Coast Guard came onto boat during labor day arrested everyone

we were just sitting there not smoking or anything and these dicks come and board my sailboat search everything find a pot leaf in my photo album and some adrenalin that was in the boats medicine cabinet when I bought it, for stings and the shock etc. Well, the coast guard couldn't arrest us of course so they tried to get the city police to do it but they didn't want to bother so this one dick (and they really were dicks, idiots more like, talking about things from COPs tv show and shit)
I had had a jasmine plant on my boat--died--that I put tin foil under it so it didn't leak, well the blue miracle grow crystalized to the bottom, they took the tinfoil and put it in their tester (I guess it turns blue) but they knew the blue was from fertilizer, then they told the city police they had coke and they came and busted us and fucked my boat up. I got off the fake coke thing but still got it for the pot and had to take a class and pay money.

 

rofl thats the stupidest fucking thing ive ever heard. how fucking retarded can they get. where do you live by the way? i couldnt imagine anybody being that much of an asshole. they mustve been REALLY bored.

 

that fucking sucks it just goes to show you that cops have nothing better to do then bust pot smokers even when they aren't smoking

 

It was in Sarasota FL . It was labor day weekend and they were retarded. The coast guard was stopping boats and cutting them up with the sawsall looking for hidden compartments, but they had no proof or warrants they don't need them, they have pretty much unlimited power on the water. I think they are federal.

 

They are Feds. FYI you have no-zero-zip-zilch constitutional rights at a border. They don't need probable cause, they don't need no stinking warrants, to do anything they feel like if you are in-near-close to any kind of border or port of entry. Like Sarasota. Shit, they could have been within their rights to do a cavity search if they were really in a pissy mood "It's the war on drugs, Maam."
Why you should always be a polite asskissing fool around law enforcement...
3 years ago my pal ed and I were on a charter fishing out of Key West. Ed had pled out to a federal drug conspiracy rap a few years prior to that, so even though he's got a large set of cajones, he started to get a little nervous when the Coast Guard inflatable just was on us in a flash out of nowhere. The 171 (171 foot cutter) was about 2 miles away. these guys were good, came out of the sun and really were on us before we had a chance to know what was happening. Not wanting to be a guest of the Federal Government for 5 to 7 years as a 2 time loser, Ed sticks his pipe and stash into my pocket. Ed looks like a drug dealer, I look like a banker. So while the Chief and 2 sailors are going around this 40 foot boat, I chat up the sailor tending the inflatable. Seems like he was from near my home town, and we were on our way to become fast friends. Mostly the Coasties were doing safety inspections at the time, drug interdiction was last month but they had a good month and didn't have to do it for a while. Anyways, I got a 2 minute ride on the inflatable cause the chief said it was OK, I owe the coastie a beer next time I see him in Sloppy Joe's, and we didn't have to deep six the stash which would have kept us out of court if it went overboard. The captain didn't do as well, he got 4 bullshit tickets for equipment violations, but mostly for being a Russian Immigrant.

 

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Damn, that's fucked up. I'd be fuckin swingin fists if that shit happened to me.

 

Drugs are big business in Florida.Like the state trooper who stops you on the highway,the vessel and individuals will be checked against a data base for past history.I guess the boarding officer gave you a copy of (Form CG-4100) and if there was any damage to your boat,a claim form for you to get reimbursed for repair.They used a boat scope to view the underwater body and a fiber-optic viewing device to look in odd places.Sounding of all tanks is also common but they've never had proable cause to search every conceivable hiding place. The law enforcement seems to be the new mission of the CG but i still believe in the motto"No Call Unanswered."

 

You wont collect a dime from the Nazi state of Florida.

 

my buddy got pissy when they tried to arrest him, almost got himself jacked up.
well, some guys came in thru sarasota after sailing to jamaica for pot (they compress it in pvc for something like $10 lb) then they kept it in a box overboard so they could cut it free if they got stopped, of course they didn't. Other sailers do hard drugs so...I've been stopped before piloting this lawyers boat; guess seeing a long haired "kid" with these professionals set them off (or they just don't want to stop real trafficers who would be armed and desperate right?)

 

Dont get mad get even = There is a coast guard forum. http://www.uscg.org/

 

I could've gotten even right after the fact, they asked me if I wanted to press charges but then I figured they would just harass me more; there's all kinds of ways to make us miserable, like our heads are supposed to be hooked to a holding tank which is nasty, everyone just dumps (the city dumps millions of gallons of sewage too)