Brickbat: For the Birds

When Saluda County, South Carolina, sheriff's deputies pulled Shai Werts over for speeding, they noticed a white substance on the hood of his car. Werts, the starting quarterback for Georgia Southern University, told them it was "bird poop." But a drug field test said it was cocaine, so they arrested Werts for possession. A little over a week later, a lab test came back negative for cocaine or any other controlled substance, and prosecutors dropped the possession charge. Werts was suspended from the Georgia Southern team after his arrest but has now returned to practice.

Comments

[Duke of url]

The purpose of the field test is to provide probable cause for arrest.
They always indicate positive for controlled substances. Always.
People are then forced to plead guilty, because the officer will testify that his elite training , experience and testing proved them guilty.
No matter what substance the retarded officer tests.

[Ride 'Em]

But did they do a taste test?

[Adans smith]

Your shitting me !!

[loveconstitution1789]

This is for the birds!

[jasonium]

For the sake of argument, let's imagine it was residue from pure, medical-grade booger sugar. Is material collected on the external parts of one's car considered good evidence in a criminal prosecution? What if the white substance had been splashed on there when Werts drove through a cocaine puddle earlier in the week? Even scarier, what if a flock of laughing gulls got into a kilo of yayo that had been dumped overboard when some smugglers realized that they were in Saluda County -- AKA "Narco's Bane", SC?

[AlmightyJB]

Heroes

[Rich]

A little over a week later, a lab test came back negative for cocaine or any other controlled substance, and prosecutors dropped the possession charge.

So apparently one *can* make this shit up.

[Longtobefree]

I don't believe this!

The part about dropping the charges, I mean.

[Conchfritters]

Fucking retards. On the hood of a fucking car, driving down the street? They need to turn in their guns and badges.

[SQRLSY One]

Hey, try this! It's really good shit! I mean really!

[Hi]

Jesus, what a joke. William Barr should be covered in bird shit.

[NashTiger]

What does. William Barr have to do with this story, you imbecile?

[loveconstitution1789]

Jesus, what a joke. Hihn should be covered in bird shit.

[Quo Usque Tandem]

He may not be covered in it, but he's certainly full of it.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Arrest the birds for possession with intent to distribute.

[Finrod]

Proving cops can be lower than chickenshit.

[Jerry B.]

I always used to carry my coke on the hood of my car. Doesn't everybody?

[creech]

What are the odds that the driver was a colored person and the deputies were wipypo?

[Brandybuck]

It was his fault for being Black in South Carolina.

[Earth Skeptic]

Through the looking glass: when real life sounds like a parody too silly to believe.

[Quo Usque Tandem]

The poor Onion; what do they do nowadays? Life is parody.

[Chipper Jones]

Just when we thought we had the drug dealers figured out, they up the ante by transporting cocaine on the outside of their windshields. Incredible.

[Inigo Montoya]

The birds are acting as drug mules! They consume the coke and later poop it out. It’s a brilliant strategy. Think about it: birds routinely fly across borders with zero identification and they can stay wherever they like. They also work super cheap, as the cartels can simply pay them with some cheap seeds or suet. The only real risks are cats and wind turbines.

These brave cops may have uncovered a huge conspiracy!

[sabrinamosbi]

Funny article maybe arrest them ? lol
megadede

[markm23]

Could the victims of inaccurate field tests file a class-action suit against the makers of the kits?