Those wonderful copper scrubbers are used to hold crack rocks! In today's St. Petersburg Times:
ST. PETERSBURG - Convenience store owner Akm F. Mosabber said he thought he was helping a customer.
But police and a county official said he was profiting from addiction when he offered to sell a copper scrubbing pad and a glass pen to a plainclothes cop.
Mosabber, 45, was one of three convenience store clerks who violated a county ordinance Wednesday against selling items that form a kit to smoke crack cocaine, according to St. Petersburg police.
The County Commission passed the controversial rules in October 2006 as part of a countywide crackdown on illegal drugs.
Police say the pens become glass pipes and the copper pads become a screen to hold crack rocks.... (more and a picture click on the link)
http://www.sptimes.com/2008/01/25/Southpinellas/Sale_of_two_legal_ite.shtml
ST. PETERSBURG - Convenience store owner Akm F. Mosabber said he thought he was helping a customer.
But police and a county official said he was profiting from addiction when he offered to sell a copper scrubbing pad and a glass pen to a plainclothes cop.
Mosabber, 45, was one of three convenience store clerks who violated a county ordinance Wednesday against selling items that form a kit to smoke crack cocaine, according to St. Petersburg police.
The County Commission passed the controversial rules in October 2006 as part of a countywide crackdown on illegal drugs.
Police say the pens become glass pipes and the copper pads become a screen to hold crack rocks.... (more and a picture click on the link)
http://www.sptimes.com/2008/01/25/Southpinellas/Sale_of_two_legal_ite.shtml