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5 pounds of magic mushrooms found in potato chips [OR]
    #6714870 - 03/26/07 10:58 PM (16 years, 11 months ago)

March 27, 2007 - oregonlive.com
Shipping bags of chips arouses legal curiosity

Judges get a lot of requests for warrants to search cars, homes and computers, but five bags of Lay's Potato Chips?

"I was thinking 'This is wild,' " said Judge Keith Meisenheimer, who gave Portland police the authority to open the bags after a PostNet clerk noticed an odd, earthy odor wafting from a package destined for Maryland via FedEx.

The person who mailed the package apparently didn't heed the sign posted next to the register at the Southeast 82nd Avenue business. It clearly says employees have the right to "open and inspect your packages."

After the customer left, the clerk opened the box and saw five sealed potato-chip bags. She asked herself: "Why would anyone pay $106 to fly potato chips across the country?" After opening one bag, she called police.

Inside the bags, police found five pounds of hallucinogenic mushrooms.

"It didn't smell like potato chips," said Sgt. Mike Krantz.

That might have been the end of the story, since the man who mailed the mushrooms didn't leave any contact information. But two days later, Joshua Michael Sturtevant called PostNet to complain that his package hadn't reached Maryland. This time, he left his phone number.

Now he faces felony charges for the manufacture, delivery and possession of a controlled substance. He also faces a lot of head shaking.

"I don't really know what he was thinking," Krantz said.

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Re: 5 pounds of magic mushrooms found in potato chips [OR] [Re: veggie]
    #6714905 - 03/26/07 11:04 PM (16 years, 11 months ago)

$106 to mail 5 bags of potato chips?!? i think the real crime is the shipping company's prices!

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Re: 5 pounds of magic mushrooms found in potato chips [OR] [Re: usg543]
    #6714927 - 03/26/07 11:11 PM (16 years, 11 months ago)

:rofl: indeed!


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Re: 5 pounds of magic mushrooms found in potato chips [OR] [Re: PopTop]
    #6714971 - 03/26/07 11:24 PM (16 years, 11 months ago)

wow if you have a smell coming out then you didnt bag it right i know a guy who mailed pot and no problems there


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Re: 5 pounds of magic mushrooms found in potato chips [OR] [Re: thedudenj]
    #6714997 - 03/26/07 11:32 PM (16 years, 11 months ago)

my friend's dad get's pot in the mail. haha

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Re: 5 pounds of magic mushrooms found in potato chips [OR] [Re: thedudenj]
    #6715002 - 03/26/07 11:35 PM (16 years, 11 months ago)

So wait, which of these two things happened?

1) An employee noticed a smell coming from the bags and alerted the police who got permission from Judge Keith Meisenheimer to inspect the bags.

2) The employee (who had the right to open any packages) thought it was strange that someone was paying 106 dollars to ship potato chips. She opened the bags herself, and upon seeing what was inside them, called the police.

Why would the police need permission to open the bags if one clearly opened bag contains psychedelic mushrooms?


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Re: 5 pounds of magic mushrooms found in potato chips [OR] [Re: Koala Koolio]
    #6715028 - 03/26/07 11:43 PM (16 years, 11 months ago)

That's the last time those Maryland mother fuckers are getting any Lays potato chips, that's for sure.


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Re: 5 pounds of magic mushrooms found in potato chips [OR] [Re: PopTop]
    #6715069 - 03/26/07 11:53 PM (16 years, 11 months ago)

lol poptop. yeah, this guy was a dumb cunt. he should've stuffed it in a teddy bear, grind the shit up and dump it in a jars of honey, stuff them in expensive wine bottles or any of these above.

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Re: 5 pounds of magic mushrooms found in potato chips [OR] [Re: ItsaMeMario]
    #6715262 - 03/27/07 12:53 AM (16 years, 11 months ago)

I don't buy it anyway. Real magic mushroom growers don't spend $106 to ship 'tater chips. It was some sort of set up obviously.


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Re: 5 pounds of magic mushrooms found in potato chips [OR] [Re: PopTop]
    #6715279 - 03/27/07 01:07 AM (16 years, 11 months ago)

Quote:

PopTop said:
I don't buy it anyway. Real magic mushroom growers don't spend $106 to ship 'tater chips. It was some sort of set up obviously.


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whats sad is i guarantee this wasn't a set up...we all know 5 pounds of mushies is going to cost a nice dollar(he would get his 106$ back and then some) he was probably hooking a buddy up and thot he would get away with it...whats even funnier is that he probly thot that this was the greatest idea ever!!! some people will just never learn


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Re: 5 pounds of magic mushrooms found in potato chips [OR] [Re: DeadHead881]
    #6715282 - 03/27/07 01:11 AM (16 years, 11 months ago)

Unless maybe he was an idiot and bought insurance for them oYeah but back to the original question of:

"why did it cost him $106 to ship 5 lbs of ANYTHING?!!!"


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Re: 5 pounds of magic mushrooms found in potato chips [OR] [Re: PopTop]
    #6715372 - 03/27/07 01:57 AM (16 years, 11 months ago)

he probably sent it like next day or something


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Re: 5 pounds of magic mushrooms found in potato chips [OR] [Re: jenerikcairet]
    #6715564 - 03/27/07 03:16 AM (16 years, 11 months ago)

Heh, maybe he even insured it. That's a gurantee of getting your package opened.

While it's dumb to send that much drugs in the mail, especially at that price, who the hell would follow up on the package not arriving?


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Re: 5 pounds of magic mushrooms found in potato chips [OR] [Re: veggie]
    #6715576 - 03/27/07 03:25 AM (16 years, 11 months ago)

I truly hope this is not "Joshua" who used to post here often.
Who used to live in that area.
Sad day anyway.:sad:
Sadder, if it is one of our own. :mad2:


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    #6715688 - 03/27/07 05:11 AM (16 years, 11 months ago)

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Re: 5 pounds of magic mushrooms found in potato chips [OR] [Re: Koala Koolio]
    #6715729 - 03/27/07 06:08 AM (16 years, 11 months ago)

> So wait, which of these two things happened?

Quote:

The employee (who had the right to open any packages) thought it was strange that someone was paying 106 dollars to ship potato chips. She opened the bags herself, and upon seeing what was inside them, called the police.




This one.


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Re: 5 pounds of magic mushrooms found in potato chips [OR] [Re: Seuss]
    #6715743 - 03/27/07 06:37 AM (16 years, 11 months ago)

$106 for a 5# box overnight is not a big deal especially with $5k + worth of mushrooms. 2% of total cost.

A lot of FedEx/UPS drug shippers use overnight services with the philosophy behind it that the less the box is sitting the less time for inspection.

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Re: 5 pounds of magic mushrooms found in potato chips [OR] [Re: rosyposies]
    #6715781 - 03/27/07 07:30 AM (16 years, 11 months ago)

If they had a smell to them, they had to be fresh right?

Even with fast shipping, they would be all slimy and rotten by the time they were opened. Maybe they were stinking because he left the bags open to vent... What a fucking doofus.

This only proves that mushrooms are simple to grow... Some idiot who tried mailing 5 lbs of freshies could ACTUALLY GROW 5 pounds of mushies. :smile:

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Re: 5 pounds of magic mushrooms found in potato chips [OR] [Re: RoosterCogburn]
    #6715806 - 03/27/07 07:56 AM (16 years, 11 months ago)

Thats only gonna be about an half pound dry, if that 5lbs was wet weight.

I know people think its safe and use it all the time, but sending drugs just really doesnt seem like its worth the risk. If you need to transfer a large amount of drugs, then take a road trip. If Its a small amount, then tell whoever you are sending it too to find their drugs locally.

Yea, im sure thousands of packages go through the different carriers each day....but its not worth the risk of being the one or two that get caught.

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Re: 5 pounds of magic mushrooms found in potato chips [OR] [Re: dedjam]
    #6715815 - 03/27/07 08:02 AM (16 years, 11 months ago)

And if you absolutely, positively HAVE TO send something in the mail... take some time to do it correctly.

If he dried the shrooms himself, sealed them up nice with some simple desiccant, and packaged them in something normal, things probably would've went better... We also don't know how his physical appearance affected the clerk.

Half the battle is in the conversation that takes place between the clerk and the sender... His best best would have been a drop box, but he clearly wasn't Sun Tzu in the strategy department. :smile:

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