Posted on 03/10/2010 7:54:08 AM PST by JoeProBono
WICHITA, Kan., March 9 (UPI) -- Kansas authorities said an injured man pulled over during a traffic stop told officers he was beaten for using Monopoly money to purchase drugs.
The Wichita Police Department said the 33-year-old man, whose name was not released, was bleeding from the head when he was pulled over Thursday and told officers he had recently used Monopoly money to purchase several hundred dollars worth of crack cocaine, KSDK-TV, St. Louis, Mo., reported Tuesday.
"The man from whom he had bought the drugs was upset and invited him over to his house and upon arrival struck him in the head several times with a handgun and other people jumped into the fray," police spokesman Gordon Bassham said.
Police said the victim's injuries were not life threatening and he has stopped cooperating with the investigation. However, officers said they are still searching for the man's attackers.
"That was not a get-out-of-jail-free card," Bassham said.
Federal employee?
That’s what happens when you roll the dice. Go To Jail, go directly to jail, do not pass GO, do not collect $200.
But he isn’t an addict...just misunderstood. If drugs were legal he wouldn’t need to use monopoly money./s
The “drugs” were probably really Baking Soda...
When assorted substances (1950s-1960s) were legal over the counter (various forms of speed), the junkies still broke into homes to pay for their cheap and legal fix.
Surely this is satire. Lol! Not sure which person is brighter, the one that actually took the monopoly money for drugs or the guy that went over to the house of the man he scammed.
He used monopoly money to buy drugs?
And then went over to the dealer’s house at the dealer’s request to “discuss” it?? LOL! He is lucky he didn’t end up under the boardwalk.
The dealer was pissed that he also didn’t get 3 hotels on Boardwalk and Reading Railroad in the deal.
Yeah,some people just can`t take a joke
Wow.
Brilliant!
The guy is just ahead of his time. Soon REAL money will be worth monopoly money.
Okay, that last one was a stretch.
True Story! In 1960 I was in Korea. Troops uses MPC as money and it was changed without notice. So three enterprising troops bought Monoply games, kept the money and threw the games away. The next time the MPC was changed they went to the ville and indulged according to their means.
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