Police Chief Recovering After Eating Cake Laced With Pot

[The Straight Story]

LAURELVILLE, Ohio - The Hocking County Sheriff's office is trying to get to the bottom of who is responsible for drugging Laurelville Police Chief Mike Berkemeier.

Berkemeier says the problem began Easter Sunday when he ate some cake sitting on his kitchen counter.

”I got up in the morning and ate it -- the entire thing,” he said.

Shortly after eating that cake, Berkemeier says he began to feel sick like never before.

”I thought I was dying,” he said.

Berkemeier says all he could think to do was make the short drive from his home to the Laurelville police station for help.

http://www.10tv.com/content/stories/2013/04/12/laurelville-police-chief-recovering-after-eating-entire-pot-laced-cake.html

[NightWatcher]

1. I once "recovered" by watching Ren & Stimpy

[Egnever]

2. Haha!

Awesome!

[npk]

3. Bummer!

I hope they spare no resource to get to the bottom of this.

[kestrel91316]

4. I'd get sick eating an entire cake, too. Even one with no

pot in it.

Serves the greedy glutton right. What a maroon.

[petronius]

9. That's my take, too. I'm glad he's OK, but seriously:

you wake up in the morning, wander into the kitchen and see a cake, you have no idea why it's there but you just eat the whole thing anyway? Selfish dolt - I'm picturing a somewhat goofier version of Chief Wiggum here...

[MrBig]

27. Chief Wiggum was my first thought as well n/t

[Hekate]

10. Remember the Sara Lee Cake commercial? "I can't believe I ate the whole thing."

Maybe he got the munchies after the first slice and couldn't stop himself.

[OwnedByCats]

14. LOL

I was going to say the same - if I ate a piece laced with pot, I'd end up eating the whole thing too once the pot took effect. Of course that's assuming he waited a while after the first and did not down the whole cake at once. Having only smoked it a couple times in my life I don't know how long it takes to kick in when eaten with baked goods - anybody know?

[kestrel91316]

21. Takes 1-2 hours to kick in, depending on how much you have in your stomach to start.

[Go Vols]

29. .

[treestar]

23. Wouldn't that be because of the pot though?

I thought pot makes you hungry.

[kestrel91316]

25. When I ingest it, I don't feel any effects for at least an hour. More if I

already have something in my stomach. And I haven't often gotten the munchies from ingested pot, curiously enough. I do notice munchies with smoked pot.

The guy is just a greedy pig, and he paid the price.

[rocktivity]

5. That was an episode of Barney Miller!

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Minus the best line: "This is best I've felt in thirty years, and it turns out to be illegal." -- Abe Vigoda as Fish

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[Hekate]

11. OMG that was funny. I loved that show.

[SidDithers]

28. Best Jack Soo episode ever...

thanks for posting.

Sid

[kentuck]

30. That is hilarious!

[Historic NY]

6. I know him.

[Oilwellian]

7. Someone is in a heap of trouble

Berkemeier says a friend of his daughter had brought the cake into their home.

[Hassin Bin Sober]

8. Why does something in this story not add up for me?

He wouldn't be the first cop to get really high, freak out, and go to the hospital.

"It was laced" is the oldest excuse in the books.

[RedCappedBandit]

12. He just eats an entire cake without even knowing where it came from?

The hell? How the hell do you even eat a whole cake?

[eShirl]

13. It was breakfast and he couldn't find a box of donuts. There was the cake. It was a no-brainer.

[reformist2]

15. What a funny story.

”I got up in the morning and ate it -- the entire thing,” he said.

[KG]

16. family legend - my brother came home very late from a 16 hr workday, found a cake on the counter.

ate the whole thing with just a fork. turns out his wife had baked it for an office party next day.

[MindPilot]

17. if the getting high is the "scariest thing that has ever happened to me in my entire life”

I'm not sure you should be carrying around a gun.

Berkemeier says doctors gave him a sedative to sleep off the pot-laced cake’s effects. Really?

[hobbit709]

20. If he ate the whole cake he wouldn't need a sedative.

[kestrel91316]

22. Maybe the baker used a pure sativa strain to make the butter/oil.

I use indicas or indica dominant hybrids because I want primarily the sleepiness. I don't need my brownies to keep me up at night solving intricate physics questions or writing the great American novel in my head.

[Orrex]

18. Sounds like he wanted to have his pot and eat it, too

[SidDithers]

19. Mushy mushy...nt

Sid

[Iggo]

24. Cake? I thought it said "coke."

Poor guy felt good and he didn't mean to.

They should cite him for diving under the influence...lol.

[Rex]

26. Okay, I am no sleuth - but wouldn't ya kinda start

worrying DURING the time you are eating an entire cake and not afterwards? I mean, how often does this cop eat whole cakes. The entire thing sounds strange.

FTR - I might feel like I was dying too after eating a whole cake!

[Ilsa]

31. Did he eat it all at once, or did he

get the munchies 15 minutes after a small slice, and then devoured it?

[Autumn]

32. I recovered by eating a pizza and taking a nap when that happened to me.

Very irresponsible for him to drive under the influence like that. He should be drug tested and fired.

[madinmaryland]

33. A whole fucking cake?? It was laced with fucking sugar. Douchebag.