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Real Prison For Fake Shrooms
Manchester Union Leader | Submitted by: anonymous
"A Kingston teen is headed to prison after pleading guilty to doctoring up store-bought shiitake mushrooms with blue food coloring and trying to sell them as a drug for $900... The teenager was sentenced to one to three years in state prison Friday for his role in the fake hallucinogenic mushroom scheme that crumbled when he sold them in an undercover police sting and was caught with the food coloring on his fingertips."
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From: gargoyle1
Date: 3-Jul-2009 13:27
As a fitting punishment, turn him over to the people he sold fake mushrooms to. I'm sure they'd be happy to beat the little fucker into a coma.
From: sharkman69 [Me]
Date: 3-Jul-2009 13:47
Surprise, you little conniving piece of shit. Fake drugs are treated just like the real thing when you're trying to sell the shit illegally. If it were up to me, I'd give aluminum baseball bats to the druggies you tried to cheat, and tell them not to kill you, just bust you up a lot. After all, you can't suffer after you die.
From: franz [Franz Schubert]
Date: 3-Jul-2009 13:47
Only 1-3 years in state prison and 2-4 suspended for selling dyed mushrooms?! Lock him up and throw away the key!
From: nomercy4u
[ROD]
Date: 3-Jul-2009 14:09
o yea in prison pedys narcs are right under turkey drug dealers. can we have a house round of ass fukins over here a
From: suicidejunkie [:0]
Date: 3-Jul-2009 14:13
Stupid punk fuck. Too young to smell a filthy pig from miles away
From: catwoman [CopKiller]
Date: 3-Jul-2009 14:30
This is so stupid. Fake drugs should NOT be treated as real drugs if what the person is selling is nontoxic/won't cause any bodily harm, now if the person is selling something that can cause injury or death then take him to prison. Going to a fucking state prison for selling dyed mushrooms? WTF is the world coming to?? To those of you happy; I'm assuming you're drugged out losers who have had this happen to them before, well it may be annoying but you're going to have to suffer even more as YOU'RE going to have to pay higher taxes for the ever increasing jail/prison pop due to STUPID laws like this!
From: catwoman [CopKiller]
Date: 3-Jul-2009 15:21
Goyle, it's called I know. Doesn't change that stupid laws like this need tweaking.
From: slayerfreak [Chris]
Date: 3-Jul-2009 15:40
But he never intended to sell real drugs though. I could see him getting that sentence for intending to sell the real thing, but for fake shrooms, that's stupid. I shouldn't sell my nephew's toy gun then cuase i might get 3 years in prison for it. So anyway, i agree with Catwoman (Like always) because she's smart and right (Like always).
From: skorch
[Skorch]
Date: 3-Jul-2009 16:15
charges of selling a substance reported to be a controlled drug and conspiracy to commit the sale of a drug. ************************ Huh?...I'm with Catwoman on this one. What law did he actually break?...I'm pretty sure there's no enforcable contract when the deal being made is illegal, and there's no intent here on the punk's side, 'cause the punk was well aware he was not selling a controlled substance.
From: bobthedrunk
[Bob the Drunk]
Date: 3-Jul-2009 17:25
To those of you happy; I'm assuming you're drugged out losers who have had this happen to them before, well it may be annoying but you're going to have to suffer even more as YOU'RE going to have to pay higher taxes for the ever increasing jail/prison pop due to STUPID laws like this! *** ***** *** Catwoman: No I won't (pay higher taxes). I scab work under the table, therefore I never pay any taxes anyway. They can raise them thru the roof, it don't matter to me. BTW, we are not all drugged out losers. Many of us are drugged out all the time because we can afford to be, while people like you work to serve our needs all day. Nice job, thank you. PS: Any IRS agents reading this, e-mail me privately to arrange tee-time.
From: sharkman69 [Me]
Date: 3-Jul-2009 18:11
From: catwoman [CopKiller] Date: 3-Jul-2009 14:30 This is so stupid. Fake drugs should NOT be treated as real drugs if what the person is selling is nontoxic/won't cause any bodily harm, now if the person is selling something that can cause injury or death then take him to prison. Going to a fucking state prison for selling dyed mushrooms? WTF is the world coming to?? =========================== Back when I was in high school, a friend of mine was a major dope dealer. He bought pink football shaped caffeine pills for one cent apiece (in large quantity) and sold them as speed for $1.00 a pill. A young lady bought some of the fake speed, took a pill, and nearly died. It seems that caffeine caused a very bad reaction in her body. This is just one reason why selling fake drugs will, and should, get you the same penalty as selling the real stuff. Oh, and the cocaine he sold was mostly baby laxative. People trusted him because he was a friend. What chumps!
From: abyss
Date: 3-Jul-2009 19:02
$900 for a mushroom? That's one hell of a wicked trip. We get gold tops here for nothing. El natural. Don't take them personally. I am allergic to mushrooms, the last time I tripped on them I totalled the family car. Think prison is a little harsh though. 5 years good behaviour with a fine would have sufficed.
From: cuntslutwhore [fubar55]
Date: 3-Jul-2009 19:50
Fuck Florida! only Scum, White Trash, Whores, and Religious zealouts live there. Oh yeah, Red ants, sand spurs, and rotten tooth morons also. Did I forget Scum? SCUM = Republicans = SCUM
From: dikwitha [Dik]
Date: 3-Jul-2009 20:29
Sounds like an x-files episode one that never made it to TV........ ya know?
From: hippityhopp
[bunny meat is good!]
Date: 3-Jul-2009 23:28
From: skorch [Skorch] Date: 3-Jul-2009 16:15 Huh?...I'm with Catwoman on this one. What law did he actually break?...I'm pretty sure there's no enforcable contract when the deal being made is illegal, and there's no intent here on the punk's side, 'cause the punk was well aware he was not selling a controlled substance. ****** Learn to read. He was busted attempting to sell drugs. Despite the fact he knew what he was selling wasn't drugs changes nothing. If you try and sell yourself for sex dressed up as a woman to an undercover cop, the fact you have a ween and not a puss, you'll still get busted for intent. That's what he's in trouble for, he was committing a crime by purporting to have shrooms in his possession for sale.
From: sp00k
Date: 4-Jul-2009 01:15
Man sentenced in sale of fake hallucinogen ==== fucker. I hate buying fake halluciogens. lock his ass up.
From: sp00k
Date: 4-Jul-2009 01:22
Bad idea buying shrooms in the first place, too many kinds out there that'll kill you. the time I did em I puked my guts out, scared the crap out of me until I started hallucinating.
From: sp00k
Date: 4-Jul-2009 01:32
I found peyote in the desert once. I bought a plant guide, found it right where it said it should be, its not hard to find if you know where to look. I see why the indians thought they were talking to god.
From: sp00k
Date: 4-Jul-2009 01:53
recreational drug use shouldn't be illegal anyway. Heroine, coke, PCP, Meth, shit like that should stay illegal, but leave mother nature alone.
From: powderedtoastman
[Michael]
Date: 4-Jul-2009 03:34
From: sharkman69 [Me] Date: 3-Jul-2009 13:47 Surprise, you little conniving piece of shit. Fake drugs are treated just like the real thing when you're trying to sell the shit illegally. - - - Yes, but does that really make sense? The whole point of punishing people for selling drugs is that they were distributing harmful substances. How does a shiitake mushroom with food coloring constitute a harmful substance? He pleaded guilty to "conspiracy to commit the sale of a drug"... that's like putting somebody in prison for attempted murder because they shot a toy gun at someone. Paintball enthusiasts would go behind bars by the hundreds! Write the kid up for fraud, fine him the 900 dollars or whatever, but otherwise leave him alone. It was a stupid prank he did there, but should not warrant ruining his life like that. But what can you say... the prison industrial complex needs new fodder all the time and is well-connected to the judiciary system... meanwhile, one in 31 Americans is either in jail or prison or otherwise under supervision by the "system"... it's no wonder America's prison population is the largest in the world when a teenager is put in the clink for one to three years for something like that.
From: skorch
[Skorch]
Date: 4-Jul-2009 05:28
From: sp00k Date: 4-Jul-2009 04:07 selling fake dope - its like robbing a bank with a fake gun ********************************* More like using a fake gun and stealing fake money. I'm more concerned with why we're actually punishing this kid. What did he do?...rip off a stoner?...rip off someone who was in the act of comitting a crime anyway? If I had to bet, I'd say these laws were designed to take the kid off the street, because if he kept this shit up, somebody would take offense to a more murderous degree...this kid is not smart, and really needs to be supervised in a prison environment, so maybe after meeting a few of those people who really will kill him for this type of stunt, he might wise up and not end up in a few dozen cans of dog food somwhere down the road. Now if he were an adult, I would let him take his chances & not charge him.
From: powderedtoastman
[Michael]
Date: 4-Jul-2009 06:10
From: skorch [Skorch] Date: 4-Jul-2009 05:28 If I had to bet, I'd say these laws were designed to take the kid off the street, because if he kept this shit up, somebody would take offense to a more murderous degree...this kid is not smart, and really needs to be supervised in a prison environment, so maybe after meeting a few of those people who really will kill him for this type of stunt, he might wise up and not end up in a few dozen cans of dog food somwhere down the road. - - - Great... so you are saying, he needs to be in prison to be shown the juvenile error of his ways... Do you really think a misguided teenager will learn anything from going to the slammer for a non-crime like this? Sure, it was very poor judgement on his part to try to sell the fake shrooms. But once again, you can't find somebody guilty of selling drugs if he actually didn't sell any. That's just wrong to me and makes no sense at all. I'd give him some counseling and maybe a week or two of community service, but nothing that will in any way go on his record permanently. Once you have a 1 to 3 year stint in jail on your resume, your life is pretty much over. No career in government or the corporate world, many colleges won't accept you, and so on. And let's not forget the emotional scarring from a sentence like that. Let's not forget, this is not a hardened criminal who has been in and out of the system for years, he's a stupid high school kid who just didn't know any better. All this just because a bunch of overzealous lawmakers saw fit to punish kids for a stupid prank like this...
From: sharkman69 [Me]
Date: 4-Jul-2009 06:20
Yes, but does that really make sense? The whole point of punishing people for selling drugs is that they were distributing harmful substances. How does a shiitake mushroom with food coloring constitute a harmful substance? He pleaded guilty to "conspiracy to commit the sale of a drug"... that's like putting somebody in prison for attempted murder because they shot a toy gun at someone. Paintball enthusiasts would go behind bars by the hundreds! Write the kid up for fraud, fine him the 900 dollars or whatever, but otherwise leave him alone. It was a stupid prank he did there, but should not warrant ruining his life like that. =================================== This was not a prank, it was a criminal act. He intentionally deceived someone into buying what they believed were illegal drugs. Just because the mushrooms were not what he claimed they were does not excuse his behavior. After all, he didn't get paid with fake money, he got real money for fake drugs. While I have no sympathy for drug users, I have even less sympathy for drug dealers. They take advantage of people who are too weak and stupid to know better.
From: powderedtoastman
[Michael]
Date: 4-Jul-2009 07:08
From: sharkman69 [Me] Date: 4-Jul-2009 06:20 This was not a prank, it was a criminal act. He intentionally deceived someone into buying what they believed were illegal drugs. Just because the mushrooms were not what he claimed they were does not excuse his behavior. After all, he didn't get paid with fake money, he got real money for fake drugs. - - - well, it was a criminal act in that he tried to dupe somebody into giving him money for something that was not what he had claimed. Like if I sold you a DVD player and you open the box and only find bricks in it. There is no excuse for trying to rip somebody off like that, for 900 dollars even. But once again - it defies all logic that selling fake drugs makes you a drug dealer. The kid should have been found guilty of fraud. Nothing more, and nothing less. Two weeks of community service and some counseling would have been an appropriate sentence, on top of a fine that he would have remembered for a long time...
From: maidenmaiden
[whatever]
Date: 4-Jul-2009 07:43
"well, it was a criminal act in that he tried to dupe somebody into giving him money for something that was not what he had claimed. Like if I sold you a DVD player and you open the box and only find bricks in it. There is no excuse for trying to rip somebody off like that, for 900 dollars even." 
From: rottengirl [bring on the spankings]
Date: 4-Jul-2009 14:01
This is fucking retarded. I've seen people do less time for actual manslaughter. Punish the little cretin, but make him pay to society rather than suck up taxpayer dollars like a $5 hooker. IE: Make him do about 3000 hours community service somewhere picking up garbage in city parks and cleaning up vomit buckets in old folks homes and detox centers. Slavery gets shit done. I'm not adverse to using retards and criminals for some menial slave labor.
From: rebellyell
Date: 4-Jul-2009 17:27
This is f'ing entrapment in the extreme! The narcs offer the kid $900 for a quarter pound of shrooms? What kid isn't gonna come up with something for that kind of money? Magic mushrooms grow all over the southern U.S. and are pretty easy to home cultivate so $900 for that small an amount is totally out of line. That is some shady police work.
From: captrehab [Just a Captain?]
Date: 4-Jul-2009 21:22
Shrooms are always sketchy. Hard to measure dosage based on volume when the strength varies so much between the actual mushrooms. Besides that, everyone reacts differently to every batch. My buddy ordered some off the 'net one time (I know, fucking brilliant) and he went blind and paralyzed for 2 days. That's why I stick to good old fashioned reefer. And good old fashioned cocaine. And good old fashion ketamine. And good old fashioned......
From: jwsmythe
[JW Smythe]
Date: 5-Jul-2009 00:15
Without getting into the argument of drug laws (like, should pot or shrooms really be illegal, or irrational sentences for low level offenders), there are good reasons some of the laws sit like they do. It can be generally assumed that a habitual drug user cannot afford $900 for anything, much less drugs. To be able to afford the drugs, they turn to other crimes. The areas where drugs are frequently sold very frequently turn out to be bad neighborhoods. Ya, ya, plenty of suburban parents buy and sell pot all the time, but we're not talking about that either. Just because he sold fake mushrooms, he only defrauded the buyer. The intent was still to sell a drug. And as someone else said, the cops probably saved his life. People are killed over a dime bag, you think $900 for fake 'shrooms would bring a lighter sentence on the street? They would have had a harder time proving a possession charge, since they didn't test positive for anything. Then again, if you mix an ounce of cocaine with 5 pounds of flour, you will be convicted of possessing 5 pounds 1 gram of cocaine. Quality isn't considered in the law, it's quantity. The 1 gram may get you possession. The 5 pounds will get you possession with intent to distribute, and god forbid you crossed state lines with it. When it makes it to court, you may find only 1 pound was entered into evidence. Oops, clerical error, I'm sure. No attorney would let you argue "No, I had 5 pounds!" Really, I think the kid should have been let off with a slap on the wrist, after he realized that that stupid idea could have cost him his freedom and anal virginity.
From: powderedtoastman
[Michael]
Date: 5-Jul-2009 03:29
From: jwsmythe [JW Smythe] Date: 5-Jul-2009 00:15 Really, I think the kid should have been let off with a slap on the wrist, after he realized that that stupid idea could have cost him his freedom and anal virginity. - - - Sadly, the system does not seem to work like that anymore. At all. These days, laws don't need to make sense anymore, they just need to be "tough on crime". What goes out the window is to discern between hardened criminals and one-time pranksters like this kid.
From: other [unclassified]
Date: 5-Jul-2009 06:03
He's 'going to the academy'..He'll be tough enough next time. We need real crime stats to justify all this.
From: maidenmaiden
[whatever]
Date: 5-Jul-2009 06:27
Anyone remember the MTV drug war special eons ago where they had a piece about this teen (19, I think...) that got either 20 or 25 years for hooking some narcs up with a guy to get a sheet of acid from? Insane. Seemingly mellow, smart kid. Asked to introduce his guy... Oops. He probably looks like goatse-guy these days. Justice.
From: other [unclassified]
Date: 5-Jul-2009 11:24
system loves these types...easy takedown, easy conviction, brings best price in jail.
From: ik
Date: 5-Jul-2009 20:41
I remember what you're talking about Maiden. A Deadhead kid got ten years for a sheet of acid. Child molesters get less. That judge and that DA should get life in prison with no appeals. Don't even charge them with any thing just "fuck you, you're going to prison for the rest of your life.Suck it up pussy".
From: simonjester [Bill Vojtech]
Date: 5-Jul-2009 22:14
So, he combined 2 harmless things found in supermarkets, produced a product that is also harmless and dupes some assholes out of some money. You'd think they'd pin a medal on him– after all, 'shrooms like that will give the real ones a bad name and kids will lose interest.
From: rockrocks
Date: 6-Jul-2009 09:43
Lmao! Am I the only one who thinks the kid should be locked up just for being that stupid? He still had the coloring on his fingertips, and to top it off his potential customer turned out to be the heat! What a dumbass.
Updated: 6-Jul-2009 09:43
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