Officer's marijuana brownie call fodder for Web parody
Jennifer Dixon
Detroit Free Press;
Knight-Ridder/Tribune Business News
06-28-2007
The 911 call a Dearborn cop made after he overdosed on marijuana brownies has become fodder for Internet humor.
After seeing the call broadcast on CNN, Los Angeles actor Eric Szmanda created his own spoof of the incident on SecretFunTime.com, showing dancing penguins asking the actor playing Officer Edward Sanchez, who resigned, for the score of the Red Wings game. (Sanchez asked the 911 dispatcher the same thing.)
The spoof also shows a wall of weapons when he is asked whether there are guns in the house.
"Everybody's imagination started to run wild once they heard the call. By nature of what we do at SecretFunTime, we take things that are current and poke some fun at them," Szmanda said. "Everyone wanted to know what was actually going on in the home of Eddie Sanchez. And it didn't take long at all to ... fill in the blanks."
Many comedy outlets have gotten laughs out of the 911 recording - - first obtained by the Free Press from the Dearborn Heights Police Department under the Freedom of Information Act. It was the subject of a May 10 report.
Sanchez admitted to police that he took marijuana from criminal suspects and, with his wife, made marijuana brownies. He was allowed to resign from the Dearborn Police Department and was not charged.