Posted on 11/25/2013 5:08:12 AM PST by Orangedog
Norman Gurley, 30, is facing drug-related charges in Lorain County, Ohio, despite the fact that state troopers did not actually find any drugs in his possession.
Ohio passed a law in 2012 making it a felony to alter a vehicle to add a secret compartment with the “intent” of using it to conceal drugs for trafficking.
Gurley is the first actual person arrested under the law. WKYC in Northeast Ohio covered the arrest, with no notable journalistic skepticism whatsoever:
They pulled over the driver for speeding, but then troopers noticed several wires running to the back of the car.
Those wires then led them directly to a hidden compartment.
Around 5 p.m. on Tuesday state troopers made the arrest under the law, which is meant to combat criminals who modify the inside of their car, allowing them to store drugs or weapons inside secret compartments, which can often only be accessed electronically.
They just noticed some wires, did they? Just while in the process of handing Gurley a speeding ticket, they noticed the wires?
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Yes.
>> Come on drug warriors and big government types.
a.k.a. statists.
Divining rods work. Do not knock it if you have never tried it.
It is a strange sensation to feel it twitch slightly in your hands. The rod can find water whether it is in a pipe or an underground stream or well source.
Most of them are too young and too undereducated to know about the moonshiners and rum runners, Colonel.
BTW, Hi, sweetie!
Hello, dear lady! How have you been?
Thank you for the greeting :) I hope all is well with you and yours!
Two wires works as well...
and the ability to do it appears to be genetic.
Things are going well. We’re keeping warm. It never got over freezing here today, but if the sun shines, it helps to warm the house because we have some large windows on the south side.
Bryan is doing all right as well. He’s out in the garage switching the John Deere to the snow thrower from the mowing deck.
The blue air is seeping in around the door, and I may wander out there with a nice, hot cup of tea for him soon.
I hope that you and your family are also well, and Happy Thanksgiving!
Genetic? Truly? Wow. No one in my family ever even mentioned it.
I guess they didn’t know that they could. I just tried it one day, and I felt the little twitch. I was amazed.
I can do it with a thin forked branch, but I have never tried it with wires.
Thank you, sir, for that information.
It may induce the kind of cognitive dissonance that many have when they see pictures of good little American boys and girls in the 1920s and 30s giving the Hitler salute while reciting the pledge of allegiance.
I’m almost surprised they didn’t sodalite the guy trying to find the imaginary drugs.
In my family, it comes down from my dad’s side.
He showed me how to do it with the wires, and it worked!
Now, I’ve polled my family, and my siblings and their/my kids can all do it (so far), but none of their spouses.
That’s fascinating, Sir.
I never had children, and my family, but for one sister, has passed away.
I’ll never know where I got it or whether I could have given it to my kids.
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