What is in your car trunk ?

[Hopeful 2]

Once upon a time I done a big mission to visit my family for Christmas day a long drive I decided to leave really early hours of the morning like 2am, and I pulled over at a beach hkurs later as the sun was just coming up over the horizon, it was a beautiful christmas morning, im loving life and its my favourite day of the year and im going to visit my family and have a BBQ and catch up with everyone, im feeling good and just relaxing soaking up how great life is.

Suddenly I get this knock on the window and it's a cop and as he's talking me says he can smell weed so has a right to search the car and he found a smidge of weed and next thing I know its Christmas day and im arrested and in jail with a court summons completely ruined my christmas and holidays, all because there was a smidge of weed in the car.

Weed use...that explains your punctuation and capitalizations...

 

[Corn Pop]

Weed use...that explains your punctuation and capitalizations...

I quit smoking weed many years ago. It's probably been like 20 years.

 

[Hopeful 2]

I quit smoking weed many years ago. It's probably been like 20 years.

Yeah, me too.
I got a really good job that did drug testing, and that scared my straight...so to speak.

 

[WIP]

Once upon a time I done a big mission to visit my family a long drive I decided to leave really early hours of the morning like 2am, and I pulled over at a beach hours later as the sun was just coming up over the horizon, it was a beautiful morning, im loving life im going to visit my family and have a BBQ and catch up with everyone, im feeling good and just relaxing soaking up how great life is.

Suddenly I get this knock on the window and it's a cop and as he's talking me says he can smell weed so has a right to search the car and he found a smidge of weed and next thing I know im arrested and in jail with a court summons, all because there was a smidge of weed in the car like im some sort of bad criminal minding my own business in peace.

For whoever shall keep the whole law, and yet stumble in one point, he is guilty of all.
Jame 2:10 NKJV

I am also involved with an outdoor forum and it surprised me how many times someone comes online ranting and complaining about how the conservation officer, who was just doing the job he/she was hired to do, was such a jerk because they were cited for violating the law when there were other more serious offenders out there. They even tell what they do, such as having too many fish or too many lines in the water, etc. The question I always responded with was, "Did you not violate the law? What makes you more special than anyone else that violates the law?"

 

[WIP]

It's crazy these days what some employers expect people to hand over just to have a job.

One place I applied for a job a fee years back and it wasn't even a skilled job just temporary they wanted my whole life story and every private personal detail.

Name, address, email, phone, 2 photo IDs, drug test, past employment history, reasons for leaving, 2 references they can call, bank details, and so on. That's before you even get the job. Next they be asking if you in a relationship and what is there name and where do they work and how many children do you have.

They go on about its for security reasons yet people are told these days they have to hand over there private information to the hands of many different people in the name of security that just makes personal information even more insecure and vulnerable because its in the hands of many different companies with many individuals who can access that information.. It's all backwards. Then they will say in the name of safety they need more information.

Personally, I would not like it at all to have to work with someone who is high or under the influence of a drug or alcohol. First, they won't pull their own weight and second, it could be a potentially dangerous situation, and third, the company should not be required to be liable for someone that comes to work impaired but yet they are and so they need to protect themselves and the other employees.

If anyone will not work, neither shall he eat. For we hear that there are some who walk among you in a disorderly manner, not working at all, but are busybodies. Now those who are such we command and exhort through our Lord Jesus Christ that they work in quietness and eat their own bread.
2 Thessalonians 3:10-12 NKJV

 

[WIP]

If I wanted to go to the USA even now 20 years later they would most probably decline me if I got a drug conviction they don't care if it's just a smidge of weed they just think past drug conviction and many countries take it seriously denied visa and entry.

Try to cross the border into Canada with a DUI on your record. Good luck with that!

Although, if memory serves me correctly, in recent years Canadian law has relaxed that restriction a little so that if your DUI conviction is more than 10 years past, they may now allow you to cross. I wouldn't quote me on that.

 

[jasonc]

Personally, I would not like it at all to have to work with someone who is high or under the influence of a drug or alcohol. First, they won't pull their own weight and second, it could be a potentially dangerous situation, and third, the company should not be required to be liable for someone that comes to work impaired but yet they are and so they need to protect themselves and the other employees.

If anyone will not work, neither shall he eat. For we hear that there are some who walk among you in a disorderly manner, not working at all, but are busybodies. Now those who are such we command and exhort through our Lord Jesus Christ that they work in quietness and eat their own bread.
2 Thessalonians 3:10-12 NKJV

I hope you do your own body work.i guarantee most body shops have pot heads painting ,welding and fabricate.

Seen it going to them. I don't agree with it but we'll back in the day they painted with no protection.

 

[Corn Pop]

For whoever shall keep the whole law, and yet stumble in one point, he is guilty of all.
Jame 2:10 NKJV

I am also involved with an outdoor forum and it surprised me how many times someone comes online ranting and complaining about how the conservation officer, who was just doing the job he/she was hired to do, was such a jerk because they were cited for violating the law when there were other more serious offenders out there. They even tell what they do, such as having too many fish or too many lines in the water, etc. The question I always responded with was, "Did you not violate the law? What makes you more special than anyone else that violates the law?"

I never blame a police officer for doing there job as i understand that law enforcement just enforce the rules as thats there job, they don't make the rules and tell peoppe what they can and cannot do, they just enforce the rules so people comply. They do a good job in general.

They relaxed the rules around weed anyhow now, although still illegal it's at police discretion so I don't think they have to arrest someone if they don't want to its at there descretion how they feel with the situation if they do at all. It's only a user with a smidge for personal use, not someone growing fields of it or dealing.

I mean I believe it's too much of a petty offense to waste resources and the courts and judge time with they got bigger issues to get through and people to deal with as the courts are overflowing, not someone just relaxing in peace minding there own business with a smidge of weed. Who cares. If anything it should have always been like the same level as getting a ticket or something, not like arrested, put in jail, then have to stand before a judge.

 

[Corn Pop]

Try to cross the border into Canada with a DUI on your record. Good luck with that!

Although, if memory serves me correctly, in recent years Canadian law has relaxed that restriction a little so that if your DUI conviction is more than 10 years past, they may now allow you to cross. I wouldn't quote me on that.

If someone breaks the rules they get a penalty and once they have payed there fines or served there time the penalty is over. It should not be a life penalty and held against people as a life sentence.

like if someone when they were 18 done something stupid and went to prison for a few years and now they 40 and married and have a good job and taking the family on vacation and get denied entry because when they were 18 they done something stupid.

 

[Corn Pop]

Personally, I would not like it at all to have to work with someone who is high or under the influence of a drug or alcohol.

That's fair enough yet in general many people are on mind altering meds just as strong and even more than weed like amphetimines and opioids and everything else big pharma manufactures and drug deals in and doctors experiment with. I guess i have to drive on the roads with people around me on prescribed mind altering drugs all the time.

 

[jasonc]

That's fair enough yet in general many people are on mind altering meds just as strong and even more than weed like amphetimines and opioids and everything else big pharma manufactures and drug deals in and doctors experiment with. I guess i have to drive on the roads with people around me on prescribed mind altering drugs all the time.

Oxycodone is basically heroin

 

[donny77]

I always make sure to keep some basic essentials in my car’s boot in case of an emergency, you never know when you will need jumper cables, a first aid box and a blanket.

 

[hawkman]

a first aid box

Right ! I do have one of these in my auto , never know when that will really help in a time of need !

 

[WIP]

Right ! I do have one of these in my auto , never know when that will really help in a time of need !

I do keep a first aid kit in my hunting pack, my boat, and my ice fishing shelter but not in my truck. Not a bad idea though.

 

[WIP]

I do keep a first aid kit in my hunting pack, my boat, and my ice fishing shelter but not in my truck. Not a bad idea though.

It was after an incident that I decided I should get one for the boat and consequently my other two places. I had gone fishing one afternoon and less than 10 minutes on the water I caught a northern. While I was holding the fish and attempting to remove the hook, it began to thrash around and slipped out of my hands. As it fell, I inadvertently got my fingers in its mouth which did some damage. I didn't have any kind of towel, paper towel, toilet paper, or anything and not wanting to cut my trip short after only 10 minutes, I decided I would just have to bleed for a while. It eventually stopped but not after leaving a blood trail in my boat. On my way home I stopped and picked up a first-aid kit and a boat towel.

Some time later while ice fishing I cut my finger pretty good with my knife and the first-aid kit and towels came in pretty handy that day.

 

[Hopeful 2]

I always make sure to keep some basic essentials in my car’s boot in case of an emergency, you never know when you will need jumper cables, a first aid box and a blanket.

"Boot" ?
Do they really say that in NYC ?
God stuff to have though...
You might consider getting some flares too. (and a gas can)

 

[Corn Pop]

"Boot" ?
Do they really say that in NYC ?

We also call it a boot where i live. I have heard the word trunk but it just makes me think of an elephant.