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Ferrets are Cool

(22,309 posts) Fri May 16, 2025, 09:09 AM May 16

BUT you can endanger yourself and your grandkids by swimming in a sewage filled creek with impunity.
America is so fucked up.

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How messed up is it that in America you can be arrested and put in jail for smoking a weed (Original Post) Ferrets are Cool May 16 OP

Says who? Ferrets are Cool May 16 #2

I can't be arrested for smoking weed obamanut2012 May 16 #4

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1. It wasn't a sewage filled creek, it was a stream feeding into rock creek, not rock creek itself. No sewage.

Fri May 16, 2025, 09:33 AM

May 16

(22,309 posts)

2. Says who?

Fri May 16, 2025, 09:50 AM

May 16

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3. RFK himself - he clarified it was in Dumbarton Oaks park, which has a stream that is not a sewage overflow

Fri May 16, 2025, 05:57 PM

May 16

Its not the best move, but not what is being portrayed.
Its a powerful meme though that is clearly not going back in the genie bottle!

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4. I can't be arrested for smoking weed

Fri May 16, 2025, 06:06 PM

May 16

Either here in CA or when I lived in FL and had a FL MMJ card.