ABikerSailor
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I saw this little gem last night on the news. It seems that there have been little vending machines popping up all over the place selling "pens" for 2 bucks. If you pull the pen apart, you have the parts and pieces to make a crack pipe with it.
Mysterious vending machines sold $2 pens. Officials say they were actually crack pipes.
Calls about the strange vending machines started coming into Brookhaven Town Hall last week, Councilman Michael Loguercio said at a Monday news conference. At first, it seemed like nothing more than a standard zoning violation.
“Many people had thought within the community that because it was the first week of school that perhaps they were actually selling pens,” he said.
When a local fire chief popped in eight quarters on Friday, though, what came out was not an ordinary pen. Several filter screens were stuffed inside. When the pen was disassembled, its glass tube could be used as a pipe, officials said at Monday’s news conference. In other words, it was a crack stem — some assembly required.
“You think you’ve heard of everything,” Ed Romaine, Brookhaven’s town supervisor, said while shaking his head. “I continue to be surprised by the audacity of those that would break the law in promoting drugs and drug paraphernalia.”
Mysterious vending machines sold $2 pens. Officials say they were actually crack pipes.
Calls about the strange vending machines started coming into Brookhaven Town Hall last week, Councilman Michael Loguercio said at a Monday news conference. At first, it seemed like nothing more than a standard zoning violation.
“Many people had thought within the community that because it was the first week of school that perhaps they were actually selling pens,” he said.
When a local fire chief popped in eight quarters on Friday, though, what came out was not an ordinary pen. Several filter screens were stuffed inside. When the pen was disassembled, its glass tube could be used as a pipe, officials said at Monday’s news conference. In other words, it was a crack stem — some assembly required.
“You think you’ve heard of everything,” Ed Romaine, Brookhaven’s town supervisor, said while shaking his head. “I continue to be surprised by the audacity of those that would break the law in promoting drugs and drug paraphernalia.”