Some Pot Pops

Not only do kids bring joy, fathers can even (sometimes) get some sympathy for getting caught selling drugs by blaming his child.

That is the lesson to be learned from the case of Pennsylvania pop Richard L. Lerch Jr., 47, who explained that it was his 16-year-old daughter who convinced him to sell drugs to the judge who then sentenced him only to probation. Even Bermudan father Neilson Keith Burgess, nabbed for bringing home both crack and cannabis seems to have gained a bit of sympathy — his prison sentence was reduced from a possible 10 years to four — because he had a 17-year-old daughter to support.

The test of the theory may come with when Youtube Brit bragger "Stackinpaper" gets nabbed. Will he be able to blame his 1-year-old for convincing him to go wrong when he gets pinched for growing dope in his basement, about which he posted videos (since removed). Certainly, he can make the case that times are tough and kids are expensive. Hopefully, he'll get a judge whose had some experience as a father and will be sympathetic to that excuse. We'll see.