cops mistake buckeye leaf for pot symbol

[MichiganMan]

i know ignorance level is high in southern states but wow!

 

http://m.usatoday.com/article/news/1923475?preferredArticleViewMode=single

 

A 65-year-old woman was pulled over by police officers while driving through Tennessee after the officers mistook her car's Buckeye stickers — those commonly seen on the helmets of Ohio State football players — for a marijuana symbol.

 

"It's just amazing they would be that dumb," said Bonnie Jonas-Boggioni, which pretty much sums up this entire story.

 

Jonas-Boggioni and her husband, Giorgio Boggioni, 66, of Plano, Texas, were driving home through Tennessee from Columbus, Ohio, where they had attended a funeral for Jonas-Boggioni's mother.

 

The two were pulled over a few miles east of Memphis, along I-40, and were greeted by a pair of black SUVs containing officers wearing "body armor and guns," Jonas-Boggioni told Joe Blundo of The Columbus Dispatch.

 

"What are you doing with a marijuana sticker on your bumper?" one of the officers asked.

 

That led Jonas-Boggioni and her husband to explain the meaning of the Ohio State sticker, which is given as a reward to OSU players. To help the puzzled officers connect the dots, Boggioni stepped out of the car to show his 2002 national-championship sweatshirt, one "complete with a Buckeye leaf," Blundo wrote.

 

Chagrined, the officers excused the unwarranted stop by explaining that an officer in another jurisdiction had called in a report of the Boggionis' sticker — believing the older couple to be at the forefront of some sort of massive marijuana ring, it seems.

 

[huKSer]

Wait. What?

 

 

 

I thought those stickers on the helmet stood for number of times busted for drugs!

 

 

 

Or maybe they should?

[Flood]

Good thinking by the police . . .

 

I am certain that anyone who is "at the forefront of some sort of massive marijuana ring" would happily advertise the fact with a giant sticker depicting ganja on the mini-van.

 

Wowsers. . . .

[MichiganMan]

Wait. What?

 

 

 

I thought those stickers on the helmet stood for number of times busted for drugs!

 

 

 

Or maybe they should?

or number of cars recieved.

 

[jaws]

Wait. What?

 

 

 

I thought those stickers on the helmet stood for number of times busted for drugs!

 

 

 

Or maybe they should?

or number of cars recieved.

 

Always funny coming from a Michigan fan. Since we are digging into the past, does the name Ed Martin ring a bell? Something about glass houses......

[tschu]

It does look a lot like a marijuana leaf. But having a marijuana leaf bumper sticker is not illegal as far as I know

[Nebraska Alum]

But having a marijuana leaf bumper sticker is not illegal as far as I know

 

Yeah, but that is the way a lot of small town (especially Southern) authorities are. Going 31 in a 30? Pay the 100 dollar fine. That's where their salary comes from.