Damascus to get Two drug dogs

Damascus, VA will have TWO full time K-9 officers with specialties in Narcotics and handlers, now thanks to a grant. I did not even know they had a Narcotics division in the town!!

Had to laugh when I heard this today. Guess the retirement community of 900 folks wants to make sure nobody brings drugs into town, either that or the little old ladys are cooking up some mean meth on the back burner next to the beans and cornbread.

Wonder what it will do to the tourism they have built up the last 15 years. The dogs are going to go crazy just walking up and down Main Street during the summer. Won't take much for the word to get out in the Creeper Trail Community.

Trail days should be fun!

Irresponsible on the part of whoever awarded the grants and even more irresponsible of the person who applied for them. They were in the best situation to know how utterly ridiculous this waste of resources is.

this thread is going to go nowhere good and seems to have been started by someone who doesn't really know what they are talking about...

What's wrong with throwina dog a bone!they gotta eat too!

gonna run the dogs thru "The Place". gonna catch lotsa doper hikers

Can they do that?

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Can they do that?

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:rolleyes::bananaThey call it mellow yellow,quite right slick!

I was going to write some reply to this but then I noticed the OP just joined White Blaze yesterday. OP go troll some place eles.

Isn't Damascus the town that lost their sheriff about 4 years ago because he was running a meth lab?

I agree with Serial

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Isn't Damascus the town that lost their sheriff about 4 years ago because he was running a meth lab?

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Sorry, it was the police chief, not the sheriff..............http://www.timesnews.net/article.php?id=9012726

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Can they do that?

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yes they can. and they have before

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Can they do that?

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Of course they can, they already have probable cause plus its private property and the church would def condone it.

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Trail days should be fun!

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yup. illegal substance holders beware

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yup. illegal substance holders beware

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Whats your secret?
Oh never mind, you live there

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Whats your secret?
Oh never mind, you live there

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secret? i don't walk around with illegal substances and yes i live here and abide by the laws

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secret? i don't walk around with illegal substances and yes i live here and abide by the laws

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Ok whatever you say

I am at the committee meeting tonight with Damascus for Trail Days. I will get the full info on the K9 addition and post here when I get back.

Has anyone ever seen a ranger and drug dog on the trail? Not relevant but I saw a seeing eye pony on a plane with me the other day.

Ya you would think its harmless to throw a drug dog a bone but I did it at a phish show one and almost got arrested for assaulting a police officer.

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What's wrong with throwina dog a bone!they gotta eat too!

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Ya you would think its harmless to throw a drug dog a bone but I did it at a phish show one and almost got arrested for assaulting a police officer.

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Has anyone ever seen a ranger and drug dog on the trail? Not relevant but I saw a seeing eye pony on a plane with me the other day.

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Yes to the ranger and drug dog, but no seeing eye pony. Maybe in the Grayson Highlands :)

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Ya you would think its harmless to throw a drug dog a bone but I did it at a phish show one and almost got arrested for assaulting a police officer.

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Wait for it...........

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Ya you would think its harmless to throw a drug dog a bone but I did it at a phish show one and almost got arrested for assaulting a police officer.

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Sounds like the Cops threw you a bone.;)

Damascus could use a drug sniffin' horse. Let Lone Wolf ride it up and down E. Laurel Ave. like an old west sheriff.

Now that'll get ya on the map.

NPS does have K-9s.

I'm a big fan of K-9s! In my former life (before retirement) I was always happy to see the K-9 unit show up, it was always very entertaining;)

They ever figure out what killed the other drug dog in Damascus?

Having been locked down in my classroom with herds of bored teenagers while the drug dogs sniffed around lockers, I can't say I'm a fan. They never found anything in the years I taught.

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They ever figure out what killed the other drug dog in Damascus?

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Mt. House Chili

Bada Bing!

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Having been locked down in my classroom with herds of bored teenagers while the drug dogs sniffed around lockers, I can't say I'm a fan. They never found anything in the years I taught.

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Maybe that's because the students know the drug dogs will be coming around.

Or they "Jocked it":cool:

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Maybe that's because the students know the drug dogs will be coming around.

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...or there is no problem other than tax payers waste of cash.
geek

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Has anyone ever seen a ranger and drug dog on the trail? Not relevant but I saw a seeing eye pony on a plane with me the other day.

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....ME TOO!...he was standing right there in the aisle between Elvis and Big Foot.

geek

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Having been locked down in my classroom with herds of bored teenagers while the drug dogs sniffed around lockers, I can't say I'm a fan. They never found anything in the years I taught.

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I have to say that when I worked at a small town police department here in SWVA I had exactly the opposite experience. We found quite a lot of drugs using a dog. Normally we had a dog from the Virginia Dep. of Corrections doing the job since we didn't have our own. Perhaps the results were affected by the quality of the handler or the dog and their training.

Don't let them near your wallet :D http://articles.nydailynews.com/2009...n-contaminated



New study finds that 90% of U.S. currency has cocaine residue on it




Your money needs laundering.

A new study found that almost all the bank notes in circulation in this country are contaminated with cocaine.

An average of about 85% of US greenbacks had traces of the drug - up 20% since the same team did a similar study two years ago.

"To my surprise, we're finding more and more cocaine in banknotes," said Dr. Yuegang Zuo, who led the researchers at the University of Massachusetts.
"It could be related to the economic downturn, with stressed people turning to cocaine."

Bills become drug money when users snort the powder through rolled up notes, or handle bills with powder-coated hands. Grains of cocaine then transfer to clean bills in pockets, wallets and bank counting machines across the country.


Zuo presented his findings Monday at the biannual meeting of the American Chemical Society in Washington, D.C. - the city that ranked highest in the survey for coke contamination.
Fully 95% of the Washington bills sampled had cocaine on them. Of the 17 US cities tested, clean-living Salt Lake City had the lowest levels of contamination.
New York was not tested.

Levels of cocaine found ranged from .006 micrograms to 1,240 micrograms, or the equivalent of about 50 grains of sand. (That means you'd need 800 of the very dirtiest bills to extract a gram of coke, which has a street price of about $80.)

"For the most part, you can't get high by sniffing a regular banknote, unless it was used directly in drug uptake or during a drug exchange," Zuo said in a release from the American Chemical Society.

"It also won't affect your health and is unlikely interfere with blood and urine tests used for drug detection."
Five dollar, $10 and $20 bills tended to be more contaminated than $1 or $100 bills.

The researchers also looked at money from Brazil, Canada, China and Japan and found just 20% of Chinese renminbi notes and only 12% of Japanese yen notes had coke on them.
The Canadians and Brazilians were at US levels: 85% and 80% respectively.
A 2007 federal drug use survey found 36 million Americans - or 14.5% of the population - had tried cocaine at least once. About 2.1 million - 0.8% of the population - had used it in the past month.

The government estimates that Americans spend up to $77 billion annually on 300 metric tons of the drug.
A German study in 2006 searched the Hudson River for by-products of human cocaine consumption and extrapolated that New Yorkers consume 16.4 tons a year.
A study published last year in Trends in Analytical Chemistry comparing cocaine levels on banknotes in different countries found that U.S. notes were the most tainted.

In Europe, Spanish Euro notes were the most contaminated, carrying five times the amount of cocaine as Euro notes circulating in Germany. Irish Euros were the cleanest in that study, though a year before, Irish authorities reported finding coke on 100% of the 45 bills they tested.

I thought this thread was in the 'Humor' forum about 2 dogs and the Forest Circus?