ODDLY ENOUGH

ODDLY ENOUGH

‘The Weed Fairy’ visits Seattle, gives out free pot with fliers

SEATTLE

A woman who calls herself the “Weed Fairy” distributed free nuggets of marijuana to people in Seattle over Memorial Day weekend, taping the free pot on fliers around a city neighborhood.

The woman, 23-year-old Yeni Sleidi, says she does it to amuse people and to give them a break from everyday stress.

She said 50 fliers had nuggets taped to them.

“People mostly laughed,” Sleidi said.

The woman said she first came up with the idea in New York, where she lived during the government shutdown, because several of her friends were affected by it.

She wanted to distract them from the stress.

Her passing out of the pot in the Big Apple drew plenty of coverage from the media.

“I’m not sure what the thought process was but I thought people would be amused by it,” she said.

The fliers posted in Seattle came with the message: “These are tough times. Take this weed. And keep your spirits high.”

Sleidi posted her free marijuana in Capitol Hill, one of Seattle’s most urban neighborhoods, known for its nightlife and counterculture.

Washington and Colorado legalized recreational marijuana in 2012.

Sleidi said it was the first time she felt comfortable with attaching her name to her deeds.

“I felt so relaxed about it. I wouldn’t feel comfortable doing it elsewhere in the country,” she said.

A call to the Seattle Police Department to ask about the pot distribution effort was not immediately returned.

Vandal of New York cemetery’s flags turns out to be groundhog

LOCKPORT, N.Y.

A deputy sheriff investigating reports of vandalized flags at an upstate New York cemetery has caught the culprit in the act.

It was a groundhog.

Niagara County Sheriff James Voutour says he sent a deputy to the veterans’ section of Cold Springs Cemetery in Lockport after the parents of an Army specialist buried there called reporters last week to complain about the damaged flags.

Groundskeeper Rodney Burdick says about 31 flags were missing from veterans’ graves.

Voutour says he wouldn’t have believed the groundhog was responsible if his deputy hadn’t watched the animal take the flags, break them with its front paws and take them into its den.

Associated Press