Minnesota: Bong Water is an Illegal Drug

The Minnesota Supreme Court says bong water can qualify as a controlled substance.

In a split decision today, the high court says a person can be prosecuted for a first-degree drug crime for 25 grams or more of bong water that tests positive for a controlled substance.

The Supreme Court says that counts as a drug “mixture” under state law. It noted that the liquid wasn’t plain water, but had a pink color and fruity odor. A narcotics officer testified that drug users sometimes keep bong water to drink later.

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A simple Google search of Michal Preclik’s name turns up an Interpol wanted poster from his native Czech Republic. So where was he arrested? In Nebraska’s maximum-security prison, where he was not an inmate, but a guard.

Preclik had worked at the prison for a year and his arrest came just two months after officials at Tecumseh State Correctional Institution promoted the 32-year-old to corporal. Prison officials learned last month that he was wanted on suspicion of drug and fraud crimes.

The electronic wanted poster, which shows his mug shot, went up on Interpol’s Web site exactly a year before his arrest. The poster is the first Web link that appears when Googling Preclik’s name.

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A 27-year-old Southeast Portland man who beat his ex-girlfriend and then stabbed her pet fish and left it impaled in her apartment has been sentenced to two years of probation and a psychological evaluation.

An attorney for Donald Earl Fite III said he didn’t want to talk about the details of the assault, but that stabbing the fish was “a very low point” in his client’s life.

“He is absolutely mortified and ashamed about what he did to the fish,” said attorney Tom MacNair today in Multnomah County Circuit Court.

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Bernie “The Bruiser” Madoff got into a prison-yard tussle with a fellow inmate.

By inmates’ accounts, the 71-year-old Ponzi schemer came out the winner.

Let’s start with who Bernie Madoff is: Madoff was an American financier and chairman of the NASDAQ Stock Exchange. In the late 90’s concerns were raised about his business practices, but nothing happened for years. Finally in 2009 at the end of an extensive investigation and trial Madoff plead guilty to 11 federal charges, including securities fraud, wire fraud, mail fraud, money laundering, perjury and making false filings with the SEC.

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You would think this headline was a crappy ad for a show on OutTV but you would be wrong. A gay man tried to poison his lesbian neighbours by putting slug pellets into their curry after he was accused of kidnapping their three-legged cat.

Gary Stewart, 37, had been at loggerheads with Marie Walton and Beverley Sales for months.

But things looked brighter when he made a peace offering of some curry, claiming he had ordered too much from the Indian takeaway. When the women started to eat, they found the curry studded with slug pellets.

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Indiana Court: Jail Sex Not a Crime

The Indiana Court of Appeals says six inmates at the Greene County Jail didn’t commit a crime when they sneaked into each other’s cells to have sex.

The 2-1 ruling upheld Greene Superior Court Judge Dena Martin’s decision dismissing escape charges against three men and three women. Martin ruled the inmates didn’t commit a crime because they didn’t intend to leave the jail.

Two appellate judges agreed, but Judge Ezra Friedlander issued a lengthy dissent Wednesday, reasoning that the inmates committed escape because they left the cells where they were ordered confined.

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Two men learned a valuable lesson when they attacked two men in dresses that turned out to be professional cage fighters out for a fancy dress party.

Dean Gardener, 19, and Jason Fender, 22, singled out the two men walking along a street in wigs, short skirts and high heels.

Bare-chested Gardener was caught on CCTV confronting one of the men in a pink wig, black skirt and boob tube – then seen swinging a punch, a court heard.

But the other cage fighter, wearing a sparkling black dress and matching long wig, sprang to his friend’s help, delivering two lightning-quick punches to the two stunned yobs.

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A Case of Mistaken Robbery

Waterloo police say clerks at a convenience store that was robbed twice in recent months threw money at a man in a case of a mistaken robbery.

The clerks at Five Star Snacks and More thought they were being robbed last Thursday when they were confronted by a rambling man who had his hand in his pocket.

Police Capt. John Beckman says the clerks put money in a bag and threw it the man, who left it alone and walked out of the store.

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“You don’t know who you’re messing with” said a Vatican priest caught in a red light district after police chase.

A Vatican priest led police on a high speed car chase leaving three officers injured after being caught in a red light zone, a court has heard.

Father Cesare Burgazzi, 51, said he ‘floored’ his Ford Focus car after he mistook the plain clothes officers who tried to flag him down during a spot check as robbers.

Right…You thought they were robbers… Their flipping on their sirens during the chase didn’t tip you off?

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Double or Nothing… Make that Nothing

PROMISES that special chemicals could duplicate money have allegedly duped three Victorian businesses.

Police said the businesses gave about $160,000 in cash to two men in the belief their money would double when soaked in chemicals.

A supermarket receipt, uncovered during investigations, has since revealed the chemical formula as bleach, baby powder and hair spray.

Excuse me a minute while I try to stop laughing…

Okay, so here is how this went down:

  1. Two men made friends with a business owner.
  2. They told him they could duplicate money. [This is where I start to have problems].
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