yeah, i can think of a few rigs that are pretty easy to slap together but like, i'm stealing your rims if you want me to do that. and your distributor. fuck driving inebriated, i'll build you a hotbox but not a rolling one.

moonshadow@slrpnk.net · 4 pts · 140d (1 reply)

This is the post where I quit thinking you were cool. Now if you'll excuse me it's my rip, can't smoke drive and text. Not enough hands!

HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 140d

knees dude knees

bitjunkie@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 140d

I KNOW RIGHT WHY DO YOU THINK WE EVEN CLICKED ON THIS

Gammelfisch@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 139d (1 reply)

Indeed, I wanted to see how the crazy mounted his bong on the dashboard. Adhesive, self-tapping screws, bolts, etc...on a gryo base?

mojofrododojo@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 139d

bro they said built into the dash!

“custom bong device built into the dash ..."

yeah we GOTTA see this shit

homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world · 76 pts · 140d (17 replies)

Inside the truck officers found a “custom bong device built into the dash of the truck so he could comfortably smoke drugs while driving”. Meth, heroin, and fentanyl were also discovered, as well as the stolen items.

The driver of the truck had 97 prior arrests. He is facing charges of DUI, eluding, and possession of narcotics. The passenger was turned over to Centralia PD for organized retail theft.

Goddamn dude

FerretyFever0@fedia.io · 18 pts · 140d (6 replies)

Extremely unresponsible to be driving under the influence of hard drugs. If someone is going to be smoking meth and fentanyl, they should at least have the reason to not be driving.

DataCrime@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 17 pts · 140d (4 replies)

I mean… it didn’t say he was smoking anything but weed out of the bong… probably but FFS, how about the 99 priors??? How was this asshole even behind the wheel of a vehicle? This stinks of a CI.

FerretyFever0@fedia.io · 7 pts · 140d (1 reply)

The article said there was fentanyl, meth, and heroin. I'd guess that he wasn't just transporting it.

DataCrime@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 8 pts · 140d

I’m not saying he wasn’t using a bit of himself. I’m just saying a bong is typically used to smoke weed. Given the potency of Fentanyl I doubt he was just casually sprinkling a bit on top for flavor 😝

cactusupyourbutt@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 140d (1 reply)

you shouldn’t be driving while smoking weed either

DataCrime@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 140d

I don’t think I ever claimed that one should. WTF know, maybe dude was talking the drugs to him mom so riddled with cancer she can’t live without the biggest pharmaceutical grade hammer we have… maybe not. I’ll be withholding judgement after the last Last Week Tonight.

Probably not your jam either, but even my conservative parents enjoy watching it. And I swear they listened to NPR for 5 years just to yell at the radio 😂

Pricklesthemagicfish@reddthat.com · 6 pts · 140d

Did you expect him to walk to the liquor store?

TrippinMallard@lemmy.ml · 10 pts · 140d

So close to 100! Wonder what the Guinness World Record is?

HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 140d (7 replies)

97 prior arrests sounds like police harrassment, not illegal behavior.

logic this through with me. if he'd been convicted, there would be a hell of a lot fewer arrests.

Zak@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 140d (6 replies)

Under other circumstances, I might agree with you, but the guy built a bong into his dashboard.

That's an impressive level of commitment to DUI.

HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 140d (4 replies)

it's not convictions, it's arrests. after i'd been arrested (not convicted) 60 times, fuck obeying the law. the social contract broke.

Mesophar@pawb.social · 5 pts · 139d (3 replies)

Fuck endangering other people

HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 139d (2 replies)

fuck harassing people to the point they feel all life is worthless

Mesophar@pawb.social · 4 pts · 139d (1 reply)

Pretty sure that is ALSO endangering other people

HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 139d

Yeah I was agreeing, but in a fuck the police way. Seriously how did he get to 90 arrests. After 10 they should have had social services there to see why and how they could help. You can't get to that many arrests without police intentionally fucking up the prosecution to let him go and arrest him again.

PyroNeurosis@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 140d

Where in the dash was it built? Maybe our hero is the designated driver with a passion for making sure that passengers riding shotgun never have to be sober.

athatet@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 139d

Woah!

…based based based based based…

Slovene85@sh.itjust.works · 68 pts · 141d

"high" speed chase indeed

Ferrous@lemmy.ml · 38 pts · 140d (13 replies)

Dumbass cop was about to pitt maneuver this truck into an innocent car.

village604@adultswim.fan · 19 pts · 140d (10 replies)

Yeah, high speed chases are monumentally stupid. Just use the radio to set up a road block.

thebestaquaman@lemmy.world · 27 pts · 140d (9 replies)

Or, as is commonly done elsewhere, get their plates and a photo, and drop by their house later (unless they're an active threat to public safety of course).

This is literally the SOP in a lot of other countries: You don't chase someone in a vehicle unless you absolutely have to. You rather just identify them and apprehend them at a later point.

P00ptart@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 140d (3 replies)

Haha! You fell into the trap of my nuclear powered hyper bike! I never have to stop! Bwahahaha! Man, I gotta take a dump tho, fr.

fourtonetiger@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 140d (2 replies)

You don't have a toilet built into that thing?

P00ptart@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 140d (1 reply)

Too much aerodynamic drag.

HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 140d

just put a hole in the seat with some electric scissors (so i guess nuclear powered snippers) to slice off dingleberries. just, uh, if you've got some bait and tackle and don't want the at-home forcefemming don't forget to grab your gaff

ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 140d (1 reply)

get their plates and a photo

Guy had 97 priors including DUIs. Doubtful that the truck had a valid registration/license plate with a traceable address.

I used to disc golf with a dude who had multiple DUIs and finally went to jail for it for 18 months. The fucking day he got out he bought a cheap used car, slapped an old out-of-state license plate on it, and went right back to driving around drunk as shit.

thebestaquaman@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 140d

Guy had 97 priors including DUIs.

Hence the photo, which should make it pretty easy to figure out who the guy is when he's already registered in the system. Once you know who he is you quickly find out where he's living, because again, the guy has 97 priors, so the cops should have a solid database on where he tends to reside and who he knows.

The fucking day he got out he bought a cheap used car, slapped an old out-of-state license plate on it, and went right back to driving around drunk as shit.

That's absolutely horrendous... hope he gets caught again before he kills someone...

Besides that: That could quickly be a situation where whoever is apprehending him recognises that he's drunk-driving and that he's a big enough threat to the public to warrant chasing him down instead of letting him go and apprehending him later.

kbobabob@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 pts · 140d (2 replies)

Later that evening at the cars registered address...

Cops bang on door at 3am, groggy the homeowner tries to figure out what's going on. 3am!?, what's going on? Better grab my gun in case it's someone trying to break in. Goes to the door and opens it, immediately gets blasted by the cops. The wife comes out screaming so they tase her and then calmly let her know they saw their stolen vehicle earlier so this needed to happen.

HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 140d

i mean my experience is they only do shit at 3am when they're trying to arrest people who they expect to be armed and trying to escape. if they're just doing ticket service, they stop by at dinnertime because it embarrasses you in front of the neighbors.

thebestaquaman@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 140d

Or, hear me out: The cops that are well enough educated and trained to recognise that it's safer to just track down the guy later will also be well enough educated and trained to not do that. Because doing that would be stupid, and the whole point here is that you can and should select and train people with a monopoly on violence to not do stupid shit that gets people killed.

dotCody@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 140d (1 reply)

Thank god I am not the only one to immediately catch that. What that pig attempted was FUCKING DANGEROUS.

And then another pig on the radio is heard giving clear instructions to not attempt unless below 70(mph). Still with plenty of other vehicles on the roads...

Ferrous@lemmy.ml · 10 pts · 140d

How else you going to live out your badass road warrior fantasies??

Fucken dunce..

DataCrime@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 34 pts · 140d (2 replies)

Reminds me of a story I heard like 20-30 years ago. Some German dude wrecked his Merc on the autobahn… the cops get there and he just wreaks of schnapps but they find no bottles, no means of consumption. The car gets towed to a police station to be examined and they found that he had diverted the window washing tank into the cabin, dude wants a pug of schnapps and he hits his window washer button.

Pauce@lemmy.ca · 17 pts · 140d (1 reply)

That is a level of ingenuity that I love to see in people. Application of it is nooot great but he's got the spirit.

DataCrime@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 16 pts · 140d

Don’t you mean spirits?

DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social · 31 pts · 140d (5 replies)

What a great example of why police chases shouldn't be a thing, the cop was more dangerous than Smokey Pete.

ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world · 33 pts · 140d (3 replies)

Cop tried bumping the truck on a fucking two-lane road with a car coming the opposite way. Holy Cheez-its.

modus@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 140d

It's almost as it cops aren't intelligent.

Bloomcole@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 139d (1 reply)

I remember them shooting at a hijacked FedEx truck
It couldn't go fast anyway, had a tracker and was stuck in traffic with cars everywhere.
It was going nowhere.
No negotiating or thinking, the cops just started firing.
They killed everyone in the truck (driver/victim also) and at least 1 (or more if I remember correctly) of the unlucky commuters in the line of fire.

ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 139d

No negotiating or thinking, the cops just started firing.

They were thinking ... about how good the sex was going to be that night.

Bloomcole@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 139d

From another article:

*Two pursuits. Both were terminated because his driving was so reckless that it was dangerous to keep chasing him. He was blowing through intersections at high speed through downtown Olympia and into Lacey.

That’s how innocent people die. A family heading home. A kid crossing the street. We’re handing the wheel to a driver who’s apparently high on meth and fentanyl and has no intention of stopping.*

Lupo@lemmy.world · 30 pts · 140d

Two more and he'll get a free ice cream

Treczoks@lemmy.world · 29 pts · 141d (15 replies)

Why was he let go with so many priors?

Ioughttamow@fedia.io · 36 pts · 141d (1 reply)

Ethical catch and release

Treczoks@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 140d

What? Is he too small?

village604@adultswim.fan · 4 pts · 140d (2 replies)

Arrested != convicted

Treczoks@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 140d (1 reply)

If someone managed to get arrested so many times without getting a conviction the one or other time, it would be a cause for a harrasment claim against the police.

village604@adultswim.fan · 5 pts · 140d

I mean, in some areas they just throw you in the holding cell until you sober up, which would be an arrest. Dude probably knows someone in the system.

Soggy@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 141d

Every layer of the legal system is broken, and lots of people benefit from not fixing it.

Luminous5481@anarchist.nexus · -1 pts · 140d (8 replies)

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FerretyFever0@fedia.io · 16 pts · 140d

Maybe I'm just insane, but I think that laws making it illegal to be on meth while driving are reasonable. That's just me though.

Treczoks@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 140d (6 replies)

Because the law is still valid? If you consider the law stupid, do something against it.

I personally don't consider it stupid to forbid driving under influence, regardless of the means.

Luminous5481@anarchist.nexus · -7 pts · 140d (5 replies)

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FerretyFever0@fedia.io · 4 pts · 140d (4 replies)

Sorry, all of them? You don't think that sometimes, it's good for some things to not be allowed?

Luminous5481@anarchist.nexus · -1 pts · 140d (3 replies)

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FerretyFever0@fedia.io · 3 pts · 140d (2 replies)

In the case of this gentleman, I suppose not. However, I believe that driving after consuming drugs that impede your ability to drive should have a punishment of some kind. It is a matter of public safety. It's irresponsible to drink and drive, it's irresponsible to be on heroin while driving.

Luminous5481@anarchist.nexus · 0 pts · 140d

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Kolanaki@pawb.social · 20 pts · 140d (1 reply)

A high speed chase, or a high speed chase?

Also: wtf was with the pit maneuver when oncoming traffic was like less than a 100 feet ahead? Dumbass shit.

titanicx@lemmy.zip · 7 pts · 140d

This whole chase was idiotic. Poor pit maneuver. Chasing suspect through traffic and intersections.

brown567@sh.itjust.works · 14 pts · 140d (1 reply)

He definitely needs to get arrested 2 more times now

bitjunkie@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 140d

322*

JustJack23@slrpnk.net · 13 pts · 140d (3 replies)

What if, hear me out, you confiscated the car at any of the previous 95 stops?

Oh yeah this is America so it will make it impossible for you to live..... You know what, in that scenario dash bong seems totally reasonable.

grue@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 140d (1 reply)

Somehow, we manage to have the problem of assholes like this racking up dozens upon dozens of priors with (obviously) ineffective punishment and would-be productive citizens languishing with long prison sentences for trivial offenses at the same time.

JustJack23@slrpnk.net · 1 pts · 140d

A bit shortsighted no?

The whole punative system is shit and should be changed rather drastically.

ryannathans@aussie.zone · 2 pts · 140d

95 arrests, not 95 stops

FelixCress@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 141d

You must appreciate his persistence.

Paywall BTW.

robocall@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 141d

He should put that on his resume

MagnificentSteiner@lemmy.zip · 8 pts · 141d (1 reply)

99th time's the charm!

Kowowow@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 141d

No he's hoping it rolls over to zero after one hundred

GhostFish@piefed.social · 6 pts · 140d

Someone pardon this man.

BeMoreCareful@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 139d (1 reply)

I have been living my whole life wrong.

TwilitSky@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 139d

Ok but the judge already said that.

muxika@piefed.muxika.org · 4 pts · 140d

If Grand Theft Auto were a Souls-like.

foggy@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 140d (1 reply)

My friend's dad had a kegerator built into his truck. Tap was in the center console.

He's either dead or still driving tow trucks.

FatVegan@leminal.space · 0 pts · 140d

Let's hope for the former

seathru@quokk.au · 3 pts · 140d

@10s did the cop try to pit him off an overpass?

Luminous5481@anarchist.nexus · 2 pts · 140d (3 replies)

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limonfiesta@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 140d (2 replies)

You should definitely NOT read the story, because if you do, you'll feel really fucking stupid for saying that.

Luminous5481@anarchist.nexus · -5 pts · 140d (1 reply)

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Trainguyrom@reddthat.com · 5 pts · 140d

Driving under the influence is not cool in any situation though

Bloomcole@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 139d (3 replies)

I knew he wasn't black, (the odds of being arrested 97 without being fatally shot is too small) but is he an ex-cop or related?
What I see from the banana republic it doesn't take too much, certainly repeat offenses to put you in jail for decades/life.
This guy still can drive and what's even more strange is the lack of name and mugshot.
American news invariably shame their criminals, publish the address etc..
So who is this guy?

OopsOverbombing@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 139d (2 replies)

Nobody. Washington seems to have a lot of repeat offenders that are in and out of the legal system. There's been multiple instances where someone out on bail commits another crime and makes headlines.

Bloomcole@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 139d (1 reply)

98!
that's Epstein levels of protection if you're still free.

OopsOverbombing@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 139d

This guy is aiming for the high score apparently? It's astounding this man has such a lengthy record and was still roaming free. I wonder how long until he's out again?

Proprietary_Blend@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 139d (1 reply)

Do I smell a late night talk show?!

Zink@programming.dev · 1 pts · 139d

Bongs & Bastards

prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 140d (1 reply)

DAMN YOU BONG BOY!

bitjunkie@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 140d