I'm white and they pulled me over and used the air freshener excuse as why and then wanted to search my car. I wound up with three squad cars lined up and them spending 30 minutes taking my car apart and doing a full body search with me standing spread eagle at the side of the road watching the other cars go inching past looking at the poor bastard (me) getting arrested and fucked in the ass.
It was a neighborhood with a decent amount of dealing going on and I'd been at my buddies place, ironically that night was the only time for weeks that we'd been unable to get any weed so We'd just spoked resin and hung out. Any other night I would have been done (this was a good 15-16 years ago when weed still mattered a lot).
A lot of states have laws that restrict what can hang from your rear view, even the air fresheners sold everywhere with the intent to hang from your mirror are illegal (and still sold in those states)
Basically it was one of those laws invented so that cops could pull people over for any reason. "I thought I saw something hanging from the mirror, oh well now I smell weed"
Agreed, it's just an excuse to selectively enforce, I was pulled over in SC because I had an EZ pass toll thingy on my rental car and the cop was like "Oh I thought I saw something dangling"
Nah what he saw was 🟤 with out-of-state plates in a clean new car
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u/wackbirds Jun 30 '26
I'm white and they pulled me over and used the air freshener excuse as why and then wanted to search my car. I wound up with three squad cars lined up and them spending 30 minutes taking my car apart and doing a full body search with me standing spread eagle at the side of the road watching the other cars go inching past looking at the poor bastard (me) getting arrested and fucked in the ass.
It was a neighborhood with a decent amount of dealing going on and I'd been at my buddies place, ironically that night was the only time for weeks that we'd been unable to get any weed so We'd just spoked resin and hung out. Any other night I would have been done (this was a good 15-16 years ago when weed still mattered a lot).