The Mexican Government Is Set To Burn 105 Tons Of Perfectly Good Pot
Here is what 46 tons of pot being burned by the Mexican government looks like. This was in May, and they hired a marching band and everything. They'll be burning even more soon, as military police just completed the biggest pot bust in the country's history: 105 tons of the stuff, wrapped in 10,000 packages, in Tijuana. As the BBC reports: "The drugs, found in houses and vehicles, were wrapped in differently coloured packages that had markings and pictures on them, including the cartoon character Homer Simpson." Who has been declared a "true Catholic," according to L'Osservatore Romano.
"Few people know it, and he does everything he can to hide it, but it is true: Homer J Simpson is a Catholic."
Here is a picture of the Homer-stamped pot packs:
The Boston Globe has a whole photo essay about pot up today.
And here's a video of the rock band High On Fire, who have yet to be declared true Catholics by the Vatican:
FOR THE LOVE OF ALL THAT IS HOLY, NOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!
PAGING ALEX BALK!!
Is the wind blowing northward?
There are going to be some haaaaappy predators.
The marching band's extended and highly-improvised version of Himno Nacional Mexicano was epic, complete with a tease of La Adelita about halfway through. It's burning up the torrent boards.
You just got more fantastic!
Something something Cheech & Chong, something something Craig Ferguson, something something life imitating art.
What does the caption under Homer say?
"I'm going to get high, dude!"
(Remember to do the little mouse-over-the-pictures thing!)
@Dave: And you remember where you are, Sir, and next time put the pot guard bear photo in the post
But that was old news to everybody:
http://www.theawl.com/2010/08/drug-grower-forces-bears-to-act-like-common-dogs
@Dave: I hope Cho doesn't slap your wrists with a ruler for missing an opportunity to link back within the post!
(In my head, Cho is the Awl's Catholic-school-mistress-nun-matron-figure).
@Dave: Sorry I forgot about that one. I, um, smoke a lot of pot?
@garge: In my head that role is played by Cat.
Cat is like the pot-gaurd bear of the office.
They're going to need a lot more wafers.
Johnny Chimpo gets no love, just because he's Muslim?
in their defense it was probably not "perfectly good", i'm guessing more like "fairly mediocre".
Geez – the whole country is gonna be on a siesta for the next 24 hours if the wind is blowing correctly.
Reminded me of an Onion story from a few years ago:
http://www.theonion.com/articles/huge-quantities-of-primo-shit-incinerated-by-feds,656/