I just love reading about stupid things people have done, like this:

http://www.cbs46.com/news/13878002/detail.html

You don't need to be a comedian to be funny, just read the headlines, something will make you go, wtf.

I guess it was real after all.

A future Darwin award-winner in training, maybe?

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This guy would have made a great darwin award winner and at the same time improve the human genome... but he survived apperantly.

http://www.wlwt.com/news/13930136/detail.html

what a dumbass.

Odd. If it was fake, would they have a good reason to arrest her? Certainly there was intent- but was there possession? Perhaps she had real crack in her apartment, however.

From a legal perspective, if you intend to commit a crime, but what you do isn't a crime, you aren't guilty. Like if you buy a bag of oregano, and you think it's a drug, you haven't committed a drug crime because oregano is perfectly legal.

In my criminal law class, the professor gave this example: Surreptitious dog petting. Let's say you're crazy, and you think it's illegal to sneak up on other people who are walking their dogs in the park and pet the dogs. Let's say that you're convinced it's a crime, called surreptitous dog petting, and that, with the intent to break the law, you go sneaking around the park, creeping up to people's dogs, petting them, and running away. Can you be arrested and charged with anything? No. Petting dogs is legal. There is no crime of 'surreptitious dog petting' to charge you with, and you aren't guilty of it because it doesn't exist, whether you think it does or not.

Intending to commit a crime, by itself, isn't a crime. It's intent coupled with an action.

I got the impression that the drugs were real. I imagine that the police did a field test on the substance and determined that it was indeed cocaine.

The way the quotes are used in the article does not say the drugs were fake. They only say that the woman thought they were fake. It seems they just did not live up to her standards.

This may vary by state but in some places it is illegal to attempt to buy or sell drugs, even if the drugs are fake or non-existant. Kind of like trying to pick up a police decoy. There is no real prostitute, but you still get arrested for soliciting.

Well, that gets into attempted crimes, and that's a whole different story. If you attempt to do something that's illegal and don't do it but the fact that you didn't was through no fault of your own and you intended to do so, it might be an attempt (like shooting someone but they don't die- still attempted murder if you intended to kill them). Attempt crimes have different elements, sometimes, because they tend to be harder to prove or disprove, and understandably so.

ok... another canidate for the darwin award:

http://www.click2houston.com/news/13955891/detail.html

Does not sound like a candidate, but someone that suceeded.

They also took two others with them. Darwin by association?