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Gumby
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Give someone a ride and they end up having drugs on them
#18932033 - 10/04/13 04:34 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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So I went in for my physical for the new job today then afterwards hit up the local Irish pub that I frequent for food and a few beers. Some of my usual friends are there and there's this guy from the art community in Newark that I haven't seen in YEARS. He was really talkative, although he was talking kinda slow and slurred. I just assumed he was drunk and stoned.
So a friend of mine volunteers me to give the guy a ride to Penn Station because he (art guy) seems kinda banged up. We get in my car and he seems chill. We see a cop on a horse about half a block away and he's says "oh shit man, it's a cop, be chill, I got pot on me." Okay, whatever, that's not really a big deal in Newark.
Nope! That's not all folks. I get a block and a half away and the dude starts fucking nodding out. Like hardcore. I had to make some defensive city driving moves because it was rush hour and the guy's head is flopping around all over the place.
As unfortunate and shitty as it is, racial profiling is alive and well in Newark. This guy is a black guy with dreads. I know at LEAST 5 people in Newark that have been pulled over when a white guy is driving and a black guy is in the passenger seat. Especially when they are dressed differently (I was wearing a polo and he was wearing a hoodie). Cops assume it's a drug deal. The guy nodding out wouldn't hurt a fly, but just because a white guy and a black guy are in the same car they assume something shady is going down.
If I would have been pulled over I could have lost this new job and building my career would have come to a halt for a while. The art guy would have been fucked too, and he just started a new job as well.
I let the friend who volunteered me for a ride know what happened and he sincerely apologized, said he had no idea he was holding or was on heroin (or oxy, same thing). I told him to never put me position like that again. I was not a happy camper.
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Re: Give someone a ride and they end up having drugs on them [Re: Gumby]
#18932075 - 10/04/13 04:44 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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Maybe tell anyone you're giving a ride to, to put anything they have in the glove box and lock it? Shitty that its even an issue, and that you'd have to be that upfront about it, but what can you do?
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Gumby
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Re: Give someone a ride and they end up having drugs on them [Re: pcplease] 9
#18932090 - 10/04/13 04:47 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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No, I'm just gonna straight up tell anyone from now on that if they have drugs on them, no ride. Period. I'm too old and have too much on the line to deal with any kind of bullshit drug charges now. I made it through my teenage years and early 20s without any charges or close calls, I'm not about to start now.
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Re: Give someone a ride and they end up having drugs on them [Re: Gumby]
#18932117 - 10/04/13 04:52 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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Shit dude, that fucking sucks.
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Re: Give someone a ride and they end up having drugs on them [Re: Gumby]
#18932121 - 10/04/13 04:53 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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Yeah, this is why I'm not cool with giving people rides or getting rides to shroomery gatherings. No offense to any of you awesome, cool, laid back people, but I know you've got stuff on you.
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Re: Give someone a ride and they end up having drugs on them [Re: pcplease] 4
#18932123 - 10/04/13 04:53 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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My neighbor and friend whom I've known for about 4 years now seriously tried to bang some sort of pill (think he called it opana or something) in my truck at a wal-mart parking lot last week.... I told him not to do that shit in my truck in broad daylight, but he was like duhhh it's ok man I do it all the time, look there aren't any cops around etc. etc.. Well, he used my friggin' seat belt to tie off and started to do the deed despite my protests (people were driving and walking all around.... it's wal-mart) but then I was like hell no man I just said no! so I left him there. Fuck those people man, they have no respect.
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Re: Give someone a ride and they end up having drugs on them [Re: Dreaming Nomad]
#18932146 - 10/04/13 04:59 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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Nothings worse than having high minors in your car, last year i was picking up a homie to go to the dispensary and he brought his friend who turned out to be a sophomore in highschool.
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Re: Give someone a ride and they end up having drugs on them [Re: Fuckspice]
#18932158 - 10/04/13 05:02 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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Re: Give someone a ride and they end up having drugs on them [Re: Konyap]
#18932171 - 10/04/13 05:06 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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Don't let your "friend" volunteer for yourself in the future, if it was so important to him, why didn't he give the dude a ride?
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Re: Give someone a ride and they end up having drugs on them [Re: Konyap]
#18932201 - 10/04/13 05:18 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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Quote:
Illyabo said: White
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Re: Give someone a ride and they end up having drugs on them [Re: Fuckspice]
#18932221 - 10/04/13 05:22 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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I just don't tell the driver. Plausible "I don't know a fucken thing"
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Re: Give someone a ride and they end up having drugs on them [Re: dark3st]
#18932282 - 10/04/13 05:35 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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That pisses me off. I was giving my hookup a ride downtown once and he comes in the car all nodded the fuck out waving his syringe around the window Stuff like that was pretty frequent. Leaving weed baggies lying next to the window, holding bags of ketamine in plain view, pulling his scale out to weigh some molly when we're in a packed parking lot... I don't like people having drugs in my car against my knowledge, and if they do they need to keep it hidden on their person
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Re: Give someone a ride and they end up having drugs on them [Re: JacksonMetaller]
#18932300 - 10/04/13 05:37 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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I had a friend like that people that do that are pretty bipolar in my experiance
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Re: Give someone a ride and they end up having drugs on them [Re: Gumby] 2
#18933254 - 10/04/13 09:17 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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I gave some stinky feral a lift once, pretended to be a LEO and confiscated his shitty weed. He actually thanked me for not tuning him in too.
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Re: Give someone a ride and they end up having drugs on them [Re: Dawks]
#18933351 - 10/04/13 09:39 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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Re: Give someone a ride and they end up having drugs on them [Re: SoreSpore]
#18933411 - 10/04/13 09:52 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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how do you conclude that you get in trouble for giving a ride to a guy whos on drugs and has drugs? you didn't do anything wrong.
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Re: Give someone a ride and they end up having drugs on them [Re: Gumby]
#18933430 - 10/04/13 09:54 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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Next time do a pupil check. Anything relatively benign like alcohol or mar-who-auna wont affect dialation.
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Re: Give someone a ride and they end up having drugs on them [Re: Gumby]
#18933434 - 10/04/13 09:54 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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you call that a close call?
i doubt you would have gotten in trouble if you were pulled over. you could have said the guy was a friend of yours and he was drunk and you were just giving him a lift to his home. no big deal. and if they did end up searching you and your bud maybe only your bud would have gotten in trouble. because well you had no knowledge of any drugs whatsoever. 
as long it isn't hidden in YOUR car you should be in the clear..
i agree though that we should always be careful who we give rides to and it doesn't hurt to ask them if they are holding before doing so.
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Re: Give someone a ride and they end up having drugs on them [Re: zZZz]
#18933448 - 10/04/13 09:58 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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Quote:
berdinwall said: how do you conclude that you get in trouble for giving a ride to a guy whos on drugs and has drugs? you didn't do anything wrong.
All it takes is this guy throwing the drugs underneath the seats and not claiming them to fuck Gumby.
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Re: Give someone a ride and they end up having drugs on them [Re: Gumby] 2
#18933479 - 10/04/13 10:08 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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Gumby said: So I went in for my physical for the new job today then afterwards hit up the local Irish pub that I frequent for food and a few beers. Some of my usual friends are there and there's this guy from the art community in Newark that I haven't seen in YEARS. He was really talkative, although he was talking kinda slow and slurred. I just assumed he was drunk and stoned.
So a friend of mine volunteers me to give the guy a ride to Penn Station because he (art guy) seems kinda banged up. We get in my car and he seems chill. We see a cop on a horse about half a block away and he's says "oh shit man, it's a cop, be chill, I got pot on me." Okay, whatever, that's not really a big deal in Newark.
Nope! That's not all folks. I get a block and a half away and the dude starts fucking nodding out. Like hardcore. I had to make some defensive city driving moves because it was rush hour and the guy's head is flopping around all over the place.
As unfortunate and shitty as it is, racial profiling is alive and well in Newark. This guy is a black guy with dreads. I know at LEAST 5 people in Newark that have been pulled over when a white guy is driving and a black guy is in the passenger seat. Especially when they are dressed differently (I was wearing a polo and he was wearing a hoodie). Cops assume it's a drug deal. The guy nodding out wouldn't hurt a fly, but just because a white guy and a black guy are in the same car they assume something shady is going down.
If I would have been pulled over I could have lost this new job and building my career would have come to a halt for a while. The art guy would have been fucked too, and he just started a new job as well.
I let the friend who volunteered me for a ride know what happened and he sincerely apologized, said he had no idea he was holding or was on heroin (or oxy, same thing). I told him to never put me position like that again. I was not a happy camper.
So you say the cops suspect something shady is going on when there is a white dude and a black dreadlock dude.
And you were a white guy with a black dreadlock guy, and something shady was going on.
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