Today was a surprisingly eventful day. Normally I’d be happy about this; I’ve been dying for something even remotely interesting to happen lately, but this wasn’t eventful in a good way.
The day started off normal, got up, took my shower, went to school. Around 11, my cousin and his girlfriend came and got me so I could go with them to the reserve to get cigarettes. The ride up was normal, we made chit chat, rocked out to some Dream Theater, stopped to get coffee and use the facilities when necessary. All good, a fun two and a half hour drive.
It was on the way back when things got interesting.
We stopped to get gas before heading back. Everything was good, and we pulled out into an 80 zone, going 80. About thirty seconds after leaving said gas station, we were pulled over by an officer of the law. According to this officer, we were doing 80 in a 50 zone; 30 over the speed limit. This wasn’t true, but whatever. We tried to explain this to him to no avail. While trying to explain this to him, he just so happened to look into the back seat of the car at me. Sitting beside me were the cigs we had just bought. 14 bags, 200 in each.
Apparently, the law states that each person can’t have more than 200 on them at any time, otherwise its contraband and its assumed you have them with the intention to traffic.
Well, shit.
So he tells us we’re being detained, so we sit. We wait. He comes back, asks for the cigs and tells us he’s taking them. My cousin, the driver, doesn’t really care about the cigs; None of us do. We’re more worried about the whole trafficking charge that he can easily lay on us, taking us all the jail. But, my cousin had just happened to tell the officer that the cigs were for him and his parents. Which means his girlfriend and myself were free to go. Obviously we didn’t; Really, where the hell were we suppose to go, 2 hours from home?
Anyway. The officer came back after having put the cigs in his car, and he asked for my name and the girls name. Rutine crap. After giving him our names, he explained that he was just waiting for the sarge to come with some paper work, and then we could go.
About a minute later he came back, and he pulled me out of the car.
“Ever been arrested?” “Yeah.” “What for?” “Careless use of a dangerous weapon.” “Really?” “Yup.” “Got any scars on your body?” “Uh…One on my knee, why?”
“Theres a warrant out for your arrest.”
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What!?
I guess the birthday was a couple days different on the warrant, so he let me go, no worries. But seriously, what the hell? Looks like someone is using my name to engage in criminal activity. I’m not cool with that, I’m the only one with my name that can engage in criminal activities, dammit. If I’m going to be heading off to fail, I want to at least be guilty of the crime.
So my cousin got off with a $250 speeding ticket, even though he wasn’t speeding. He was also out $130, his girlfriend $80, and me $40.
After that, I went and bought Rock Band and Oblivion. Been rocking out ever since.
