Rats Get High by Eating Marijuana Evidence Stored at New Orleans Police Headquarters
https://legalinsurrection.com/2024/03/rats-get-high-by-eating-marijuana-evidence-stored-at-new-orleans-police-headquarters/I recently had a chance to visit New Orleans. And while the city was fun, I missed seeing its latest attraction — rats who are buzzed after eating marijuana evidence at the city’s police headquarters.
Rats have infiltrated the New Orleans Police Department’s deteriorating headquarters, breaking into the evidence room and getting “high” on marijuana, a police official said this week.
“The rats are eating our marijuana. They’re all high,” Superintendent of the New Orleans Police Department Anne Kirkpatrick told council members Monday at a Criminal Justice Committee meeting, according to WWL Louisiana.
Joining the rats, the building is also home to a cockroach infestation, mold, no air conditioning, and elevators and bathrooms that don’t function properly, the superintendent added.
Kirkpatrick’s comments come just weeks after New Orleans, considered one of America’s top tourist and party cities, welcomed hundreds of thousands of visitors for Mardi Gras.
New Orleans police have occupied these headquarters since 1968. The infestations are pretty severe, as there are reports of officers finding rat droppings on their desks.
The rats wanna get all stoned.
