As humans we've always been collectors of stories. Funny anecdotes and thrilling events that we treasure and pass along as if keeping them alive is of utmost priority.
This story in particular is a weird hybrid between funny, tragic and pathetic. I was told this story by my younger brother and have not confirmed it to be true. That being said, it's very likely this is the case, since in small countries like the one I'm in at the moment, are fertile ground for the ridiculous.
Apparently a dangerous drug dealer had been caught recently. A dealer that in many was was of the worse kind, the type that sells to kids. Gladly he slipped up and was apprehended while moving some of his illegal merchandise around a school.
As it turns out, the police department here is in a bit of a conundrum, since the discovery they made has spun the events in a hilarious way. Turns out the drug dealer, the dangerous, horrible man was not dealing drugs at all. He was in fact selling fish flour, a disgusting brown powder of rancid smell, as drugs to kids and none of his young clients knew better.
In other words, the kids believed they we're getting high, but we're actually just snoring fish breading right into their brains. Now, will there be a health consequence for the fish breading? No idea, but it is quite comical.
How do you process a fraudulent drug dealer? You certainly can't put him in jail for selling drugs, since he did no such thing, and if you jail him for fraud, you are basically saying he should have known better and sold the real deal.
If there is such law that punishes the "the intention to sell" maybe there's something, but an argument can be made that there was no attempt to sell real drugs ever, just fish flour.
Is it wrong that I'm laughing?
