Schools warned of chilling 'Strawberry Meth' menace
Thames Valley's finest fall for classic net hoax
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Eighty Oxfordshire schools were warned of the possible threat of deadly "Strawberry Meth", aka "Strawberry Quick" - crystal meth disguised as mouthwatering fruit-flavoured sweets - after an officer fell for a classic web hoax.
The unnamed plod was alerted to the menace by email, and promptly forwarded the missive "via a special system connecting police and schools without checking it with colleagues", the Evening Standard explains.
Had he checked, he would have quickly realised the Strawberry Meth gag has been doing the rounds for quite some time.
West Oxfordshire's most senior police officer, Chief Inspector Dennis Evendon, apologised for the cock-up, explaining: "The officer should have double checked before taking this action, which he did take with the best intentions. We will be making sure this sort of thing does not happen again."
A Thames Valley Police spokesman said the officer "would not be disciplined over the incident", but that "internal processes would be reviewed".
If it's any consolation to the force, Florida plod last year warned on the rising use among local high school students of fermented "fecal matter and urine", known as "Jenkem", or "Butthash".
While there have been reports that Jenkem does indeed provide a high for inhabitants of the world's poorest countries, it seems unlikely pampered US kids would take to inhaling crap gas when they can so easily avail themselves of Strawberry Quick. ®
COMMENTS
Meth in American indian country
Hello! My name is Lynn "Sota" Hart owner of No Xcuses None! and a proud member of the Yankton Sioux tribe located in SE South Dakota. And the designer of the "Original American Indian Anti-Meth posters for Youth Across America".
I specifically designed these posters to be relevant to Indian country because I felt they were unique and would aid in the battle against Meth on and off the American Indian reservations. It’s not going to be the "cure all" but I feel that the families and their youth living on the reservations in America need to use whatever American Indian people can to identify with in their own culture to help combat the use of Meth in their own backyards. So I designed the American Indian Anti-Meth posters to convey this message to Indian country. Meth knows nothing or cares anything about your culture, your race, sex, or spirituality. As a proud member of the Yankton Sioux Tribe I do care about preserving our cultural way of life and all the youth and families living within that sacred circle.
I started working on the project last spring or early summer 2007 when I noticed that the posters I saw were all about the after effects of meth; images of white people with rotten teeth and bad hair and nothing specific to American Indian culture. Nothing had an Indian motiff, so I decided to create posters for kids to take home and share with their families and friends and to put up in their bedrooms as a constant reminder to think about the dangers of Meth. Knowing how kids are, if you give one kid something cool and make it fun to have then it becomes another tool to use to get the message across to our youth. My posters are are 11x17" highly glossed and look great! I have them in NM,WA,OR,MT,CO,ND,MN,WI, etc,etc References are available upon request. Again, please visit my website or just call me (605)-491-4598 if you have any questions at all.
The posters are very well received and are a positive tool and are effective in showing our youth a strong positive message against Meth in your community.
Lynn"Sota"Hart
Yankton/Dakota Sioux
USMC Veteran
Expeditionary Forces In Rediness
P.O Box 42
Flandreau, SD 57028
noxcusesnone@hotmail.com
605-491-4598
Had it here too
Email was sent round the school and despite emailing back the Snoopes site to them they still wouldn't retract. Got announced in assemblies and everything.
(Wiltshire)
Re: you Can disguise
Not exactly correct there... and nice £10 wrap, dissolved in a small bottle of Lucozade original, or so i hear... Being an ex taxi driver, i have no experience of this, just hearsay, dontcha know.
Mine is the one with 'kick me' written on the back
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