Pot raid at school turns up tomatoes (Our Drug Warriors In Action!)

Santa Fe New Mexican ^ | Tom Sharpe

[Notary Sojac]

Anybody shoots at an unmarked, gun toting helicopter repeatedly buzzing a school, and I'm on the jury, there's no conviction.

[KarlInOhio]

Did they shoot the class's guinea pig just to show them who's boss?

[battlecry]

Yes, because a raid after school hours to protect the students would be too much to ask of our fearless protectors.

[MEGoody]

Gotta have the tomatoes to make the salsa to feed the potheads suffering the munchies.

[Notary Sojac]

I'm not even really gung ho about drug legalization. If the citizens of New Mexico or any other state want to keep pot illegal, that's fine with me.

But can we please keep the gun-toting helicopters and the armored cars out of the hands of the Lt. Frank Drebins and the Deputy Fifes??

[old curmudgeon]

I hate to break the news to you, but it is a federal crime to shoot at any aircraft, regardless of what it is doing.

Some of them have awesome firepower. Only a moron would shoot at one.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

How many dogs did they shoot?

If there weren't any dogs there, did they go to adjacent houses and shoot their dogs?

Proper drug enforcement requires the shooting of as many dogs as possible.

[Red Badger]

Yes, the helo could have been full of Islamic Jihadis...oop!......insurgents......................

[MARTIAL MONK]

The only place in Española where they don't grow pot.

[GonzoGOP]

I don't know about Tomatoes, but when i was in high school they used to have drug dogs walk the halls between classes to sniff the lockers. As a joke we shoved bacon through the slots of a guys locker. Dogs found that no problem.

Of course 25 years ago the cops weren't quite so gun happy as they are now. Today a particle joke like that could get a bunch of people shot.

[Notary Sojac]

it is a federal crime to shoot at any aircraft

Yes it is.

I would still vote to acquit.

[Huck]

LOL!!!

[stuartcr]

What a waste of resources. They probably could have just flown more to the south, and found illegals coming across.

[NonValueAdded]

They picked a time when school was in session and children were present??? If I had a kid in that school I’d be at the governor’s office with a film crew demanding some scalps.

[Wee-Weed Up]

That’s interesting how they chose to raid during the middle of school while children are present. Whomever was in charge of this should be suspended due to incompetency.

[maine yankee]

‘Then other vehicles arrived and four men wearing bullet-proof vests, but without any visible insignias or uniforms’

Yoy’re OK with this ?

[Charlespg]

unmarked copter and armed men with no badges and Id

I might assume koran animals and act first

[swain_forkbeard]

“I hate to break the news to you, but it is a federal crime to shoot at any aircraft, regardless of what it is doing.”

If on 9/11, fighters were ordered to shoot down a hijacked commercial aircraft, would THAT have been a federal crime?

[Lurker]

One person with a decent elk rifle could knock down every helicopter the cops have. I wouldn’t worry until they called in the NG.

[Notary Sojac]

If I were a parent I would also ask the school, “Four men wearing bullet-proof vests, but without any visible insignias or uniforms” show up at your door. You just let them in without ID or a warrant?