Thursday, January 26, 2012

Most honest student in America pays $30 for textbook on Amazon and receives $400 worth of cocaine

One student makes a surprising discovery inside a used textbook.

Posted by Ben Palosaari on Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 11:19 AM

Stop sending coke with textbooks, Amazon users.
  • Stop sending coke with textbooks, Amazon users.
If you've read The Pitch cover story this week, you know that use of black tar heroin from Mexico is spiking in the Kansas City area. But there's also news that people who sell used textbooks on Amazon are shipping drugs to the area.

Sophia Stockton, a student at MidAmerica Nazarene University, ordered a used textbook about terrorism from an Amazon user. When the book arrived, she flipped through the pages and "a little tiny package falls out with white powder in it," according to Fox 4. Demonstrating that she pays attention to lectures, Stockton told the TV station: "In class we talked about people sending bombs in the mail, and I thought of, you know, they send anthrax in the mail, too."

Stockton took the baggie to the local police, and officers asked her if she had ordered cocaine (not an advised study aid) with the book. "I was like, 'no,' " she told them. Good answer.

Police valued the cocaine at $300-$400.

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  • One student makes a surprising discovery inside a used textbook.

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"Funny how LEO's always know the value"

If you could sell the stuff for what the cops say it's worth, you'd be in business. The only people willing to pay those kind of prices are narcs.

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Posted by Realist on January 30, 2012 at 9:34 AM

When I was a pizza delivery driver, I was offered pot as a tip once. Looking back, I probably should have taken it.

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Posted by elsicomoro on January 28, 2012 at 12:24 PM

23 likes? Damn the Pitch has a lot of drug using readers.

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Posted by Abe on January 27, 2012 at 11:48 PM

$150. Retail.

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Posted by kcnemo on January 27, 2012 at 5:20 PM

Honest student? Yes.
Lamest student? Quite possibly.

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Posted by zephed on January 27, 2012 at 4:43 PM

Maybe the fine folks at Amazon have new marketing strategy.

What ever it takes to get those kids through college.....

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Posted by Wink Dinklemeyer on January 27, 2012 at 2:10 PM

Funny how LEO's always know the value.

I'll bet KCPD suscribes to high Times too.

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Posted by Wink Dinklemeyer on January 27, 2012 at 10:33 AM

I bet she was kicking herself when she realized it wasn't anthrax.

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Posted by Abe on January 26, 2012 at 11:44 AM
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