A drug dealer has been trying to sweeten the deal by chucking McVitie’s Penguin cake bars in with cannabis orders, sparking a buzz on social media.
The seller’s message offering 4.5g of the Class B substance plus the chocolatey snack for £30 was shared on Twitter/X by @shottatexts, an account that shares user-submitted texts from the criminal underworld.
The WhatsApp screenshot revealed the sugary incentive was a one-time offer for the quickest responder, stating: “Next 4.5g/£30 gets free penguin cake bars on top of order! Active 24/7 deals running just ask.”
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The combo of weed and Penguin bars even had law-abiding tweeters cracking jokes about being tempted by the marketing ploy. One X user quipped: “I don’t even touch gear but with deals like this knocking about it’s hard to resist.”
Another chimed in with: “Love a good bargain.” A third confessed: “This would work on me unfortunately.” Some even suggested the Penguin bars were the perfect cure for the “munchies” – the notorious hunger that follows a cannabis high.
Cannabis remains a Class B drug in the UK, with possession carrying a risk of up to five years behind bars, an unlimited fine, or both, while dealing and production can land you up to 14 years in the slammer, alongside an unlimited fine, as per government guidelines.
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This comes following warnings about a dangerous drug that has hit the club scene in Ibiza. Its effects have been likened to a “bomb” going off.
Pink cocaine is a mix of several substances, like ketamine and ecstasy, dyed to make it look fluorescent. The chemical formula for the drug was created in Europe but it was a Colombian drug trafficker known as the “Pablo Escobar of amphetamines” who started to market it as “pink cocaine”.
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