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Alan Smithee
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| | Subject: Man Who Accidentally Handed Out Cocaine Instead of Halloween Candy Sentenced to Community Service Wed Nov 21, 2012 6:56 pm | |
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- Every parent knows to dread the post-Halloween sugar high, but at least that’s the only kind of high most can expect on Oct. 31. In the UK, however, one local drug enthusiast did his best to change that, accidentally handing out bags of cocaine to a group of trick-0r-treaters as young as five years old, Reuters reported.
On Nov. 19 a court in the town of Oldham, in northern England, sentenced Donald Junior Green, a 23-year-old apprentice auto-body repairman, to 130 hours of community service for drug possession. When the kids approached his girlfriend’s door on Halloween, Green took a handful of plastic pouches containing the drugs and handed them over, mistaking them for bags of child-appropriate Haribo gummy candies the couple had been giving out earlier. According to Reuters, he told the Oldham Magistrates’ Court that he had just bought the cocaine that day for about $320.
Compounding Green’s problems: the three unsuspecting recipients of his stash — aged eight, six and five — were accompanied by their father, an off-duty police officer, Reuters noted.
Green soon noticed his blunder and began searching the streets to track down the children, but not before their father had already found the drugs and alerted his on-duty coworkers.
“I know exactly why you are here,” Green told officers upon his arrest, according to the Press Association. “I knew you were coming.”
Green pled guilty to one charge of Class A drug possession and must pay about $230 in court fees, the Press Association reported, in addition to his community service sentence. His defense attorney described his mistake as “grossly foolhardy.”
Still, if the children had mistaken the drugs for candy, things could have turned out far worse. “Had dad not have gone in and recognized what it was, this could have been a very serious case,” prosecutor Sean Brady told the court. http://newsfeed.time.com/2012/11/21/man-who-accidentally-handed-out-cocaine-instead-of-halloween-candy-sentenced-to-community-service/ | |
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RedBedroom
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| | Subject: Re: Man Who Accidentally Handed Out Cocaine Instead of Halloween Candy Sentenced to Community Service Wed Nov 21, 2012 9:30 pm | |
| A small fine and community service? Bull Shit! | |
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Alan Smithee
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| | Subject: Re: Man Who Accidentally Handed Out Cocaine Instead of Halloween Candy Sentenced to Community Service Wed Nov 21, 2012 10:17 pm | |
| - RedBedroom wrote:
- A small fine and community service? Bull Shit!
It's the U.K. not U.S.A. | |
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RedBedroom
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| | Subject: Re: Man Who Accidentally Handed Out Cocaine Instead of Halloween Candy Sentenced to Community Service Wed Nov 21, 2012 10:19 pm | |
| Yeah, I read that, but still, I didn't think their drug laws were so lax. | |
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Alan Smithee
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| | Subject: Re: Man Who Accidentally Handed Out Cocaine Instead of Halloween Candy Sentenced to Community Service Wed Nov 21, 2012 10:23 pm | |
| Not for nothing but I don't have a problem treating possession like that. It's the fact that children were at risk that gets me. I guess a tragedy had to happen before he got jail time. | |
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RedBedroom
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| | Subject: Re: Man Who Accidentally Handed Out Cocaine Instead of Halloween Candy Sentenced to Community Service Wed Nov 21, 2012 10:24 pm | |
| - Alan Smithee wrote:
- Not for nothing but I don't have a problem treating possession like that. It's the fact that children were at risk that gets me. I guess a tragedy had to happen before he got jail time.
Yeah, that's just it. The situation could have proved fatal for a little child. | |
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Cheaps
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| | Subject: Re: Man Who Accidentally Handed Out Cocaine Instead of Halloween Candy Sentenced to Community Service Thu Nov 22, 2012 2:36 am | |
| Really?! Does this fool keep his stash next to the door in a bowl? How high was he to hand out baggies like that. | |
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Tony Marino
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| | Subject: Re: Man Who Accidentally Handed Out Cocaine Instead of Halloween Candy Sentenced to Community Service Fri Nov 23, 2012 2:40 pm | |
| - RedBedroom wrote:
- A small fine and community service? Bull Shit!
Agree! | |
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Nystyle709
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| | Subject: Re: Man Who Accidentally Handed Out Cocaine Instead of Halloween Candy Sentenced to Community Service Mon Nov 26, 2012 8:08 pm | |
|  Yeah, feel bad for the kids and all....but that's funny. | |
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