Swingers Forum - best Halloween costume...

Best costume ever was I saw years ago at Green Street (when it still existed) and a guy shows up wearing a strap on and a potato on a necklace wrapped around his neck. He was a Dick Tater. Be safe y'all. Cops are out tonight and ain't worth it drinking and driving.

ENLIGHTENED wrote:

Best costume ever was I saw years ago at Green Street (when it still existed) and a guy shows up wearing a strap on and a potato on a necklace wrapped around his neck. He was a Dick Tater. Be safe y'all. Cops are out tonight and ain't worth it drinking and driving.

You ain't kiddin'. I once got arrested, and my bike impounded, after blowing a .02. His excuse? He pulled me over because I was "driving below the speed limit (I was going about 20 on an SLC street where the limit was 40). And I didn't do the field sobriety test "really well". I didn't trip, stumble, lose my balance, anything like that, I just wasn't able to do a rock steady one foot in front of the other walk. Of course, I was freezing because the temp had dropped almost 25 degrees while I was inside for an hour, didn't have a fairing or windshield, and wasn't dressed for 36 degree weather, it had been 59 when I'd first left the house, which was why 20 in a 40, and I had a leg swollen up bigger than a football from a bad wreck 5 weeks earlier, which was the problem with the field sobriety test, but he ignored all that and "decided", after the .02, "it must be drugs".

After seeing the video of me riding for 3 blocks, then the field sobriety test, plus the zero percent alcohol and drug urine and blood results, the DMV hearing said there was not even any probable cause for the arrest, so I got the admin fee back. But I still had to pay almost $300 to get the bike back (it was Friday night, so 2 days storage plus they "accidentally" didn't tell the tow company it was a bike, which sent the wrong kind of truck, then had to send a second and I had to pay for 2 trucks). Plus $4K for a lawyer. I knew that in Utah if you're charged with anything to do with alcohol or drugs you better have a lawyer, no matter how innocent you are. And sure enough, when it got to court the state's attorney had added an obstruction of justice charge, which, when the lawyer challenged it, they couldn't even find an excuse for. And I'm still sending that lawyer money every month to pay off his bill.

In Utah, you don't even need to be actually impaired to get a DUI. If you give them even the slightest pretext, they'll arrest you, it'll cost you a bunch if money, and, no matter how bogus the arrest was, there's no way you'll ever get that money back.