Tsunami Warning Prompts Drug Dealer To Get Self Busted

by April 23, 2010 2035 Views


A drug dealer in New Zealand who feared that a tsunami was about to strike was busted when he tried to move his moldy pot stash to higher ground.

Police said that they spotted 57-year-old Richard Toihau Carlson driving with a broken tail light on the North Island after the issuance of a tsunami warning. Upon searching his car they found 8kg of marijuana spread amongst 15 plastic bags.

Police estimated that if the cannabis had been in good condition then it would have been worth $NZ40,000. Carlson pleaded guilty to possessing cannabis for supply and was sentenced to 12 months of home detention. Fortunately for the people of New Zealand, and inconsequentially for Calrson’s confiscated pot, the tsunami never reached its full potential.

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by C. S. Magor - Apr 23, 2010

C.S. Magor is the editor-in-chief and a reporter at large for We Interrupt and Uberreview. He currently resides in the Japanese countryside approximately two hours from Tokyo - where he has spent the better part of a decade testing his hypothesis that Japan is neither as quirky nor as interesting as others would have you believe.
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