POLICE have uncovered possibly one of the best insights into the mind of a pot smoker—a hilarious hand-written plan for their day. 
 
 Officers in Murdoch, Western Australia, uncovered the list as they raided a Perth home looking for clues about a suspected burglary. 
 
 It’s not clear if the officers found any evidence to press charges during the raid but did find a detailed plan of the resident’s intentions to get stoned. 
 
 Are ur Saturdays hectic like this!!! To do list located at search warrant in Cooby. #MurdochLPT3 pic.twitter.com/KdpMbdEYMq — Murdoch Police (@MurdochPol) April 30, 2015 
 
 The list, called “Things to do Saturday”, included such things as ‘go to bus stop’ and ‘go get lunch (chips and gravy).’ 
 
 The tweet captioned ‘Are ur Saturdays hectic like this!!!!” prompted a swift response on social media. 
 
 “At least being stoned at home is less of a social nuisance than going out and getting trashed,” one Twitter user wrote. 
 
 “This is proof stoners are dangerous, he should definitely be arrested,” another added. 
 
 Murdoch Police came under fire from some local residents. 
 
 “No wonder our homes keep getting broken into. The Murdoch police are too busy embarrassing drug addicts on social media. Grow up.” ||||| Some people have really stressful lives. So much so, they need to keep a list of what needs to be done each day. 
 
 This gets even more important if you like a toke of weed between dying your hair and eating your lunch. 
 
 Police in Murdoch, Western Australia, have posted a pot smoker's "to do" list on Twitter, saying it was located as they searched a property in Cooby on April 30. The list gives some insight into the mind of a stoner. 
 
 Are ur Saturdays hectic like this!!! To do list located at search warrant in Cooby. #MurdochLPT3 pic.twitter.com/KdpMbdEYMq — Murdoch Police (@MurdochPol) April 30, 2015 
 
 People were quick to respond, saying this list is proof that pot-smoking Australians are harmless creatures and the cops should let them just keep on puffing. 
 
 @MurdochPol This is proof stoners are dangerous, he should definitely be arrested! — Brndn (@Brandon0612) April 30, 2015 
 
 @MurdochPol At least you don't have to worry about that criminal mastermind anymore. — Texture (@iamtexture) April 30, 2015 
 
 @MurdochPol This is proof we need to legalise marijuana. If this is the MO of the average pot smoker we're all VERRRRRY safe !!! Awesome !!! — Boy from Oz (@boyfmoz) May 1, 2015 
 
 Police in Australia also use Facebook better than most regular citizens, and the latest example is no exception. 
 
 BONUS: Colorado's Farm-to-Table Marijuana ||||| The owner of a Subway franchisee is accusing her local police department of destroying her business and reputation by knowingly making false accusations through the local news that an employee of the restaurant spiked and officer’s drink with methamphetamine. 
 
 The TL;DR Version • On Aug. 8, 2016, a police officer believed the lemonade he purchased from Subway had been spiked. 
 
 • A preliminary, non-conclusive test, reportedly tested positive for meth and THC. 
 
 • Police arrested the Subway employee who served the drink, even though there was no evidence to support the allegations. 
 
 • Despite two negative urine samples from the officer, police allegedly alerted a reporter about this “scoop” and allowed it to air. 
 
 • The owner of the Subway she has lost customers, had employees quit, and suffered a damaged reputation because police went public with false allegations. 
 
 • The arrested employee recently settled for $50,000. 
 
 This all began almost exactly a year ago in Layton City, UT, when a Layton Police Department officer pulled into the drive-thru at a local Subway eatery to order a sandwich and a lemonade. 
 
 The officer said that he immediately suspected something was wrong with his drink and that he began to feel ill. He took the lemonade back to the station and ran a preliminary drug screen on the beverage. Police said at the time that the lemonade tested positive for both methamphetamine and THC, the active chemical in marijuana. 
 
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 Later that night, the incident was on the local news, with a headline claiming the officer had been “hospitalized,” and police saying that surveillance video showed an employee possibly putting something in the drink, and that this employee had subsequently been arrested on suspicion of a second-degree felony. 
 
 The news story even included an unpleasant mug shot of the 18-year-old, and in her voice-over for the story that aired live, the reporter declared that the officer had been hit with a “double dose of illegal narcotics.” 
 
 For this story, which aired only hours after the officer purchased his meal, a public information officer for the Layton Police spoke to the reporter while standing outside of the Subway and making some damning remarks. He called the situation “terrifying” for police, said without qualification that the lemonade had tested positive for the two drugs, and that “we can obviously assume that it was because he was a police officer in a marked vehicle, but we don’t know for sure.” 
 
 This news had a devastating effect on the Subway shop, says the owner. More than a half-dozen employees, including a manager, quit in the aftermath of the arrest. A number of them had also been subjected to questioning by the police. Customers stopped coming, and the local school ceased ordering sandwiches from the store. 
 
 But weeks went by and no official charges were brought against the teen who’d been arrested. It wasn’t until more than two months after the original incident that police confirmed that there was no meth or THC in the lemonade and there was no evidence that the employee had done anything to the officer’s drink. 
 
 The damage was done by this point, says the Subway franchisee, who last week filed a lawsuit [PDF] in federal court against the Layton Police Department, alleging that officers knew there was no actual evidence of a spiked drink but decided to go public with their unsubstantiated claims. 
 
 According to the lawsuit, police knew that two urine tests — taken at the hospital two and five hours before local news story aired — had turned up no evidence of any drugs in the officer’s system. 
 
 What’s more, the plaintiffs say that searches of the Subway, the employee, and his car found nothing to support the allegation that the drink had been spiked or that the worker had been in contact with drugs of any sort. Police even brought in drug-sniffing dogs to no avail, notes the lawsuit. And all of this occurred hours before police gave the interview that aired later that evening. 
 
 And while the online version of the local news story mentions that the initial positive test of the lemonade was an “ion scanner” test, the lawsuit claims that police made no effort to clarify that the test used on the drink is intended only for preliminary screening and that it frequently provides false-positive results. 
 
 None of this was told to the reporter who put together that story, notes the lawsuit, and police made no effort to provide these exculpatory facts to the reporter despite having ample time before the piece aired. In fact, police had an additional hour that evening because Olympics coverage pushed back the usual start time for the nightly news show. 
 
 The day after this news broke, the Subway owner says she spoke to a Layton PD detective who revealed that the urine tests had come up negative, that he didn’t see anything suspicious on the surveillance footage, and that the teen would likely not be charged. 
 
 Police subsequently found no evidence to support the notion that the officer’s drink had been spiked, but the plaintiffs say the city did nothing to quell the growing interest in the case from both local and national media. 
 
 The accused employee, who’d been released on bail, says he was the subject of vitriol and threatening comments from people — including law enforcement groups — who believed he’d tried to poison a police officer. Others called for a boycott of the Subway location. But still the police did nothing to quell this outrage even though they knew it was increasingly likely that the teen had been falsely accused. 
 
 On Oct. 11, Layton Police finally announced that no charges would be filed because all tests had come back negative. At the time, the department refused to apologize to the teen or to even publicly state that it had made a mistake. 
 
 That employee, who eventually went back to work at Subway, sued the city of Layton and recently settled out of court for $50,000. 
 
 In the franchisee’s lawsuit, the owner claims that she lost nearly $300,000 between flagging sales, spoiled food, having to hire and train new employees, and stigmatization of being associated with illegal drugs. 
 
 An attorney representing the franchisee explains to the Washington Post that this lawsuit isn’t about the police making a mistake; it’s about the police allegedly knowing they’d made a mistake but turning it into a media event anyway. 
 
 “I’m not saying they should be sued for a faulty investigation,” says attorney Robert Sykes. “But part of the investigation doesn’t involve a press conference.” 
 
 The complaint claims that Layton PD’s public information officer — who is called out as a named defendant in the lawsuit — pitched this poisoning story to the local TV reporter as a “scoop,” then allowed the false information to fester, resulting in hundreds of millions of social media hits, according to the plaintiffs. 
 
 “They kept omitting key facts, leaving the false impression this officer had been poisoned,” says Sykes. ||||| Media playback is unsupported on your device Media caption 'Drugs for sale' message catches man dealing to Bridgend 
 
 A pioneering fingerprint technique used to convict a drugs gang from a WhatsApp message "is the future" of how police approach evidence to catch criminals. 
 
 An image of a man holding ecstasy tablets in his palm was found on the mobile of someone arrested in Bridgend. 
 
 It was sent to South Wales Police's scientific support unit and helped to secure 11 convictions. 
 
 These are believed to be the first convictions in Wales from fingerprints taken from a photograph. 
 
 The unit's Dave Thomas described its use as "groundbreaking" and said officers are now looking more closely at photographs on phones seized for potential evidence. 
 
 He said: "It is an old-fashioned technique [fingerprinting], not new. 
 
 "Ultimately, beyond everything else, we took a phone and looked at everything on it - we knew it had a hand with drugs on it. 
 
 "These guys [the dealers] are using the technology not to get caught and we need to keep up with advancements." 
 
 The photograph came to light after a tip-off drugs were being sold from a house in the Kenfig Hill area of Bridgend. 
 
 Image caption Elliott Morris of Redditch, Worcestershire, was sentenced to eight and a half years for conspiracy to supply cannabis. He headed a family operation with his father Darren getting 27 months and mother, Dominique, 12 months 
 
 It was raided and large quantities of 'gorilla glue' - a type of cannabis - was recovered. 
 
 Mr Thomas praised the officer that spotted a photograph among a stream of WhatsApp messages going back months as potentially carrying significant evidence. 
 
 "It had a number of texts such as 'what do you want to buy?' on it," he said. 
 
 "There was then the photograph of the hand holding pills that seemed like it was sent to potential customers saying 'these are my wares, I'm selling these'. 
 
 "But he was not thinking it showed part of his hand and there was potentially a fingerprint." 
 
 The scientific support unit - a joint venture between the Gwent and south Wales forces, based in Bridgend - was able to scan the image into its system. 
 
 However, there were just parts of the middle and bottom of a finger visible - records only keep the top part. 
 
 This meant the image did not find a match on national databases. 
 
 Image copyright South Wales Police Image caption Drug dealer Elliott Morris sent this photograph out on a Whatsapp message to potential customers in Bridgend 
 
 However, other evidence meant officers had an idea who they believed was behind the drugs operation. 
 
 "While the scale and quality of the photograph proved a challenge, the small bits were enough to prove he was the dealer," added Mr Thomas. 
 
 "It has now opened the floodgates and when there is part of a hand on a photograph, officers are sending them in." 
 
 He believes it is the first time someone's fingerprint has been identified by a photograph in Wales and shows the potential of a forensic unit with a small piece of evidence. 
 
 Mr Thomas pointed to how about 80% of people now have mobile phones and use them to record incidents such as fights and car crashes. 
 
 "We can download and enhance (footage)," he said. 
 
 "These are all advancements in the digital world - they provide lots of questions we need to provide answers for." 
 
 Making greater use of social media messages is just one area being developed. 
 
 "We want to be in a position where there is a burglary at 20:30, we can scan evidence and by 20:45 be waiting at the offender's front door and arrest them arriving home with the swag," he added. 
 
 "That will work through remote transmission - scanning evidence at the scene and sending it back quickly for a match. 
 
 "It's the future. We are not there yet but it could significantly enhance the ability of the local bobbies to arrest people very quickly." ||||| Three callers reported a man holding a baby over a bridge, prompting officers to attend only to discover “it was man carrying a dog that doesn't like bridges”. 
 
 One woman dialled 999 after a man shouted “you’re gorgeous” at her and another called to ask police for help in suing a benefits agency as she had no money. 
 
 The force took to the social networking site in a bid to demonstrate that most of their time is spent on “social work”. 
 
 Between 5am and 5pm they had dealt with 1140 incidents and arrested 217 people. 
 
 Chief Constable Peter Fahy said he wanted to show that only a third of the incidents his team responds to are genuine crimes. 
 
 “Policing is often seen in very simple terms, with cops chasing robbers and locking them up," he said. 
 
 "However, the reality is that this accounts for only part of the work they have to deal with. 
 
 "A lot of what we do is dealing with social problems such as missing children, people with mental health problems and domestic abuse. Often these incidents can be incredibly complex and need a lot of time, resource and expertise. 
 
 "I am not saying that we shouldn't deal with these types of incidents, far from it, but what I am saying is that this work is not recognised in league tables and measurements – yet is a huge part of what we do." 
 
 Many of the calls dealt with attempted burglaries, abandoned cars and alarms activated in error. 
 
 There were reports of loose dogs, cows and horses in the roads, domestic incidents and missing teenagers, lost and found. 
 
 A large number of calls were made by babies and children playing with the telephone, others were abandoned calls made from public telephone boxes or made in error from mobile phones in pockets. 
 
 Of the more baffling, were emergency calls made to report damage to a lamp post, an abandoned television and an unclaimed bicycle. 
 
 One woman called to report somebody putting a video on her YouTube website. 
 
 The 24-hour Twitter event – the first time that a British police force has used the internet in such a way – came as police face unprecedented budget cuts, with the Government's impending comprehensive spending review next week. 
 
 But Mr Fahy insisted it was not a publicity stunt intended to soften the blow of the cuts. 
 
 "There needs to be more focus on how the public sector as a whole is working together to tackle society's issues and problems,” he said.
– Police officers are people, too. And like us, they share their hilarious finds on Twitter. Take this example: Police in Murdoch, Western Australia, were executing a search warrant on a house in Perth, relating to a burglary investigation, when they uncovered a rather amusing to-do list, News.com.au reports. It described an individual's busy Saturday laid out with helpful reminders like "go to bus stop" and "go get lunch (chips and gravy)," per Mashable. The last two entries on the 10-item list, adding fuel to the idea that marijuana causes memory problems, were "go home and get a stick" and then "chop up and get stoned"—because, you know, sometimes you forget. Police tweeted a photo of the list, with the caption, "Are ur Saturdays hectic like this!!!" They followed that up with, "Yes, the to do list was authentic, I don't think any of us here could make it up if we tried! #nosenseofhumour." The witty replies flooded in. "At least he had realistic personal goals which he probably achieved," one user quipped. But not all social media users were as amused. "No wonder our homes keep getting broken into. The Murdoch police are too busy embarrassing drug addicts on social media. Grow up," another added, per News.com.au. (The list-writer joins a long tradition of misguided potheads.)