Blindness cure was actually LSD pickles

Alex Pfeffer of Fehmarn, Germany, paid £20,000 to Patrick Baecker, an out-of-work barber, to cure his blindness. The "cure" was gherkins laced with LSD. Baecker is now serving 8 months in jail. 'You are a hairdresser, not a shaman,' Judge Markus Faerber ruled. (Thanks, Chris Arkenberg!)

David Pescovitz is Boing Boing's co-editor/managing partner. He's also a research director at Institute for the Future. On Instagram, he's @pesco.

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Brainspore

In all fairness, I doubt a professional shaman would have been any more successful.
Dewi Morgan

:(

Now I will have nightmares of a judge glaring down at me. “You’re not a coder. You’re a dork!”
Robert

I’m not a hairdresser, I’m a coiffeur!
Rossi

Did it work?
Rossi

Oh, and…it was 20k pounds according to the article. Almost $30k.
- David Pescovitz
  
  Fixed, thanks Rossi!
ericmartinex1

You mean there are dumb Europeans too? I wasn’t taught that in Sociology class.
nanuq

He had the blind guy “seeing things”. Doesn’t that count as a cure?
Felton

LSD pickles? That’s just not kosher.
arikol

But as mentioned, that judge deserves a cupcake, brilliant snarky comment from someone who’s fed up with idiocy!
jonathon212

“You’re not a shaman, you’re a hairdresser” BEST JUDGMENT EVER!

My mom’s a hippie, she craved LSD Pickles and marijuana ice cream all through her pregnancy!

Seriously, she was though. My SN was almost JonathonLivingstonSeagull212.
jonathon212

You’re not a high priestess, you’re a vacuum cleaner salesman
You’re not a pope, you’re a postal clerk
You’re not a rabbi, you’re a wedding band!
- Antinous / Moderator
  
  I’m a hairdresser, not a plastic surgeon!