A Christmas Gift Not To Give

Forget worrying about that ugly neck tie or Obama chia pet that you give as gifts at the office! The world's least appropriate Christmas gift this year is neither. Instead, it's the brain child of an elderly couple from California. Patrick Jiron, 83, and his wife Barbara Jiron, 80 must have overdosed on egg nog this year because they were caught with more than $300,000 worth of marijuana during a cross country road trip. Dude! Aster they were caught they told police they wanted to give the pot out as Christmas gifts.  I wonder if they  also gave the little ones mini bags of pot? After al, little children often want to fly like Santa.

Both of the geriatric weed Santa's were both cited for marijuana possession during a Tuesday traffic stop in York County, Nebraska. York County deputies pulled the couple over after spotting their 2016 Toyota Tacoma driving over the center line and failing to signal on Interstate 80. The deputies noticed the odor of raw marijuana coming from the car.  Grandpa Patrick then admitted there was "contraband" in the car, the sheriff's department said, and allowed the deputies to search the truck.

In the truck were 60 pounds of marijuana with an estimated street value of more than $300,000. Santa may get high in California, but he is also generous. Police also found concentrated THC inside the car, presumably for the more discretionary druggies on the Jiron gift tour. After questioning the couple protested the arrest, saying that they were merely they were coming from California to give the weed as Christmas presents to friends and family in Boston and Vermont, where pot is an illegal substance.

Most 80 year olds are not put in jails. But in keeping with the long standing U.S. police arrest policies of discrimination against males, Santa Patrick Jiron was booked into the York County Jail, while Ms. Claus, Barbara Jiron, was not taken to jail, allegedly because of a "medical issue". I think they both have medical issues. They're nuts.