I couldn't make this up if I tried. . .I wonder when they discovered this - when they tried to smoke it?
Police mistake Nativity hay for marijuana http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_743250.html?menu=news.quirkies
Marijuana seized by police in Chicago last month turned out to be hay from a church Nativity scene.
Police got an anonymous tip that a major consignment was being moved in a truck.
When officers stopped the vehicle with Jose Galvan and Juan Luna in it, two small plastic bags with crushed green plants fell out of the cab.
On-the-spot tests seemed to confirm the plants were marijuana.
But a spokesman for the Cook County state attorney's office has confirmed that lab tests found the initial results were erroneous and drugs charges have now been dropped.
Mr Galvan and Mr Luna had been planning to take the hay from St. Wenceslaus Roman Catholic Church, where they are parishioners, back to a horse farm where a friend had loaned it to them.
However, the two remained at Cook County Jail as federal immigration officials checked to see if they are in the country legally.
Mr Luna will appear in court next week on an unrelated marijuana delivery charge he thought had been dismissed, reports the Chicago Sun-Times.
Story filed: 15:52 Friday 24th January 2003
In the News
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UK workers fret over e-mail snoops - 01/24/03 http://www.electricnews.net/news.html?code=9153375
British workers are increasingly e-mailing and surfing the Internet from home to avoid restrictions on Web usage at their place of work.
A survey by electronics group Amstrad has revealed that 26 percent of respondents had e-mail installed in their homes because their bosses were monitoring and reading their electronic mails at work.
Teens and the Internet: Disturbing "Camgirl" Sites Deserve a Closer Look - 01/23/03 http://writ.news.findlaw.com/commentary/20030123_valetk.html
A growing number of teens in the U.S. and U.K., some as young as 14 years old, are getting into the habit of asking for handouts online.
Convicted Internet Predator Says Statute is Vague, Unconstitutional - 01/22/03 http://www.sltrib.com/2003/Jan/01222003/utah/22326.asp
A man convicted under Utah's new Internet predator law asked the state Court of Appeals Tuesday to rule the statute unconstitutional.
Manager unfairly sacked over joke email - 01/21/03 http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_742032.html?menu=news.technology
A senior sales executive sacked after emailing a joke which portrayed Arab women as ugly has won a claim for unfair dismissal, but was told he "should have known better".
Web tangle - 01/21/03 http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/021/metro/Web_tangle+.shtml
It began a few months ago with name-calling on the bus, bullying in the hallway, and teasing on the train home, said Belmont High School junior Jacqueline Garcia. Then, last month, someone created a website posting Garcia's picture, poking fun at her red lipstick and long black hair.
Taking it a step further, they also added Garcia's address, telephone number - and obscenity-laden descriptions about her, she said.
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