Fatty Boombatty
Sometimes I loathe the Netherlands, sometimes I love it. This is one reason why:
THE HAGUE (AFP) – Insouciant of police warnings, a Dutch group is reportedly set to roll the world’s biggest joint, sending the previous record for a marijuana cigarette up in smoke.
The world’s largest joint will be a 500-gram (17-ounce), meter-long (3.3-foot) monstrosity, rolled with cigarette paper and easily dwarfing the previous 100-gram winner, the ANP news agency said. To beat the record, it must be made entirely of marijuana with no tobacco mix.
“Afterwards we’ll light it up,” predicted event organizer Thijs Verheij, who is hoping his feat will land in the Guinness Book of Records.
The Dutch police are not amused however, warning they will intervene if the joint surpasses the five grams of marijuana allowed for consumption and sale in the Netherlands.
That’s a weird construction, ‘insouciant of’ at the beginning of a sentence. It’s the first time I’ve come across it IIRC and I’m reasonably widely-read – maybe someone whose grammar’s better than mine can say whether it’s grammatical or not, but it definitely reads clunkily.
Maybe the writer was partaking in a little practical research into their subject.
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