🍋When life gives you lemons, make lemon poundcake

https://lemmy.world/post/44531627

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The guy in the bottom is the rapper Afroman. He’s most known for the song “Because I got high”.

He lives in Ohio. Police raided his house looking for pot (probably because they they took his song seriously, which they shouldn’t have). He made a series of music videos using security footage complaining that they fucked up his house and broke shit for no reason at all, and the local police were so outraged and hurt by the public anger towards them that they sued Afroman for defamation for over a million dollars. The picture is from his court case, where a jury told them that was fucking bonkers, and agreed completely with his defense that he didn’t hurt their reputation by lying: they hurt their reputation by doing terrible shit on camera to an artist who told people what they did.

They raided his house because they thought for some reason he had a bunch of kidnapping victims there
they raided his house cause he was fucking the sheriff’s’ wife