Sweet: Man arrested for doughnut glaze gets $37,500
Source: Associated Press
Updated 4:59 pm, Friday, October 13, 2017
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) A man arrested in Florida after police mistook doughnut glaze in his car for meth has received a $37,500 settlement.
Daniel Rushing told the Orlando Sentinel that he received a check last week from the city of Orlando.
Rushing was arrested in December 2015 when Cpl. Shelby Riggs-Hopkins spotted flakes of glaze on his car's floorboard and thought they were pieces of crystal methamphetamine. Rushing told officers it was likely sugar from Krispy Kreme doughnuts he'd eaten, but roadside drug tests were positive for the illegal substance.
A state crime lab test cleared Rushing several weeks later, and he filed a lawsuit.
Read more: http://www.chron.com/news/crime/article/Sweet-Man-arrested-for-doughnut-glaze-gets-12276889.php
ck4829
(35,077 posts)It's getting a little longer. I am incredibly surprised because I don't see anyone else keeping a running list of this nonsense.
displacedtexan
(15,696 posts)in the back of his station wagon, next to his accordion. He spent an uncomfortable night in jail, until the state college botanist arrived and pronounced the plant a healthy Boston Fern.
ck4829
(35,077 posts)displacedtexan
(15,696 posts)Dumbfuckery has no expiration date, though. Do you have a volume dedicated to Florida Man?
ck4829
(35,077 posts)not fooled
(5,801 posts)Confusing a Boston fern with cannabis???? The LEO who made the preliminary determination obviously didn't have sufficient know-how to be throwing citizens in jail based on such a boneheaded ID.
LeftInTX
(25,337 posts)yardwork
(61,608 posts)Aristus
(66,369 posts)the municipality will crack down on dumbfuck cops.
EL34x4
(2,003 posts)You'd see a lot less dumbfuckery.
NBachers
(17,110 posts)Somebody had to say it.
spike jones
(1,678 posts)TexasBushwhacker
(20,190 posts)KWR65
(1,098 posts)I'll be rich!
Sneederbunk
(14,291 posts)dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)Back when breathalysers were first being widely used.
He challenged the field test by interrogating not only the arresting officer but police Dept. adherence to the mandated calibration tests of the instruments.
Seems the breathalysers were supposed to be checked for accuracy and re-calibrated every few months or so and police depts were not doing it, thus the cases were being dismissed.
Would think maybe that is still a good legal issue.
Old Vet
(2,001 posts)obamanut2012
(26,076 posts)ProfessorGAC
(65,042 posts)More like the test was fudged to support the "found" method.
edbermac
(15,939 posts)Why not just eat a bag of sugar?
TexasBushwhacker
(20,190 posts)olddad56
(5,732 posts)Calista241
(5,586 posts)I wish Live PD was following those cops that night.
romanic
(2,841 posts)And how did it test "positive"???
oberliner
(58,724 posts)For what that is worth.