Misaddressed marijuana goes to elderly couple
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UPPER DARBY, Penn. - Police say an elderly couple was the unintended recipient of a very seedy delivery: a five-pound brick of marijuana.
Police in Upper Darby, just outside Philadelphia, say the couple paid little attention to the package when it was delivered last week. Not recognizing the name, they left it on their porch, expecting it to be picked up.
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When nobody claimed the package, the couple opened it to find what police say was $10,000 in high-grade marijuana.
Police Superintendent Michael Chitwood tells the Delaware County Daily Times the couple gave the package to police, who determined the return address in Arizona was fake.
Chitwood says the department sees about a half-dozen similar deliveries a year and can sometimes track down the sender.
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- Hmm actually the wrong thing (morally) to do was open the package. Isn't it a federal offense to open someone else's mail? The proper thing to do would have been to return it to the post office or the shipping company. You just call them and they would have picked it up and delivered it to the proper address.I would have called the kid that mows the lawn to see what to do with it for a tip maybe lol.
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- Give a little of it with the kid that mows the grass, he may give you a big discount. Hell, he may even mow the yard all summer long for free.
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- Darn, I know where they can forward the package. But as posted above, the cops will smoke it up and say it was "destroyed"... hell i'll set fire to it. =)~ a bowl at a time.
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- How nice for the police, with nobody to charge and no possibility of a court case, they can go with standard procedure and smoke it themselves. They can mark it on the evidence log as having been incinerated.
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- Not at all, we turned in both ounces.
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- I wonder how elderly. I would have known what to do with 5 lbs of pot, and I am in my 60s. I don't smoke anymore. I like brownies.
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- You know the problem is that you never know if it is a sting or not. If this country would just get a resaonable drug policy and take MJ off the prohibited species list.
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- I'm not very lucky :(
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