Trouble With The Police And Your Pipe

[Richmond B. Funkenhouser]

Has anyone had trouble with the police, while smoking your tobacco pipe? Any misunderstanding about what you're smoking in it?

Years ago.. and it's funny how as you age, you have fewer interactions with them at all.. but years ago I was put in handcuffs and searched with a dog, because I had some grape White Owls in tubes. I was detained for paraphernalia.. then released after the dog failed to find my stash.

Yes, that's a joke.. about the stash.

 

[Elric]

Well, grape White Owls are almost contraband.

 

[cosmicfolklore]

They should have bludgeoned ya, just for having a grape flavored cigar.

I answered this on that other post, but when I used to roll my own cigarettes, I've had to hand many a cigarette to an officer to have him smell it. I have had issues with officers pulling me over and asking me to extinguish my pipe, while not really understanding how to "put a pipe out" which caused me some headache. (I made a post about this last year). But, I look like an old man, (I am an old man) so if they see me with a pipe and my straw hat, they rarely ever ask me anything.

 

[BROBS]

nah I mean maybe if you were smoking a tiny little pipe and taking puffs and hiding it.. but if you're smoking a normal briar pipe and someone thinks there's weed in there they are beyond obtuse.

 

[cosmicfolklore]

The police are like dogs, in that when they see someone run, hide something, or look suspicious in any way, they'll take chase to it. If you are just smoking away, while making eye contact with a policeman, they most likely wont do anything... unless they want to know more about the pipesmoking hobby.

 

[BROBS]

The police are like dogs, in that when they see someone run, hide something, or look suspicious in any way, they'll take chase to it. If you are just smoking away, while making eye contact with a policeman, they most likely wont do anything... unless they want to know more about the pipesmoking hobby.

exactly. nothing to hide here

 

[Tommy Boy]

nah I mean maybe if you were smoking a tiny little pipe and taking puffs and hiding it.. but if you're smoking a normal briar pipe and someone thinks there's weed in there they are beyond obtuse.

No problems for me. There is no hiding the smell of weed being hot boxed in a car out of a pipe, bong or roll your own. Ill just stick to pipe tobaccos. Although probably get way more police attention driving with a 3 ft bong in a car.

 

[Richmond B. Funkenhouser]

I think they leave me alone in my town because they just dont know what to make of me.. I'm walking confusion. 300lb man in a muddy 90's model Camry, a 2ft beard and a corn cob pipe, or a cigar.. leaving a cloud of oil smoke, while driving my sexy wife around.

But sometimes I fear I'm turning into Uncle Buck.

Here's me this morning taking my son to school.

 

[mso489]

In the present climate, it occurs to me that there has always been something a little off, or worse, with law enforcement, acknowledging that it is one of the hardest jobs in the world, and even harder to do well. Even in my twenties, in the Navy, I'd go walking in Long Beach, along the beach, just to air out my brains from the claustrophobia of shipboard life. Cops stopped me on the beach, because I wasn't in a social group but just walking along. I patiently explained my situation, and I think I showed them my military i.d., and they didn't detain me long, but it felt like trouble brewing. They could have invented anything and matched me with any crime over past years. As a teen, I was stopped several times for my interest in the design of automobiles; any seventeen year old qualifies as a car thief. Anyone who is independent, introspective, and a little imaginative should maybe memorize the phone number of a good lawyer.

 

[BROBS]

I think they leave me alone in my town because they just dont know what to make of me.. I'm walking confusion. 300lb man in a muddy 90's model Camry, a 2ft beard and a corn cob pipe, or a cigar.. leaving a cloud of oil smoke, while driving my sexy wife around.

But sometimes I fear I'm turning into Uncle Buck.

Here's me this morning taking my son to school.

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[Chasing Embers]

We had a member here a few years ago that had their pipe broken by a cop because the cop insisted he was smoking marijuana in it, but no issues myself.

 

[cosmicfolklore]

We had a member here a few years ago that had their pipe broken by a cop because the cop insisted he was smoking marijuana in it

I must have missed that thread. But, if that had happened to me, I would have gone full-on Karen, and marched right down to the police station demanding his supervisor review that body cam, along with a print out of how much that pipe cost.

 

[BROBS]

I must have missed that thread. But, if that had happened to me, I would have gone full-on Karen, and marched right down to the police station demanding his supervisor review that body cam, along with a print out of how much that pipe cost.

I agree. Also they have real shit to worry about here besides a pipe. Shit.. I've seen cops here look at kids smoking blunts and keep driving. When people are getting shot in the face some things don't matter.

 

[Chasing Embers]

I must have missed that thread. But, if that had happened to me, I would have gone full-on Karen, and marched right down to the police station demanding his supervisor review that body cam, along with a print out of how much that pipe cost.

IIRC, the story went that the cop could tell he was smoking tobacco but stated that he couldn't be for sure that the pipe hasn't been used for marijuana or that it would be again. I'll see if I can find it.

What's Karen?

 

[cosmicfolklore]

What's Karen?

Karen is hip-lip the kids are all using for a bitch that just has to talk to the manager... especially when it involves employees who make minimum wage or less. "I'd like to talk to your manager, NOW!"

 

[Chasing Embers]

Karen is hip-lip the kids are all using for a bitch that just has to talk to the manager... especially when it involves employees who make minimum wage or less. "I'd like to talk to your manager, NOW!"

Wow, everything has to have a label now.

 

[cosmicfolklore]

Wow, everything has to have a label now.

Yeh, it makes it easier to discuss if it has a name. I guess... like we call all addled brained doofuses on here, Cosmics.

 

[peregrinus]

Ha!
I live in the Seattle area. Here, pipe tobacco is a rigorously regulated substance, difficult to buy at times, illegal to import and heavily taxed. It is generally unlawful to smoke it any place in public or near near the general population.
Locoweed on the other hand is widely available at well stocked retail stores.. People strolling down the street, blunts in hand, get no special attention.
Soon we may be forced to fill Swisher Sweets with Capstan Blue just to blend in with the general population.

 

[Chasing Embers]

Glad I live where I do. Walk down the street, driving, and sitting at my desk at work with a pipe lit and no one bats an eye.

 

[Chasing Embers]

Yeh, it makes it easier to discuss if it has a name. I guess... like we call all addled brained doofuses on here, Cosmics.

I think I've gotten too old for modern times.