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Here an idiot, there an idiot, everywhere an idiot idiot
An Oklahoma man, 64-year-old Leon Warren, has been arrested for running his own little 1930’s-style distillery. Turns out, running your own whiskey still is a felony, and it’s a misdemeanor for having liquor that hasn’t been properly taxed. Whoda’ thunk it? As a result, the schlub-in-overalls could wind up getting smacked with a $5K fine and up to three years in the clink. While our friend here may be a yokel, at least Warren got busted and didn’t turn himself in.
The same can’t be said for West Virginia’s Dennis Fields. This wondernut gave a bag of weed to the cops, apparently of his own volition, claiming that he had purchased it the prior night but didn’t need it anymore. He was given a citation for drug possession and sent on his way. In less than two hours, Fields showed up at the local police station and gave the cops two more bags of weed! Better yet, the cops figured out that at least part of the reason Fields was so free to volunteer his goodies was because he was loaded (he ended up blowing a 0.25 on the breathalyzer), so he got himself arrested for public intoxication. Unsurprisingly, one of the cops said this is one of the stupidest things he’s seen in almost two decades on the force. And for a cop working in West Virginia, I suspect that’s really saying something.
I also suspect that Fields and Warren would get along real good-like.
