'Time Is Going By Really Really Really Really Really Slow'

Jacob Sullum | July 11, 2007

I missed this when the story broke in May*, and maybe you did too: Edward Sanchez, a Dearborn, Michigan, police officer who used marijuana confiscated from drug suspects to whip up a batch of brownies with his wife, freaked out after one bite too many and called 911:

It's at almost as funny as the DEA agent demonstrating proper weapon handling to schoolchildren, and no one gets shot in the foot. For me the highlight is the snort from the off-camera news reader. More recently, the actor Eric Szmanda Josh Covitt and his friends re-enacted Sanchez's 911 call for SecretFunTime.com:

Sanchez, by the way, was asked to leave the police department but did not face criminal charges. The Detroit Free Press obtained the recording of his plea for help through a Freedom of Information Act request.

* But Radley Balko did not. I probably overlooked his post because of the sports reference in the headline.

[Thanks to Maura Flynn for the tip.]

Comments

|7.11.07 @ 4:34AM|#

chortle

e|7.11.07 @ 4:44AM|#

I feel like I'm dead...I'm dying...what's the score on the Rangers game?

wayaway|7.11.07 @ 7:04AM|#

Ummmm, I'm too lazy to go looking for it but didn't you guys blog this already??

|7.11.07 @ 8:04AM|#

Damn. I always knew the cops got the best weed.

|7.11.07 @ 8:07AM|#

...and so what did rescue do? Bring over a dozen doughnuts and say, "here, eat these and you will be ok."

|7.11.07 @ 8:16AM|#

I bet lots of marijuana users in jail wish they could have just lost their jobs.

Seth|7.11.07 @ 8:39AM|#

http://www.reason.com/blog/show/120147.html

wayaway|7.11.07 @ 9:20AM|#

Thanks Seth :)

|7.11.07 @ 10:00AM|#

The price of stamps is going up? When the hell did that happen?

Nick Yemana|7.11.07 @ 10:34AM|#

Mooshy mooshy.

|7.11.07 @ 10:41AM|#

First time in 20 years I felt really good, and it had to be illegal.

|7.11.07 @ 10:46AM|#

There should be a word for someone who's too stupid to get high?

That's how you knew Clinton was lying when he said "I didn't inhale and I didn't like it". Well that and his lips were moving.

Banana|7.11.07 @ 11:14AM|#

So, Mr. Sullum and his 'tipster' don't actually read this blog and apparently can't be assed to even check to see that this was already posted. Interesting. Radley should sue!!!1!

dhex|7.11.07 @ 11:16AM|#

that call is so good its worth hearing twice, though.

lolz n00b.

|7.11.07 @ 11:40AM|#

Warren - Jamaica they call it:

"he ain't got no head for ganja"

uncle sam|7.11.07 @ 11:57AM|#

And the snorting newswoman adds something to the story.

Brian Sorgatz|7.11.07 @ 1:10PM|#

So, Mr. Sullum and his 'tipster' don't actually read this blog and apparently can't be assed to even check to see that this was already posted. Interesting. Radley should sue!!!1!

Tsk tsk. Mr. Sullum obviously doesn't read my blog as diligently as he should, either.

Charles|7.11.07 @ 2:03PM|#

I hope you also saw Drew's take:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QeXP4BPXjV8

|7.11.07 @ 2:45PM|#

funny shit

|7.11.07 @ 3:00PM|#

Actually, that cop shooting himself in the foot gets funnier every time I see it.

Scooby|7.11.07 @ 4:07PM|#

I had bought a .40cal Glock only days before I saw that video for the first time. It scared the hell out of me knowing that it was so dangerous that even the only guy around trained to handle such a dangerous weapon was powerless to stop it from shooting him in the foot.

I got over it.

Dan|7.11.07 @ 6:18PM|#

That is NOT Eric Szmanda. According to SFT, it's Josh Covitt. Szmanda is the guy from CSI.