[weegee]

Followup PING

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Fire! Ready! Aim!

[donna]

Who baked the cookies?

[JRandomFreeper]

My fair city. At least they let him go when it turned out there were no drugs, and didn't snowflake him.

/johnny

[Red Badger]

[Dr.Zoidberg]

No good deed shall go unpunished.

The kid needs to sue for false imprisonment. No crime was committed and he was deprived of his liberty without cause.

Sure the taxpayers will be the ones taking the hit, but if they are burned badly enough, maybe they will start holding these idiots to a the higher standard they should be already holding themselves.

[dead]

Authorities said then that "field tests" they conducted on the cookies showed traces of marijuana and LSD.

Assuming these "field tests" weren't a complete invention of "the authorities", I'd like to know exactly what these fields tests are, the frequency with which they produce incorrect positives, the number of people arrested because of these field tests, etc.

Of course, they'll never provide any of that. The cops will just drop it, act like it never happened and arrest the next chooch on the basis of their "field tests", which is probably just their belief that somebody looks guilty of something.

[rawhide]

On June 27, Mr. Phillips was videotaped delivering the snacks to Watauga police. He delivered more cookies to Blue Mound police Monday night and on Tuesday delivered another batch at Lake Worth. Officers there were notified by Blue Mound police officers that the cookies might be tainted.

Chief McGuire said a preliminary field test conducted on the chocolate chip cookies by police detected LSD. A canine was brought in and indicated drugs were inside Mr. Phillips' car.

When he was arrested, Mr. Phillips was carrying a list of 25 police agencies in Dallas and Tarrant counties. Thirteen of the names had been checked off. Officers in some of the jurisdictions, including Fort Worth and Watauga, ate the cookies and reported no ill effects.

Lake Worth sent the cookies to the medical examiner's officer for a more thorough review. Officials there conducted more stringent chemical tests and a microscopic examination as well as tests involving gas chromatography and mass spectrometry.

Blue Mound police also sent cookie samples to the ME's office and those, too, came back negative for drugs.

But Blue Mound police Lt. Thomas Cain said Thursday that while he respects and accepts the medical examiner's report, he is sure he smelled dope on the home-baked Toll House treats.

"They did have a pungent, rancid odor," Lt. Cain said. "They did have the odor of marijuana. I got within two feet of it; I could smell it."

Blue Mound officers also conducted their own field test that came back positive for marijuana.

"How do you explain it? I don't know," Lt. Cain said.

Be very careful if you get involved with the Blue Mound Police Dept. If this is representative of their field testing for drugs, then every case they have been involved in needs to have a thorough going over.

[traviskicks]

Blue Mound officers also conducted their own field test that came back positive for marijuana.

Libertarian ping! To be added or removed freepmail me or post a message here.

[traviskicks]

sure doesn’t give me confidence in the ability of these field ‘tests’...

[antiunion person]

Everyone is just so paranoid that when someone does a good thing, they assume the worst. You can blame for lawyers of our fair country for this crap. I believe the kid should sue the hell out of the police department and also have the field equipment banned from doing wrong in the future.

[evets]

not guilty

[Fundamentally Fair]

Double baco cheesbuger...it's for a cop!

[jmc813]

That’s to bad. When I read this story the other day, the visual of a bunch of cops tripping face made me literally LOL.

[meyer]

....Mr. Phillips was serving court-appointed community service with Mothers Against Drunk Driving when he delivered the cookies...

Somehow, "community service" and working with this fascist / prohibitionist group don't seem to fit together.

As for this case, they tried him without any concrete evidence. Is this a view of the typical "guilty until proven innocent" police mentality these days?

[Post Toasties]

They should have tested those cookies for his saliva or urine:)

[dragnet2]

This is nuts.

In the original story, these Texas law enforcement officials stated they could clearly smell marijuana from the cookies.

Dallas officials are now alleging the term "Black hole" is a racist term, now we have others arresting people for giving them cookies..

Is there something in the water there?

[edweena]

The cookies smelled “rancid”? That sounds more like spoiled butter than drugs.

[aruanan]

Authorities said then that "field tests" they conducted on the cookies showed traces of marijuana and LSD.

Field tests: "Well, we ate some of them and thought we got kinda high."

[microgood]

But Blue Mound police Lt. Thomas Cain said Thursday that while he respects and accepts the medical examiner's report, he is sure he smelled dope on the home-baked Toll House treats.

What a strange world we live in. Even when the cops are wrong, they are right. Maybe this Lt. needs to cut down on the crack himself if he really endorses the statement above.