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Why did this even make the news? The article says it happened in Ohio. I assume that's a daily occurrence there.
Please tell me she said “punch it Chewy” when the police got near the car.
Huh, well TIL why the go to name for raccoons is usually “Rocky.”
Chewy seems more like a bath salts raccoon.
Couldn't the woman just say that the raccoon is just a passenger and she has no responsibility for it?
Def sounds like the trail of evidence is weak.
Unless the racoon was caged or on a lead. Surly the defence will claim it found the stuff and dragged it into the car.
Even if the driver has a history etc. seems the racoon is all sorts of reasonable doubt.
However, a subsequent search revealed that Vidal’s car contained a bulk amount of methamphetamine, crack cocaine and three used glass methamphetamine pipes, police said.
She's cooked bro. She has paperwork claiming the raccoon as a pet and it holding a meth pipe on bodycam allowed probable cause to justify the search. Fuck the police but they're unfortunately probably going to get the conviction.
Furthermore:
... whose registered owner had an active warrant and a suspended driver’s license, ...
The possibility of the pipe-wielding raccoon having acquired the pipe independently and without the driver's knowledge doesn't invalidate the search that found all the drugs. The active warrant is enough.
I would have lost a large bet. From the headline, my first thought . . "this must be Florida. Has to be Florida" . . .
Nope. Ohio.
As an ex ohioan, yeah that's us alright. Ohio is Florida if you replace the alligators with raccoons and possums and the swamp with hills then add Winter.
Well yeah, you missed that it was a woman, not a man.
Florida man is a state of mind.
That’s a lot to unpack in the title.
That's not what a good copilot like Chewy would do. Now, that hack Chuy would totally meth it up.
Fucking Springfield lol
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