Posted on 04/21/2022 12:33:09 AM PDT by Morgana
A Florida bride and her caterer face felony charges after they allegedly dosed unwitting wedding guests with a weed-laced menu, sending several to the hospital.
Now, the dazed and confused revelers are pressing charges.
Bride Danya Shea Glenny Svoboda, 42, and wedding caterer Joycelyn Montrinice Bryant, 31, were charged on April 18 with delivering marijuana, tampering with guests' food and misdemeanor culpable negligence.
Both parties turned themselves in to the Seminole County Sheriff's Department, have since been released and are scheduled for arraignment on June 7.
About 50 guest attended the February 19 wedding reception at The Springs Clubhouse in Longwood, which became a weed-fueled disaster after several unwitting guests helped themselves to marijuana-infused chocolate-covered strawberries, pudding 'shot' desserts and lasagna.
When police asked whether guests had requested or consented to the food offerings, groom Andrew Svoboda allegedly 'stared at Deputy Donald Schwaezman with a blank expression for a few moments before replying "no,"' according to the arrest warrant for his now-wife.
One guest told police that he'd texted the groom asking whether the food had been drugged after his wife fell ill and was taken to South Seminole Hospital - Andrew Svoboda allegedly told that guest that he didn't know.
Deputies took samples of food and silverware for testing, including a bowl, several glasses, a plate and a 'handful of lasagna [that] was taken directly from a large container of lasagna that was place out during the event.'
Meanwhile, many of the wedding guests were not feeling particularly mellow.
When concerned guests asked the best man, a Department of Justice employee, what was happening, he was allegedly unresponsive, police said.
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I had a similar thing happen to me. Brownies . The few times I smoked weed did nothing for me but the brownies did. It was like a breakdown between the dream mind and the waking mind. I did not enjoy the distraction.
And here I am making pecan sticky buns.
(Now, the dazed and confused revelers are pressing charges.)
As they should.
A certain Barney Miller episode comes to mind.🤔
Smoking cigarettes banned. Weed ok. What a world.
Wait...2 months to bring charges? And there’s still lasagna around to test?
Obviously, we’re not dealing with smart people here.
But even so — the classic advice for edibles is to just eat one of the gummy bears and see how it affects you. The big mistake is to eat a gummy bear, wait 15 minutes and say “It’s not affecting me, I’ll eat another” and perhaps, 15 minutes later, “I still don’t feel anything, I’ll eat a third one.” Bad things happen with stuff like that.
But a wedding? Lasagna? Strawberries? Pudding? Many people would chow down and eat their fill. Why not? To be unknowingly eating edibles and to just stuff your face with them is clearly going to be a big problem.
She looks happy...
The article makes it sound like the guests didn’t know about it. I would only imagine people were frightened if they started getting this ill and not know about the drugs.
Morons. While I believe each adult is free to choose what to put in his or her own body, NO ONE is free to make that choice for someone else.
42 an no judgment.
Half a lifetime ago I switched carriers that I worked for. After I dropped my truck at my old job and enjoyed three days at home I boarded the bus for a ride to Kansas City, Missouri. Now picture taking a bus ride from Lynchburg, Virginia to KC, Missouri that goes to NYC, Baltimore, Cleveland, Chicago, then Indianapolis, St Louis and finally KC with 3 bus switches thrown in.
Anyway, after departing Chicago there was a particularly happy young lady on the bus. She had been eating brownies since Chicago and was VERY happy by the time we hit St Louis. So happy she started handing brownies out to whoever wanted one. The fella sitting beside and the one ahead of me were recent driving school graduates headed for the same company I was headed to. I told them both not to take even a taste of a brownie. One guy didn’t listen.
When we got to KC we were taken to our motel and told our drug test would be the first thing the next day.
Yep, the fella that ate the brownies popped positive for pot. He had to pay his own way back home and try again with another company after the drugs got out of his system.
Moral of the story....be careful what you shove in yer pie hole.
I thought the story would include the catering staff really robbing the guests while they were incapacitated.
The arrest affidavit describes a number of guests as feeling ill and seeking medical help.
Joselyn the Caterer is pictured in the right photo. Bride is on the left.
I am sorry they didn’t have the mental wherewithall to put the brakes on this plan.
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