My getting busted in NYC Experience

In 1997 I was working in downtown NYC (manhatten) and me and my bro met up for lunch near the south street seaport, both dressed in suits, we sat on a bench near where the FDR drive starts, we were about half way done with it when this guy who looked like a tourist came over and asked where a bath room was, I started pointing him across the street and he pulled out one of them badge's on a necklace or lanyard and says do you know what this is? and we were like ummm yeah. he asked us for ID and I started trying to get my last toke in and he was like hey stop that! and I was like oops, he chucked over by a garbage can on the floor, then he started to feel guilty and said he was giving us a ticket for smoking marijuana in public and he would let us go but his sergeant sent him and was watching and pointed him out, I was surprised we did not catch him there, then he noticed I kept my eye on the joint on the floor (it was a fatty) and he went over and tore it up and threw it in the garbage. I went court about a month later and the fine should have been somewhere around $80 all together but when I got to court a really old judge was there, I thought I was doomed and at my turn he simply said you were caught smoking marijuana and asked in a real stern voice, are you going to do this again, i said no, he said if I was in there again it would be worse and told me to get out of there, I was a bit relieved that month or so was stressful before the court date.

haha thats funny man... you shouldnt have toked it when he was there or eyed it, then you mightve been able to finish it. good funny read though:thumbsup:

its a good thing you were busted in NY, it's decriminalized under an ounce here

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Originally Posted by pixel

its a good thing you were busted in NY, it's decriminalized under an ounce here

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I know, in NJ it would have been a lot worse.

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Originally Posted by CrAzYcHrIs

really? thats cool because he would have been just as lucky to be in 12 other states too....so i guess nearly 1/4 of the country is a good place to get busted?????

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nice!! which states are those?

i was sitting in the passenger side of a car in the driveway and was smoking a bowl. justa as I took a hit, I look over and theres a patrol car sitting at the stop sign. you know that feeling when all the blood drains from ur head and drops to ur feet! buzz kill dude! turned out the cop was a smoking buddy of a coworker and we smoked out once or twice, so he let me go. whew!!!!!!!!

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Originally Posted by CrAzYcHrIs

really? thats cool because he would have been just as lucky to be in 12 other states too....so i guess nearly 1/4 of the country is a good place to get busted?????

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nowhere is a good place to be busted :D but if you have to be busted, get busted in the north or the west

I attached a screen shot from NORML of a map for the states and some laws, see that tax stamp shit, WTF??

^eh' Pennsylvania sucks

Marijuana Law Reform - NORML

at the upper right hand corner of this link, all state penalties are listed

AK, NY, OH, MAINE are all gentle about pot.

especially AK

perhaps things have changed in NYC after all.
check this thread:
http://boards.cannabis.com/activism/...excessive.html

good cause that shit is mind twisting, I am going to use it as an angle to legalize weed, it can make lots of MONEY, the government might listen if we throw the word MONEY in there!