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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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  1. Libertarian   14 years ago

    The DEA has an online store!?!?!?

    And they sell key chains with little tiny handcuffs!?!?!?

    Aaaaaiiiiiiieeeeeeeee!!!! Beam me up. Now.

    1. Libertarian   14 years ago

      There's even a DEA Christmas ornament!

    2. Fatty Bolger   14 years ago

      Also, for that truly special birthday party, they'll send an agent to your house to discharge a firearm right in front of the children! DEA professionalism guarantees that it's perfectly safe, and fun for all!

      1. Xeones   14 years ago

        ...perfectly safe, and fun for all!

        Unless you're the family dog.

  2. Rather   14 years ago

    Huh shucks Radley. You didn't with the RandyAyndy Awards either but the good news is that the DEA won't be delivering the RandyAyndy award to your house

    1. sloopyinca   14 years ago

      Rather|1.26.11 @ 11:16AM|#
      I HATE YOU ALL! I'M NEVER POSTING HERE AGAIN!

      reply to this

      1. D'oh   14 years ago

        Rather, are you related to the late great (and sorely missed) joe who said the same thing, and either forgot or lied?

        1. Rather   14 years ago

          The ghost of Joe-I might write about him. Hmm, the spoof ain't me

  3. Hugh Akston   14 years ago

    The DEA already has basically unrestricted access to your junk, so why not take one in the bath with you?

  4. Robert   14 years ago

    Hah! Quackel could eat that jaundiced duck.

  5. anarch   14 years ago

    "He loved Big Brother."

  6. Episiarch   14 years ago

    Rubber duckie, you're the one
    you make pat-downs so much fun
    rubber duckie I'm awfully fond of EHF

    1. Rubber Duckie   14 years ago

      Save me TSA! I'm in Epi's ass. I'm trying to remain calm but the gerbil here has been stuck for a week.

      1. sloopyinca   14 years ago

        Rather|1.26.11 @ 11:16AM|#
        I HATE YOU ALL! I'M NEVER POSTING HERE AGAIN!

        reply to this

        1. Rather   14 years ago

          sloopyinca, are you slow? That is one of the thousands of spoofs.

  7. Libertarian   14 years ago

    The target demographic for their propaganda just keeps getting younger and younger. What's next? Are they going to start sponsoring sonograms?

  8. Xenocles   14 years ago

    They're going to do an amnesty buyback of the banned bath salts. That's what you get back in exchange.

    Also, arrested.

  9. Johnny Longtorso   14 years ago

    The website seems to be down.

    1. Libertarian   14 years ago

      Funny, it was up earlier. The avalanche of 20 or so Reason readers probably crashed it. They can't be used to very much traffic.

      1. SIV   14 years ago

        I highly recommend the DEA online publication Microgram Bulletin. The site is down at the moment.

  10. Binky   14 years ago

    Why settle for less than the best?

    1. sounds real good   14 years ago

      It looks more like Sammy Davis, Jr.

      1. The Ghost of Sammy Davis, Jr.   14 years ago

        They all look alike.

        Rubber duckies, I mean.

  11. Tulpa   14 years ago

    I was searching for a stuffed dog from a police department, but found this gem instead:

    Police shoot stuffed animal with Taser

    Warren police said the 911 caller said a "huge" animal resembling "a 150-pound cat" was spotted in an old cement drainpipe in Bates Park and 10 officers were sent to the scene, WDIV-TV, Detroit, reported Monday. The officers saw the outline of the animal in the pipe and shot it with a Taser.

    1. peachy   14 years ago

      "The officers were all immediately suspended without pay for failure to use lethal force."

    2. Rather   14 years ago

      "I was searching for a stuffed dog from a police department."
      Rule 34 has finally been proven to be a myth.

  12. Police manual   14 years ago

    "Police shoot stuffed animal with Taser"

    Yeah... and you shoot a dog with your firearm.

  13. wcy   14 years ago

    i might get one of those. good place to hide my stash.

  14. ????? ??????   13 years ago

    Thanks

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