Two fined over selling bongs

[grace]

Two fined over selling bongs

By Jason Rawlins

24 June 2008

<http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/06/24/2284318.htm?section=australia>

 

Jayne Elizabeth Ford leaves Brisbane Magistrates Court with lawyer Kevin Kelso. (ABC: Jason Rawlins)

 

 

A Brisbane magistrate has put two company directors on good behaviour bonds and fined their business under laws introduced last year banning the sale of ice pipes and cannabis bongs.

 

The court heard a Surfers Paradise business trading as 'Off Ya Tree' was raided within days of last year's amendments to the Tobacco and Other Smoking Products Act.

 

Prosecutor Andrew Preston says Health Department officials seized hundreds of bong chambers, bong stems and cones.

 

Company directors 49-year-old Dimos Koutsoumidis and 50-year-old Jayne Elizabeth Ford both pleaded guilty to displaying bong components in the first prosecution of its type in Queensland.

 

They were placed on 12-month good behaviour bonds and their company fined $750.

 

Their lawyer Kevin Kelso told the Court it had taken authorities almost seven months to work out which of the seized items were illegal.

 

No convictions were recorded.

 

 

 

 

What a waste of public resources!

 

Hopefully the "authorities" will take note of the fine imposed - prosecuting this small business was not in the public interest.

 

Money spent by Queensland Health and the DPP pursuing this matter could have been better spent on detox beds, drug treatment, education or housing for the homeless.

[ettin]

strange, they still sell ice bongs :-)

 

Im going to buy one of there bongs very soon.

 

5mm glass, you cant go wrong

Edited June 25, 2008 by ettin

[mrsmokey1]

i wen in there they tried 2 sell me 1 wich called a pourer...so i orderd 1 online