Touching on the keeping your mouth shut thing.

If for some reason you do get picked up .. like Scruff said .. the worst thing you can do it start blabbing about knowing your rights. If you knew anything about your rights at all .. you know the only thing you say to a Cop if you think you are getting in trouble, is I do not wish to answer any questions without my lawyer present.

They will most likely start feeding you bullshit about that making you look even more guilty. Thats fine .. if you are guilty .. you're not giving them anything else to work with as far as making up more charges for you. If you are not Guilty of anything its even better. Trust me when I tell you that your eventual lawyer will be more than happy to listen to anything you wanna say about the cops. So just wait to talk to whomever that may be .. and  say nothing.

I don't want to answer questions .. and or am I free to go?

Period.

What Scruffy put up there is so damn true its not even funny.  I went searching for a cop thread to put my story from tonight in and when I found this one I was floored that I independently followed this advice from my own teachers and experience and it sure paid off.

Tonight I closed my store and got off at midnight.  It rained earlier so the pavement on the highway I take home was slick.  I was carrying about a zip of trees that I pickup from a guy at work in my trunk.  The speed limit is 55 on the road I was on and I was going on cruise control until I got about 10 miles from home.  Needless to say on the home stretch I started booking and hit about 75.  As soon as I started to hit that speed I saw party lights and knew I was fucked.

The cop had me clocked at 77 which is reckless driving in Va and he was pissy because it was wet and murky, but by being polite and being straight forward about how fast I was going he gave me a ticket akin to failure to yield.  He also gave me the benefit of the doubt about strip searching my car (which happens just about any time I get stopped given my priors).  He said It looked like I had a rough past and since I now have about 7 years from my last charge he didn’t feel the need to hold me up after a long day at work to call the dogs.

Long story short if I had played like a dick or like I had no idea what I was doing Id have a reckless ticket and a distribution charge.  Acting like an adult saved my ass tonight…./rant

I’ve only ever been arrested one time, and I was too young for them to legally put me in handcuffs. I was 14. Me and my friend were high as fuck. For some dumb reason, we decided to go outside. And for an even dumber reason my friend decides that he’s going to bring the pipe outside with. Why? I couldn’t figure out the logic in it, even to this day. Sometimes I’ve wondered if he had me set up. 

Anyways, he whips the pipe out in broad daylight, and begins scraping out the resine. Cars are passing by, I’m too young to really be smart about the situation. Rest is history. The cops that arrested us would fall under #2, regular cops, which are usually the only cops you ever come across in Iowa.

I’ve seen a few with real nasty attitudes, either servicing notices to my neighbors, or were called to deal with a noise complaint. I never really met a “cool cop”. Unless You’re talking about the ones who will bullshit with you while waiting in line Kwik Star or wherever. But as for a cop who will “let you off with a warning”, or who will even bend the law a bit so he/she doesn’t have to get you into trouble…Nah, never met one like that. Ever. But if they do exist, someone should put them on the endangered species list.

the_positive_smack said
…it keeps me from entering America and that’s not a downside at all that’s a good thing… 

Still, I hope u make it to a Gathering. Maybe u can kidnap yourself.

Uhm are police gonna come to my tent or go into the crowd and make me put out my doobie? Or tackle me to the ground?

Fuck the bitch ass police, may they all go out like dallas.

Last year I talked to several cops in a cart while leading a line of several people on acid (myself included) when a car jammed up the path in front of us.  My pupils musta been ridiculous but they didnt care.  Honestly they were more focused on the car and making sure it didnt run anyone over.  They rolled past several card tables with weed on them that was obviously for sale.