A man's prank played on his mom lead to marijuana arrests

[Champ]

LA VISTA, Neb. - A joke a man played on his mom went to pot. A 22-year-old man walked into a gas station on Sunday and told the clerk that he had a gun. The clerk wasn't worried because she was his mother.

According to a police account, another customer overheard the man and, not knowing it was a joke, called authorities. Upon arriving at the station, officers found the prankster and a friend in the parking lot.

The officers smelled marijuana, and a search turned up a quarter-pound of pot and hundreds of dollars in cash. The men were arrested for drug possession.

The two men are on parole and knew they would be sent back to prison for a conviction. In a phone call, one of them asked a girlfriend to tell police that the marijuana was hers.

The woman agreed and went to the police station and said the pot was hers. But police knew the story was false because the men's call to the woman was recorded.

She was arrested for false reporting.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=816&ncid=816&e=2&u=/ap/20041130/ap_on_fe_st/gag_backfires

[YDogg]

1. This from a red ...

... stater? My sympathies to all of Nebraska's fine Dems.

[YDogg]

3. And ...

... when he got out of jail did he heat up his lava lamp on the stove trying to make a Virgin Mary cheese sandwich?

[htuttle]

2. That guy might be a future Darwin award winner!

Playing around in public with a GUN when you have a QP of pot in your truck? Then telling someone to lie to the cops for you on a JAIL PHONE?

:eyes:

It's probably best they were arrested. They probably would have ended up hurting themselves or dying in some improbably stupid way...

[progressiveBadger]

4. Almost as tragic...

as the dad who called police when his daughter came home drunk and the cops found 50 viles of crack in the man's attic. Almost.