After looking into the story more, this headline is quite misleading. The woman was initially pulled over displaying intoxicated behavior and a glass meth pipe was visible in plain view to the officer which is why he had probable cause to search the car. The woman was covered in sores, gave a false name to the police, and a blackened spoon with faint residue was found in her purse. The spoon did test negative for meth, but it almost certainly was used for drug use in the past, but the girl decided to eat with it most recently. The cops fucked up and never tested the pipe. The spaghettiOs on the spoon is her claim, the residue being from food was never confirmed, there obviously isn’t a positive/negative test for spaghettiOs that exists. She also missed her court date which makes her acceptance of the settlement more sensible. The headline kinda paints this story as an innocent girl minding her own business and being carted off to jail for having a spoon coated in tomato sauce by evil cops. The reality is more that an obvious meth user was pulled over for being on meth, the cops didn’t do their full due diligence to prove it, and this woman legally served time she shouldn’t have and won a nice payout. Still sucks for her and not defending the cops since it looks like they made some mistakes, but one could argue she got lucky and this should serve as a reminder that Reddit headlines are rarely as straightforward as they seem.
Aww yah understandable then and yah she's definitely just a tweeker that got super lucky then. Cops have done this before though they locked up a guy for meth when it turned out to be glazing from a Krispy Kreme donut. https://youtu.be/q11WyEt3FIw?is=a0LmYJg0GtbPE1jZ
Thanks for that link. I’m definitely not intending to blanket defend cops, they fuck up all the time, including in this spaghettiOs case. We should expect better policing, both because innocent people are put away and guilty people aren’t properly investigated
Naww I know. Only started fairly recently. Shit is nowhere near as crazy as a drug as I've always been taught. Its even bullshit after you build a tolerance. Fentanyl and harder opiates are crazier to me
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u/Interesting-Rope-950 12d ago
As someone that does meth theres no way they mistook that for meth, they did that shit on purpose. Looks nothing like meth in a spoon