Can you get arrested for having a scale in your car?

[linearvermin]

My friend and I having been arguing about if having a scale in your car can result in you getting arrested. I don't think you can unless you have weed on you.

linearvermin Reviewed by linearvermin on 12-27-2007. Can you get arrested for having a scale in your car? My friend and I having been arguing about if having a scale in your car can result in you getting arrested. I don't think you can unless you have weed on you. Rating: 5

[akimbo1013]

I don't think you can get arrested just for having some scales (or else they wouldn't be legal to sell) but it is definitely an easy way of getting your car thoroughly searched.

[Markass]

well hopefully if you're carrying scales in your car they're going to be hidden...it's called the plain-sight rule...they can't see anything, they don't have probable cause...

[Mississippi Steve]

yea dude you'd be screwed, best way to go is leave it at home, or find a really good spot in your car where no one would ever look, secret compartment?

Weed and paraphinalia(sp?) and vehicles *DO NOT MIX*. Getting caught with either in your car will most probably get your car impounded an you a trip to jail. If you have a scale and *ANY* amount of weed willo most probably get you busted for "Posession for sale" that in most places is a FELONY.

Don't put yourself in a position where somebody has to *DO* something about it in the first place. What you do in the privacy of *YOUR* own home, is nobody else's business. Anything you do in public is subject to scruteny.

[Myth1184]

Being as I work at a law office, you CAN NOT be arrested for carrying POSTAL scales in your car, it only gives the cops probable cause to search. Digital Scales however will give you a 1 way trip to jail.

[in5an3ni99a]

Where im from you can because its drug paraphernalia.
I dunno if you have to have weed with you or not.

[Mississippi Steve]

If you have a legitimate reason for carrying a scale in your vehicle, its not a problem. I carry a scale in my truck for weighing refrigerant cans.

If your just cruising around with a triple beam balance on the dash, thats kinda stoopid because your *ADVERTISING* to the world that something isn't quite right.

Do yourself a favor and keep all of the weed and paraphenalia out of the car. Don't put yourself in a position where somebody has to *DO* something about it.

[Smurph]

If nothing else, I'm sure that the scale will be plenty enough reasonable cause to search your car (whether you want him or her to or not). If they find as much as a seed, your car gets impounded and could get taken away.

I don't see how a scale could be incriminating since there are now laws prohibiting possession of scales.

But to be on the safe side, if you don't absolutely need them at the place you're going, take 'em inside.

[linearvermin]

Thanks for the help everyone. I don't actually ever take it out of my house for those reasons. My friend was the one who started this post and so far it looks like I was right haha. I mean...what does an 18 year old need a scale in his car for?

[The51stAgent]

my friend got busted with one, but he had quite a bit of other things on him, but he told me that its automatically intent to sell or whatever.But if you made enough of a case and it was clean I really can't imagine that you'd get in trouble.Couldn't you just say that your friend is a jeweler or something?