Cotton mouth machine
This morning, in Boulder, Colorado, another casualty of
legalizing marijuana:
The report came in around 6:01 a.m. today after a security guard at the bus station found what he thought looked like a pipe bomb near the bike shelter on the east side of the station, according to police spokeswoman Kim Koblel.
The guard described the object as a foot-long plastic pipe that was capped at both ends.
The bus station was cleared out. Police began to close down joining streets. Luckily, before things came to a complete standstill, a police sergeant took a peek at the device and realized it was a bong.
"It was some kind of either marijuana storage or marijuana smoking device," Kobel said. "There was some marijuana in it."
Kobel said it appears the bong was forgotten at the station and was not intended to scare anyone.
Police lifted the closures and the evacuation just before 6:20 a.m.
Boulder residents can chalk this up to a victory in the war on drugs. And terrorism. But mostly somebody who lost his or her bong.