Brickbat: A Little Bit of Soap

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The Pennsylvania State Police has agreed to pay $195,000 to settle a wrongful imprisonment suit brought by Alexander Bernstein. Bernstein was held in jail for almost a month after a field drug test falsely showed homemade soap he was carrying in his vehicle to be cocaine.

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[Adans smith]

Sounds like the field test was a lye.

[The Hyperbole]

Those field test a like 99 and 44/100% pure bull.

[Adans smith]

It was a clean collar.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Okay, let's dial it down before you work yourself into a lather.

[Gene]

It just dawned on me what this all about.

[Adans smith]

Well,the Tide is changing.

[Swiss Servator]

*narrows gaze at the entire lot o' ye*

[Libertarian]

Ahh, a gaze strong enough for a man, but made for a woman.

[Robert]

Is the coast clear of punsters yet?

[Radioactive]

soap matters

[Tom Bombadil]

Ivory concerned about you people.

[Robert]

Bernstein lux out.

[IowaBoy01]

I wonder how many of these field drug tests give false positives rather than false negative readings? And I wonder which the police would rather have? Somehow I bet that you could use those tests on every $20 bill and they would hit for coke. But what do i know? Im just a dumb truck driver.

[sarcasmic]

The tests give whatever result the officers want them to give, and if not then they lie about it.

[IowaBoy01]

Yeah but wouldn't they want faulty positive tests just to pretend they are doing thier jobs? So they can keep us safe from demon weed, demon coke, and demon meth? Because nothing makes me feel safer than watching 5 or 6 state police or hwy patrolman rifling though someones car as im driving by.

[strat]

Having spent some time with people in the chemical trace detection business, one scientist friend of mine once told me that in a research project, they had trouble renting a car that didn't have detectable cocaine residue. They apparently kept renting them and returning them multiple times until they found one that was clean. The same scientist tells me that there are some reactions that cause cocaine residue combined with skin oil and perspiration to have a particular affinity for U.S. currency. Once it is in there, it probably isn't coming out.

[pan fried wylie]

cause cocaine residue combined with skin oil and perspiration to have a particular affinity for U.S. currency.

basically sounds like oil paint and canvas.

[straffinrun]

Under stable mistake by the cops. When you're an asshole, all your can see is crack.

[Adans smith]

Yes,but,the state police took a bath on this one.

[straffinrun]

Thank you for ignoring how badly my IPhone mangled that joke.

[Adans smith]

It's early,and I make typos all the time typing too fast.It's all good.

[Fist of Etiquette]

It's always the phone's fault, isn't it, straf?

[croaker]

Not enough of a one. I would have wanted an agreement with the settlement that the SP stop using chemical field tests. Not just this one, ALL of them.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Am I really the only one who recognizes regulatory capture when he sees it? It's no secret that Big Soap has the PA State Police in its pocket for some time now.

[invisible furry hand]

Soap is a gateway drug to bath salts

[Bra Ket]

"Hopefully law enforcement learns something from this episode, and hopefully prosecutors, that it isn't always what it appears," Goldman said."

Isn't he adorable.

[jackrose]

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[jackrose]

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