I was pulled over by an Amdro salesman! 
Posted on 02/17/2013 7:06:45 AM PST by JoeProBono
COLUMBUS, Ohio, - A Texas woman said police in Tennessee detained her because they thought the Ohio State University Buckeye logo on her car was a "marijuana sticker."
Bonnie Jonas-Boggioni, 65, of Plano, Texas, told The Columbus (Ohio) Dispatch she and her 66-year-old husband were driving near Memphis Feb. 4 when police in a black sport utility vehicle pulled them over, and then a second black SUV pulled behind the first.
Jonas-Boggioni said she hadn't been speeding so she wondered why police were pulling her over.
"They were very serious," she said. "They had the body armor and the guns."
One of the officers asked her, "What are you doing with a marijuana sticker on your bumper?"
Jonas-Boggioni, a longtime Buckeyes fan who grew up in Columbus -- and is president of the Ohio State Alumni Club in the Dallas-Fort Worth area -- told the officer what the decal actually represents but she said he didn't seem to get it.
"He looked at me like I was speaking a foreign language," she said.
Jonas-Boggioni's husband, Guido, 66, got out of the car to show the police his sweatshirt -- an item from Ohio State's 2002 national-championship season, sporting a Buckeye leaf.
One of the officers said someone outside his jurisdiction had seen the logo on Jonas-Boggiono's car and thought it might mean the car was carrying pot, the Dispatch said.
"It's just amazing they would be that dumb," said.
A West Tennessee Drug Task Force spokeswoman said a decal is not sufficient cause to detain a motorist. The Tennessee Highway Patrol and the Shelby County sheriff's office in Memphis had no record of the stop.
They are that dumb. It is amazeing what dumb things they do
Really? Good in what sense? Good that they didn’t shoot the dog or good that the cops self-identified as morons? Does anyone, let alone a supposedly trained LEO, think a drug smuggler would post a sign identifying themselves as such? I don’t see much good in this personally.
I was pulled over by an Amdro salesman!
Well, isn’t a Buckeye some kind of a nut?
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"What difference does it make?"
Actually, no, not amazing, but policy. Police Depts purposefully hire stupid people because they are much more likely to submit to orders than a free thinking smart person.
You might not be thanking them if your dog is with you in the car....
She means they were stopped by THE Tennessee Highway Patrol.
Police aren’t generaly the people who can see fine distinctions between things.
I am sorry officer, and with all due respect, but the reason you gave is just not sufficient probable cause for a traffic stop. I will have to inform your shift commander lest anyone else suffer the inconvenience and risk such a stop entails.
Or imagine if they had a dog AND were delivering newspapers! Yikes!
If you are near Memphis, be very careful. It has a history of aggressive cops, bad stops, corruption.
Seriously? These particular LEOs apparently aren’t very bright to begin with.
How about the cops that shot up the newspaper delivery ladies’ truck a week or so ago? “Good” mistake or bad? Would you thank them for their attention to detail?
So why does the football team have marijuana logos all over their helmets?
I hear the cops around Memphis traffic Buckeye to local Buckeye smokers.
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