Rita Vollmer (Assistant Public Affairs Officer Shasta-Trinity National Forest)

"On Friday July 9, 2010 a marijuana eradication operation was conducted on the Shasta-Trinity National Forest in Trinity County, south of Hayfork, by law enforcement agents from the U.S. Forest Service, Trinity County Sheriff's Office Drug Task Force and the California Department of Justice, Bureau of Narcotics Enforcement. During the raid, a U.S. Forest Service K-9 team located Gauldry Almonte-Hernandez, a displaced foreign traveler from Michoacán Mexico, who had tried to flee the area and hide while officers were performing entry into the marijuana garden."

- Statement about a recent pot bust.

**Forget the pot. Forget the ridiculus titles and amount agencies in this 'eradication op'...Put your arms around the important phrase in this quote. Did you figure it out?

"a displaced foreign traveler."

Heaven forbid someone in the government call a spade-a-spade, and say the perp is an illegal alien...I think a couple of blog commenters put it best:

"This is a bald, craven, in-your-face torsioning of the English language." - Dernon Ruton

"It all makes perfect sense if you live in bizarro world...I guess he was a tourist that got lost and had to resort to pot farming in order to make a living until he saved enough to go home." - Matman

Equally pathetic, this one is just as true:

"10 years in club fed is better than 10 years starving in Mexico...bet he thinks he won the lotto." - Seann Fox**
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