• Optional@lemmy.world
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    25 days ago

    Inside the truck officers found a “custom bong device built into the dash of the truck so he could comfortably smoke drugs while driving”. Meth, heroin, and fentanyl were also discovered, as well as the stolen items.

    The driver of the truck had 97 prior arrests. He is facing charges of DUI, eluding, and possession of narcotics. The passenger was turned over to Centralia PD for organized retail theft.

    Goddamn dude

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      24 days ago

      97 prior arrests sounds like police harrassment, not illegal behavior.

      logic this through with me. if he’d been convicted, there would be a hell of a lot fewer arrests.

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        25 days ago

        Under other circumstances, I might agree with you, but the guy built a bong into his dashboard.

        That’s an impressive level of commitment to DUI.

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          24 days ago

          it’s not convictions, it’s arrests. after i’d been arrested (not convicted) 60 times, fuck obeying the law. the social contract broke.

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    25 days ago

    I am pissed off that I watched that video, and they didn’t show the damn dash bong.

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      25 days ago

      yeah, i can think of a few rigs that are pretty easy to slap together but like, i’m stealing your rims if you want me to do that. and your distributor. fuck driving inebriated, i’ll build you a hotbox but not a rolling one.

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    25 days ago

    What if, hear me out, you confiscated the car at any of the previous 95 stops?

    Oh yeah this is America so it will make it impossible for you to live… You know what, in that scenario dash bong seems totally reasonable.

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      25 days ago

      Somehow, we manage to have the problem of assholes like this racking up dozens upon dozens of priors with (obviously) ineffective punishment and would-be productive citizens languishing with long prison sentences for trivial offenses at the same time.

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        24 days ago

        I remember them shooting at a hijacked FedEx truck
        It couldn’t go fast anyway, had a tracker and was stuck in traffic with cars everywhere.
        It was going nowhere.
        No negotiating or thinking, the cops just started firing.
        They killed everyone in the truck (driver/victim also) and at least 1 (or more if I remember correctly) of the unlucky commuters in the line of fire.

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    25 days ago

    Reminds me of a story I heard like 20-30 years ago. Some German dude wrecked his Merc on the autobahn… the cops get there and he just wreaks of schnapps but they find no bottles, no means of consumption. The car gets towed to a police station to be examined and they found that he had diverted the window washing tank into the cabin, dude wants a pug of schnapps and he hits his window washer button.

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    25 days ago

    Dumbass cop was about to pitt maneuver this truck into an innocent car.

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        25 days ago

        Or, as is commonly done elsewhere, get their plates and a photo, and drop by their house later (unless they’re an active threat to public safety of course).

        This is literally the SOP in a lot of other countries: You don’t chase someone in a vehicle unless you absolutely have to. You rather just identify them and apprehend them at a later point.

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          Haha! You fell into the trap of my nuclear powered hyper bike! I never have to stop! Bwahahaha! Man, I gotta take a dump tho, fr.

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                just put a hole in the seat with some electric scissors (so i guess nuclear powered snippers) to slice off dingleberries. just, uh, if you’ve got some bait and tackle and don’t want the at-home forcefemming don’t forget to grab your gaff