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The Germs' Drummer Arrested For Carrying Soap
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...
A very slippery situation. :)
Dropping the soap
It's called getting old.
That must be great publicity. This incident will give that brand a reputation as a true, non-failing, anti-Germ soap.
Give Kashyyyk back to the Wookies
This explains why my nympho girlfriend has 5 billion bottles of soap in her bathroom.
Wanna fight ? Bend over, stick your head up your ass, and fight for air.
I guess that's for the times when Axe brand shower gel and body spray aren't enough.
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The punk group was formed in Los Angeles in the late 1970s and is credited with popularizing mohawks.
Whoa, whoa, WHOA! B.A. Baracus popularized mohawks, FOOL! That and welding.
"does anyone else find today's breed to pseudo-punk-acting bands just too funny for words? .....
:) I bet no one was laughing at that.
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.
the mainstream media just can't comprehend the fact that he "really" loves his soap ^_~.
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Sheesh, evil *and* a jerk. -- Jade
Who are they, are they opening for Anthrax? This must be Department of Homeland Security's worst nightmare.
Sheesh, evil *and* a jerk. -- Jade
So, bring poppy seed bagels to the next interview to share with other prospective employees. :-)
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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]
A Human Right
I was 14 when I hitchhiked from Chicago to Cleveland to see Iggy and the Stooges at the Agora Ballroom. He smeared himself with peanut butter and rolled around on stage in the broken glass from all the beer bottles that were thrown at him, then jumped into the audience covered in blood and Skippy's, screaming the chorus from Search and Destroy ("I am the world's forgotten boy, the one who searches to destroy..."). It was the greatest rock-n-roll show I've ever seen, and that includes Hendrix, The Who, The Clash, you name 'em.
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.
You are welcome on my lawn.
... When did people in punk bands start washing?
God Be Gone
"Don't Drink Soap! Dilute! Dilute! or Wet Skin Well! OK!"
In other words, when used as directed, Dr. Bronner's Magic Soap cannot be effective as a date-rape drug.
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Look, the guy is in a vaguely (in)famous punk band (now re-formed).
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.
At this point, the police will either 1)make up probable cause or 2) just bring in a drug dog
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.
Only on slashdot does this get modded insightful
Just don't buy the shit with E. coli -- nasty results when placed on open wounds.
Method of processing duck feet
further.. its kind of hard to introduce that into drinks.. "why does my beer taste like soap?" "relax baby it's miller clean"
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Just because trends and styles change doesn't mean they always change in the right direction. The way I see it is that a few years ago there were metrosexuals, pop-punk bands, and emo bands. They realized that individually they were weak, but together they could hold their own (with the exception of the emo's, they're still looking all sad in the corner.
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.
but then you wouldn't get ANYTHING done.
"Music" is still around in 2007? Jesus, move onto a new form of entertainment alreadfy.
Exactly. The only people in the history of the world to have minds of their own are your generation. This 'your' of course refers to every reader individually, since everyone seems to have it in their head that their taste is somehow objectively better. I don't get it, but then again, I only fake being arrogant on Slashdot. If I were arrogant in real life, I might have a deeper understanding of the mindset.
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I bet it wasn't antibacterial soap, though.
"Punks Not Dead" - but the apostrophe is on its last leg's
Yes, because of course, there was no "Pop Punk" back in the late 70's/early 80's--with the exception of The Police, Billy Idol, the Go-Gos, Blondie, and about a million other fucking bands.
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