CLOSEST Cop Encounter EVER!

[El Locomotive]

Sorry for the long story, but I thought it was funny:

Ok, So last night I got pretty bored so I figured I’d go take some bowls and go play some PS2 or something. I leave on my way to my "safe spot" which is the top of this parking structure where there is a weird 2nd upper parking area so you can easily see if anyones coming, even tho there are no cars up there EVER. I've only ever seen 1 car up there before. So as im driving to the lot I decide to check out this TALLER parking structure right next to my normal one. As im driving im almost at the top and i get stuck behind this SLOW ass "Government Esq." Crown Victoria sedan. (looking back, it reeked of undercover cop car) but i took no notice to that. I was tailing him because i wanted him to go faster up the lot, but we were almost to the top, and there were no cars in the spots and he moved over to let me go by. But i wonder what he thought i was doing since there were open parking spots EVERYWHERE around us as I passed him to get to the top.

Since we were in this dim lighted lot at night with no cars around and only me and this guy i got scared, so i went to the top as he slowly went behind me, and i left that lot since the top was closed off, and i exited without seeing this sketchy car again. I had figured the car was either doing the same thing as me originally (lookin for a new spot), OR he was in the mob and i was going to die since a huge deal was about to go down and i was in the wrong place at the wrong time. Since the 1st idea is more likely and is what i ended up thinkin i leave and goto my usual Spot.

I get up there, unload all my stuff, pull out my homemade bong, put some water in, make the bowl out of tinfoil, and load it all the way up, and JUST LITERALLY as im about to Rip it, lighter in hand, I see car lights coming up around to the upper 2nd lot. I had literally 5-7 seconds to get rid of all evidence. I put my weed in this tin kiddy gum container (hubba bubba, that bought one time while high at blockbuster) and throw that in my side door pocket, i close the tinfoil bowl so no weed falls out and set it under my legs by the gas and brakes and closed my legs over it so he couldn’t see it if he looked, and i roll down my window acting as nonchalant as I could, but I saw that it was the SAME car I had passed in the other lot. My immediate reactions were, oh this is some vigilante minded guy who is going to give me a hard time about smokin 'the marija wanna' and going up to parkings lots to do so, or that its an undercover cop. The guys steps out in full uniform and my heart SANK.

All i could think was, WOW im fucked, im sitting in a dark parking lot, alone, with marijuana in possession, and paraphernalia in possession loaded, and i couldn’t look anymore sketchy than ever (I normally take my time, and have a mellow toke session up in my spot because NO ONE EVER GOES UP THERE, but apparently this guy did) and my mind raced as he took his steps over with flashlight in hand, my parents are going to kill me, im screwed, im going to have to go to court, this is embarrassing, my whole family is going to be disappointed, my dad is gonna think less of me. ect ect ect.


He walks up to me and this is roughly how the conversation went:

Cop: "What are you doing up here?"
Me: (stuttering because of how screwed i think i am) Uhh....Im just listening to music...and i thought..this was a nice...area to go and..relax (i wasnt pausing, i was just stuttering)
Cop: "Kind of a weird place to do that"
Me: "I know...i just thought it was nice, i was gonna...recline and listen to some music....and yah...sorry (Why would i say sorry)
Cop: looking around "Looks like you spilled somthing on your pants, what were you drinking?"

I had spilled some water i was filling my homemade with on my pants, he had noticed all the empty water bottles in my seat and cupholder, those empty water bottles werent drank, they were left over from me using them to fill up my bong when i smoked.

Me: "Uhh haha you know, just drinkin some water" (I meekly smile at him)
Cop: "So why do you have that lighter over there?"

SHIT In my rush i had forgotten to put away the last piece of evidence. Also keep in mind the marijuana and bong are SO close to this guy he was literally within 1 foot of all my evidence. I have no idea for an excuse but i just say

Me: "Ohh uhh, well i found it, i just keep things that i find in my car, (i scrummaged through my bins in my car and pulled out some Cologne i had left in there, and say) "see i found this earlier"

This was also really ironic because earlier that week i had let my bubbler tip over in it and some used bubbler water spilled in that bin and it had reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeked of it. I had to get the smell out so i lit of incense for a day or 2 in there and sprayed that cologne in there everytime i got into my car. It was only in my car BECAUSE i had spilled My bubbler in it, And it partially saved me.

Officer: "Oh well, are you going anywhere? Why do you have a snowboard in the back of your car?"
Me: “Oh I had cleaned out my garage and had to bring that back, its my friends" (i rolled down all my windows to show him)

That sounds really sketchy and random, but i wasn’t lying. Right there my whole story must have seemed completely BS and shouldn’t check out, but it all makes sense, its just weird and i seem like an eccentric loner who collects things off the streets.

Officer: "Officer you seem really nervous, are you alright?" (implying that im on something)
Me: "No im alright! But just as i was about to recline I saw lights and You just really scared the CRAP out of me! (this is where i regained my composure and realized i might make it home free, and i stopped stuttering)
Officer: "Alright, well, is there any marijuana in the car?"
Me: (Looks him straight in the eye) “Nope.”
Officer: "Alright then, well have a good night and goto sleep."
Me: "Ok thanks officer, uhm, is this illegal at all? Should I leave? Is this private property?"
Officer: "No dont worry, you just goto sleep, I wont be back"

So he off and leaves, and he just left me there, heart racing realizing what had just happened. I talked my way out of being busted when caught red handed with weed by somehow playing off being an eccentric loner street collector who goes up to parking lots alone to listen to music and apparently sleeps up there (even though I never said i was going to sleep once). I had kept my bong under my closed legs out of sight the whole time, there was only a car door between the cop and my weed, and i had left a lighter and empty water bottles for him to see. I sat back and thought about why he said "I wont be back" because this either meant that he was only going to go down a little bit and hope that i smoked and try to come back and catch me in the act, or he actually meant it. So i decided to spite him for finding my spot by blazing that bowl up there in the same spot right after he left.

Im not quite sure if it was my dumb action of going to the top of the other lot and passing that guy that got him to come find me, or was it that the cop was just already checking the tops of parking lots that led him to my area. I DID find him near the top of the other lot meaning he was checking up there before I came. But overall last night was really weird, After i toked in my not so safe spot anymore where i almost got caught , I went my friends house and went this other dark ass area that i thought about smoking before but as i drive by, a cop was down there flash lighting the SAME spot i was thinking of using. It seems like POST 420 is when the cops decide to crack down on Smoking spots. And there you have it.

SUCH A CLOSE CALL!

[Rabidbaboon]

That's so crazy. I'm so blazed right now and I had a cloe encounter this time too. We were in this alley that has tons of bushes and a huge wall on one side and it's kind of out of the way so we never see anyone in the alley especially a cop. So we're near the end of the alley and my friend starts hitting the bong when a cop puls up and we think he may have seen the bong. So we pull into a driveway real fast to act like we live there. Then we wait five seconds and pullout and see the the cop is in the neighbors driveway, and it looked like he had gotten out so we don't know what was going on. But it freaked us out so much.

[devilman2075]

i would have shit myself once he asked if there was any marijuana

[Skunkster]

yeah, when you risk getting caught blazing and about to drive, that isn't good. sounds like you almost shit yourself haha lucky

[sirsm0kesal0t]

+rep for playing it cool.

Police encounters can be intimidating.

That's why i pretty much only smoke in my house or one of my friend's houses.

[skygreenleopard]

+rep from me too, dude. I have my own EXTREMELY close encounter involving a conversation with a cop while I have a loaded pipe in my jacket pocket (look up my profile if you want to read it) and my own not-so-safe spot, so I know how nerve-racking it is. I'll blaze one for you tonight to your safety, in the safety of my own room as well. One love.

[SacrificialGlor]

You're lucky you hadn't smoked and kept your cool. What you were doing was definitely suspicious, but not illegal. The key moment was probably when he asked about the marijuana. That means he probably suspected you of possession. But since the car didn't smell, you had explanations for everything, and you looked him in the eye and said "No," he probably couldn't really do anything. Good job. Cops can be super intimidating, especially when you have weed in the car.


From my personal experience, though, it usually isn't a good idea to smoke at the top of parking structures. There are usually patrols set to check up there at least once every two or so hours. I, for instance, have been busted once at the top of a structure and talked to by the police at least another 4 times. Now, I just blaze in my dorm or friend's apartment. Blazing in a car just isn't worth the risk to me anymore.

[Totah Sam]

This would have been my close encounter:

<b>Officer:</b> <i>"What's that smell?"</i>

<b>Me:</b> <i>"umm...that would be shit. I shit myself when you drove up."</i>

[dEAGLE]

I'd be WAAY to sketched to smoke in the same spot minutes after he showed up. Good way to keep your cool though, it's always hard to do with surprises like that.

[Atom]

That story was almost as epic as 300.

[GoliathToker79]

it was pretty funny, my two friends came up to mcdonald's to pick me up from work and my friend comes in with a couple of cents, and hes like to my manager can i get a coffee, cleary doesnt have enough all zanied faced, " hook me up." it was obvious and then he starts shaking those coin donation things as if hes trying to steal from there even though he was only joking, then the manager kicks him out of the store, he gets the rest of the money and hes like can i get a coffee, shes like " no im not serving your type." and this lady is your typical african american female mcdonalds manager and my friend who is a white male asks this question "Is it because the color of my skin?" then she calls the cops and idk why my friend stuck around for the situation. So when the cop comes he has a half ounce of commerical bud, and idk how the cop didn't see this, but puts that in the mcdonalds trash can as he pulls up to the mcdonalds, funny thing is he didn't realize he had the bag on him till the cops came. Then they were asking questions to him, saying he was slurring his speech, and then the cops approached us in the car asked us if we were smoking any weed in the parking lot, so they searched him and found nothing. I was the only one who would of not got any shit, cause my other buddy had a bag one him, i didnt even know till afterwards. So if my buddy didn't put that bud in the trash, they would been screwed, nothing at least think would of happend to me just getting back from work, no weed or anything. We didnt loose the weed neither, after that my two friends went back and successfully got it back. would i have gotten any shit, if we caught just by association w/ them that be weak if that were the case, thank god we didn't get caught.

[gangaspeed]

will thats kinda hard to say if its the closest EVER or not but oh well haha

good story nonetheless +rep for bein laid back

[ownage al]

Wow man, close call... Why didnt you just bring you bubbler? Or atleast get a small little spoon if your going to go up there like that.

Nice job keeping out of trouble... and btw, I would find a new spot if i was u


+rep for playing it cool.

[Jangus]

It's a very close encounter. However, I think Rodney King had a closer encounter with a few police officers. Therefore, be glad it wasn't the closest ever.

[Thenowhereman42]

Thats how I get away from all cops, just pretend your really scared of them. Once I ran away because I was drinking in a park when a cop rolled up, only to find my previous escape path had been fenced off recently. So I walked up to him and said I wasn't doing anything wrong. He responded basically by saying bullshit but I managed to convince him I was just scared and ran simply because he was a cop.