A woman has been arrested when a raccoon named Chewy was holding a meth pipe in the driver’s seat of her car in what police are calling a “strange encounter on patrol."
  • Raiderkev@lemmy.world
    3·
    2 days ago

    Why did this even make the news? The article says it happened in Ohio. I assume that’s a daily occurrence there.

  • Zip2@feddit.uk
    7·
    2 days ago

    Please tell me she said “punch it Chewy” when the police got near the car.

  • Delascas@feddit.ukEnglish
    9·
    2 days ago

    I would have lost a large bet. From the headline, my first thought . . “this must be Florida. Has to be Florida” . . .

    Nope. Ohio.

  • Lembot_0002@lemm.ee
    10·
    2 days ago

    Couldn’t the woman just say that the raccoon is just a passenger and she has no responsibility for it?

    • HumanPenguin@feddit.ukEnglish
      7·
      2 days ago

      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.

      • AZERTY@feddit.nl
        41·
        2 days ago

        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.

        • Nougat@fedia.io
          7·
          2 days ago

          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.