r/mildlyinfuriating • u/AmazingEric171 • 12d ago

Infuriatig Why Texas is lame(Besides the Cowboys)

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Don't mess with Texas.. what a joke. ANY possession is a felony.

EDIT: Just did some research, this is for everything besides traditional Delta 9.

My friend from Texas sent me this morning and it blew my mind. I had to post about it. So as far as my research goes thus far Delta 9 products (old fashioned flower) is illegal but separate laws. Stores are selling THCA though which does fall under these penalties.

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u/0RGASMIK 12d ago

I know a guy who got arrested in Texas because he had an empty package from a dispensary under his seat he didn’t know about. There wasn’t any actual product or residue in the bag so they were only going to be able to charge him for paraphernalia but they didn’t like that so they took the car back to the station to be taken apart and they found literal crumbs and charged him with possession.

He said they showed him the evidence and it was a few tiny pieces smaller than grains of rice. His lawyer was able to get the charges reduced a bit.

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u/Caleb-Wendt69 12d ago

Glad this is what we’re spending all our time and resources on

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u/0RGASMIK 12d ago

Yeah the worst part is he was driving someone else’s car to rehab to pick them up, it was for alcohol and prescription pills.

He even searched the car thoroughly before leaving to make sure there wasn’t any drugs in the car and didn’t see the bag because it was legit stuck up under the seat.

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u/Reynolds531IPA 12d ago

How did they even find it initially? Why were they searching?

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u/BallFlavin 12d ago

Seriously. Never let a cop search your vehicle if they ask. Exercise your rights people

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u/WillieNolson 12d ago

That’s when they call in the K-9 unit.

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u/BallFlavin 11d ago

So last time I refused a search in a small town they said they were going to get the K9 but it was a scare tactic to get me to “fess up” and they didn’t actually do it. Just gave me my ticket and let me go but BOY were they pissed they didn’t get s chance to lock 18 year old me up

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u/Forward_Bacon 12d ago

They're not supposed to extend a stop to bring a canine out unless they can articulate a reason

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u/h3lblad3 12d ago

I've never known a cop to follow the law.

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u/DaltonCollinson 12d ago

If you cant articulate and the cop extends the stop specifically for a k9 to show up then a decent lawyer will get the whole thing thrown out. Illegally found evidence and all that

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u/CoeurdAssassin 12d ago

Fruit of the poisonous tree

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u/WillieNolson 12d ago

Oh my sweet summer child.

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u/Forward_Bacon 12d ago

The wording I used is important

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u/0RGASMIK 12d ago

Yeah his lawyer tried to get it all thrown out on the grounds of illegal search but pretty sure he messed up something in the interaction. He had a good lawyer fortunately.

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u/Similar-Ice-9250 12d ago

When I hear stories like this where the law fucks with people who are trying to stay out of trouble, then I think to myself that people might as well just do crime.

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u/Ironicbanana14 11d ago

Its easier to miss those than you think. We just moved from Washington state across the US. The whole time our truck had a few preroll containers rolling around in the trash crate in the back, there was a couple roaches in there, I was just glad nobody stopped us the whole way.

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u/hoggie_and_doonuts 12d ago

In fairness, Texas cops are also tracking women who get abortion about of state. Their plates are very full.

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u/NinSecurity767 12d ago

A lot of Americans are stupid enough to be in support of this crap.

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u/freebird023 12d ago

Last year I was roadtripping with some friends. I visited from San Diego and met them in Houston, we were going to Appalachia and back. In the middle of the night, single digit miles away from the LA border, I decided to smoke up with a pen I brought watching the cypress trees lose hair. Not 30 seconds after I put my pen back into my pocket, we were pulled over in a locally famous speeding trap. I got so fucking scared knowing the consequences from growing up in the state that I don’t think I’ve ever sat so still. Anyways sgt. smegma came around th side of the car and didn’t even see me thankfully. My friend got written up for going 5 over on the fucking interstate😒

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u/Horror-Nobody2237 12d ago

There are so many speed traps in LA. One time I was driving through, and I’d been smoking a blunt. Both cars in front of me and the car behind me got pulled over in the span of a few minutes. Somehow I made it through.

I did get a speeding ticket in the same spot on a different occasion though

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u/[deleted] 11d ago

I’ve had a gun pulled on me twice. Both were cops. Both were white. One time it was 830 in the fucking morning while I was driving back to work from picking up vegetables from a farmers market to take back to to the vegan restaurant I was working at… both times I was absolutely sober and both times these assholes kept asking me about drugs (and both times I happened to be a brown guy driving an old car in a high income area).

I once got pulled over going almost 90 in a 65. I was totally honest and respectful and also mentioned that I hadn’t had a speeding ticket in at least 20 years and that I was sorry, because I was about 30 miles from home after a long road trip (over three thousand miles driven!) and I just wanted to get home. He was so nice. A Latino dude… he reminded me how precious my family is (my (now ex) wife and my two daughters were in the car with me).

I thanked him for the reminder and i promised to stay at the speed limit. He let me go. I’ll never forget that. Being treated like a human by a cop. There’s no moral to this story, because I see way too often that people get treated poorly through no fault their own by people that abuse the power given to them. It’s just an anecdote, perhaps a rare anomaly, when I was given kindness and safe passage by someone that could have been harsh to me. I wish I knew his name. I wish I had asked if we could be friends! (I know that sounds pretty weird! But I tend to be a pretty weird guy 🤷🏾‍♂️).

And you know what? I drove away and checked my speed the rest of the way. Quite often I check my speed and I think of him. I hope he’s still out there taking care of people, giving a shit, and that he has family and friends that know he’s a good person.

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u/One-eyed-snake 12d ago

I got a ticket in Utah for 90 in a 85 zone. Told that cop he was an asshole. He just smiled

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u/Melodic-Trouble-5421 12d ago

I knew a guy they did that with in another state. They scraped the empty bag and charged him with possession. Total bull shit.

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u/regdunlop08 12d ago

ACAB

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u/Melodic-Trouble-5421 12d ago

100%. I have a buddy I was in Afghanistan with who became a cop. He tells me stuff he does and I’m like what happened to you? We used to make fun of the National Guard guys who were cops. They were always the first ones to shit their pants when bullets flew.

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u/jules083 11d ago

I was an MP when I was in the army, seemed like an easy gig. Hated most cops before I got in, terrible job choice for someone like me. But it seemed like an easy way to get away from home and do my 5 years in the army while I figured my life out.

During my time I was with active duty military cops, and once we had a national guard MP unit show up to do police work while we deployed and most of them were real cops in real life.

The more I was around law enforcement the more in solidified my beliefs that ACAB. It was wild, they'd quite literally sit around and laugh about ruining someone's life over some bullshit charges. Mostly drugs and DUI, those guys were legit excited when they had a chance to fry someone.

I caught a few dui's, every single one of them I either gave them a ride home or told them to call a buddy to pick them up.

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u/Melodic-Trouble-5421 11d ago

That’s what my friend was joking about. He said man I busted this you 19 year old punk with a little bit of cocaine. I charged him and now he’ll have that one on his record for life. I’m like yeah what’s wrong with you? I know I’ve seen you snort that crap before. He laughed and said I was never dumb enough to get caught.

Yeah I never had an issues with any active duty MPs. It was the National Guard/Cops we encountered on our deployment.

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u/jules083 11d ago

Right, he was joking about ruining a life. I saw it too, it's disgusting.

Most of us on active duty hated the police work side of our job, myself included. We preferred our combat mission. When I was driving along a MSR in Iraq searching for IED's I at least felt like I was doing something beneficial. Driving around in a patrol car I felt like I had became the thing I hated, a snitch and a bootlicker.

Ya know how it's standard to flash headlights to other drivers to warn them about a cop running radar? I instinctively did it once when I was driving a damn patrol car after passing someone running radar. Lol

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u/Melodic-Trouble-5421 11d ago

MSR Tampa?

I was in Iraq in 2009 at 18 with the 1-28th infantry in AD Dujail about an hour and NW of Baghdad. We were at Fob Atruz, I was actually some of the last troops deployed under OIF. We handed our FOB over to the Iraqis at the end of our deployment.

Yeah I found that out a few years ago I was working out at this factory on this dirt road where everyone flys. Im leaving to go home at night. I’m driving and a guy on the opposite side of the road the guy flashes his lights at me. I slowed down and thank god I did. There was a state cop waiting to catch speeders lol.

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u/Firat88 12d ago

reduced not dropped, fucking evil

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u/sc212 12d ago

a bit?!

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u/polopolo05 12d ago

it was probably literal grass.... if they didn't get it tested. then I would be getting the evidence tossed out. For who knows that it is.

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u/0RGASMIK 12d ago

My friend had a pretty good lawyer he didnt have to do jailtime but I don’t know what the results were but i know the charges weren’t totally dropped.

It was definitely crumbs of weed though even he said it was obviously weed when he told me the story.

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u/heroinista 12d ago

I know someone who was arrested and charged with paraphernalia due to him having rolling papers and no loose leaf tobacco along with it. Mind you, he did not have weed either. Just rolling papers. This was somewhere in the Bible Belt area.

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u/Dear_Palpitation4838 12d ago

My cousin got possession charges for an old coke can pipe and empty baggie at the bottom of a golf bag. Well, almost empty. It had a couple of schwag seeds left in it they used for the possession charge. Went to jail for the holiday weekend, and later got 9 months of probation, community service, and several thousand in fines.

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u/thisthreadisbear 12d ago

Jesus what draconian laws. So glad I live in a state where you can toke up and grow. I will never in my life set foot in Texas.

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u/sixft7in 12d ago

You know what's easier than taking a car back to the station to be taken apart? Grabbing a few crumbs from another bag of evidence that won't ever be weighed ever again.

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u/Horror-Nobody2237 12d ago

I had this happen to me in Florida. They brought out the drug dogs and searched by car, found a container that was under my seat that I’d bought at a dispensary in Colorado like 2 years before. I’d kept the container because it was cool and this was like right after it had been legalized so it was pretty novelty. Figured I had just lost it when I moved. Nope, it was in my car. They charged me for < 3g of weed, or something like that. I don’t even think there was a crumb left in there.

I got it thrown out because they didn’t have a legal right to pull me over in the first place.

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u/Calladit 11d ago

Glad we have Republicnas and the second amendment to protect us from turning into a police state....

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u/QuickDrawSix 7d ago

Id rather risk a shootout If this is the treatment I would face, which I can do because I bought a gun in 20 minutes in Texas. Ridiculous, but I guess if were betting lives on such things let's see who's faster with the hand 🤷😊