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Ogla



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Tobacco Store Busted For Bongs
#14554753 - 06/03/11 09:18 AM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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Up in Smoke: Tobacco Store Busted For Bongs Patch.com
 The manager of a River Forest tobacco store is facing criminal charges after authorities claimed merchandise from the small Madison Street storefront promotes illicit drug use.
Chriagkumar B. Patel, 28, was charged with misdemeanor counts of possession of drug paraphernalia and the sale of a novelty lighters, authorities said.
The charges come after police received a tip May 20 that Puff's Discount Cigarettes, 7556 W. Madison St., was selling items like water bongs and pipes. An undercover officer visited the store days later and confirmed that the items "could not be construed as usable for anything except the ingestion of illicit substances."
More than 100 items were then confiscated from the store, including small baggies, pipes and grinders, according to a news release. Additionally, Patel was charged with violating a new state law that bans so-called "novelty lighters," which often resemble children's toys.
Patel, of Carol Stream, will appear in Maywood court on June 17.
A recent visit to the store, which sells cigarettes, cigars and lotto tickets in addition to snacks, showed the store also sells hookahs and ashtrays behind a glass counter with a warning pasted on the front: For Tobacco Use Only.
An employee there said police didn't offer any warnings before removing the items from the store and charging its manager a day later.
Police say they're simply "trying hard to protect the youth of our community from the harmful affects of illicit drugs.
"A child could simply have walked in to the store, hoping to buy candy and while walking to the check out counter, they would have been exposed to numerous items commonly used to ingest illegal substances," River Forest Police Sgt. Gregory Weiss said in a statement.
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Re: Tobacco Store Busted For Bongs [Re: Ogla]
#14554771 - 06/03/11 09:28 AM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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wow, i dont know what to say about this? maybe they should have confiscated the soda cans too.
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Re: Tobacco Store Busted For Bongs [Re: SickDog] 3
#14554783 - 06/03/11 09:35 AM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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what unhappy soul would tip the police that a tobacco store is selling pipes?
please don't let anything distract the kids from the cigarettes
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That Cenex Guy
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Re: Tobacco Store Busted For Bongs [Re: SickDog] 1
#14554788 - 06/03/11 09:38 AM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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Never mind that it's a tobacco shop, meaning these children they say they're protecting would have no reason to be in there in the first place, but do you think they care if they're exposed to cigarettes, cigars, and gambling?
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Re: Tobacco Store Busted For Bongs [Re: Ogla]
#14554871 - 06/03/11 10:07 AM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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losfreddy said:"A child could simply have walked in to the store, hoping to buy candy and while walking to the check out counter, they would have been exposed to numerous items commonly used to ingest illegal substances," River Forest Police Sgt. Gregory Weiss said in a statement.
Okay, first off any tobacco store owner would kick out a kid who wasn't with their parents. Second, they would probably just think it was a vase, unless they knew what it was, in which case they have already been exposed to it. Third, "kids buying candy" is so cliche. And lastly, tobacco is more dangerous.
And how about the thousands of head shops and sex shops which also sell bongs and pipes? Why is it that this guy, who sells traditional pipes can't sell bongs? Also they mention hookahs which are used for tobacco.
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Re: Tobacco Store Busted For Bongs [Re: MidRange]
#14554882 - 06/03/11 10:11 AM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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I think this is awesome. between the nullification in Montana, the raids on legitimate businesses in fresno, the current political environment, and this "save the children" crap, decriminalization is going to be here much faster than already expected. People are going to get tired of getting yanked both ways by their elected officials and I will bet that within the next 10 years, political platforms for successful candidates will include decriminalization/legalization in the majority as opposed to the exceptional. Cops, keep on pissing off the citizenry! nobody ever changes anything when they are comfortable.
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Re: Tobacco Store Busted For Bongs [Re: vvitchdoctor]
#14554893 - 06/03/11 10:15 AM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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O yea because i would much rather have my kids think its good to smoke tobacco instead of herb.
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I would also say kids arent going to know unless they are prexposed to it.
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Re: Tobacco Store Busted For Bongs [Re: Weltall]
#14554947 - 06/03/11 10:40 AM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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Don't these people realize how creative stoners are? You could take away every last bong, bowl, blunt wrap and rolling paper in the world and people would still be getting high with apples and water bottles.
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Re: Tobacco Store Busted For Bongs [Re: Remix] 1
#14554953 - 06/03/11 10:43 AM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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LOL I've been in there before.
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Re: Tobacco Store Busted For Bongs [Re: Dave Bowman]
#14555034 - 06/03/11 11:05 AM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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yeah this looks like a store kids would be allowed in to start with.
Just some jerk off that thinks pot is like crack
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Re: Tobacco Store Busted For Bongs [Re: Ogla]
#14555121 - 06/03/11 11:27 AM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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losfreddy said: An undercover officer visited the store days later and confirmed that the items "could not be construed as usable for anything except the ingestion of illicit substances."
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You know a conservative said that shit.
"It couldn't possibly be anything except what I assumed upon first impression."
Could not be construed as usuable for anything but ingestion of illicit drugs huh? You couldn't put tobacco in a bong (actually the water acts as a good filter for tobacco). You couldn't use the grinder to grind ANYTHING but weed huh?
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Re: Tobacco Store Busted For Bongs [Re: Toe_Jam]
#14555159 - 06/03/11 11:34 AM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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epically pathetic!
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Re: Tobacco Store Busted For Bongs [Re: sb335]
#14555562 - 06/03/11 01:01 PM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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"A recent visit to the store, which sells cigarettes, cigars and lotto tickets in addition to snacks, showed the store also sells hookahs and ashtrays behind a glass counter with a warning pasted on the front: For Tobacco Use Only."
There you have it, folks. I don't see how these items sold at the store could be construed for the use of anything other than tobacco, seeing as there is a SIGN THAT SAYS THEY ARE FOR TOBACCO ONLY. These cops are fucking retarded.
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Re: Tobacco Store Busted For Bongs [Re: eqt146]
#14555651 - 06/03/11 01:26 PM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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They sell bongs, pipes, various jwh blends, herbal pills, a huge wall of blunt wraps at the chevron across the street from my apartment. They'd be fucked if those cops came to their store
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no way! I know this place and the guy who owns it pretty well...go here to buy shisha and coals for my hookah on occasion. I wasn't even aware that they sold bongs...and it's bullshit that they got raided for it. I've always thought that drug paraphernalia laws were stupid, but the fact that this place got raided is totally nonsensical to me, when I can think of about 10 or 15 other places in the chicago area that sell a LOT more questionable stuff than a few bongs.
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Re: Tobacco Store Busted For Bongs [Re: Ogla]
#14555836 - 06/03/11 02:17 PM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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I would think thye could challenge this in court and be found not guilty. There are tons of places that sell these types of things and if they were illegal then they would all be shut down.
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Re: Tobacco Store Busted For Bongs [Re: SickDog]
#14555848 - 06/03/11 02:20 PM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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SickDog said: wow, i dont know what to say about this? maybe they should have confiscated the soda cans too.
Forget that, the supermarket down the road had hundreds of drug paraphernalia devices. They're red and green and even have an added apple flavor to hook the kids.
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Re: Tobacco Store Busted For Bongs [Re: 5-HT2A]
#14556518 - 06/03/11 04:55 PM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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It sucks that we can only sit and watch this bullshit happen around us. Seems like the only way we are going to see real change is when these old brainwashed fuckers in power die because they aren't going to change their views. If anything their closed-mindedness is only going to get more extreme as time goes on.
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Re: Tobacco Store Busted For Bongs [Re: MGMT]
#14556670 - 06/03/11 05:31 PM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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What the hell? It's illegal to sell "novelty" lighters?
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Re: Tobacco Store Busted For Bongs [Re: Gibson33]
#14556984 - 06/03/11 06:45 PM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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Gibson33 said: What the hell? It's illegal to sell "novelty" lighters?
apparently they look too much like children's toys. remember, if there's any chance whatsoever that an item or substance might entice children into drug use, it's automatically THE ROOT OF ALL EVIL!!!1!
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Re: Tobacco Store Busted For Bongs [Re: neur0net]
#14557009 - 06/03/11 06:52 PM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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neur0net said:
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Gibson33 said: What the hell? It's illegal to sell "novelty" lighters?
apparently they look too much like children's toys. remember, if there's any chance whatsoever that an item or substance might entice children into drug use, it's automatically THE ROOT OF ALL EVIL!!!1!
Unless your kid wasn't paying attention in class.
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Re: Tobacco Store Busted For Bongs [Re: Ogla]
#14557029 - 06/03/11 06:57 PM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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"A child could simply have walked in to the store, hoping to buy candy"
Says the cop about this store....
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Re: Tobacco Store Busted For Bongs [Re: Remix]
#14557398 - 06/03/11 08:22 PM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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Remix said: Unless your kid wasn't paying attention in class.
THEN DRUG 'EM UP!
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Re: Tobacco Store Busted For Bongs [Re: LightShedder]
#14558275 - 06/03/11 11:31 PM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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LightShedder said: "A child could simply have walked in to the store, hoping to buy candy"
Says the cop about this store....
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Figures.
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The irony here is he is arrested for paraphernalia and sitting there on his shelves is tobacco, containing nicotine--one of the most poisonous and addictive drugs known to man. (NOT that cigs should be banned, mind you...)
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Re: Tobacco Store Busted For Bongs [Re: starfire_xes]
#14561377 - 06/04/11 07:00 PM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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There's no fucking way in Hell this will hold up in court with a good lawyer.
If only the system wasn't so corrupt, the store owner should be allowed to countersue the police department for lost sales, defamation of character, and a whole host of other bull shit charges.
This is the most ridiculous thing I have ever read. And this is the Internet.
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