September 28, 2005

Mary Jane's Last Dance

Apparently everything in Bucks County is a-okay, because this strikes us as a ridiculous waste of time -- as well as a violation of free speech, but, hey, we're not a political blog here.

Read the full story, but here's some excerpts:

Middletown Detective Daniel Baranoski went shopping last week at Spencer's Gifts in the Oxford Valley Mall last week. [Editor's Note: Oh, that Bucks County Courier Times!]

Baranoski paid $64.62 for a "water bong," sometimes referred to as a hookah in the Middle East, and three posters depicting marijuana use.

He also bought a poster of three youngsters sitting on the floor in front of their mother's couch smoking a marijuana cigarette or joint. A pack of rolling papers, bag of marijuana and other joints are at their feet. The poster reads: "Child Hood" followed by "Johnny likes skinny girls, but he never turns down a fattie!"

On Monday night, Baranoski was back - this time with a search warrant.

By the time he left, he took away about $5,000 worth of merchandise either used to smoke marijuana or depict its use. On the same night, Bensalem detectives were over at the Spencer's Gifts at Neshaminy Mall seizing several bongs from that store.

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Detectives took shot glasses, dishes, bowls, Frisbees, CDs, magnets, sneakers, headbands, stationery, lighters, pins, bracelets, key chains, cookie cutters and dozens of other "marijuana" merchandise from the Oxford Valley store. The pieces to one chess set were various sized marijuana leaves.

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Police noted that before they served the search warrant they chased a half-dozen pre-teens and teens out of the store.

Then, they confiscated a "cigarette," sometimes referred to as a fag in the United Kingdom.

Items seized from mall shop [BCCT]

Posted by D-Mac on September 28, 2005 03:27 PM
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