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Dude, it’s my cellphone, I swear I’m clean

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Some joker from New Zealand got busted at an Australian tech trade show for selling scented faceplates for Nokia phones that smell like pot smoke and have an image of marijuana leaf emblazoned on the front. He didn’t do anything illegal, just offended the sensibilities of the Premier of New South Wales, and so the faceplates got the boot:

[Robert] Punch quickly switched to pushing the more politically correct chocolate and strawberry scented phone covers, but said the marijuana cover was “a stayer”. He also said he had brought his phone covers through customs without attracting any interest from the drug-sniffing dogs on patrol.

What we can’t understand is why anyone would want their cellphone to smell like anything.

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