• Tomtits@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    19 days ago

    Imagine calling 999 to report being chased only for the operator to tell you that they’re real police and they’d actually quite like you to pull over

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    18 days ago

    Can someone who has cakes like this tell me if this is bullshit?

    Her defence counsel pleaded for leniency, saying she had been at a party earlier, had eaten a cake and was not aware there was cannabis in it.

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      17 days ago

      This is one of those things where everyone will instinctively want to say “No way that could happen, everyone I know is super responsible and always makes sure the hash cakes are carefully labelled”, but that presumes so much. Not just that the people she was with were responsible, but also that she didn’t, I dunno, totally ignore a bunch of warnings or something.

      Reality is, people do dumb shit. Any argument that depends on that not being true doesn’t pass the sniff test.

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        17 days ago

        I wasn’t thinking about labelling, more taste. Surely you’d know?

        But it’s a genuine question as I don’t know

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          17 days ago

          No, you wouldn’t notice, especially if you didn’t know what to look for. The flavour change is pretty subtle, especially in something like a chocolate brownie.

          And the effects of edibles come on very, very sneakily. It generally takes around half an hour before you feel it at all, so it’s very easy to not even realize you’re high, especially if you weren’t planning to be, and perhaps don’t have much experience with cannabis. If she maybe ate two or three without knowing what they were, she could easily walk away from the party feeling fine only to end up completely whacked out of her gourd on the highway.

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    18 days ago

    So you’re telling me that this whole situation started when the drug unit police scared her?

    Maybe they should stop doing that and go catch some actual criminals.

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    18 days ago

    Half-a-mile-ish

    Hell as a teen I would’ve done that on a dare. Granted it would’ve been on a back road somewhere…

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      18 days ago

      Yeah the feat itself isn’t that impressive. This was in Dublin, going up the wrong side of the street and she crashed into another car near a bus stop that had people at it so… Honestly fuck her.

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    17 days ago

    Some guys tried to carjack me a few years ago and I just floored it, swerving and barely missing several parked cars. Afterward, I wondered if I would have had a legal defense had I not missed.

    I hate driving but in that moment I understood racecar drivers. Felt like Spider-Man with my quick reflexes lol