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As we all know the intellectual Michael Vick brought an Aquafina bottle with a hidden compartment behind its label last week. Perfect for hiding that girl’s phone number you don’t want your girlfriend to know about. Instead airport screeners found a dark particle and an odor resembling marijiuana. If it looks like marijuana, smells like it, and is stashed in a hidden compartment what could it be? His grandmother’s top secret spices that she uses in her pot roast?

Instead he was allowed to board the plane, embarassment ensues for the Atlanta Falcons organization, and Michael Vick becomes another athlete busted for weed.

But no. Now police are saying the dark stuff was not weed and the video of Vick at the airport has been erased. I don’t smell marijuana…sniff…sniff…I smell a pile of shit.

In a report on its web site, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution said it requested a copy of the video on Jan. 18 from the Miami-Dade Police Department under the state’s public records law. Police spokesman Robert Williams said at the time that police decided they would not release it because it was part of an open investigation.

On Tuesday, after authorities said the case was closed, the newspaper again requested a copy of the video and was told it had been erased.

The lab results came back but it never said what exactly that substance was. They carbon date cavemen skulls and determine how many thousands of years ago it is from. So I KNOW they could tell us what that stuff was if it wasn’t weed. It just sounds like the Miami Dade police just did not bother to check it cause of a little nudge and a little wink from some higher power.

‘With the volume of things [the crime lab] has passing through, they really don’t have the time to take an intellectual jaunt as to what he was carrying around,” said Ed Griffith, a spokesman for the Miami-Dade state attorney’s office.

Usually someone in power can faclilitate this sort of hush-hush. The NFL? Arthur Blank? Somebody did and it should not have happened. I know it’s Miami and thousands of pounds of drugs get illegally passed through that city yearly. So what’s a little green stuff? So when flying to Miami next week for the Super Bowl, Aquafina with hidden compartments containing dark substances are OKAY!

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8 Comments Already

The Big Picture Said,

January 25th, 2007 @1:56 am

wow conspiracy! where’s mel gibson. (was that movie too small for a reference?)

kylewright4heisman Said,

January 25th, 2007 @9:37 am

When I first heard that he was exonorated, I automatically thought it was a cover up, and now that the tape has been erased, leads me even further to think that it’s a cover up.

WBRS Sports Blog Said,

January 25th, 2007 @11:16 am

How does a videotape suddenly disappear? Ridiculous.

Buffalo Wolfe Said,

January 25th, 2007 @7:37 pm

Uh, yeah, sports stars get special treatment. I thought we all knew that. What you are failing to recognize is that this should not even be a crime to begin with. Are you gonna tell me it’s fine to serve alcohol on the plane, a much more damaging drug that marijuana, but you can’t carry on an herb that not one person has ever overdosed from using in recorded history? Alchohol, asprin, and tobacco can all result in an overdose. Do you all see the hypocrisy here? You are acting like he got away with stashing a dead hooker in his luggage. Wake up!

Benny Said,

January 25th, 2007 @11:06 pm

Hey I know mrijuana isn’t that bad. Yes it can’t be worse than alcohol. But the LAW says you can’t have weed. I didn’t come up with it. It’s this country.
So it’s a big deal they possibly covered it up because you just can’t legally have it. Doesn’t matter if the stuff won’t kill you.

January 26th, 2007 @5:54 pm

Benny-I understand your concern that this was “covered up”, since any time law enforcement does something that is unethical it causes a lot of problems, namely, it erodes the public’s faith in the law enforcement community. With that being said, that door swings both ways good sir…cops often lie in order to get search warrants and convictions instead of cutting someone slack, like they apparently did in Vick’s case. This happens all the time. Celebrities also get special treatment all the time…just look at how Willie Nelson was let go by cops in Arkansas when he was caught with weed AND mushrooms. My point is that just because some high and mighty agency says that something is wrong, doesn’t make that policy right. And when they choose to not enforce their own polocies, like they apparently did here, you can’t really argue with that premise. If you want to believe that the law is always right, go ahead. But it’s not. We change the laws all the time, for better and worse. The criminalizing of marijuana is one of the biggest policy blunders in US history…when Nixon decided to do so because he wanted to stifle his opponents, who were hippies who hapened to smoke the stuff. I say that this is no big deal, it’s just something for arm-chair quarterbacks can gossip about. If you want to focus on someone who is breaking a law that matters, focus your anger on the NFL for not paying their retired players who are disabled the insurance they are owed. That is a real tradegy, not Vick trying to sneek weed on a plane. Please.