Confessions of a Recovering Pharisee

[NC Wanted]

North Carolina cops are searching for a guy who successfully passed a $200 bill bearing George W. Bush’s portrait and a drawing of the White House complete with lawn signs reading “We like ice cream” and “USA deserves a tax cut.” The phony Bush bill was presented to a cashier at a Food Lion in Roanoke Rapids on September 6 by an unidentified male who was seeking to pay for $150 in groceries. Remarkably, the cashier accepted the counterfeit note and gave the man $50 change. In a separate incident involving a different perp, Roanoke Rapids cops Tuesday arrested Michael Harris, 24, for attempting last month to pass an identical $200 Bush bill at a convenience store.

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[From me]

$200 bill? Man, that is funny.  Who would fall with for that?  Maybe I could sell them tickets to the school elevator or the submarine?

What do you think?

Not our Savior!  A man named Jesus Omera Robles!

[NBCi5]

While conducting a raid Tuesday morning, Navarro County Sheriff’s Office deputies found about 2,100 marijuana plants growing in a wooded area and arrested a man who they saw cleaning leaves from the stalk of a large marijuana plant, police said.

Jesus Omera Robles, 32, of Rice, was arrested at the scene after officer observed him cleaning a marijuana plant. His bond was set at $50,000.

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[From me]

You have to love real life stories.  I couldn’t make this up.

[Yahoo]

A 71-year-old Cincinnati preacher convicted of waving a gun and threatening another driver won’t be going to jail. A Hamilton County judge on Thursday sentenced the minister to two years’ probation and 100 hours of community service on his conviction for aggravated menacing.

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[From me]

This is why I don’t have a “fish” on my car!

What do you think?

[Herald Standard]

“I saw him move by my keyboard near the wall but I just walked right on past him to the bedroom and got my gun,” Smith said, noting that she started keeping the .22-caliber revolver by her bed after a burglary at a neighboring home several weeks ago.

“I said, ‘What are you doing in my house?’” Smith said during an interview Monday with WPXI-TV, Channel 11 in Pittsburgh, a news partner with the Herald-Standard. “He just kept saying he didn’t do it.” 

“It was exciting,” Smith said of the incident. “I just hope I broke up the ring because they have been hitting a lot of places around here.” 

[Toronto Sun]

A man who claims he is an ordained minister was busted with almost half a kilo of pot yesterday during a traffic stop on Hwy. 11 near Bracebridge.

“Rev.” Michel Nathier, 53, of the Church of the Universe, admitted he was smoking a joint when the OPP officer pulled him over but said he was committing a holy act.

“It’s a sacrament,” Nathier said in an interview after he was released from custody with a Sept. 2 court date.

PLANT BLESSED

Nathier said he has about 300 followers in the Sturgeon Falls area, near North Bay, who believe that marijuana is the blessed plant mentioned in the Bible as the “tree of life.” 

The church, which he said has chapters throughout Canada and the U.S., has two rules: Don’t hurt yourself and don’t hurt others — and its followers routinely toke “the sacrament.” It does not make one stoned, “just enlightened,” he insists.

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[From me]

Talk about being filled with something…  Where are Cheech and Chong when you need them?

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