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| Israeli police flee drug fumes |
| 2004-01-23 |
| Israeli police were forced to leave their offices after being overcome by fumes from confiscated marijuana. Their police station in Dimona, in the southern Negev Desert, stores all marijuana confiscated along the Israel-Egypt border, a busy smuggling route. Police spokesman Gil Kleiman said the smell at the station was overpowering. Although the marijuana will be destroyed next week, the storeroom is expected to fill up again in a couple of months, Mr Kleiman said. In the past two months, between three and four tonnes of marijuana were seized. The Israel newspaper Maariv quoted one police officer saying: "Every time I came to work I felt very bad, like I was high. The smell of the marijuana was killing us, we couldn’t work." Finally it was too much for the officers and a police medical officer ordered personnel to move to another office until the drugs were destroyed. In other news, sales of donuts soared in the last month. |
| Posted by:Chuck Simmins |
| #6 In a related story,the Portland Trailblazers announced plans to tour Israel during the NBA All-Star break. |
| Posted by: Stephen 2004-1-23 11:05:13 PM |
| #5 The Israel newspaper Maariv quoted one police officer ... Sgt. Stedenko! anyone? anyone? Nope, didn't think so. |
| Posted by: Dan (not Darling) 2004-1-23 8:01:57 PM |
| #4 For a second I thought the headline said, Israeli police dug fumes. |
| Posted by: B 2004-1-23 11:43:49 AM |
| #3 Hey look! This troll is still hanging around, spouting drivel. He's so earnest and ignorant it's almost funny. |
| Posted by: Scooter McGruder 2004-1-23 11:20:31 AM |
| #2 One of the Israeli officers must have tried lighting up to kick back and relax after beating the crap out of some Palestinian kid and his family. |
| Posted by: LongLiveIsrael 2004-1-23 11:08:51 AM |
| #1 I wonder - has there been any increase in officers requesting transfers to the Dimona office? |
| Posted by: Bomb-a-rama 2004-1-23 10:50:30 AM |