A day late, we left for All Good Musical Festival in WV. We were about an hour away when a man standing in the middle of I-60 motions for us to pull over. He reports we were speeding as a drug dog proceeds to sniff our car. The DEA tells us to get out of the car because he has picked up a scent ( We were driving a brand new car straight from the luxury car dealership's lot that my boyfriend's father owns with the speed set at cruise control below the speed limit). In a flash, my personal belongings and clothing are thrown all over the highway quite carelessly. Suddenly a rather large, masculine woman begin to frisk me in quite a provocative manner as a cop demands to know if we have needles on us repeatedly. Meanwhile, the cops and DEA laugh and giggle at my Phish Companion. They tell us they found a pipe but we need to show them where the pot is..my boyfriend gives it to them and they slap the cuffs on him and throw him in a van where he sat for hours with the windows up in 90 degrees. I arrived at the jail..30 minutes from the point where they were stopping people (cops were arresting people along the highway, we weren't even headed in their county's direction) and im surprised when im greeted by a flock of patchpants and tyedies. Apparently it is a ritual for the Garrett County Police Department in Maryland to set up shop along I60( everyone who went that way used mapquest) and arrest the folks going to and coming from All Good. The cops gave me no information, nearly 30 people spent the night in jail for offenses such as a single one-hitter or under a gram of weed(which we had), they stole some of our money, took people's cars and treated us inhumanly because of our appearence and lifesytles. Were not criminals, we dont harm or kill or rape, we had no intent to sell drugs.. we were just going to hear some good music with good people..i guess everything comes with a price
Every traveller I know tells me to stay off that highway if you've got anything remotely signifying your headiness.
i would suggest going to norml.org to read up on the legalit of marijuana in your state and print out an attourney card...not to mention if you travel without a freedom card thats crazy...your rights have been violated its up to you to stand up for them
I'd file a complaint with the DA or whoever against that police department. I like it when some dude gets all pissed at the cops and starts to go on a cop killing rampage, those are the best news stories. DAMN THE MAN!
haha..oh yea what they did was clearly not legal but i guess they didnt cross the line enough to get themselves in trouble..in maryland, it does not matter how much you have on you, its all the same punishment (they didnt even weigh it out) im actually in the process of starting a NORML chapter in my area. We thought we were doing the right thing by handing them over our stash but i think thats what fucked us in the end..my boyfriend and i both had dreads so you cant tell me they didnt stereotype us..for his court appearence, my boyfriend was told to cut his hair and so he did..we are still awaiting his court appearence though..just spread the world to anyone going to All Good- do not go on I-60
What he meant to say was, "I like it when some dude gets all pissed at the cops and starts going on a cop killing rampage, so that way while I'm watching the news and there's mass mayhem in the city, I get ass raped by 5 or so gangbangers!"
on my way to ALL GOOD fest this past summer, not all of my friends could fit into one car, so we took 2.... and the other car got pulled over for speeding... and they searched EVERYTHING in that car...all 4 of them ended up in jail that night. but they came back to the festival on friday, and it rocked
that has to be wone of the gayest things i've heard. Your bf shouldnt have had to cut his dreads though. Hope everything works out for the best.
i know what you mean, last night when my dad his grilfriend and i where driving home from his firends house and he pulled over to let his girlfriend drive cause it was to dark and hes half blind and he was drinking, a cop pulls up behind us my dad was sitting in the passangers seat the cop tells him to get out of the truck and asks where we came from my dad said the next town over,the cop asks what bar my dad says we came from his firends the cop says dont lie i know you where at a bar my dad tell him again,the cop says it again my dad anser is the same,so the cop takes him licenc and says if i find out you ever got aressted for anything im aressting you right now,my dad has a pistol permit so cop asked him if he had a gun my dad said no while my dad said no he put his hands in his pocket and the cop yelled and told him to keep his hand behind his head, my dad never got aressted so the cop lets him go,which is bullshit casue my dad was in the passanger seat of the truck not even driving when he pulled up behind us fucking pig tryed to get my dad to fight him.
