Harr-E Potter?
Saturday, July 21st is considered “P Day“, since it is the day that Harry Potter fans learn the final fate of their beloved heroes. Whether Harry lives or dies, people will be miserable. And misery loves company. Unfortunately, misery loves drugs too.
New York drug dealers hoping to to turn “P Day” into “E Day”, have been peddling Ecstasy pills bearing images from the popular Harry Potter books and movies for $25 a pop. (thesmokinggun.com).
Aren’t Harry Potter fans suffering enough? Is this a dastardly concoction of Lord Voldemort, the Malfoys, or the morally ambiguous Professor Snape? Knowing Snape, he’d probably plead temporary insanity from “wizard mind control” again. And you know what? He’d probably get off, too, leaving some poor, depressed Harry Potter fan turning tricks for a guy who looks like Hagrid, all the time pretending that each john has the biggest wand he’s ever seen.
Not quite the sequel to the series he was looking for.
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July 19th, 2007 at 11:05 pm
Thats sad, I hope they aren’t being pushed to kids.
July 20th, 2007 at 2:16 am
Kinda like that CHIPS “Punk Rock” episode back in the day, where they peddled drugs to kids. When one dude had the accident on the go-kart, it freaked the hell out of me!
August 15th, 2007 at 2:18 pm
I posted on your Smurf post, but I wanted to point out that I don’t know any kids reading harry potter. I know tons of adults reading harry potter, however.
@Dave: They’re NOT being pushed to kids most likely. Kids don’t have any freaking money, and they would most likely be found out by their parents, and if there was repeat business, a whole mess of cops would be following the kid.
Google “lsd blotter art” without the quotes, and you’ll see tons of pages like this:
http://www.erowid.org/chemicals/lsd/lsd_images_gallery1.shtml
Blotter art is not a method of getting acid into children’s mouths, it’s a way to easily identify drugs by using iconic and easy to memorize imagery that can also hopefully be distinguished from frauds.
@alexei: I just want to vocalize that this is an 80s television episode. It has no bearing on reality.
In closing, while some people DO sell to children, this has NOTHING to do with it, and using simple iconic imagery does not indicate selling to children.
August 15th, 2007 at 4:02 pm
80s television isn’t real? Then how do you explain this: http://www.wanderingfamily.com/pics/carnival-tournai-1.jpg
August 15th, 2007 at 6:11 pm
my god… it’s terrible. Now, only Erik Estrada can stop these drug-peddling smurfs from selling our children drugs with funny pictures on them.
Cheers,
Nathan
August 16th, 2007 at 4:06 am
Now you see the light!