It's Officer Ignoramus to you!

I also posted this in the mj busted forum, but thought i'd post here cause you'll all get a kick out of the story:

So I got stopped last night for failure to stop at what was, in my mind, an obstructed stop sign. They tell me they smell marijuana and ask if I have any marijuana in my car, I say no. The officer at my window has me get out, as the other officer on my passenger side just continues to rummage through my shit as he was doing since they got to my car. To make a long story short, they are trying to nab me with pos. d, and pos b with intent... The best part about this story- the flagrant ignorance of the officers who arrested me.

The first officer was so close to my face he was spitting on my face as he was bitching and i said something to him that ended with the word "man." Now I don't know about you, but I believe every person is just that, a person, and as long as I am not grossly disrespecting them, I can address them how I want. So, they ask me if they look like ghetto mother fuckers, I guess it's real ghetto to say man... Here I was thinking that I rejected the whole pop gangsterism thing, but I guess not. Then, the cop says something to me that ends in bro.... When I point it out, he tells me he's starting to talk like me from being around me too much, and I asked, oh so you mean talking like a person? and he shut up.

Next, the hick bastard officer is just like squirting in his pants, going "o yea baby this car is mine, oh yea, the paperwork will all be through in three days, and one of my detectives will be driving it." It's like yea look at me dealing bricks of cocaine and heroin... wtf? They're gonna seize my car? At this point, I thought it couldn't get any more ludicrous, but it does. The hick cop was apparently the head of the drug force, and has been so for twelve years. You figure he might know something about drugs... SOMETHING. Then he tries telling me that the substances I was allegedly in possession of with intent to sell are as bad as heroin. Marijuana is as bad as heroin... right pal. I don't know if he thought I was an ignoramus, or if it was just his lack of intelligence due to centuries of inbreeding? When I question him about the marijuana and heroin comparison, he goes, well, it's as bad as ecstasy... Yet another awesome comparison, Sitting under a bridge, in the nod, broken dirty needle in your arm, just drooling all over... or dancing and being happy at a club or concert.. ignorance runs rampart in the worst places.

Then he tells me I have a problem with society. Here I was thinking that society might have a problem with me due to the fact that they have declared a war on me.

So that was last night. Today I call the vice and they tell me they are definately seizing my car along with all my property. So, you know, all my GD cd's, live phish 1-20 (those weren't even mine), blue floyd cd's, schoolbooks, school notebooks, just loads of shit that was chilling in my car that they have no business even touching because I am not a drugdealer. These fucking swine tell me that the amount I am accused of possession is enough for them to seize my car.. I don't even know the amounts they accused me of having yet as I haven't had a chance to see the police report.. I had like 30 bucks of my own money in my pocket, and i am driving a kia, with a smashed window and broken blinkers... YEA I'M FUCKING BLING BLINGING OVER HERE YOU WHORES. You would swear I was selling bricks of heroin to twelve year old girls in a friendly suburban neighborhood by what they were able to seize. I mean, seriously, the war on drugs is a bit out of hand.

As soon as I am done with this bs, probation, jail, fines whatever, I am fucking out of this shitty country. I used to think I was born in the wrong generation, but now it's clear I am in the wrong country.

Fuck the war on drugs.

 

Wow, after all that, you should call amnesty international!

I mean: man, you have rights! You live in a country that claims to be the birthplace of modern democracy, modern civil rights and freedom for everyone.
I´m shaking my head and pray, that such wild-west-methods will never appear here in Germany.

P.S.: Tell this story to Michael Moore. Sounds like excellent stuff for a new movie...

 

That's fucking ridiculous. Exactly how much cannabis did you have? I believe if you have less than a half-ounce you can't be charged with intent to distribute, nor can your property be seized (other than the weed, of course.)

Your best bet, though, is to go to the stop sign in question and take a picture from the spot where your car was driving through when the incident occoured. If you can prove that the sign was in fact obstructed from plain view, then the court has no choice other than to drop the possession/intent charges due to unreasonable search and seizure.

 

I am accused of having a pretty fat sack in my possession.. over 30 grams probably of what can only be described as a high grade green leafy substance. The kicker is that they aren't gonna try to get me with intent on the green... they're gonna try to get me on the rolls I am accused of having, beccause mdma holds a stiffer penalty... the city I live in is a major distribution point for heroin, and it pisses me off that these guys are going out of their way over me, I am not a drug dealer. They're wasting tons of money over me in court costs and yadda yadda, and I am not going to snitch. I have no doubt this will only make them very angry, but I refuse to sink to the level of the swine of babylon by snitching.

Yea, this is what I am probably going to do, as soon as I mentioned it to someone I knew they told me a branch is blocking that stop sign as is, and at night people park ILLEGALLY too close to the curb. I'm hoping this will get the search thrown out.

 

damn man the cops down here are worse than that, but that's still pretty fucked up.

 

That's the problem man, America claims to be a lot of things that it isn't, including the land of the 'free.' How free am I if I can't do what I want with my own body? I'd say it's more appropriate to call this shithole the land of fear.

What gets me too is that there is nothing modern about the mode of thinking when it comes to these fascists meant to 'protect' us. Jesus Christ, if you knew me IRL you'd laugh if someone claimed they needed protection from me.

 

One thing I forgot to mention to add to the disgust: last night they kept my house key, my phone, my money, and my license. So I couldn't go home last night, I couldn't use my phone to call any of my friends, I had no money to make a payphone call, collect calls only go to land lines, and today I thought I wouldn't be able to get the money out of the bank that I need to pay my bills. I call them today, tell this secretary the deal and she says she will tell the officer and he'll call me. Instead of calling, he is just like "I don't have his license" and leaves for the day. Apparently no one down there can get me MY FUCKING HOUSE KEYS AND MY IDENTIFICATION. Fuck dude this shit isn't even property really, it's shit I NEED. Luckily ONE of my friends has a landline phone and she is usually home and eventually picked up the collect calls last night. One of the cashiers at the bank today recognized me, and actually let me slide without the picture identification... this is very rare, and this guy is the man for helping me out.

 

Unless they're charging you with DWI/DUI, they have absolutely no right to take your identification. I'd go ahead and the find best lawyer you know and drill the asshole while you've got the chance. If you let him get away with this, the other police will think that you'll rollover whenever they push you around...

 

damn.... that SUCKS.
around here anything under 100g (marijuana) is a fine i believe.
now if you had rolls your fucked, the misinformation surrounding "ecstacy" is rediculous.

 

I'm pretty sure that if you get caught with ANY amount of mary jane they have the right to seize your car. Absolute bullshit, yes...but it's the merry old law of the land.

 

It varies from state to state, but generally there's an amount up to somewhere between 1/4-ounce and a 1/2-ounce that's simple possession and is nothing more than a ticket, and anything above that amount can carry possession /w intent, as well as trafficking if found on a person in a vehicle...

 

shit man, thats fucked up. thats wrong that they still have your license, keys, and money. i see that your location says MA, what city are you in...so that i can avoid driving through, if i ever have to for some reason.

i hope this works out though.

 

Lowell, MA, where the head of the drug force believes heroin is just as bad as mdma. Seriously, most of the heroin and cocaine in the area is from lowell and lawrence, not just little shit either... I hope they sleep tight knowing they took a 'criminal' off the streets rofl.

 

sucks man, i got busted with a half oz of grass the day after 4/20.... the cop was a real asshole, i was sitting in the passenger seat of a car and he saw about a fingernails worth of a ziplock bag sticking out of my pocket... reached in and took it, told me to get out then slammed me on the car and shit like i was gonna run on him, but he didnt even give me a ticket... just took the pot, my bowl, and my 10 dollar bill.

 

i shoulda known...fucking lowell. i've heard stories of them trying to seize cars and other shit over a joint.

sorry about that man

 

Well, they call it "law"...
IMHO, the US of A should forget about all those stars and stripes and use a pirate flag in the future!

 

I thought pigs in England were bad........ I was wrong

 

These fucking whores still have my license, my house keys, my phone, etc. It takes me days to get a hold of the fucking officer, when I did last night he told me to call in today to talk to the secretary to go to the towing place to get the shit out of my car... I been calling since 8 am mad times, right now it has been ringing on the speakerphone for like a few minutes... I'm just gonna let it ring til someone picks up. I'm seriously about to flip a fucking gasket here, I need my fucking license considering I am going to be driving part of the way to bonnaroo. I also need it to withdraw money from my bank account to pay my fucking lawyer and money I need for the trip.

 

So I call up the main number for the lowell police.. all they do is put me through to the same number where no one picks up. So I call back again and tell them they can't just put me through to that number, no one picks up, my license and house keys are in my seized car and they haven't let me get them in days.. they tell me too bad I have to wait for the officer to be in the office... dude he fucking TOLD ME TO CALL IN TODAY DURING THE DAY... this is the type of shit that causes people to fucking LOSE IT in response to the complete lack of logic around them.. this is fucking delirious, I can't go get my license and HOUSE keys out of my car? YOU GOTTA BE SHITTING ME!?! WHy does the officer have to be there? He told me to speak to the fucking secretary anyways.

 

Some advice from one who knows:

lose the self-righteous, poor-little-me-it's-all-so-unfair attitude.

The judge will hang you for it.

And blow off the lost items. The cop will tell the judge you're harrassing him.

You played and lost- Unless you can get the whole thing thrown out- time to pay.