Busted for possession of iced tea....

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21. He sounds like a cop on a drug team.

Those motherfuckers never like being IDed.

I knew someone once who publicly called out- in a very crowded grocery store, no less- a member of the "multijurisdictional drug enforcement team" we have here. The guy had been raided for what was claimed by the anonymous tipster to be coke and lots of guns, but was actually only a thimbleful of pot. On that basis and that basis alone, without any other evidence of any kind beyond what someone accused, eight men came by one day, ransacked the apartment for almost three hours... and all they came away with was a thimble of weed and the bowl it was smoked in. They were very very very very very pissed off when they left.

Anyway, he saw one of these motherfuckers in the store one day. Big, big lines. Called him out by name and told everyone there he was on that particular crew by asking him how his job on that team was going. The guy he called out turned six shades closer to paper white, literally dropped his groceries on the floor in the middle of the checkout line, and bolted out of the store.

Big, tough, manly man drug team cop... who couldn't even tolerate being identified for what he was: a fucking thug. No more, no less, and the whole team is cut from the same arrogant, self-important, undisciplined, incompetent, 'roid-raged cloth. I say incompetent because they didn't even look in places I would have hidden drugs as a matter of course, had I anything harder than pot. I know they didn't look there, because those items were some of the few things still undisturbed and in their place.

This same team had an issue with some of its members stealing drug evidence from the evidence lockers at one point. I'm pretty sure they were getting high every night, if not selling the shit they stole from two-bit users themselves. These assholes are so arrogant, they'll trash a place in a search for drugs, and leave only a pithy little "call me, ###-####" on the table as a goodbye kiss. Real, real pieces of work, are the KVET shitstains. Asshole fuckresidue. Santorum, in human skin, with badges.

It occurs to me that, if we have police who cannot countenance mere public identification of who they are and what they do, perhaps those police should not be doing that thing at all.