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DALLAS - Police didn’t have to go far to find $400,000 worth of cocaine — it was in an undercover car they’d been driving for two months.

An officer cleaning the car at a patrol station Wednesday discovered the nearly 50 pounds of cocaine carefully hidden in hydraulically controlled compartments.

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Apparently the vehicle that was being driven was seized in a drug raid along with another, a Honda. Both cars were searched and no drugs or other illegal items were found so the vehicles were auctioned off and Dallas PD purchased one and was using it as an under cover vehicle.

I don’t know about you, but I find it hard to believe that they searched the vehicles and didn’t locate the drugs and have been driving around with them illegally for X-Amount of time. I think it more likely someone, in the department, hid it there thinking that no one would think to search the vehicles and just got unlikely that a nosy cop decided to check. I mean really, it was a vehicle seized in a drug raid and is used in undercover assignments. What are the chances that no one is going to find the compartments and search them? Slim. More than likely, that cop never realized that vehicle had those compartments to begin with and checked them out.

That’s my thoughts on that matter anyway. I’m a highly suspicious person by nature and I just find this story hard to swallow. On the off chance that it is true though, I hope whoever bought the Honda wasn’t a civilian who has had to drive through a checkpoint at some time with it. They’re likely behind bars.

Hello officer, I’d like to report a missing item of mine. You see, I had some odd pound of cocaine in a couple of backpacks and they just disappeared on me! What are you doing with those handcuffs sir?

Federal agents thought there was something fishy about Leroy Carr.

On four occasions since last December, Carr either crossed the Canadian border or was found near it with thousands of dollars in cash, according to a complaint filed in U.S. District Court. He also sometimes carried night vision goggles and a GPS device programmed with coordinates for a well-known drug-smuggling trail.

But Carr refused to speak with Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, and they let him go — until he called to ask if they had seen his cocaine.

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This news article actually inspired the addition of a new category to Scuttlebutt Pipeline, Tales of Stupidity, because I’m just finding that many stupid acts. For more stories of stupidity you might want to visit Mari’s blog, which offers a week feature called Stoopid Saturday. You’ll bust a gut laughing, I promise.

You know sometimes I think the FDA is really on the ball and other times I have to wonder if they’ve got their heads stuck up you-know-where. This is one of the former.

The Food and Drug Administration issued a warning letter last month that said Redux was illegally marketing the drink as a street drug alternative and a dietary supplement. May 4 was the deadline for the company to respond.

This seems a bit extreme to me. While granted, I don’t care much for the name I can’t help but feel that the FDA was being just a tad paranoid with this stance. Taking statements like “Speed in a Can,” “Liquid Cocaine” and “Cocaine — Instant Rush” from the official website and claiming that the manufacturers were deliberately trying to sell the product as an alternative drug seems ludicrous. For me, I understood those comments as being descriptive slang. How many times have you heard someone offer you something as a pick-me-up as “liquid speed” or “should be illegal”? It’s hardly cause to wave a red flag at.

“Of course, we intended for Cocaine energy drink to be a legal alternative the same way that celibacy is an alternative to premarital sex,” Ivey said. “It’s not the same thing and no one thinks it is. Our product doesn’t have any cocaine in it. No one thinks that it does. We think it is most likely legal in the United States to ship our product.”

Apparently when it comes to working with the FDA sir you have to check your sense of humor at the door. Your consumers got the difference and even those, like myself, who just heard of the product caught the joke as well. The stuffy-suits apparently missed the memo.

You know after all this fuss from the FDA now I want to go out and buy this drink.

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