Yummy Strawberry Meth

It never ceases to amaze me the number of twats that receive emails and read websites and take what they read as gospel without doing at least a rudimentary check, before they re-circulate the message as fact. The trouble with the Internet is that so many of its users of it shouldn’t be allowed out of their special school classrooms unaccompanied.

A police officer from the Thames Valley Police Force recently circulated an email to schools in the Oxford Area, claiming that a Strawberry Flavoured version of Crystal Meth was being pushed around and near schools. Despite the fact that is a well-documented urban myth. The story originally circulated about 12 months ago. Since then the DEA (North America’s lead Drug Enforcement Agency) has not gathered a single shred of evidence that it is true. If anyone had, you’d but money on them at least having secured one sample in 12 months. Crystal Meth (and I am no expert) apparently does come in slightly different shades, due to the dyes that may be present in the raw materials, however, in terms of flavour, it only comes in “Original”.

So in the event that someone sends you an email that claims the following:

There is a type of crystal meth going around that looks like strawberry pop rocks (the candy that sizzles and ‘pops’ in your mouth). It also smells like strawberry and it is being handed out to kids in schoolyards. They are calling it strawberry meth or strawberry quick. Kids are ingesting this thinking that it is candy and being rushed off to the hospital in dire condition. It also comes in chocolate, peanut butter, cola, cherry, grape and orange. Please instruct your children not to accept candy from strangers and even not to accept candy that looks like this from a friend (who may have been given it and believe it is candy) and to take any that they may have to a teacher, principal, etc. immediately. Pass this email on to as many people as you can (even if they don’t have kids) so that we can raise awareness and hopefully prevent any tragedies from occurring.

Firstly read it, is “candy” a word that a UK teacher is likely to use to describe sweets? secondly, any email that says “Pass this email on to as many people” is bound to be complete bollox. So grow up and stop scare mongering. ‘,