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Run-ins with the law
Me and a friend had just been to the cinema up-town in London (to see Spank the Monkey if I remember rightly) and as it was a lovely summer's evening we thought we'd go for a couple of spliffs in Hyde Park after. So, we wandered into a particularly dark patch of the park and I proceeded to skin up. Half way through rolling the second one, rizla, hash and cigarettes on the grass in front of me, a bright light suddenly appeard from nowhere! I very quickly realised it was emanating from the torch of a PC, who was accompanied by a WPC. He said, 'What are you doing?'. A billion possible reply options ran through my head in about 2 seconds, and then I thought there was no point trying to blag this one (especially as I was licking the rizla to finish the joint off when the light appeared). It was a fair cop. So I thought I'm not even going to try and bullshit this guy. I said, 'I'm just rolling a joint, actually'. To my utter amazement the PC said, 'Just make sure you take your rubbish with you', and buggered off into the night with his partner! On the other hand I have been taken to a police station and strip-searched by the police for 'looking at them in a funny way' before.
(Fri 9th Jan 2004, 10:32, More)