Looking Glass: N.J. pot grower – Hey, I thought that farming is farming

A man was arrested for operating a “large-scale marijuana growing operation” at a farm in Chesterfield, N.J., after he applied for an agricultural tax credit which prompted the authorities to conduct detailed on-site inspection of his greenhouses, pole barns and other buildings. This led to the discovery of 500 marijuana plants with an estimated street value of about $725,000.

HEY, I’M THE VICTIM HERE! After a bar in Edmond, Okla., confiscated her fake ID, an 18-year-old woman called the cops in an attempt to get it back, which resulted in her arrest.

LADIES, I CAN EXPLAIN: A married man in Stinnett, Texas, proposed to both of his girlfriends who discovered what he was up to on Facebook, because the two of them are friends, though one lives in Amarillo and the other in Kansas. When the Texas woman updated her profile picture to one of herself and him together, the other saw it. They found that he had told both of them that his marriage had been annulled, and that he had asked both of their fathers for permission to marry their daughters.

TIME TO SAVOR THESE DELICACIES, BOYS: Four men, who purchased 65 pounds of oranges during a business trip to Kunming, China, were told that they would have to pay a hefty extra baggage fee to bring them aboard a jetliner at the airport in Yunnan Province. Since the fee was higher than the cost of the oranges, the four devoured them all in about 30 minutes right then and there. As a result, they all contracted mouth ulcers from excessive citric acid.

HEY LOOK, DUDE, I’M FLYING! … OUCH! Cedar waxwing birds have been getting drunk on fermented berries in the treetops of North Texas, causing them to crash into windows.

AND HOW LARGE A WITHDRAWAL WOULD YOU LIKE TO MAKE, SIR? When a would-be robber handed a teller a note on a deposit slip at a bank in Chicago, the teller tricked him into revealing his identity by asking him for ID, which, amazingly, he produced.

I JUST WASN’T IN THE MOOD: A woman who was speeding and weaving in and out of traffic in Mesa, Ariz., refused to pull over for a police officer who was pursuing her. She stopped at a red light, so the officer got out of his car to talk to her, but she took off when the light turned green. She was arrested at her home the next day, and said she refused to stop “because I felt like it was the right thing to do.”

OFFICER, I’D LIKE TO REPORT AN ACCIDENT: A woman who failed to negotiate a turn and traveled straight across Route 1, crashed her car right through the front door of the Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office in Wiscasset, Maine.

YOU SURE IT WAS ME, SIR? A man was spotted on surveillance cameras smashing several Volusia County Sheriff’s Office vehicles with a bat at police headquarters in Deland, Fla. He was arrested later wearing the same clothes he was wearing during the incident.

from Boston Herald https://ift.tt/2YRZoRX