Can you tell the difference between crystal meth and
spaghetti sauce?
Apparently this was beyond the wits of certain members of
the police force in Gainesville, Florida, in October 2014. As reported in the
Gainesville Times, a woman driver was pulled over by a traffic cop who noticed
a spoon on the shelf of the car. He immediately suspected that this had been
used for the ingesting of crystal meth and promptly arrested the driver for a
drugs violation.
The lady in question protested that she had never used drugs
in her life and that the residue on the spoon was not methamphetamine but
something far less harmful, namely a tomato-based spaghetti sauce from the
takeaway meal she been eating shortly before she was pulled over.
One might assume that such a simple mistake could have been
sorted out in double-quick time, but that is apparently not the way things are
done in Gainesville. Instead, the driver was locked up in the county jail for
six weeks while the crime lab performed its analysis and reported back.
When the report was made she was released without charge
with her account of events being fully confirmed. However, that was six weeks
of her life taken away that she would never get back – let’s hope that the
Gainesville Police Department ended up paying her a substantial sum in compensation!
© John Welford
Glad I don't live in Florida..sheesh..Poor women
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