On Jan 2, 2012, at 10:19 AM, John Sessoms wrote: > From: Larry Colen >> On Dec 31, 2011, at 10:19 PM, Joseph McAllister wrote: >> >>> On Dec 31, 2011, at 09:27 , John Sessoms wrote: >>> >>>> From: Joseph McAllister >>>> >>>>> On Dec 29, 2011, at 14:51 , John Sessoms wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> Several years ago, a nearby Sheriffs Departments made a large marijuana >>>>>> bust. So much so, that they parked a borrowed, surplus Army 5-ton truck >>>>>> behind their building filled with the evidence. When the case came to >>>>>> trial, the evidence was mostly missing. >>>>>> >>>>>> The subsequent investigation revealed a large number of other >>>>>> inadequacies in the department. >>>>>> >>>>>> Lacking an incinerator suitable for the purpose, the majority of the >>>>>> marijuana was simply buried in a local landfill. When the burial site >>>>>> was re-checked after they discovered the "evidence" in the back of the >>>>>> truck had gone missing, that marijuana was also missing. >>>>> You can't keep an pothead from his stash, man. Just not done. >>>> Yeah, but it's just disheartening when the cops are even dumber than the >>>> dopers. >>>> >>> Ya wanna think like a doper, ya gotta be like a doper. Both sides played >>> out as they were intended! >> Dumb? Wanna bet that the cops who buried the stash are the ones who went >> back and dug it up? > > No, it was not. It wasn't corruption, just stupidity. That sheriff's > department was straight, but they were dumber than a box of rocks. > > The Sheriff retired before the next election. He didn't even run in the > primary. Sheriff is an elected political office in NC. The Sheriff himself > doesn't have to be a trained police officer, only the deputies who work for > him do. > > The STATE police, FBI and DEA all investigated and cleared the department of > criminal complicity. They couldn't, and didn't try to, clear them of being > STUPID. > > They had a pretty good idea who *DID* dig it up, but by then they couldn't > find the *evidence* they needed to prosecute them.
Then it's classic case of "never attribute to malice what can be explained by incompetence". -- Larry Colen [email protected] sent from i4est -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
