Looks Can Be Deceiving


An Australian man, who wasn't identified by local media, spent four months in jail for possession of meth before tests showed it was actually Epsom salt.
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How many law enforcement resources were wasted on this with nothing to show for it? This is a real problem and the only solution is to make criminal doing anything that causes police to think you're committing a crime.
So, does meth smell like epsom salt, or something? If not, nobody so much as took a whiff? This incompetence would be funny if it weren't so sad.
On the optimistic side: at least we're not the only nation to be so retarded.
On the pessimistic side: we're not the only nation to be so retarded...
It would've been more ironic if it had happened in Epsom.
Obviously the Aussie coppers need to watch more CSI, where everybody carries little test kits that will instantly identify anything.