Epic Pot Bust Fail

What was first thought to be one of the largest marijuana seizures in the Corpus Christi, Texas Police Departments history turned into an embarrassing incident for the cops, as the clueless officers spent a busy and exciting evening harvesting hundreds of horse mint from a city park.

The revealing incident began when a teenager riding his bike through Waldron Park in Flour Bluff discovered what he thought were pot plants growing there about 8 p.m Thursday, reports Bart Bedsole of KRIStv.com.

Courtesy KRIS

Police then hauled away 300 to 400 medium-sized plants that they, too, believed were marijuana.

Exhausted officers only stopped collecting the harmless plants because it got too dark to work; they planned to return bright and early in the morning to look around for more marijuana.

Trouble is, after spending more than an hour laboriously removing and tagging hundreds of plants, and then hauling it all to the police department downtown, testing revealed that none of it was marijuana at all. It was just a fairly common type of weed known as horse mint.

This is exactly the caliber of plice work that is done in Corpus Christi, Texas, wrote Derrick Sillers, one commenter on the original news story. The residents of Corpus [Christi] and Nueces County should seriously be concerned with how their tax dollars are spent. This is the same police department that serves, protects and investigates you.

Officers did not explain how their big drug haul will be disposed of, now that theyve spent untold hours and plenty of taxpayer money clearing weeds of the the city park.

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[mastrbutcher]

wait? cops did yard work? wewt =)

[tinderinc]

how stupid can cops be over an hr spent pulling weeds and know one realized hey... this doesn't smell like weed?

[funnyjulio1]

i Guess it was a type of weed

[Sarah101gellar]

how did i get here whale videos????????????

[jwallbanger]

that doesn't look anything like pot. i'm going to that town to sell fake pot and get rich.

[mOdSiNcOrPeRaTeD]

they act stupid so THEY dont get caught with it

[BubbaNintendo]

So pigs like horsemint? I'll carry some around to pay them off with

[RunRun613]

LOL

[guitarzan1283]

wow and people wonder why drug problems are getting out of hand lmao even the cops dont know what it looks like

[FLPst0neR]

They must have been super high to mistake horse-mint for cannabis.

[Gripfang]

@mastrbutcher You may have all my internets, sir.

[liltrucker410]

wow...they couldnt tell just by looking at it?