Not exactly living up to the ol' surname, pops.

/Dad?

For him it's win-win.

If he got away with it then he has money for retirement... And when he got caught it's state funded retirement.

(Prison is better than shady acres)

I was confused! I went to Home Depot to get some bricks but some smart aleckey types in the parking lot told me they had some bricks. So they showed me thier bricks and I said "Hey, these bricks are just powder" and they told me they were instant bricks. All I had to do was add water and I would have all the bricks I needed. Well, sir, I figured I would have enough bricks to finish the gazebo and wall up the misses flower beds.

Of course, they cost more than regular bricks but they were lighter. I'd say about 2.2 pounds or about one of them newfangled whatchamacallit weight - kilogram. They said If'n I got tired, just a little wiff of them magic brick dust would give the strength I need to get the job done be it laying bricks or laying pipe with the missus. I honestly don't get that last part. The misses leave the pipe laying to me.

Well, when you told me it was coca-caine, you could have knocked me over with a feather. I know that coca-caine is dangerous stuff. We see its effects on NCIS every night.

You can take all 107 bricks. Grandpa don't need no trouble. He's a just gonna keep number 108 to himself. I took a little wiff and I aint interested in laying no bricks or no pipes, boy. Grandpa's got the urge to stand grandma on her head and her the ol' French Open.

Age does not excuse you from running dope.
People have been running dope for the last 40+ years so the excuse he doesnt know what cocaine is hardly hold water.

I lived next door to a 75 year old cartel boss who was as sharp witted as any 30 year old, who claimed his cash came from his tomato farms.

I'll tell you exactly how I got in to this mess. I was just about 25. I was back from the war and looking for excitement. I had my blue shirt on cause we weren't on the winning side of the war and the Kaiser had dropped a bomb on my brigade so things didn't always sit straight with me all times no how.

Where was I? Oh yeah. The war. We was being repatriated to Japan which was strange cause I had never been there before and some guy they said "You gotta see China. It's right over that bridge." Now bridges back then had trolls under them and this one weren't no different. He was an angry troll and he looks at me and he says "You really should see China." Well, when a troll tells you something like that, you'd best be on your way.

So me and my chums went to China. Blue shirts and all. China was all "Welcome Blue Shirts! We forgive you!" until they figured out why we had the blue shirts. Then it was just an Irish Rush from city to city.

Oh yeah. That troll also said, "stay out of them Opium Dens when you go to China" but we thought he said "Go to every Opium Den when you visit China." We visited more than a few. We lost Lawrence in one of them in Hiroshima. Hiroshima had this big open area like someone dropped a huge bomb on the place. We asked a couple of locals about it but they weren't talking. Maybe they were ashamed.

Naw naw. Hiroshima was in Chiner at this time. The Japanese traded it to China for 10 million chopsticks and solid state radio transceiver to be named later. We were there and I said "Where's Lawrence." We went to look for him but by the time we found him, he was 80 pounds and comatose. We just left him there. And that was my biggest regret 'cause Lawrence had our tickets in his pocket.

Well, sir, I won't trouble you with how a person can walk from China to the U S of A. It can be done 'cause I'm standing here telling you about it. By the time were got to Washington State, two more wars had been fought so we could officially take off our blue shirts and rejoin society. One of my buddies said "What are we going to do? It's 1978 and Vaudeville died of an overdose in the Beverly Hill Hotel. I said "We might as well sell this opium I brought with me and start up a Starbucks. Everyone's gonna be thirsty and tired. Coffee laced cocaine will pick them right up.

Well, you can't just sell opium. There are laws that seem to go against that. So we converted our opium stocks in to cocaine and sold it. First by the line, then by the gram and eventually, sooner than later, by the semi truck load.

But people who buy cocaine seldom need more than one semi truck so we settled on the brick. Oh we tried cubes and cheese circles but they always come back to the brick. Now, if you'll excuse me, somewhere along the line, I was named ambassador of some country. I believe the State Department will be calling you to inform you of my diplomatic immunity and the consequences of violating a Diplomatic Courier Seal. Sad new for you officer. For you and you're department.

Cause you see, I may be old, I may be senile but I'm not crazy.

Night2o1: I got pulled over because they randomly (??) put my plate into their computer and it showed that I hadn't renewed my license (it had expired a couple weeks prior). I was pretty much as normal as it gets during the stop and well within my rights, had insurance and registration and my (expired oops) license. They still asked to search my car and when I refused they called a K9, which got a false hit (on my gas tank ???) and proceeded to cuff me and search my car for 20-30 minutes while trying to interrogate me. When they found nothing (cuz nothing was there), they had to let me go with a ticket for my license.

So.. cops will definitely fark with you and shiat on you just because they can. You're wrong moerty.

btw apparently I could of just said I was leaving instead of waiting around for the K9, as they had no reasonable suspicions and therefore no reason to apprehend me?? Is this true?

Does your state not have the little stickers on them with month and year of expiration? Since it was expired that just may explain the "randomness":

/Got pulled over with an expired tag about this time last year. Yes sir, no sir, no attitude....and all I got was "fix your tag, have a good night."

vexle: Sooooooo... in other words, you were stopped for a valid reason, they legally searched your vehicle, found nothing, did not punish you for things they didn't find, ticketed you for the thing you actually did do, and you have a problem with that? That is how it's supposed to go. How could you possibly see anything wrong with how they acted?

I'm getting increasingly fed up with this bullshiat. The police are not your enemy. They are the police. They are not evil. They are not a gang. If they stop you for doing something wrong, and you were actually doing the thing that was wrong, shut the fark up and don't do it again. You admit that your plate had been expired for more than a week. Get that shiat renewed and stop complaining that poow widdle you had to submit to a traffic search as a direct result of your own actions.

Give me a break, I mean. YES SIR, CITIZEN. If you do not understand the corruption and destruction of the 4th amendment by your pals in blue you are a retard. Police departments have a random sprinkling of good officers who do the job to help people and serve their community with honor, the rest get off on repressing freedoms. And a K-9 officer can train their dog (usually they do it without even realizing that they are accidentally training the dog but the dog works on positive reinforcement to commands and rewards) to give false hits.

Amos Quito: FTA: "On Friday Leo Sharp was pulled over about a mile west of Chelsea by Michigan State Police for improper lane use and following too closely."


Sounds like probable cause for a drug search.


/4th amendment rolls over in its cold, shallow grave

More than likely, he fit the profile and, yes, they were looking for a reason to pull him over.

It's actually VERY common for older people to be recruited to transport drugs from the south, and the cops were probably told to be on the look out for his vehicle, possibly after it was spotted in a town known as a hub for smuggling.

I realize this might not be to your literal interpretation of what constitutes a legal search and seizure, but profiling is a pretty reasonable means to determine suspicion of an illegal activity. If it walks like a duck and talks like a duck, you probably should verify if it's really a duck. If I park my car in the Cass Corridor of Detroit, or drive repeatedly up and down residential streets near 7 mile and Gratiot, I should expect some attention from the police, and reasonably, they should suspect me of illegal activity.

Would you rather a bigger crime be committed because the police had to wait for it to happen in front of them to act?