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DEA Rubber Ducky Is Looking for Your Package

Radley Balko | 1.26.2011 6:27 PM

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Just days after America's drug warriors went to conniptions over psychoactive bath salts, someone sends me a link to a bath-time, badge-wearing rubber ducky the DEA sells on its website. 

Coincidence? I think not! The website says it "really squeaks." Sure. Squeals is more like it.

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Radley Balko is a journalist at The Washington Post.

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