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Hershey's Crack-Resembling Candy Irritates Cops

Hershey might want to reconsider selling candy designed to resemble crack cocaine: the stuff is being mistaken for the real thing by narcotics officers. From the Fox affiliate in Philly: "Philadelphia Police Chief Inspector William Blackburn says he’s been in narcotics for most of his career and thought the pouches were the real thing." Ice […]

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Hershey might want to reconsider selling candy designed to resemble crack cocaine: the stuff is being mistaken for the real thing by narcotics officers. From the Fox affiliate in Philly:

"Philadelphia Police Chief Inspector William Blackburn says he's been in narcotics for most of his career and thought the pouches were the real thing."

Ice Breakers "Pacs" mints, offered as a fine white powder in a baggie, is the company's answer to the admirably stupid Cocaine Energy Drink. The controversy-baiting whoring inherent in this kind of marketing will get old and boring soon: enjoy it while you can*, *youngsters!

For bonus points, dissolve the candy-crack in a bottle of fake cocaine, don a ninja costume studded with blinking LEDs, then run into an airport.

Sugar Candy Looks Too Much Like The Real Thing, Say Cops [Fox via BoingBoing Gadgets and Kansas City Crime Scene]