Possibly Amusing Story

It was 1967 (the Summer Of Love) and me and a friend took the bus to downtown L.A. with a coupla bombers and some bread crusts for the ducks.
We went to MacArthur Park. There's a small lake there and we rented a tiny electric boat to smoke out in the only safe place we could think of (back then smoking pot was a serious crime), the middle of the lake.
So we motor out to the middle and fire one up.
We weren't paying attention and the boat had drifted close to shore where we were spotted by a cop walking his beat in the park who smelled out pot smoke.
"Hey" he yells. We wave and say "Hey" back and motored back out to the middle to continue our smoke session.

The cop calls a friend and they sprint to the boat house and get in a boat and set out after us.
Now these boats had a top speed of like 5 MPH. It was a snap to keep away from the cops. They followed us around the lake for about 10 minutes, us puffing furiously the entire time, getting rid of the evidence. They ordered us to stop and we did. I knew they couldn't get from their tiny little boat into ours (the boats were big enough for 2 people).
We also knew the cops wouldn't get in the water (the lake is only like 3'--4' deep) cause they didn't want to get their bullets wet. So they're right next to us but there was nothing they could do. They talked about it for a few minutes while we continued to blaze our weed.
About the time a couple of other cops show up in another boat we had smoked the joints down to tiny roaches. They ordred us to return to the boathouse and we did, taking the long way around, followed by 2 boats and 4 cops. Just before we got there we tossed the 2 roaches into the water where they were immediently gobbled up by ducks.
Completely clean but with a beautiful buzz we dock and get out. There were 2 more cops there waiting for us.
We got throughly searched and they threatened to arrest us, but a sergeant showed up and he asked the cops "did you order them to stop?"
The cops said yeah and the sergeant asks if we did stop and they admitted we had.
Anyway they decieded that they couldn't arrest us for anything though we were obvious stoned (my friend had blue eyes and his eyes looked like the American flag, red,white and blue).
One cop said we were probably anti-war commies (back in '67 anyone who had long hair was labeled a communist) and I said "look at Bruce's eyes--they're the color of the American flag!"
Bruce says "Yeah, we're very patriotic. We're so patriotic we'll go a a ball game and stand up for the entire game."
So they let us go and as they leave one cop looks us up and down. We looked like Cheech and Chong--long hair, beards, love beads, etc.
He says "Man you know this place is going down hill when their type move in" but he had kinda a smile on his face.
We hung out at the park a bit longer, feeding the ducks more bread crusts and then took the bus home.

 

Great story, wish I was around back then.

 

damn man how old ARE you???

 

he's so old he toked weed before it became illegal

 

my list of bands to listen to

-pink floyd
-devendra banhart
-flaming lips
-jack johnson (walk alone)
-linval thompson
-matt costa (SUNSHINE) possibly the 3rd or fourth happiest song ever made
-of montreal
-the shins
-bela fleck and the flecktones
-ween
-bob marley (listened to him way too much)
-laugh my ass off to kelly clarkson for a few seconds then i cut that shit out

 

this has absolutly no relevence to this thread.. i mean none at all... but i will hijack this thread with u.. i heard devendra banhart for the first time the other day, and i think that its pretty good stuff. Anyone know where to get devendra banhart live shows?

 

great story, whats the deal with that /\

 

Damn fine story

 

That was great, I wonder if you could get away with that today.

 

Great story. Like blind melon said I wish I was around back then. And uhh...I saw the post of favorite bands to listen to or whatever and I tried thinking what this person possibly could have been doing but...I got nothin...other than they were really really high and thought they were posting in a different thread? Thats about it.

 

lol great mental image of 4 cops chasing you in tiny little boats, classic.

 

hahah yeah high (literally) speed chase in little boats ^^

 

yea you could prolly get away with it there today all the cops are looking for crack dealers and buyers

 

what? people are busted all the time for having pot and other drugs and alcohal and stuff on their boat, usually big lakes have patrol boats that look like regular boats that go around checking if people are fishing with a license or not.

 

Hahaha, wow that's the funniest image ever. A chase in boats going 5mph while you guys are blazing up.

Lucky you for experiencing those times too.

 

Great story.

The best thing about the summer of love was, even though a joint was a felony, there was no AIDS.

 

awww that was a cute story

feeding ducks at the lake is fun

 

man i hear conflicting reports about how weed was treated by the law "back in the day". some people tell me no one gave two shits and you could walk down the street blazing a doob without a second look, and some older heads tell me cops used to slam you to the wall for a roach.

 

where i live i can walk down the street smokin a doob & nobody says jack shit.

 

Now they probally would have tased your ass or some shit.