Trouble With The Police And Your Pipe

[lawdawg]

A couple years ago I got pulled over for a tail light being out, on my work lunch break. I was smoking a cigarette, and as he looked at my id, here asked me if I smoked tobacco. I looked at him strangely, and said yes. He then proceeded to ask me what kind. So I told him cigarettes, cigars, and pipes.

I looked down at my pipe in the cup holder and said " oh you mean this?" He nodded. I told him he could smell it if he wanted to.

He put his entire nose in the bowl, took a long deep smell, and gave it back. He thanked me for being so polite and easy to work with. Told me about my tail light and sent me on my way.

If only they knew how extremely discerning most of us are as to what style of tobacco we’ll put in any given pipe... let alone weed! I mean who wants the ghost of a skunk in one of their briars.

 

[Tommy Boy]

Thanks to all the men and women that serve and protect us in all forms for far less respect and money than they deserve ( cops, firefighters,EMTs....) They put it on the line to protect ALL of us even the ungrateful twats that will call in 5 seconds when stuff hits the fan and they need real help.

 

[Richmond B. Funkenhouser]

so I guess we all agree..? Thanks to the good cops, no thanks to the bad ones?

It's really that simple. That's what I've read here. Good cops aren't good, If they take up for the bad ones.

 

[Jaylotw]

I’ve had a game warden ask me every question in the book about my pipe, he was genuinely curious and it was a nice conversation. He said, “I didn’t know people did that still.” I had to report something to the small town cops where I live, and they said, “you’re the guy who smokes a pipe out on the porch, right?” It was funny to me. They’re bored I suppose but I felt kinda proud to be identified with it.

When I rolled cigs, I had a few raised eyebrows from cops over the span of 10 years. Tobacco smoke is a different color, and you hold a cig different than a joint.

 

[jhowell]

Tobacco smoke is a different color, and you hold a cig different than a joint.

I learned years ago ('70's) if you hold a joint like a cig no one even gives a second look...

 

[Richmond B. Funkenhouser]

I learned years ago ('70's) if you hold a joint like a cig no one even gives a second look...

Maybe if you're smoking some Reggie Miller. The stuff out there today smells like you set a skunk on fire.

 

[UncleRasta]

I also heard that a group of Karens is called a "Complaint"

A "complaint" of Karens. Priceless.

 

[didimauw]

If only they knew how extremely discerning most of us are as to what style of tobacco we’ll put in any given pipe... let alone weed! I mean who wants the ghost of a skunk in one of their briars.

Omg exactly!

 

[BROBS]

Omg exactly!

I’ve always said this. Also a briar pipe would last like 2 smokes with weed and get all full of tar and clog.

 

[pantsBoots]

Cops are reasonably relaxed here in Oz but something similar happened to me while puffing on my pipe outside a mates house.

A male cop was driving past in a van with four very young female cops, just as I rested my pipe in my lap while seated at a small table.
He stopped the van and sat staring for several minutes while they all gawked at me.

Not that I had anything to worry about but I really don't like being pegged like that by a van full of coppers so eventually I yell out "What?" with a shrug of my shoulders.

The male cop yells out "What are you hiding there?"
By this point I was rather irritated so I stormed up to the van giving him a mouthful, saying that it was obvious why at his age he was still a low ranking constable because he was unable to differentiate between someone minding their own business and an actual crime in progress.

Then when I said if he was trying to impress the young female coppers [most of whom I could then see were probationary police] then he was failing miserably, the female cops all burst out laughing.
"Now piss off before I call your Sgt. you moron."

Poor bugger went bright red not knowing how to respond as I went back to my chair while mumbling unkind words.

You, sir, are a hoot! You couldn't have handled that better. You win the internet in my opinion, today.

 

[anantaandroscoggin]

I remember once ages ago (early '70s) when my cousin took a bunch of blobs of pine pitch, melted them together into one big block, then carefully hand-ground it into a pile of fine white powder (Your pine tree may differ). He then put it in a baggie and shoved it into his car's glove box.

He claimed that if any cop stopped-and-searched his car, he wanted them to get themselves overeager about a potential "cocaine" bust that wasn't.

I don't remember that he ever got this particular wish.

 

[J.Henry845]

I never had issue with a pipe, just curious glances. I have had cops bust my balls for hand rolled cigarettes. I was in line years ago outside a movie theater and was hassled and when I showed the cop my pouch of Drum he sniffed it and said it smelled like shit.

 

[python]

This one has run its course as well.