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Headline of the day: "Millionaire with cocaine habit so bad his nose collapsed is jailed after police find drugs stash in the folding roof of his Bentley"

Mark Frauenfelder at 9:12 am Thu, Sep 27, 2012

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The only way this Daily Mail headline could be any better is if the millionaire were from space.
A millionaire cocaine addict who retired abroad at the age of just 36 after making his fortune has been jailed after police found a haul of drugs hidden in his luxury car. Property developer James Brown's habit was so bad his nose collapsed after nine years of daily cocaine use.

Mark Frauenfelder is the founder of Boing Boing and the editor-in-chief of MAKE and Cool Tools. Twitter: @frauenfelder. Come and hear Mark speak at the ALA conference in Chicago on July 1.

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  • Brainspore

    He was initially pulled over because the officers thought there was an English Bulldog driving the car.

  • acerplatanoides

    the hardest working man in nobusiness

  • http://twitter.com/CheleBellieBean Michele Rideout

    Glamorous.

  • Jellodyne

    Laugharne, Wales, late September,
    One Mr. Brown’s hot tempered,
    This man’s possessed, he’s restless,
    Armed and dangerous, drugged and reckless.

    • SoItBegins

       Those lines only rhyme halfway!

  • crnk

    So he wasn’t retired? Or I guess he pulled a sports star retirement where you retire from basketball and start hawking other goods.

  • blindidiotgod

    It’s motherf**in’ Pooh Bear!! 
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OME0n5USovo
    ‘Cept his name is James Brown and he will gun you dooown….
    lol lol

  • Difference Engineer

    Or maybe, the hardest working man in *nose*business.

  • cstatman

    James Brown?   really???   James Brown???    good god,  jump back,  gotta kiss myself!   HAWWWWWW

  • evets32

    So the difference between whether we mock or pity someone’s drug habit lies in their net worth. Noted.

    • acerplatanoides

      it’s about the same difference as between crazy and eccentric.

  • Petzl

    A collapsed septum is nature’s way of telling you to move on to heroine.

    • OoerictoO

      i loooove me them heroines, bosoms and petticoats and all.