The guy was trying to explain to the cops, and he gave them some line.
/wakka wakka

but we're winning the war on drugs right?

It doesnt blow either. Well it may but I would imagine it stings pretty bad.

Ooh, ooh that smell
Can't you smell that smell?
Ooh, ooh that smell
The smell of AXE surrounds you.

;)

FTFA: Salonis' attorney blames a faulty field test for the false result.

I guess most people don't know that just about any powder they test will test positive.

Those field test kits will turn blue even if you don't put anything in them.

gotta love that war on drugs, yeah buddy.

Something's fishy here. Who ever heard of deoderant being sold in a loose powder form? I wonder how it was packaged to make the cops think it was cocaine and why it took two months to get a test result from the lab.

Also, he wasn't being held on just the cocaine charge, he was being held on a DUI charge that appears (from the comments in the thread) to be about his 7th or 8th DUI. He may have been in jail anyhow even without the cocaine charge.

Deodorant can easily be in packaged powdered form, especially outside of the US.

And, as has been stated previously, field tests are terribly bad with false positives. Witness the story from last month with the two people who were arrested whose chocolate tested to be hash, or the person arrested last year whose soap tested positive as GHB.

The problem is that once they get the positive field test, they really couldn't care less about confirming it, so if you get caught up in a false positive, you're farked.

That really stinks.

$10 says a couple dumb motherf*cking kids are going read this and snort an 8-ball of Teen Spirit.

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Everyone knows if you're a dumb kid and sort 8-balls you can't read.

CtrlAltDelete: $10 says a couple dumb motherf*cking kids are going read this and snort an 8-ball of Teen Spirit.,

Gold Bond singes the nostrils, BOTH,

BBRModitha: Everyone knows if you're a dumb kid and sort 8-balls you can't read.

Well, the average YouTube comment would tend to support that position.

That blows.

I'll bet that the person who sold him a couple grams of deodorant is laughing like crazy right now ;)

forget the damn article, the real story is in the comments just below it. It looks like the local readers have their dirty laundry on display :-P

SpinStopper: I'll bet that the person who sold him a couple grams of deodorant is laughing like crazy right now ;)

Something tells me you're oh-so-right-guard...

number8: And, as has been stated previously, field tests are terribly bad with false positives.

I have always wondered about how these field tests can work. There are infinite numbers of chemical substances in nature, I would have thought that there could be no simple test to find abitrary organic molecules...

Paper-Pusher: forget the damn article, the real story is in the comments just below it. It looks like the local readers have their dirty laundry on display :-P

Hilarious and sad at the same time. Perfect! I'm grabbing some popcorn and waiting for the mid-west (or whatever that flyover is considered) flame war to rage. Hope they don't disappoint me, dontcha know.

CruiserTwelve: Something's fishy here. Who ever heard of deoderant being sold in a loose powder form? I wonder how it was packaged to make the cops think it was cocaine and why it took two months to get a test result from the lab.

I'm willing to guess that the guy caked on the deodorant, it dried up and flaked off leaving white powder all over the seats. Curious how much the cops found though. Was it just a few flakes? Or was the seat just covered and this dude never cleaned his car?

CruiserTwelve: Something's fishy here. Who ever heard of deoderant being sold in a loose powder form? I wonder how it was packaged to make the cops think it was cocaine and why it took two months to get a test result from the lab.

Also, he wasn't being held on just the cocaine charge, he was being held on a DUI charge that appears (from the comments in the thread) to be about his 7th or 8th DUI. He may have been in jail anyhow even without the cocaine charge.

Oh, well that makes it all right then. For a minute, I was almost ready to conclude that our wonderful heroes in blue might have made some sort of error - I'm grateful that you cleared that up for me.

CruiserTwelve: Something's fishy here. Who ever heard of deoderant being sold in a loose powder form? I wonder how it was packaged to make the cops think it was cocaine and why it took two months to get a test result from the lab.

Also, he wasn't being held on just the cocaine charge, he was being held on a DUI charge that appears (from the comments in the thread) to be about his 7th or 8th DUI. He may have been in jail anyhow even without the cocaine charge.

I don't know about packaging, but I do know that if you let some aerosol deodorants dry they have a powder like texture.

"Hole Spice"

CruiserTwelve: Something's fishy here. Who ever heard of deoderant being sold in a loose powder form? I wonder how it was packaged to make the cops think it was cocaine and why it took two months to get a test result from the lab.

Also, he wasn't being held on just the cocaine charge, he was being held on a DUI charge that appears (from the comments in the thread) to be about his 7th or 8th DUI. He may have been in jail anyhow even without the cocaine charge.

You've never heard of Shower to Shower deodorant powder? It's been around for years.

Raise your hand, raise your hand----If you're SURE

Peter Gozinia: Raise your hand, raise your hand----If you're SURE

winner

ManU.S. citizens spends 2 months any amount of time in jail due to his deodorant being mistaken for cocaine consensual non-crimes.

A reference to the classic Ain't Nobody's Business If You Do: The Absurdity Of Consensual Crimes In Our Free Country (new window) is appropriate here.

Cocaine looking, powder deodorant sounds like it is for hippies. And hippies should be imprisoned.

I see no problem with the jailing... only that a hippie may be roaming our streets and attacking our senses with white boy dreads, tie-dye and jam band music.

Make cocaine legal. Make AXE illegal.

/illegalize it

A relative of mine was arrested after returning to Canada from a trip to Central America because officials thought her shampoo contained cocaine. They didn't even process her because she had a nervous breakdown and took her to the hospital. A few months later, all charges dropped, ooops, our bad. farking dumbasses. Now she's on some list because everytime she travels she gets tagged for secondary inspection. farking dumbasses.

/did I mention they were farking dumbasses?

2 months in the slammer!!

If ain't good enough to snort,
We will see you in court


/at least $500,000

rancidPlasma: A relative of mine was arrested after returning to Canada from a trip to Central America because officials thought her shampoo contained cocaine. They didn't even process her because she had a nervous breakdown and took her to the hospital. A few months later, all charges dropped, ooops, our bad. farking dumbasses. Now she's on some list because everytime she travels she gets tagged for secondary inspection. farking dumbasses.

/did I mention they were farking dumbasses?

Canada, eh? One guess: was this at YVR?

I've crossed borders countless times, and Customs at YVR is the only place that has ever given me a hard time. Nice way to be welcomed home.

True story - My ship was returning to the States after a cruise which included South America. We were told told that customs and DEA would be boarding and searching the entire ship. Probably due to the fact that the master at arms had already found several kilos of coke hidden in common areas.

So we came with brilliant plan to screw with the jerk PO1. One of the guys was bulking up using raw protein powder sold in the ship's store. We packed a baggie with the powder and stuffed it down deep inside the PO's locker.

Hilarity ensued all the way up to the point that the field test showed positive for coke.

/Lab tests came back negative, but the Captain was not happy with us. I can't remember the exact regulation, but we found out that there is a military regulation against being stupid.

Technically, cocaine is legal. It is a schedule II drug. It has legal uses, and can be legally posessed and administered.

CruiserTwelve: Something's fishy here. Who ever heard of deoderant being sold in a loose powder form? I wonder how it was packaged to make the cops think it was cocaine and why it took two months to get a test result from the lab.

That's called the "I'm dumb test." When you havn't heard of something, the conclusion should be to verify it before you form an opinion.

howdoibegin: That's called the "I'm dumb test." When you havn't heard of something, the conclusion should be to verify it before you form an opinion.

That's stupid. I've never heard of that test.

For it to even be considered as cocaine, it would have to be packaged in a suspicious looking way, as in a small baggie. It's not like they found a deodorant stick and thought "Holy shiat that's a whole bunch of moist cocaine!"

Don't forget that the Federal goobernment also has stated that the etg test for alcohol consumption is extremely unreliable. Yet local probation and parole offices continue to swear by it.

Remember kiddies, when it does work right, it's only good for the previous 80 hours and not the past 10 days like they love to claim.

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$10 says a couple dumb motherf*cking kids are going read this and snort an 8-ball of Teen Spirit.

Why do cocain when huffing Raid produces a much more intense high for a fraction of the cost?

/Kidding. Do not really do this.

*cocaine

So I was huffing Raid the other day and these cops tagged me with some bullsh*t test and sprinkled me with deodorant

I like how the judge sentenced him to enough time so he could suspend most of it and be 'magnanimous' and completely gloss over the wrongful imprisonment for what turned out not to be drugs. If not for that, he probably would not have served any time at all for the drunk driving charge, and certainly not two months.

Just as a side note, I loved the comments after the article. One of the commenters, "tomhaggs", wrote [in response to a post]"

"You must be more than one person because no one person can be this dumb!"

Rootus: he probably would not have served any time at all for the drunk driving charge, and certainly not two months.


No shiat.

This guy needs get some ACLU lawyers.


/12months? for what?

Those field tests used in airports and by the police are notorious for false positives. Some ppl got busted for home made chocolate a few days ago, tested positive for THC.

deodorant kinda smells sorta soapy and deodorant-y, plus it generally feels rather waxy .. cocaine has none of these characteristics as a rule that I can recall, uh, from reading about it in books...

So how'na'hell could they think it's blow?!?!

//gave up my wild and wooly ways [reading those kinds of books] many moons ago

I am a defense attorney. I represented a person in a cocaine case in East Ridge, TN. The officer wrote in his report that the field test indicated the white powder he found was positive for cocaine, because after adding some of the white powder to the field test "the liquid's color stayed pink and did not change to blue".

This officer clearly didn't follow the test's instructions, which notes that the pink liquid (yeah, its pink before you add anything to it) turns blue to indicate the presence of cocaine. If it remains pink there is no cocaine present.

I had to argue with him and finally get his supervisor to get the instructions for the test to prove him wrong. Needless to say he was the laughing stock of the East Ridge Police Department that night, with all his fellow officers giving him shiat all night long for screwing up such a simple test.

Case dismissed, but it costs my client a night in jail, substantial funds to have a bondsman make his bail, attorney fees, lost time from work, and major hassle.

I wonder if the error described in the article was the result of an untrained or simply ignorant officer that botch an otherwise very simple test?

JeffreyScott: I had to argue with him and finally get his supervisor to get the instructions for the test to prove him wrong. Needless to say he was the laughing stock of the East Ridge Police Department that night, with all his fellow officers giving him shiat all night long for screwing up such a simple test.

That guy shouldn't have been made fun of, he should have been fired on the spot. Hell, he should be fired, blacklisted from the field, forced to compensate the victim for all of their losses, and toss on a couple of thousand extra for mental anguish and such.

JeffreyScott

I am a defense attorney. I represented a person in a cocaine case in East Ridge, TN. The officer wrote in his report that the field test indicated the white powder he found was positive for cocaine, because after adding some of the white powder to the field test "the liquid's color stayed pink and did not change to blue".

This officer clearly didn't follow the test's instructions, which notes that the pink liquid (yeah, its pink before you add anything to it) turns blue to indicate the presence of cocaine. If it remains pink there is no cocaine present.

I had to argue with him and finally get his supervisor to get the instructions for the test to prove him wrong. Needless to say he was the laughing stock of the East Ridge Police Department that night, with all his fellow officers giving him shiat all night long for screwing up such a simple test.

Case dismissed, but it costs my client a night in jail, substantial funds to have a bondsman make his bail, attorney fees, lost time from work, and major hassle.

I wonder if the error described in the article was the result of an untrained or simply ignorant officer that botch an otherwise very simple test?

"It's"

Sorry; pet peeve.