HerrSchnaufer
Bluelighter
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- May 13, 2009
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OK, so a friend and I are in his car, just turning around in the road (we were facing the wrong direction), and a police car sneaks up behind us. Follows us for a while (long enough to do a vehicle check and see that the owner has previous warnings related to cannabis, and was recently (last month) busted with 17 cannabis plants in his closet), and puts the lights on as we pull into a petrol station.
They tell us they've pulled us over because my friend pulled away a little quickly when he turned around. Of course, by this time they've had a snoop about and a smell in the car. Next thing, we're being given stop and search notices because the car smelt like what the police officer believed to be cannabis.
Thankfully, neither of us actually had anything substantial on us. My friend had various bits of paraphernalia - king skins, blunt wraps, empty baggies, he also had a set of scales he'd not used in the back, and because he's lost his wallet and practically lives out of his car, he had about £300 cash tucked away in a DVD case (of course this looks really bad, but it genuinely isn't linked to drugs at all).
So he's now been whisked off to the police station on suspicion of money laundering with possible drug links. I'm not too worried about that, the worst they can do him for is possession (and that's only if they can really be bothered to go to the effort of confirming the tiny trace amounts of cannabis in the baggies are infact cannabis), especially once they see that he's withdrawn the money from his bank account a few days prior, and has been spending small amounts since.
What bothers me is that in all of this, they've also seized my Macbook because there was "white residue" on the lid. Now, I do partake every now and again, but on the lid of my shiny new macbook? Fuck off. I don't even skin up on my macbook.
I've been told I'm allowed it back when they finish their investigation, and any subsequent investigations that may come of this one. I'm just curious as to whether anyone knows how long this sort of stuff generally takes? (I'm in the UK) Are we talking days, weeks, months? I'm sure they could prolong the process considerably if they wanted to, but we were both polite, considerate and cooperative throughout.
It's just so irritatingly pathetic. "White residue". Argh.
They tell us they've pulled us over because my friend pulled away a little quickly when he turned around. Of course, by this time they've had a snoop about and a smell in the car. Next thing, we're being given stop and search notices because the car smelt like what the police officer believed to be cannabis.
Thankfully, neither of us actually had anything substantial on us. My friend had various bits of paraphernalia - king skins, blunt wraps, empty baggies, he also had a set of scales he'd not used in the back, and because he's lost his wallet and practically lives out of his car, he had about £300 cash tucked away in a DVD case (of course this looks really bad, but it genuinely isn't linked to drugs at all).
So he's now been whisked off to the police station on suspicion of money laundering with possible drug links. I'm not too worried about that, the worst they can do him for is possession (and that's only if they can really be bothered to go to the effort of confirming the tiny trace amounts of cannabis in the baggies are infact cannabis), especially once they see that he's withdrawn the money from his bank account a few days prior, and has been spending small amounts since.
What bothers me is that in all of this, they've also seized my Macbook because there was "white residue" on the lid. Now, I do partake every now and again, but on the lid of my shiny new macbook? Fuck off. I don't even skin up on my macbook.
I've been told I'm allowed it back when they finish their investigation, and any subsequent investigations that may come of this one. I'm just curious as to whether anyone knows how long this sort of stuff generally takes? (I'm in the UK) Are we talking days, weeks, months? I'm sure they could prolong the process considerably if they wanted to, but we were both polite, considerate and cooperative throughout.
It's just so irritatingly pathetic. "White residue". Argh.