I got a teen arrested last night for drug possession. Feeling a little bad about it. [View all]

[NickB79]

My wife and I took our 2 yr old daughter to the local park, and while I was pushing her on the swing, a police officer pulled into the park and went over to talk with some kids hanging out under the bridge. While he was distracted talking to a couple of them, another one walked away from the group, strolled over and threw something that was in his backpack into a public grill. After 20 min. the cop got in his car and the kids started to walk away. I flagged the cop down as he was driving away and told him what I saw, and described which kid it was that I saw do it. I pointed out the grill, and when he went over to inspect it he found a pipe in the ash. Boy, was he pissed! He screamed out the kid's name (small town, apparently he knew the kid) and the teen came walking back. After a few minutes of chewing the kid out, he put him in the back of the car and drove down the path into the woods where the other kids had quickly walked down. I don't know if he caught up to them; we left shortly thereafter.

I've never been a big fan of the police, and I feel bad that I put a kid in jail, but this was a park where families take their little kids to play! I don't care what people do in their own homes, but damn it this is where toddlers play. What if he'd just thrown it on the ground and my daughter found it?

Sorry, just needed to vent a little bit.