A
Texas carnival worker who was apparently traveling the country, and missing his
crack, had his crack shipped to him in a doll while in South Dakota. Keoland.com reports that a Sioux Falls, Minehaha County, jury found
John Whitfield Jr. guilty of possession with intent to distribute, possession
of a controlled substance and possession of paraphernalia. The judge threw out
the intent to distribute charge.
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The
crack was shipped hidden inside a doll.
Police found a similar doll in Whitfield’s truck along with the paraphernalia
(presumably a crack pipe) and cocaine residue.
There
wasn’t any information on the time that he’ll serve. I’m sort of torn on this. Life on the road operating carnival rides in
tiny towns all over the country has to be pretty bad. Mind-numbingly bad. Presumably, a carnival worker, who is
itinerant, can’t trust local drug dealers. So, I can sort of understand why he’d do crack
and can understand why he’d have it shipped to him. Not that I condone that sort of thing.
Because
he was running a carnival ride. Carnival
rides are not particularly safe anyway.
They really aren’t safe when the people setting them up and running them
are high on crack. I don’t’ go to
carnivals for that reason. Because the
rides break and some of the carnival workers are really dodgy. Apparently, the Sioux Falls police thought
the same thing and decided to check out the local carnies and found what they
were looking for.
Be
careful of carnivals. Don’t get on the rides.
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