Kim Wisher in the Telegraph (UK) amuses with Peugeot 'space cake' causes a high in production:
Supervisors at a Peugeot car parts factory believed they were levitating, experienced uncontrollable urges to laugh and had to be taken to hospital after a junior employee brought a cake laced with cannabis to work, a court was told last week.And hilarity ensued.
The man, named only as Bruno by a magistrates court in Vesoul, eastern France, was charged with possession, use of cannabis and causing "involuntary injury" to his colleagues, which included three of his shopfloor supervisors. He admitted possessing cannabis and adding it to the cake, but said he had taken it to work by mistake.
Bruno told the court that he had baked four chocolate cakes on the evening before his 24th birthday on January 8 this year. One was for his own consumption and he had added eight grams of finely grated cannabis resin to the ingredients. The amount was said to be enough to fill five joints a day for a week for a heavy cannabis smoker.
Bruno, to periodic eruptions of laughter from the public gallery, said that he had baked his so-called "space cake" on two or three previous occasions following a recipe he had found on the internet. "It [cannabis] enables me to escape, to think of other things," he said.
He told the court that on his birthday he rose at dawn to start the 6am shift on the production line at the Peugeot factory in Vesoul and he picked up the drugged cake by mistake.
He put the "space cake", along with a second "harmless" gâteau, on a table in the staff room to be shared during the morning break.
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