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    Cash-strapped man offers to pay with drugs

    WELLINGTON
    Tue May 20, 2008 6:01pm EDT
    A man smokes a marijuana joint at Dundas Square in Toronto April 20, 2007. REUTERS/Mark Blinch

    WELLINGTON (Reuters) - A New Zealand man had a novel idea when he found himself in a queue at a service station counter with no money, could he pay with marijuana instead?

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    Unfortunately he didn't get a chance to discover whether the attendant would accept his offer, as the person behind him in the queue was a police officer, the Dominion Post newspaper reported.

    The man's attempt to buy two packets of M&Ms and a packet of potato chips to satisfy his "munchies" was caught short when he was arrested.

    He must have been hungry, as he failed to notice the police patrol car sitting on the station forecourt being filled with petrol, the paper reported.

    The 28-year old mechanic from the small North Island town of Carterton pleaded guilty to possessing cannabis in the Masterton District Court and was remanded for sentencing.

    (Reporting by Adrian Bathgate; Editing by Sanjeev Miglani)
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