The Germs' Drummer Arrested For Carrying Soap 384
dwrugh writes "The drummer for the seminal punk band The Germs, Don Bolles, was arrested in Orange County because a field-test kit indicated his bottle of Dr. Bronner's soap contained GHB, the date-rape drug. (Here is an interview with Bolles.) Using the same test kit, available on the web for $20 for a pack of 10, according to Bolles' attorney on NBC this morning, other soaps tested positive for GHB. But of course since it's just soap, when you test it in a real crime lab it comes back negative. Makes you wonder what other common household products also test positive, and how many others have been arrested based on faulty test kits who didn't have the resources to defend themselves."
Best. Headline. Ever. (Score:5, Funny)
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Re:Lexicon Devil (Score:5, Funny)
It's called getting old.
Re:It sounds like... (Score:5, Funny)
Soap and germs just don't mix (Score:3, Funny)
Chicks dig soap (Score:2, Funny)
Soap laced with GHB (Score:5, Funny)
Jibber Jabber from the article... (Score:2, Funny)
Whoa, whoa, WHOA! B.A. Baracus popularized mohawks, FOOL! That and welding.
Re:Lexicon Devil (Score:5, Funny)
The Germs were the REAL DEAL, the lead singer would spread peanut butter on his naked chest while cutting himself with a broken bottle on stage."
Yeah spreading peanut butter on your naked body while cutting yourself makes you really anti-establishment.
no.. it really was GHB (Score:3, Funny)
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The Germs? (Score:1, Funny)
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Re:acronyms... (Score:3, Funny)
It would have been faster to Google for "MILF" than to write that comment in
Re:The Germs? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:It's not a matter of resources... (Score:5, Funny)
To be fair to the police, he was acting suspiciously.
police: "A drummer.... with soap? S'yah right! Must be drugs, you dirty hippy!"
[badum-ching]
Re:Lexicon Devil (Score:5, Funny)
It was one of the formative experiences of my life. I'm fuzzy on the details, but I think I may have eaten human flesh that night. The only shows that ever came close to that were Pere Ubu, King Sunni Ade, Rockpile, James Brown five nights in a row at the Chicago Theatre and The Cramps down in the basement at Mother's. I've tried to pass on these tales to my daughter from the time she was a toddler, hoping that they wouldn't fade into the mists of legend. When she was 7 she knew all the words from Fun House, and I've got an old video of her singing "I got a right" at age 8. Now at 19, poised and ladylike, she's a delicate flower, but if she ever were to meet Justin Timberlake, she'd kick his ass for him just for being a poseur. I'm so proud.
Punk rock was mostly bogus, but Iggy was the Real.
Wait... (Score:2, Funny)
All-One! (Score:3, Funny)
In other words, when used as directed, Dr. Bronner's Magic Soap cannot be effective as a date-rape drug.
Re:GHB is not THC (Score:3, Funny)
Of course he is going to hide the fact that he has soap in his luggage.
What has happened now is exactly what he would have feared. A drug bust would have been par for the course, in tune with the image... but now he is all over the media for being busted with _soap_. Gonna need some serious PR to rebuild his image after that.
Re:It's not a matter of resources... (Score:5, Funny)
I'd just *loooooove* for them to try and search my car with a drug dog. I suspect the combination of four different kinds of leaking oil (engine, gearbox, diff and hydraulic), engine cleaner, brake cleaner, carb cleaner, hydraulic system flush, hydraulic system solvent cleaner *and* my rigger boots in a bag in the boot would probably send it over the edge. Hydrocarbon olfactory nightmare.
If you ever see a retired police dog with a nervous twitch and a fondness for Jefferson Airplane, you know it's happened.
Re:huh? (Score:1, Funny)
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Re:It is less about accuracy... (Score:2, Funny)
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Ok, so it all worked out (Score:1, Funny)
My favorite part of the interview (second link):
There's a lot of buzz about that movie. Have you seen it? Not yet. I got to watch the kid who plays me, and that was awful. He's nothing like me, and it was the worst thing ever, for a while. For a while? So he got better? No. But worse things have happened to me since then.
Re:acronyms... (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Punk music (Score:5, Funny)
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