• titanicx@lemmy.zip
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    6 hours ago

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

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    10 hours 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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    6 hours ago

    My friend’s dad had a kegerator built into his truck. Tap was in the center console.

    He’s either dead or still driving tow trucks.

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    11 hours 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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      Extremely unresponsible to be driving under the influence of hard drugs. If someone is going to be smoking meth and fentanyl, they should at least have the reason to not be driving.

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        I mean… it didn’t say he was smoking anything but weed out of the bong… probably but FFS, how about the 99 priors??? How was this asshole even behind the wheel of a vehicle? This stinks of a CI.

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          The article said there was fentanyl, meth, and heroin. I’d guess that he wasn’t just transporting it.

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            I’m not saying he wasn’t using a bit of himself. I’m just saying a bong is typically used to smoke weed. Given the potency of Fentanyl I doubt he was just casually sprinkling a bit on top for flavor 😝

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    11 hours ago

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

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        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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      Thank god I am not the only one to immediately catch that. What that pig attempted was FUCKING DANGEROUS.

      And then another pig on the radio is heard giving clear instructions to not attempt unless below 70(mph). Still with plenty of other vehicles on the roads…

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        How else you going to live out your badass road warrior fantasies??

        Fucken dunce…

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      This whole chase was idiotic. Poor pit maneuver. Chasing suspect through traffic and intersections.

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    11 hours 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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      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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        A bit shortsighted no?

        The whole punative system is shit and should be changed rather drastically.