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There Is More Than One Times Square Weed Man

Packed cannabis at the growing facility of the Tikun Olam company on March 7, 2011 near the northern city of Safed, Israel. In conjunction with Israel's Health Ministry, Tikon Olam are currently distributing cannabis for medicinal purposes to over 1800 people in Israel.
Photo: Uriel Sinai/Getty Images

Although initial reports blamed the guy with the “Help! I need money for weed” sign in Friday’s brutal blue-pen stabbing of the guy with the “Spare change for pot, pizza and beer” sign, the New York Times clarifies that the accused is actually Weed Head (catchprase: “I am the weed man. I’m too sexy for you to see me”), whose more elaborate cardboard helmet reads, “Weed all day weed all night.” Easily mistaken.

There Is More Than One Times Square Weed Man