On Tue, 28 Feb 2006 18:15:55 -0600, DTJ > wrote:

>On the news today was the story of the car that was clocked on I57
>doing 101 MPH. OK, no big deal, I don't really mind if you ticket
>them. Anything further, without probably cause, is bull****. It was
>the middle of the night.
>
>So, the cops say they smell drugs. Pot. As we all know, nobody
>smoking pot drives like that, as pot makes one paranoid.

Ummm, I had a classmate in college get caught with a bit of pot
because he was going ~110 in a 45 zone. Stupid people smoking pot
make stupid decisions.

>So they search the car and find no drugs. No surprise there. Oh,
>they do find a gun. So they then arrest the driver and passenger.

Okay, they smelled pot on my friend and found a bunch of pot under the
driver's seat. Not similar, gotcha.

>Now, if they had a reason to search the car, fine. But obviously the
>pot story is a ruse. If they really had smelled drugs, the chance of
>finding NOTHING is pretty slim. So they used a fabricated excuse to
>search a vehicle, and then they arrested two people who may, or may
>not, have been doing anything wrong, but had been annoying the cops by
>"driving fast".

Keep me posted on the trial, I'd like to see if there were any
warrants, past arrests, etc that would have influenced police behavior
also. Part of me also wonders what the police and accused look like,
to eliminate racial profiling as a reason for the search.

Dave
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