cops always have the best shiat

darkhorse23: So, if she was out of town, and her back door was open meaning not just the cops but anyone wanting to make her look bad, or maybe her kids having a party while she was gone, could have left it there.

So yeah.

Are you high?

Can relate.

So if cops see open doors, they assume "intruder" and go on in? Ok...

Dude, she was married to the late keyboardist of Charlie Daniels' Band. CHARLIE DANIELS. I'm in no way excusing the fact that she had those drugs in her house, but they were most likely his, and he's too dead to say so.

That said, throw the book at her, because courts don't give a shiat about that when non-celebrities/politicians are caught with weed.


/RTFA, there's intrigue here.

I'm not really sure I can answer that, but what I can say is that if Margaret Mead, at her age, smoked grass... she'd have one hell of a trip!

/not obscure
//There was a good book about the marijuana industry and the law's inconsistencies towards it by the same guy who wrote Fast Food Nation Reefer Madness (new window)

but don't you worry citizen, we're winning that war on drugs, yessir!!

Incontinent_dog_and_monkey_rodeo: So if cops see open doors, they assume "intruder" and go on in? Ok...

They can also be met with a locked door, reason that a newly grieving widow is a suicide risk, bust the door off it's hinges, and go on in. Y'know, just in case she's in need of urgent medical assistance, n'stuff.

The reason they didn't say anything is cos they rolled a fattie once they made sure the house was vacated. Occam's razor.

/McLovin

Someone in law enforcement is a liar and a hypocrite? STOP THE PRESSES!

Who polices the police?

/the Coastguard?

snuff3r: 30.media.tumblr.com

Can't... stop... watching...

the deputies also found what they suspected to be rolling papers, a white papery substance with the words zig-zag on them.

According to the police summaries, the officers found the back door open and entered, concerned there may have been an intruder and wanting to check on the welfare of the occupants.

that's exactly what they said at my friends trial.


Hobodeluxe: cops always have the best shiat
Was as true in 1973 as it is today

Pert: Who polices the police?

/the Coastguard?

I would join up.

The cops did the right thing in this case.... A woman's husband just died and they're coming to tell her about it, and they're going to bust her for having some weed laying out? Have some farking humanity.

The sad, farked up thing is they won't do it for everybody.

The nice thing is they do it for more people than absolute cop-haters will ever believe.

"I grant you, if that had happened to any of us (ABC employees), we would have been made an example of. We would have been in headlines in the papers, the news, and everywhere else," the ABC employee said.

In other news, ABC employee hates their job, hates their boss, hates the fact that they live a boring life - which is about to change ;)

People of the future reading this article will get the same feeling we get now reading an article about oral sex between a husband and wife being illegal less than a lifetime ago. The absurdity of the law!

They had no warrant, no permission to enter and they really can't prove it's hers.
Oh wait, it's TN.

She's just a saddle tramp.

ghostfacekillahrabbit: The cops did the right thing in this case.... A woman's husband just died and they're coming to tell her about it, and they're going to bust her for having some weed laying out? Have some farking humanity.

The sad, farked up thing is they won't do it for everybody.

The nice thing is they do it for more people than absolute cop-haters will ever believe.

I think the problem cop haters have is in defining if the cop in question is doing it out of respect for humanity or just to that person. Lots of people have a rough day and go looking for drugs to ease their minds. Lots of people also get busted in the process and have the book thrown at them by an entirely unsympathetic authority.
Because many officers tend to overlook the foibles of their peers and superiors, the application of law ends up not being fair.

If drugs are such a non issue that the officer can use his digression to ignore them, why do we bother spending billions of dollars on a "war"?

I woke up, turned on the TV and Cheech and Chong's next movie was on. Coincidence? I think not.

way south: ghostfacekillahrabbit: The cops did the right thing in this case.... A woman's husband just died and they're coming to tell her about it, and they're going to bust her for having some weed laying out? Have some farking humanity.

The sad, farked up thing is they won't do it for everybody.

The nice thing is they do it for more people than absolute cop-haters will ever believe.

I think the problem cop haters have is in defining if the cop in question is doing it out of respect for humanity or just to that person. Lots of people have a rough day and go looking for drugs to ease their minds. Lots of people also get busted in the process and have the book thrown at them by an entirely unsympathetic authority.
Because many officers tend to overlook the foibles of their peers and superiors, the application of law ends up not being fair.

If drugs are such a non issue that the officer can use his digression to ignore them, why do we bother spending billions of dollars on a "war"?

Hating an entire group leaves no room for variables.

Irony?

I'm sorry - I don't see the probable cause. I smell some shenanigans here. Elks was in Memphis, 200 miles away, and left her back door open? I can understand if she left it unlocked; maybe folks in the south still trust neighbors (although Nashville's hardly a one horse town). Letting yourself in without either probable cause or permission is trespassing. Anything found on the premises should be the results of an illegal search/seizure. I can understand why there was no investigation. If the cops could not contact her by knocking on the front door then they should not have gone to the back yard - private property. Can't contact her in person? Call her cell phone - tell her that there's something that you need to speak with her about face - to - face. Do not go onto the property without permission, probable cause, or a warrant.

Happy Hours: ghostfacekillahrabbit: The cops did the right thing in this case.... A woman's husband just died and they're coming to tell her about it, and they're going to bust her for having some weed laying out? Have some farking humanity.

The sad, farked up thing is they won't do it for everybody.

The nice thing is they do it for more people than absolute cop-haters will ever believe.

And yet there are people who hate cops so much that even though they hate people being arrested for pot they'll demand the book be thrown at her

I hate cops a lot and I would personally prefer that they treat other users like her rather than treating her like other users. I'm not saying you're wrong, I'm just providing a different viewpoint from an avowed cop-hater to show that we're not all like that.

way south: ghostfacekillahrabbit: The cops did the right thing in this case.... A woman's husband just died and they're coming to tell her about it, and they're going to bust her for having some weed laying out? Have some farking humanity.

The sad, farked up thing is they won't do it for everybody.

The nice thing is they do it for more people than absolute cop-haters will ever believe.

I think the problem cop haters have is in defining if the cop in question is doing it out of respect for humanity or just to that person. Lots of people have a rough day and go looking for drugs to ease their minds. Lots of people also get busted in the process and have the book thrown at them by an entirely unsympathetic authority.
Because many officers tend to overlook the foibles of their peers and superiors, the application of law ends up not being fair.

If drugs are such a non issue that the officer can use his digression to ignore them, why do we bother spending billions of dollars on a "war"?

I agree with you. I'm not claiming that this a just world or that the cops had pure motives in this case, or claiming much of anything in the wider world of the drug war. I'm just saying... thats how the cops should treat any human being in that particular spot.

untaken_name: I hate cops a lot and I would personally prefer that they treat other users like her rather than treating her like other users. I'm not saying you're wrong, I'm just providing a different viewpoint from an avowed cop-hater to show that we're not all like that.

"they treat other users like her rather than treating her like other users" was exactly my point. Heh i'm certainly not arguing that cops don't pull a lot of dick moves. I qualify as at least a minor league cop hater by outside definitions. I just try not to hate anyone... There's enough of that going around.

"Betty has gone too far. Killing is wrong, and bad. There should be a new, stronger word for killing like badwrong or badong. YES, killing is badong. From this moment, I will stand for the opposite of killing, gnodab."

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ghostfacekillahrabbit: untaken_name: I hate cops a lot and I would personally prefer that they treat other users like her rather than treating her like other users. I'm not saying you're wrong, I'm just providing a different viewpoint from an avowed cop-hater to show that we're not all like that.

"they treat other users like her rather than treating her like other users" was exactly my point. Heh i'm certainly not arguing that cops don't pull a lot of dick moves. I qualify as at least a minor league cop hater by outside definitions. I just try not to hate anyone... There's enough of that going around.

Yes, but I mean ALL other users, not just the ones they decide they like at a particular moment in time. My problem is more in the fact that they are legally allowed to be capricious rather than any specific instance of capriciousness. I started becoming a cop-hater at about the time I realized that victimless actions were being criminalized at an alarming rate, and the nebulous nature of these "crimes" led to rampant police corruption and almost frightening differences in enforcement levels between agencies or even various agents within one agency. Laws should, in my opinion, be srs bsns, and things which are unimportant enough to be routinely overlooked are not important enough to warrant being laws.

You ever eradicate marijuana....on weed??

Well if you want something done right...

untaken_name: ghostfacekillahrabbit: untaken_name: I hate cops a lot and I would personally prefer that they treat other users like her rather than treating her like other users. I'm not saying you're wrong, I'm just providing a different viewpoint from an avowed cop-hater to show that we're not all like that.

"they treat other users like her rather than treating her like other users" was exactly my point. Heh i'm certainly not arguing that cops don't pull a lot of dick moves. I qualify as at least a minor league cop hater by outside definitions. I just try not to hate anyone... There's enough of that going around.

Yes, but I mean ALL other users, not just the ones they decide they like at a particular moment in time. My problem is more in the fact that they are legally allowed to be capricious rather than any specific instance of capriciousness. I started becoming a cop-hater at about the time I realized that victimless actions were being criminalized at an alarming rate, and the nebulous nature of these "crimes" led to rampant police corruption and almost frightening differences in enforcement levels between agencies or even various agents within one agency. Laws should, in my opinion, be srs bsns, and things which are unimportant enough to be routinely overlooked are not important enough to warrant being laws.

I agree; I mean all other users too. I never said the law conforms to reason. Heh, I don't think we're arguing on opposite sides here.

way south: Lots of people have a rough day and go looking for drugs to ease their minds.

MaxAwesome: You ever eradicate marijuana....on weed??

It may be the green goblin, but I giggled.

Im sure even a few people in the DEA get high. Guy probably could give 2 shiats about stamping out cannabis, goes through the motions to look "hardline", gets high on the job probably like many potheads.

Just what does the south have against pot? Is it still a racist thing?

I got arrested in Tennessee for a stem and a couple seeds at the bottom of a baggie. Don't care her husband just died, a crime is suppoesed to be a crime no matter what, and as long as she is putting people in jail for marijuana, then yeah she should be arrested ad go to jail too. farking hipocrites.

It might have been his. Got high, left the door open, crashed car. Police arrive and thus the story begins. TFA says they found her ABC card not that the bag was tagged.

Approves

Just tell the cops it's your husbands.
then ask them what they wanted to tell you.