About four years ago I had gotten into shooting crack, and me and a fellow patient at an outpatient rehab, decided to cop some and get high. I took him down to Washington square park (I had copped here prior, shady fucking place), and entered the park, and began enquiring as to where we would be able to purchase some rock. A tall Rastafarian told me that he had me covered, and to meet him back by the entrance of the park. As me and my friend walked I told him to wait for me across the street by a bodega, so he split off, leaving me back at the park entrance. As I waited their some crazy man started screaming at me, making noise about how I was a crackhead. I tried to ignore it.
So after about five minutes, I see the Rastafarian riding his bicycle towards me. I take out my waded twenty dollar bill, and make the exchange. I looked quickly down and saw what looked like crack, wrapped in a heat sealed plastic Baggie. At the time, I didn't "cheek" my drugs, so I just shoved the crack into my pocket and hurried towards my friend. As I reached the corner and was about 20 feet from him, I experienced a strange sense of impending doom, and I said, "I have a bad feeling about all this."
And right as those words left my mouth, five police officers rushed me against a wall, and yanked my hands behind my back. They were screaming "where is it!? WHERE ARE THE DRUGS!!" I didn't have any fight in me, so I told them it was in my right pocket. They reached in and grabbed the little baggie, and started taking down my information. I also saw another cop handcuffing the Rastafarian further up the block.
As I was brought in handcuffs towards the car, the head pig smiled, and dangled the Baggie in the air, and said, "all this, and you were ripped off, this is soap." for some reason I decided to take a chance, and I said, "well look, since it's not really crack, can't you just let me go, and consider all this a misunderstanding?". That obviously didn't work, and I was pushed into the back of a squad car, forced to sit next to the Rastafarian dude who had just ripped me off. He leaned over and whispered to me "listen man, you caught a break, cause I swear that shit is real!" I just closed my eyes and tried to go to sleep.
In the end, the case got dismissed, so in a way, it was actually a blessing that the crack turned out to be fake.