Papers, please…

 

In the small hours of the morning deputies contacted two men in the 20000 block of Highway 74 and arrested one of them on an outstanding warrant. Turning their attention to the other, they asked the fellow if the black backpack he carried contained anything untoward, and he assured them it didn’t. Unconvinced, the deputies opened a zippered pocket on the bag to reveal a pipe cleverly designed to mimic the appearance of a cigarette and well-encrusted with suspiciously fragrant residues. Again the officers asked the man if his bag held anything they should know about, and again he said no. Reaching into the backpack a second time, the deputies produced a package of Zig-Zag rolling papers and wondered aloud whether the man used them to roll tobacco. “I use them to smoke marijuana,” he said, “like everyone else.” Despite the man’s admirable candor, the deputies confiscated the illicit trove.

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