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Some Amazon customers in Orlando got a surprise when they opened the package that arrived on their doorstep. They ordered plastic storage bins, but the bins came with 65 pounds of marijuana.
"We love Amazon and do a lot of shopping on Amazon," said the customer, who asked not to be identified for safety reasons.
When she and her fiancé needed to put some things in storage, they placed an order for 27 gallon storage totes. But when the packages arrived, they knew something didn't feel right. "They were extremely heavy, heavier than you would think from ordering four empty bins," she said.
[...] Police seized the drugs and launched an investigation.
It had been shipped by Amazon's Warehouse Deals via UPS from a facility in Massachusetts.
[...] Orlando police said there have been no arrests, but they are still actively investigating the case.
Amazon sent a statement saying its customer service team worked directly with the customer to address concerns and will work with law enforcement to investigate the case.
I guess getting accidentally sent over half a million bucks worth of weed is when you find out if you're really serious about your anti-drugs stance.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 27 2017, @03:25PM (11 children)
The first thing that comes to mind is to donate it to medical patients.
However, that would be a nice thing, and we can't have nice things.
I'm actually surprised the couple weren't brutalized, killed, arrested, tattooed, and then sent to PMITA prison. I can only assume they're not black.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 27 2017, @04:09PM (2 children)
Medical patients often have pretty strict requirements about the kind of weed they get. There are strains with very different percentages of CBDs and THC.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 27 2017, @05:47PM (1 child)
This. It's not like the 1970s when you bought what you could find. Now there's a happy menu.
(Score: 2, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 27 2017, @05:54PM
Amazing. It's almost as if trying to ban the stuff did more harm than good!
(Score: 2) by edIII on Friday October 27 2017, @07:15PM (7 children)
Serious question for resident Canucks, is racism against black people a serious problem in Canada?
I thought that was just a U.S phenomenon.
Technically, lunchtime is at any moment. It's just a wave function.
(Score: 0, Disagree) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 27 2017, @08:20PM (6 children)
Racism is just more overt in the US because Americans are more forthright. Everyone else is just as bad or worse, they just pretend they're not because lying is what civilized people do. Black person in rural Europe, Canada, Australia, etc, will face discrimination, they'll just smile in your face while they call you nigger.
(Score: 3, Funny) by frojack on Friday October 27 2017, @08:36PM (5 children)
Went to college with this (rich) guy from Canada, who insisted that the reason the US had black minorities and Canada had French minorities was because the US had first choice.
No, you are mistaken. I've always had this sig.
(Score: 2) by Gaaark on Friday October 27 2017, @09:57PM (3 children)
^THIS!
I see more 'racism' against the French than 'people of colour': the French used to constantly put up a stink about "Give us more and more and more..... or we'll separate" that it's gotten to the point where i used to say "Then separate, already".
Finally, this nonsense seems to have gone from the media (which was the main mover, anyways): media and the government pushing 'news'.
But i don't hear racism agains blacks, etc: i used to live in Toronto and never once heard "Niggger". But then again, i was going to college and hanging with intelligent, nice people, so.....
Travelling to the U.S. when i was first married, the first time we heard "nigger" was in the south. Kentucky, i think.
--- Please remind me if I haven't been civil to you: I'm channeling MDC. ---Gaaark 2.0 ---
(Score: 3, Interesting) by The Mighty Buzzard on Friday October 27 2017, @10:02PM (2 children)
FYI: Kentucky was part of the North.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by Gaaark on Saturday October 28 2017, @04:31AM (1 child)
Huh, just looked at a map: maybe it was Alabama way.
Been married over 30 years: my mind is gone, lol.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 28 2017, @11:03AM
Marriage will do that to you.
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Sunday October 29 2017, @03:30PM
Then there are the French that Canada didn't want: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coonass [wikipedia.org]
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