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...again. Is this like the 30th...40th time now?

http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=12253020

I have a good idea,
"LEAVE WILLIE NELSON ALONE!"
For fuck's sake, the man is a national treasure. If he likes to smoke the sticky we should let him.

Not only is the man a national treasure, but that is just such a dick-move by whatever border cops- its just low-hanging fruit. On the ultrawavelength that shows weed consumption, that bus can be seen from space. It should be on a rotating dias at the Smithsonian as a living metaphor for smoking weed. I bet when those border guards ended their shifts and went home their wives got one whiff of them when they came in the door and said 'wtf have you been, Willie Nelson's tourbus?'

This just in: Sun rises in the east.

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I didn't realize how old he really is. Checked and he's 77. Hell, more power to him.

Willie smokes damn good weed, too...

Way to make a sweet old man very unhappy.



FUCK YOU, JUAN SALAZAR, JR!! FUCK YOU!!

At least nobody thought this belonged in "Headline news."

My first reaction was "...and the Pope wears a silly hat."

A chickenshit move made by a little manwho can now brag that he busted a celebrity. Congrats asshole.

My buddy the CHP officer says he only busts people with loud pipes if they're being real retards about it. He said he could wait by the HD dealers andf shoot fish in the barrel all day, but he doesn't--because that would be chhickenshit.

I would love to see Junior get tickets every time he rolls through a stop, goes 1 mile over the speed limit, or does't signal on lane changes. Every time. For starters. Asshole.

guitargeek wrote:Willie smokes damn good weed, too...

Good! The man has earned every bit of it.

Zer0 wrote:A chickenshit move made by a little manwho can now brag that he busted a celebrity. Congrats asshole.

My buddy the CHP officer says he only busts people with loud pipes if they're being real retards about it. He said he could wait by the HD dealers andf shoot fish in the barrel all day, but he doesn't--because that would be chhickenshit.

I would love to see Junior get tickets every time he rolls through a stop, goes 1 mile over the speed limit, or does't signal on lane changes. Every time. For starters. Asshole.

guitargeek wrote:Willie smokes damn good weed, too...

Good! The man has earned every bit of it.

This was the Border Patrol, they bust everyone (and heads). No offence but Willie is one dumb shit if he thought rolling through customs with weed would be ok, even if the story that they smelled the pot is false, and if he was hotboxing the tourbus at the border, he's in the running for dumbfuck of the year, 2010.

One law for everyone, even when you don't agree with that law. No separate code for celebrities.

rolly wrote:No separate code for celebrities.

My thoughts exactly. And what if it wasn't such a well liked celebrity. For example, if Jim Phelps got busted with a bag of weed you'd all be yelling to have him hanged. Yes I know you'd all like to have him hanged anyway but you get the point.

thrasherbill wrote:

rolly wrote:No separate code for celebrities.

My thoughts exactly. And what if it wasn't such a well liked celebrity. For example, if Jim Phelps got busted with a bag of weed you'd all be yelling to have him hanged. Yes I know you'd all like to have him hanged anyway but you get the point.

What'd Jim Phelps ever do to you?

Damn it I meant Fred.

thrasherbill wrote:

rolly wrote:No separate code for celebrities.

My thoughts exactly. . . .

Billy, Rolly, I understand that. A law's a law, good or stupid, celebrity or not, fine, and I bet Officer Junior will say the same thing: "A law's a law," but something tells me Willie will get busted again long before we . . .

Zer0 wrote: see Junior get tickets every time he rolls through a stop, goes 1 mile over the speed limit, or does't signal on lane changes. Every time. For starters.

We all know he can flash his badge, and they both can yuck it off, and off he goes.

Getting off point, but I'm irked.

But now for my main point: you're right Rollie, it is dumb to try to take drugs through a border checkpoint, BUT . . . Sierra Blanca is not a point of entry. It's on Interstate 10. He wasn't entering the country. It was a checkpoint along a US Highway, where they're supposed to be looking for smuggled illegals, weapons, etc. whatever-- not <4 oz. of pot.

I know, a law's a law, but with all this border security hysteria, this guy tied himself, and arguably others up, for less than 4 oz. of weed. Great use of resources. I feel much safer now.

Zer0 wrote:

thrasherbill wrote:

rolly wrote:No separate code for celebrities.

My thoughts exactly. . . .

Billy, Rolly, I understand that. A law's a law, good or stupid, celebrity or not, fine, and I bet Officer Junior will say the same thing: "A law's a law," but something tells me Willie will get busted again long before we . . .

Zer0 wrote: see Junior get tickets every time he rolls through a stop, goes 1 mile over the speed limit, or does't signal on lane changes. Every time. For starters.

We all know he can flash his badge, and they both can yuck it off, and off he goes.

Getting off point, but I'm irked.

But now for my main point: you're right Rollie, it is dumb to try to take drugs through a border checkpoint, BUT . . . Sierra Blanca is not a point of entry. It's on Interstate 10. He wasn't entering the country. It was a checkpoint along a US Highway, where they're supposed to be looking for smuggled illegals, weapons, etc. whatever-- not <4 oz. of pot.

I know, a law's a law, but with all this border security hysteria, this guy tied himself, and arguably others up, for less than 4 oz. of weed. Great use of resources. I feel much safer now.

Now that I didn't get, I assumed he was entering the country. Call me old fashioned, but I always thought border security belonged, you know, on the border. Sorry Willie for calling you a dumb shit!
Checkpoints belong in cold war espionage films.

Allegedly it was 6 ounces.

And really, does it matter if his bus was stopped for a "border" check or for not signalling a lane change? Either way the bus got stopped and an officer came up with cause to search the bus. I'm not saying the officer had just cause but the officer felt it was and therefore he carried out his duty, and found a large quantity of an illegal narcotic. Again, take the celebrity out of the equation and this is a non story.

thrasherbill wrote:Allegedly it was 6 ounces.

Not that it matters, but the Detyention Report Geek posted says more than 2, less than 4 oz. I know because I had to google "greater than and less than" to remember the difference between < and >

rolly wrote:Checkpoints belong in cold war espionage films.

And in the US as well, unfortunately. We have them on just about every major freeway near the Mexican border, some of them 30 or 50 miles or so inlandon the 15 and 5 North way north of San Diego, and another on the 10 West coming out of Arizona. Yes, Arizona. --not sure about the Canadian border. I doubt it, since the US isn't as paranoid about illegal Canadians, as they are Mexicans.

Zer0 wrote: --not sure about the Canadian border. I doubt it, since the US isn't as paranoid about illegal Canadians, as they are Mexicans.

I've run into checkpoints 50 or so miles south of the Canadian border. They're not as paranoid about illegal Canadians as they are Quebecois.

thrasherbill wrote:And really, does it matter if his bus was stopped for a "border" check or for not signalling a lane change? Either way the bus got stopped and an officer came up with cause to search the bus. I'm not saying the officer had just cause but the officer felt it was and therefore he carried out his duty, and found a large quantity of an illegal narcotic. Again, take the celebrity out of the equation and this is a non story.

Spoken like someone who's never been shaken down by a bored cop with a chip on his shoulder.

I dunno, maybe the cops are different in Canadia, but in Texas, they'll stop you because they don't like the looks of your vehicle, they'll do a complete "safety inspection" on the side of the road, and I know from personal experience that they'll stop a tour bus to try and get an autograph.

guitargeek wrote: Spoken like someone who's never been shaken down by a bored cop with a chip on his shoulder.

Not true. Happened to me on many occasions.

guitargeek wrote:I dunno, maybe the cops are different in Canadia, but in Texas, they'll stop you because they don't like the looks of your vehicle, they'll do a complete "safety inspection" on the side of the road, and I know from personal experience that they'll stop a tour bus to try and get an autograph.

I think my point might have been missed. A random person was stopped in a road check resulting in a possession charge. My point is that the sentiment seems to be that because this random person happened to be a well known celebrity pot activist/user that he should not be charged. I disagree.

And I maintain that Willie was targeted because he's not just any other citizen.

guitargeek wrote:And I maintain that Willie was targeted because he's not just any other citizen.

A different point than I was making but a very valid one.

guitargeek wrote:And I maintain that Willie was targeted because he's not just any other citizen.

I'm with Geek. IF justice were blind, and IF cops were not selective in terms of whom they choose to pursue/arrest (cops/civilians or Willie's bus/Joe Shmoe's bus), then I'd not mind.

Plus, I don't completely believe the "I smelled pot" line. I have nothing to substantiate my doubts, other than my father's or my experiences having to drive through Texas several times with our CA plates, and getting pulled over EVERY single fucking time at least once, when the CA, AZ, NM, LA, OK, AR, etc. cops never found reason to.

Fuck officer Bitchtits and his "I smell weed" bullshit. I don't think anyone with any kind of "celebrity status" should be treated different by the law, and that's why I'm all for arresting cheny/bush, and the cathaholic church and their serial pedophile protecting pope for crimes against humanity. If you can't hang those shitcocks in the name of justice then there is no motherfucking point in busting a musician for smoking a flower.

We may as well arrest jaywalkers during a riot and call it tax-payer moneys well spent.

Beemer Dan is awesome.

For a song, Willie’s pot case will be resolved

SIERRA BLANCA – The Hudspeth County Attorney is ready to make a plea deal with the Red Headed Stranger.

“I’m gonna let him plead, pay a small fine and he’s gotta sing “Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain” with his guitar right there in the courtroom,” County Attorney Kit Bramblett said this week. “You bet your ass I ain’t gonna be mean to Willie Nelson.”

When we saw the Scissor Sisters last week they shared a story about seeing Willy at Red Rocks and getting invited back to his trailer where they, wait for it, got stoned!