Seattle Police Give Out Doritos At Pot Festival, Ran Out In Ten Minutes
This weekend was Seattle’s Hempfest, an annual festival celebrating marijuana. I imagine that the pot festival on that grassy knoll over there went down similarly to how it went down in years past — red eyes, bad fashion, and body odor — but this time, there was one major difference. Marijuana is now legal. Formerly busy arresting people during that weekend, Seattle police needed a new way to occupy their time. They did so by handing out bags of Doritos during Hempfest as a part of what they call “Operation Orange Fingers.”
The purpose of their operation was to inform marijuana users of the new laws regarding their newly legalized drug of choice. Each bag of Doritos was adorned with facts about how to safely and legally use cannabis, and directed them to a website to get all of the “marijuwhatnow literature.”
Police joked in anticipation of the event over Twitter.
Please ignore maliciously false reports that we're giving out Bugles at @seattlehempfest .We would never, ever do that.
— Seattle Police Dept. (@SeattlePD) August 14, 2013
I’m not a fan of Bugles, either. Doritos are everyone’s go-to munchie, obviously, but Seattle Police didn’t realize quite how true that was, as they came under-prepared, running out of the delicious, fake cheese-dusted snack within the first ten minutes of the festival. I can’t say I’m surprised.
[via ABC]
Image via Twitter

Cops with a sense of humor? That’s a first.
13 years ago at 12:05 pmthe SPD twitter account is comedy gold
13 years ago at 1:26 pmhow does on shotgun weed?
13 years ago at 12:15 pmIt’s probably time for you to hit the ole dusty road
13 years ago at 12:16 pm*one took my lap
13 years ago at 12:16 pmSorry i don’t smoke weed, I must be a total geed and not TFTC enough.
13 years ago at 12:19 pmThe marijuana “shotgun” is when one person places a blunt or joint in their mouth, and another person (hopefully of the opposite sex) cups the “cherry” of the blunt or joint in their mouth (carefully), then proceeds to blow concentrated smoke into the original partner’s mouth. An effective and erotic method of getting high, indeed.
13 years ago at 12:40 pmLayman’s: It’s basically Lady & The Tramping with marijuana cigarettes. Reefers.
13 years ago at 12:41 pm^ Nice reference.
13 years ago at 3:53 pm“Operation Orange Fingers”?..These fucking guys
13 years ago at 12:15 pmThey smoke pot in Seattle?
13 years ago at 12:20 pmHawtpiece this is not very. Nor is it very fraternity
13 years ago at 12:28 pmYou a little slow, boy?
13 years ago at 12:44 pmI forgot the word neat and you still understood what it said, go fuck yourself you noob
13 years ago at 1:39 pmThis is just one of many of your comment typos, at one point you have to own up to it and take a few laps you back-woods, pit-stained, Walmart bought white Tee-shirt sporter.
13 years ago at 4:42 pmYou don’t know shit kid
13 years ago at 5:56 pm^
13 years ago at 1:04 pmMany preemptive laps taken.
13 years ago at 1:05 pm“seattle.gov/police/marijwhatnow” What a clever website extension.
13 years ago at 1:10 pmDamn dirty dopers and their munchies.
13 years ago at 1:14 pmtoo many god damn smelly ass hippies at Hempfest… and in Seattle in general.
13 years ago at 1:26 pmThis sounds a lot like these cops were on super troopers
13 years ago at 1:31 pm