Funny story for you guys...
About three years ago I was back east living in Providence....At the time I was copping in a neighborhood known for gangs and drugs obviously! A lot of the street there were kind of quiet, with the boarded up 3-4 story tenement houses, and I used to chance getting high in my car all the time back then...I had a system so if anyone did come, I could get rid of everything pretty quick...I would just have my needle, a water bottle, and a q-tip...When I'd cop the gram, I'd open the fresh water, draw up 80 units, roll up a cotton ball, dump about half the gram in the bottle cap..twist the bag back up and put it between my lip and my teeth, mix up really quick and bang! If anyone came, i'd just put the cotton in my mouth, put the cap back on the water and shake it up...Only thing they could find was the needle...
Anyway, I cop one day, throw the dope in the cooker and draw it up....I hear a car coming up from behind me and I look in the rearview and it's a cop just driving up the street...It didn't seem like he saw me or was suspicious, but I got spooked...and I put everything away except for the needle filled with dope...
I start the car and start to drive out of the neighborhood...I turn on to the main road, squeeze my fist, find a vein on the arm I'm steering with and hit the vein while driving up the main road...I look down for a second to make sure I'm still in and all of the sudden I see these flashes out of the corner of my eye! I ran a redlight while I was shooting up and driving....stupid as hell, but I was sick! Anyway, sure enough I get a letter to appear at the traffic tribunal for running a redlight...which is what's weird in RI, certain traffic offenses you have to show up in court!
I go to court and there's this old judge who seems really nice...He's cutting everybody breaks and reducing their fines and shit, but I know that I was shooting up when I ran the light and I'm scared to death! When the judge calls my name he seems all pissed off! I get up there ans he's like, "Mr. BlueHues, I see you like to buy your stuff over on Broad Street!", right in front of everyone in the courtroom...a lot of the people laughed, but I happened to be high that day too in court, and I was scared! He says, "Well, do you have anything to say?" I'm like, "No your honor.." He's like "$325 fine! Next!"....
Now other people that were contesting running the lights, they were showing the video...and you could see everything! I think $325 was higher than what the maximum fine even was, but I'm glad he didn't cue up that video!