250+ teens caught with drugs on ski trip, none arrested
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olylifter420
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it is retards like that, that give mmj a bad rep...
http://www.ksl.com/?nid=148&sid=18668050
SALT LAKE CITY -- Hundreds of California teens on their way to Utah for a ski trip were caught Tuesday with more than just their snow gear. All sorts of drugs were found on their buses - but no one was arrested. In fact the group was allowed to continue on their trip to Utah.
But Elko police say they just don't have the room to hold more than 250 kids on misdemeanor drug charges.
Marijuana, mushrooms, alcohol and pipes are just some of what Elko police confiscated from over 250 California teens looking for a good time in Utah.
"There were five tour buses, full of young people anywhere between the ages of 15 to 20 and they were on their way to SLC for a ski trip," said Chief Don Zumwalt
The unchaperoned ski group stopped in Elko, Nevada for dinner. While parked at a Maverick gas station, patrons of the store noticed some of the teens smoking drugs. Fast forward a half hour or so and dozens of teens are turning over a ridiculous amount of drugs to police.
"We had consent to board the bus and kids brought out loads and loads of contraband on their own and let us take it and destroy it," said Chief Zumwalt.
Elko police say no one teen had enough drugs on him or herself to warrant a felony drug charge. Because Elko's juvenile detention center only holds about 30 kids - it wasn't feasible to arrest and hold everyone on misdemeanor charges.
"We could have stopped and got search warrants, searched every bag, and we would have still be writing search warrants a week later because it takes so much time to do that," Zumwalt said.
So the teens were allowed to continue to Utah for their week long ski trip. That's not the end of the story, however.
Elko police say they're now investigating the bus company, Divine Transportation, and the independent tour group, Summer Winter Action Tours, who put the trip together.
Police say if something like this happens again, not only will the drivers be arrested for endangering teens and transporting drugs across state lines - but the buses will be seized.
"We're going to look into the group and see who sponsors it and see who is responsible for it and then have a little conversation with them, because this happened last year as well," Zumwalt said. Elko police tell us that after last year's bust the parents of some of the teens on that trip sued the bus company, and the company that arranged the trip for negligence.
Divine Transportation did not return any phone calls.
golddog
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I've been smoking weed for more than 45 year and have seen a lot more stupid stuff.
And I did a lot more stupid stuff.....
How about smoking a joint in the bathroom in a bus ... people looked at me funny.
When you get older you think about those days and wish you could do it all over again.
So I think it just the times, and hardly a problem.
Peace
olylifter420
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if you are in a legal state already, for those of us doing everything possible, this is a big set back in my opinion.
I've been smoking weed for more than 45 year and have seen a lot more stupid stuff.
And I did a lot more stupid stuff.....
How about smoking a joint in the bathroom in a bus ... people looked at me funny.
When you get older you think about those days and wish you could do it all over again.
So I think it just the times, and hardly a problem.
Peace
golddog
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As Arnold, then my Governor said "No one cares if you smoke weed in Californica"
If you live in an oppressive place .. do something about it.
Maybe move out west.
cannabineer
Ursus marijanus
I love the pic of the zip in a Ziploc.
And Dirtsurfr ... you made me laugh out loud when you pointed out the very good possibility that some of these kids raided Mommy andor Daddy's headstash! Oh such issues would have been almost unheard-of back in the day. cn
And Dirtsurfr ... you made me laugh out loud when you pointed out the very good possibility that some of these kids raided Mommy andor Daddy's headstash! Oh such issues would have been almost unheard-of back in the day. cn
Gastanker
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I like the name of the article - Everyone reading this article realizes that only about 20-30 of the 250 people on the bus admitted to having drugs and of the 250 people about half were adults at least the age of 18.
250 teens were not caught with drugs - some of the 250 people, of which some were teens, were caught with drugs...
Can you imagine if you knew no one on the bus, didn't have any drugs, wasn't smoking anything at any gas station, and a cop said he was going to detain you for a week until he had a search warrant to bodily strip search you as well as search all of your belongings? He'd be lying and talking out of his ass but I guess you should feel guilty by association?
"I don't care if the police man is violating my rights, that random dumb ass kid I don't know at all was smoking pot at a rest stop - I guess I'm guilty too by association and deserve this!" Yeah...not exactly what I would be thinking...
God damn would I be pissed at the few people that fucked it up for the rest. Like everyone else says - talk about a blanket party.
250 teens were not caught with drugs - some of the 250 people, of which some were teens, were caught with drugs...
Can you imagine if you knew no one on the bus, didn't have any drugs, wasn't smoking anything at any gas station, and a cop said he was going to detain you for a week until he had a search warrant to bodily strip search you as well as search all of your belongings? He'd be lying and talking out of his ass but I guess you should feel guilty by association?
"I don't care if the police man is violating my rights, that random dumb ass kid I don't know at all was smoking pot at a rest stop - I guess I'm guilty too by association and deserve this!" Yeah...not exactly what I would be thinking...
God damn would I be pissed at the few people that fucked it up for the rest. Like everyone else says - talk about a blanket party.
the ones that did probably sold it for 3x the price after they pulled away 
MellowFarmer
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This is what I want to know. What percentage of the students had drugs on them. 5 busses seems like 90% maybe? Then I want to ask all the anti drug dumbassess if we still live in a Democracy and when they say uh huh, I ask then if they stopped 5 busses filled with adults on the way to Vegas and they all handed over their drugs like scared kids what that percentage would be and I bet the percentage of both ages will be very close and for sure over 50% so then how is this a Democracy?
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But lets do some hypothetical math here. An average bus can carry, what? 60 students? If there were 5 buses, that would be 300 students? 83% of the students on that bus had drugs on them.
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