Afternoon Brew: Inventor of Fake Pot Says Smoke Real Pot, A Creepy Facebook Event, An Historic Night in Baseball, and a Fishy Cop Case

Good afternoon, Cleveland. Here’s some stuff to read while you taunt all those Red Sox fans. Especially those Boston die-hards born in Medina, Strongsville, Westlake, Willoughby, Avon…

— The guy who invented those synthetic weed products is actually a chemist and he says you shouldn’t smoke any of them. Just smoke real pot instead, please. (Gawker)

— Some middle school kids in Ohio made a Facebook event for groping female students at school. Yes, it actually involved real “poking.” (10TV)

— Nothing about this story of a Cleveland police woman losing her ID sounds fishy at all. (WOIO)

This article appears in Sep 28 – Oct 4, 2011.