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Black Lab Retrieves Pot, Causes Owner's Drug Arrest; Retrieves Pot, Takes It To Officer
AP ^ | 2.16.05

Posted on 02/16/2005 2:09:34 PM PST by ambrose

Black Lab Retrieves Pot, Causes Owner's Drug Arrest Dog Wades Into Creek, Retrieves Pot, Takes It To Officer

POSTED: 9:22 am EST February 16, 2005 UPDATED: 10:56 am EST February 16, 2005

GRAPEVINE, Texas -- JD the Labrador Retriever meant well, but he has landed his owner in a mess of trouble.

Police said his owner, Matthew Porter, of Richland Hills, was playing Frisbee golf with two friends at a suburban Dallas-Fort Worth course Monday when a police officer arrived.

The officer thought he smelled burning marijuana, so he asked the men for identification and began checking for outstanding warrants.

JD, apparently sensing the party was over, waded into nearby Bear Creek, retrieved a plastic bag containing pot and brought it to the officer.

The black Lab's 25-year-old owner was charged with possessing drug paraphernalia. Micah Hays, 24, was charged with marijuana possession. The third member of the party -- a 31-year-old Mansfield man -- wasn't charged. JD was turned over to him.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption
KEYWORDS: ambrosespam; doggieping; gooddog; pets; wodlist
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To: ambrose

Suggestion: Divide the number of reported felonies by the number of police officers in your town. I've seen towns where they have more cops than felonies in a year. And, it's not because they have so many cops. Cops don't stop crimes, they write reports.
If you have less than a felony per officer per year, you're overcopped.


41 posted on 02/16/2005 3:33:31 PM PST by jjmcgo
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To: ibbryn

Actually, we have a nasty problem in a lot of our parks. I'm not in favor of some entrapment efforts that I've read about but I do like having cops making the guys at the edge of the park and on the trails keep moving. If'n you know what I mean.


42 posted on 02/16/2005 3:35:46 PM PST by jjmcgo
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To: jjmcgo
If you have less than a felony per officer per year, you're overcopped.

Or underfelonined.

43 posted on 02/16/2005 3:55:08 PM PST by ScottFromSpokane (http://drunkengop.blogspot.com/)
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To: dead; AnAmericanMother
Labs are more unemployed drinking buddy than rocket scientist in the dog intelligence hierarchy.

Many Search and Rescue and Seeing Eye dogs are labs.

Would your unemployed drinking buddy risk his life to search through rubble for you?

44 posted on 02/16/2005 4:03:42 PM PST by Vigilantcitizen
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To: ambrose

In the early 70's, there was a park where the police swarmed in and kicked a hugh amount of hippies out of. You see, people couldn't bring their families there without seeing some kind of "circus act", or stoned flocks of people.


45 posted on 02/16/2005 4:09:25 PM PST by BobS
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To: ambrose; aculeus; Lijahsbubbe; Owl_Eagle; dighton; Charles Henrickson
Let's face it... guys smoking weed while playing frisbee with a dog are perfectly harmless. If cops don't have anything better to do with their time than harass people like this, can we then cut the police budget and refund my taxes?

And :

Who said "Give me Librium or give me meth?"

Obviously there are two certainties in life: meth and taxes. It's all going to the dogs. It's only a matter of time before the cops catch on to pot-bellied pigs.

46 posted on 02/16/2005 5:39:25 PM PST by Thinkin' Gal
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To: Vigilantcitizen
Would your unemployed drinking buddy risk his life to search through rubble for you?

Hell yeah! Or he wouldn't be my unemployed drinking buddy!

Unemployed drinking buddies are good people, they'll just never split the atom.

47 posted on 02/16/2005 5:43:35 PM PST by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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To: Stone Mountain
You would have to ask the good people of Grapevine, Texas about their local self-governing issue.
48 posted on 02/16/2005 5:44:13 PM PST by Cultural Jihad
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To: dead

Heh. I think those guys were not the rocket scientists. The Lab did its job.


49 posted on 02/16/2005 6:03:02 PM PST by dervish (Europe should pay for NATO)
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To: ambrose

About the only thing they will convict on if the defense lawyer is halfway decent is the paraphenalia.


50 posted on 02/16/2005 9:11:19 PM PST by festus (The constitution may be flawed but its a whole lot better than what we have now.)
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To: aculeus; Thinkin' Gal
Who said "Give me Librium or give me meth?"

Timothy Leary? Or was it Courtney Love...

51 posted on 02/16/2005 9:21:31 PM PST by Lijahsbubbe
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To: HairOfTheDog

I just saw this on the evening news. LOL The owner laughed about it and said no he's not mad at the Lab.

My youngest Lab woke me up the Monday Morning with the See's Candy Easter Catalog in his mouth for me....I had been fighting the night before with myself on controlling my urge to order some for Easter.

Here is a pic from Valentines, they are growing fast. They pups have both discovered my son is the same guy in the waterbed and in the wheelchair and the baby is retreiving things bringing them to my son and can't quite understand why he doesn't throw thing for him. He wants to help care for my son sooo bad but I haven't figured out how to integrate his desire yet. He does take all his blankets and pillows off of him when he is frustrated with me, gotta turn that into a positive action. He really is into my son's going ons and now the 1yr old is joining in because he wants to outshine in the popularity dept.

The 11yr old continues to assist by opening and closing doors for us and interacts with my son but he is sloooooowing down and stepping back a bit.
King Vanities Valentines Day!
Address:http://community-2.webtv.net/wheelchairsite/KingVanities/page2.html


52 posted on 02/16/2005 11:09:39 PM PST by oceanperch (2005 is going to be an Awesome Year, which way that will go only God knows)
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To: ambrose

Yeah huh duh the dopey dude tosses the bag and his retreiver fetches.

LOL to funny. Great story.


53 posted on 02/16/2005 11:14:44 PM PST by oceanperch (2005 is going to be an Awesome Year, which way that will go only God knows)
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To: MoralSense

Holy Crap! I am so glad the dog was not hurt.


54 posted on 02/16/2005 11:16:54 PM PST by oceanperch (2005 is going to be an Awesome Year, which way that will go only God knows)
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To: oceanperch
Those are some beautiful sweeties!

My family had a lab "Blackie" when I was a little girl...preschool age. I used to run to the window every morning, drag a chair over, and look outside for my buddy.

Mom could put me outside for HOURS with that dog and never worry about me (although, she kept a sharp eye of course). Blackie would oversee me in my baby pool...and if I slipped he would grab my bathing suit strap and pull me up. I also rode him around like a horse...I was the oldest kid, and I loved that doggie...he was my best friend.

I have pictures of me riding him around; and of him standing guard; RIGHT next to me at the side of the pool...he has a look on his face like he had the most important job in the world!

55 posted on 02/16/2005 11:20:34 PM PST by garandgal
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To: Thinkin' Gal

If it was he should lose custody of his Lab (the dog).

Did you see the news here in Oregon about the woman who tried to smuggle pounds of meth (I think 16) in horse saddles through PDX.

Cops said if she wasn't holding her stomach and looking so nervous she would have succeeded. Hindsight for her, she should have maybe not dipped into her speed and taken a few downers to avoid that paranoid look.


56 posted on 02/16/2005 11:22:18 PM PST by oceanperch (2005 is going to be an Awesome Year, which way that will go only God knows)
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To: satchmodog9

Good snacks eh.

Here are my latest from Feb. 14
King Vanities Valentines Day!
Address:http://community-2.webtv.net/wheelchairsite/KingVanities/page2.html


57 posted on 02/16/2005 11:24:27 PM PST by oceanperch (2005 is going to be an Awesome Year, which way that will go only God knows)
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To: Indie

Yeah but if kids are playing in the park too.....

Someone most likely reported the guys.


58 posted on 02/16/2005 11:26:53 PM PST by oceanperch (2005 is going to be an Awesome Year, which way that will go only God knows)
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To: jjmcgo

Yep We are on the coast and the transeint camps in the bushes are many. State Parks ect.

All around town for that fact.

Then there is the seedy men who like the bathrooms at the State Park.


59 posted on 02/16/2005 11:30:44 PM PST by oceanperch (2005 is going to be an Awesome Year, which way that will go only God knows)
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To: festus
About the only thing they will convict on if the defense lawyer is halfway decent is the paraphenalia.

Your Honor, it was the dog's stash. Not mine. I swear.

60 posted on 02/16/2005 11:30:46 PM PST by okie01 (A slavering moron and proud member of the lynch mob, cleaning the Augean stables of MSM since 1998.)
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