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Woman surprised to find marijuana in mail

Wednesday, July 21st, 2010

Talk about an early christmas present, nothing like getting a package that can get you 3 to 5 in the big house, all expenses paid LOL

Pot’s in the mail: Michigan woman tells police she got 2 pounds of marijuana from Arizona

BLACKMAN TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) — Bills, catalogs, junk mail – marijuana?

Indeed, police say a surprise 2-pound package of marijuana arrived in the mail last week at one elderly woman’s home in southern Michigan’s Blackman Township, which is about 75 miles west of Detroit.

The woman called police. Detectives don’t know who sent the weed. They learned that the Arizona return address on the package was bogus.

Police say the pot is worth about $2,400.

Deputy Director Jon Johnston told The Jackson Citizen Patriot that the marijuana either was sent to the woman’s home by mistake or someone planned to snatch it from the mailbox before she checked.

The pot will be destroyed.

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Space alien search costs school worker his job

Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009

Give me a break, a million dollars to remove Seti from PC’s.  This would take probably less than a minute a PC and could be done remotely.  I am thinking they are looking for some insurance dollars here from the incident.

MESA, Ariz. (AP) — A former Arizona school district employee is accused of using school computers in an experiment to find space aliens, costing the worker his job and the district more than $1 million.

Schools officials say Brad Niesluchowski, who was Higley Unified School District’s information technology director, downloaded free software on district computers in 2000.

The program, known as SETI(at)home, uses Internet-connected computers worldwide to analyze radio telescope data in an experiment to find extraterrestrial intelligence.

But Superintendent Denise Birdwell told the East Valley Tribune that the program also bogged down the district’s system and interfered with technology use in classrooms.

Birdwell said it will take more than $1 million to fix the problem, including removal of the SETI software. She says police are conducting a broader investigation.

Niesluchowski resigned from the district Oct. 22.

His lawyer did not return calls for comment.

Information from: East Valley Tribune, http://www.eastvalleytribune.com

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