Current Events > Florida Man Awarded $37,500 After Cops Mistake Glazed Doughnut Crumbs For Meth.

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http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/10/16/558147669/florida-man-awarded-37-500-after-cops-mistake-glazed-doughnut-crumbs-for-meth

More at the link.

Not very friendly of them cops.

"It sounds like a joke, but, well keep reading.

In December 2015, 64-year-old Daniel Rushing had just dropped off a friend at chemotherapy and was driving home an older woman from his church who worked at the 7-Eleven and would otherwise walk the 2 miles home.

As Rushing drove away from the convenience store, police pulled him over. The officer said he had been driving 42 miles an hour in a 30 zone and had failed to come to a complete stop before entering the roadway. When Rushing handed over his driver's license, Officer Shelby Riggs-Hopkins noticed his concealed-weapons permit. Rushing confirmed he had a pistol, and she asked him to step out of the car for her safety.

The officer then asked if police could search his car, and Rushing said sure if it meant he wouldn't be ticketed. Rushing watched as the officers, who now numbered four, conducted a very thorough inspection of his car.

Finally, Riggs-Hopkins said to him, "You want to tell me about what we found?"

"There's nothing to find," he said, confused.

But Riggs-Hopkins had noticed some crystals on the floorboard of the car, and when officers used a field testing kit, the white substance tested positive for methamphetamine.

Rushing said that was impossible: "I've never even smoked a cigarette," he protested.

The officer showed him the substance in question, and Rushing was aghast.

"That's glaze from a Krispy Kreme doughnut!" he explained. "I get one every other Wednesday."

But officers weren't buying it. Rushing was booked on charges of possessing methamphetamine while armed with a weapon.

As he sat in jail, he asked himself, "Lord, what am I doing here?"

"It was funny," Rushing says, "because I called my wife to tell her what happened, and the guy next to me waiting for the phone started to laugh. He said, 'This is crazy. I think you got a real good lawsuit here.' "

He spent more than 10 hours in jail before being released on bail.

Orlando police sent the evidence it had collected from Rushing's car to the Florida Department of Law Enforcement for further testing which determined that just as he'd said, the white crystals were not a controlled substance. (Results did not indicate whether the substance was sweet and delicious.)

All charges against Rushing were dropped.

It would be a funnier story if it hadn't been so closely replicated in Oviedo, a Florida city northeast of Orlando..."

Honestly, sounds like he got a cheap lawyer lol

I feel like he'd have gotten millions after hearing other lawsuits and
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pretty sure I remember hearing about this when it happened. Good for him then?
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Just read this moments ago. It's hilarious.
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In all fairness, glazed doughnuts are basically meth.
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Cocytus posted...

(Results did not indicate whether the substance was sweet and delicious.)

now i have to click the link to see if the cheeky one is you or the NPR writer
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I wonder how many field tested kits give false results lol
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You'd think they could be able to recognize doughnut crumbs
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Dragonblade01 posted...

In all fairness, glazed doughnuts are basically meth.

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this reminds me of one night I was driving and forgot to turn on the headlights

I was out of town using a rental car and that is why I hadn't noticed

a cop stops me and I have no idea why

he says

"Why do I smell alchohol on you"

in my mind I was thinking "you utter destestable scumbag" as I actually do not drink alchohol, and never have

why then did he smell it? answer: he didn't
he is just a disgusting human being

I really don't care if it his job to act that way, it is utterly shameful

I gave him my out of state license, told him I don't drink and I was renting and wasn't used to the car and gave him the rental receipt

he let me go

but that is basically the jist of it
they WANT to find something

no they NEED to find something

and the sad part

if he had made me do the breathalizer it might have been positive due to calibration error
knowing this I would have refused
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https://youtu.be/a77Dw3tNv8o?t=1m23s
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You would think cops would know the difference.
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