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And that’s basically it!
But, but, I need a photo of this performance mod...
Here's the video, but sadly it doesn't show the inside of the truck.
https://www.jalopnik.com/2132022/man-custom-bong-device-car-dashboard-arrested-98-times/
I am pissed off that I watched that video, and they didn't show the damn dash bong.
Came to say the same. I was looking for inspiration!
I was thinking, "any second and they're gonna show that bong". Nope. Very disappointing.
yeah, i can think of a few rigs that are pretty easy to slap together but like, i'm stealing your rims if you want me to do that. and your distributor. fuck driving inebriated, i'll build you a hotbox but not a rolling one.
I KNOW RIGHT WHY DO YOU THINK WE EVEN CLICKED ON THIS
Inside the truck officers found a “custom bong device built into the dash of the truck so he could comfortably smoke drugs while driving”. Meth, heroin, and fentanyl were also discovered, as well as the stolen items.
The driver of the truck had 97 prior arrests. He is facing charges of DUI, eluding, and possession of narcotics. The passenger was turned over to Centralia PD for organized retail theft.
Goddamn dude
Extremely unresponsible to be driving under the influence of hard drugs. If someone is going to be smoking meth and fentanyl, they should at least have the reason to not be driving.
I mean… it didn’t say he was smoking anything but weed out of the bong… probably but FFS, how about the 99 priors??? How was this asshole even behind the wheel of a vehicle? This stinks of a CI.
The article said there was fentanyl, meth, and heroin. I'd guess that he wasn't just transporting it.
I’m not saying he wasn’t using a bit of himself. I’m just saying a bong is typically used to smoke weed. Given the potency of Fentanyl I doubt he was just casually sprinkling a bit on top for flavor 😝
Did you expect him to walk to the liquor store?
97 prior arrests sounds like police harrassment, not illegal behavior.
logic this through with me. if he'd been convicted, there would be a hell of a lot fewer arrests.
Under other circumstances, I might agree with you, but the guy built a bong into his dashboard.
That's an impressive level of commitment to DUI.
it's not convictions, it's arrests. after i'd been arrested (not convicted) 60 times, fuck obeying the law. the social contract broke.
"high" speed chase indeed
Reminds me of a story I heard like 20-30 years ago. Some German dude wrecked his Merc on the autobahn… the cops get there and he just wreaks of schnapps but they find no bottles, no means of consumption. The car gets towed to a police station to be examined and they found that he had diverted the window washing tank into the cabin, dude wants a pug of schnapps and he hits his window washer button.
That is a level of ingenuity that I love to see in people. Application of it is nooot great but he's got the spirit.
Don’t you mean spirits?
What a great example of why police chases shouldn't be a thing, the cop was more dangerous than Smokey Pete.
Cop tried bumping the truck on a fucking two-lane road with a car coming the opposite way. Holy Cheez-its.
It's almost as it cops aren't intelligent.
I remember them shooting at a hijacked FedEx truck
It couldn't go fast anyway, had a tracker and was stuck in traffic with cars everywhere.
It was going nowhere.
No negotiating or thinking, the cops just started firing.
They killed everyone in the truck (driver/victim also) and at least 1 (or more if I remember correctly) of the unlucky commuters in the line of fire.
From another article:
*Two pursuits. Both were terminated because his driving was so reckless that it was dangerous to keep chasing him. He was blowing through intersections at high speed through downtown Olympia and into Lacey.
That’s how innocent people die. A family heading home. A kid crossing the street. We’re handing the wheel to a driver who’s apparently high on meth and fentanyl and has no intention of stopping.*
Why was he let go with so many priors?
Ethical catch and release
What? Is he too small?
Two more and he'll get a free ice cream
A high speed chase, or a high speed chase?
Also: wtf was with the pit maneuver when oncoming traffic was like less than a 100 feet ahead? Dumbass shit.
This whole chase was idiotic. Poor pit maneuver. Chasing suspect through traffic and intersections.
He definitely needs to get arrested 2 more times now
322*
What if, hear me out, you confiscated the car at any of the previous 95 stops?
Oh yeah this is America so it will make it impossible for you to live..... You know what, in that scenario dash bong seems totally reasonable.
You must appreciate his persistence.
Paywall BTW.
He should put that on his resume
Someone pardon this man.
If Grand Theft Auto were a Souls-like.