:38 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Texas Cops Need Help Getting Rid Of 200,000 Pounds Of Weed just pour alcohol oer it and burn.Call all the music fans.I think they conduct one music festival in texas every april.Call it in may and burn the weed.Let's produce great music |
weegie
User ID: 960186 United Kingdom 05/06/2010 02:15 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Texas Cops Need Help Getting Rid Of 200,000 Pounds Of Weed They've had some of it since the year 2000...and NOBODY has found time in TEN years to take the plastic off?!?!?!? |
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UtahApoc
User ID: 882294 United States 05/06/2010 02:17 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Texas Cops Need Help Getting Rid Of 200,000 Pounds Of Weed The Brooks County Sheriff's Department has a marijuana problem. They've got 200,000* pounds of pot, and they're complaining that it would be too expensive to destroy it.
* as of yesterday, today's total is 150,000 |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 802683 United States 05/06/2010 02:19 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Texas Cops Need Help Getting Rid Of 200,000 Pounds Of Weed Well, if they don't want to smoke it, why not turn it into fuel, food, building materials, or something constructive rather than flush valuable resources down our already gaping (proverbial not literal) sewer |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 959446 Australia 05/06/2010 02:20 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Texas Cops Need Help Getting Rid Of 200,000 Pounds Of Weed just pour alcohol oer it and burn.Call all the music fans.I think they conduct one music festival in texas every april.Call it in may and burn the weed.Let's produce great music
Quoting: Anonymous Coward 962798Nah they cant burn the plastic see, the enviroMENTALists who now own the planet have to have it done properly so as to not hurt the pigeons. |
Ori
User ID: 962892 United Kingdom 05/06/2010 02:22 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Texas Cops Need Help Getting Rid Of 200,000 Pounds Of Weed I'm in Texas. Maybe I should make my to Brooks County to help them out.
Quoting: dereisticLet's go... "And as I fell apart, nobody paid much attention" |
Bugeater
User ID: 943039 United States 05/06/2010 02:22 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Texas Cops Need Help Getting Rid Of 200,000 Pounds Of Weed Drop it on the oil in the gulf. |
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GUANO
User ID: 912964 United States 05/06/2010 02:25 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Texas Cops Need Help Getting Rid Of 200,000 Pounds Of Weed i wouldn't smoke that nasty shit. it's probably years old. Total Protonic Reversal... |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 962924 United States 05/06/2010 02:29 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Texas Cops Need Help Getting Rid Of 200,000 Pounds Of Weed Just spread it out over farmland and compost it. It's full of phosphates and other nutrients. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 939568 United States 05/06/2010 02:32 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Texas Cops Need Help Getting Rid Of 200,000 Pounds Of Weed Let's see... I can safely and effectively burn about 1/4 oz per week. Guess it'll take me about 185,000 years to burn it all. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 723406 United States 05/06/2010 02:34 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Texas Cops Need Help Getting Rid Of 200,000 Pounds Of Weed Dump it on the oil spill and let the potheads smoke whatever makes it to the beach. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 959446 Australia 05/06/2010 02:35 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Texas Cops Need Help Getting Rid Of 200,000 Pounds Of Weed Dump it on the oil spill and let the potheads smoke whatever makes it to the beach.
Quoting: Anonymous Coward 723406Maybe as its dry, they could soak the oil up with it? |
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me too User ID: 957107 United States 05/06/2010 02:36 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Texas Cops Need Help Getting Rid Of 200,000 Pounds Of Weed Well, if they don't want to smoke it, why not turn it into fuel, food, building materials, or something constructive rather than flush valuable resources down our already gaping (proverbial not literal) sewer
Quoting: Anonymous Coward 802683well, why don't they let all the non-violent pot "criminals" go and give each of them a couple pounds each as a grub stake.. of course, you'd have to be awfullly fair minded to consider that, huh? and it'd make more room in the prisons for those violent offenders who really need being put away...? |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 874848 United States 05/06/2010 02:37 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Texas Cops Need Help Getting Rid Of 200,000 Pounds Of Weed Drop it on the oil in the gulf.
Quoting: Bugeater Capital idea ! Better than burning it ! |
Rev. Moon Jew
User ID: 798834 United States 05/06/2010 02:38 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Texas Cops Need Help Getting Rid Of 200,000 Pounds Of Weed They should flood the local market with it at a super low price (it's probably dirty mexi anyway) - this would raise money for the state and put the Mexican drug runners out of business. Or, they could donate it to Burning Man for the annual bonfire. "Imagination is more important than knowledge" - Albert Einstein
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 939568 United States 05/06/2010 02:38 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Texas Cops Need Help Getting Rid Of 200,000 Pounds Of Weed In the late 70's the sheriff dept in Harrison County, MS had a similar problem. They decided to take the stuff out in the woods, pour diesel on it and burn it. The deputies left after starting the fire and every pothead in the county was there hiding in the woods to put out the fire and grab the weed. One friend of mine stuffed her VW bug full. Lots of people smoked the stuff though it smelled and tasted like diesel. |
unohu69
User ID: 957314 United States 05/06/2010 02:39 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Texas Cops Need Help Getting Rid Of 200,000 Pounds Of Weed I'll be home all week, I will take delivery ASAP. Thank you. Please, dis-regard 90% of what I say as pure sarcasm...The rest is conviction...You Decide Which Is Which...
"Its My Mission To Disrupt & Annoy, Whenever I Can- Barry (StorageWars) |
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User ID: 962930 United Kingdom 05/06/2010 02:44 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Texas Cops Need Help Getting Rid Of 200,000 Pounds Of Weed My country needs me, I'll step up to the plate. Zec 12:3 And in that day will I make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all people: all that burden themselves with it shall be cut in pieces, though all the people of the earth be gathered together against it. Psa 9:17 The wicked shall be turned into hell, [and] all the nations that forget God. Jer 6:2 I have likened the daughter of Zion to a comely and delicate [woman]. STOCK UP NOW. You should have at least 6 months worth of basics for every member of your household. Stay away from crowds when trouble starts, do not forget water storage, tobacco is worth more than gold or silver, and be kind to hungry children. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 958283 United States 05/06/2010 02:44 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Texas Cops Need Help Getting Rid Of 200,000 Pounds Of Weed I have a huge burn barrel. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 962914 United States 05/06/2010 02:48 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Texas Cops Need Help Getting Rid Of 200,000 Pounds Of Weed Can't we just move along and separate medical marijuana from hemp? No, I suppose it's the correct thing to oppose such nonsense. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 950244 Brazil 05/06/2010 02:51 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Texas Cops Need Help Getting Rid Of 200,000 Pounds Of Weed :USFlag: My country needs me, I'll step up to the plate. Quoting: 9teen.47™Chick.com says thats cool? |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 799874 United Kingdom 05/06/2010 02:54 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Texas Cops Need Help Getting Rid Of 200,000 Pounds Of Weed I'll volunteer my services! :5:
Quoting: Debaser nli 568994+1 further reinforces my view that the pigs are fucking stupid and dont want to see people happy |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 373696 United States 05/06/2010 02:55 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Texas Cops Need Help Getting Rid Of 200,000 Pounds Of Weed Can't we just move along and separate medical marijuana from hemp? No, I suppose it's the correct thing to oppose such nonsense.
Quoting: Anonymous Coward 962914+1 There's a booming market for that stuff. Sell it to legal dispensaries and they could hire a couple more deputies. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 731195 United States 05/06/2010 02:58 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Texas Cops Need Help Getting Rid Of 200,000 Pounds Of Weed New occupation: "Jr. Plastic Unwrapper, Marijuana"
Then after awhile, they could be a "Sr. Unwrapper, Contraband"... and then eventually graduate to "Director of Unwrapping". |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 643200 United States 05/06/2010 02:58 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Texas Cops Need Help Getting Rid Of 200,000 Pounds Of Weed Heck, I'll even take the seeds!! (I've got a nice secluded plot of land) |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 799874 United Kingdom 05/06/2010 03:08 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Texas Cops Need Help Getting Rid Of 200,000 Pounds Of Weed (I've got a nice secluded plot of land) Quoting: Anonymous Coward 643200 |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 500063 United States 05/06/2010 03:21 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Texas Cops Need Help Getting Rid Of 200,000 Pounds Of Weed Just spread it out over farmland and compost it. It's full of phosphates and other nutrients.
Quoting: Anonymous Coward 962924Yes! That stuff is grown with more nutrients than most of our vegetables that we get in the grocery store. It would make really great compost. |
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