a contender for the Darwin Awards

[mickeym]

So, Kentucky. We have the seatbelt law, it's a primary offense (or however it's referred to -- meaning cops can pull you over solely for not wearing it, they don't have to get you for something else first).

Manufacturing/transporting of moonshine are illegal. Possession of moonshine is illegal, too, so far as I know.

So say you're a fine, upstanding citizen of Kentucky who manufactures and sells for profit, said moonshine. (Which I'm not judging, btw -- if you want to, have at it.) You have the moonshine in your vehicle, pretty much out in plain sight if anyone wanders close enough to your car.

Why on EARTH would you take this vehicle filled with an illegal substance -- in plain sight, no less -- and get behind the wheel and NOT FASTEN YOUR DAMN SEATBELT??

Seriously. If you know you're doing something that's against the law to begin with, why make it easy on the cops by doing something stupid that's also illegal (and easily preventable), like speed, not wear your seatbelt, text, whatever.

I do NOT get it.

Comments

[linda3m.livejournal.com]

It's the smart criminals you never hear about.

[embroiderama]

Oh, boy. That's like some friends of my boss's son (who is 19). They were on their way through the Virginia countryside to a music festival (which boss's son & his girlfriend drove to separately). So, they were driving there all dressed for the festival--white boys in rasta hats and marijuana leaf t-shirts. And they had a whole bunch of drugs in the glove compartment, for their delectation at the festival. Now, a reasonable person driving around with drugs in their car would a) try to look normal, and b) not speed through areas where the cop salaries are paid by speeding tickets. *smh* You can imagine how it all ended.

[pensnest]

Hmmm....

a) Stupidity

b) Subconscious yearning for Justice To Be Done

c) desire to add the element of danger to one's life

d) Stupidity

(Pick any two!)

[ou-peachus.livejournal.com]

Kinda like the guy that tried to hold up a bank and then gave his ID to the clerk? lolol

and... I thought you could make it in small amounts - that it was the selling or intent to sell that got you in trouble? I know it is legal to brew your own beer and wine in small amounts.

Not that I know anything about it!! No siree, nuhuh , no me. *cough*

[shinetheway.livejournal.com]

Dude, I gave up trying to understand Kentucky drivers the day my old roommate told me his aunt used to knit while on the Bluegrass Parkway. o.O

[beledibabe.livejournal.com]

One of the top FBI agents once told me: "99.9% of criminals are stupid. It's the smart ones we have to worry about.:

[nrrrdy-grrrl.livejournal.com]

AS a recovering alcoholic and former criminal, I can tell you: we tend to experience more than our share of irony.

[mdlaw.livejournal.com]

In Arkansas here we have the same problem but with cooking meth. This is what I think. "Stupidity is infinite." That is all. m :)

[rainbow.livejournal.com]

because we tend to hear about the stupid criminals that get caught, not the smart ones who do everything right? (ie "stupidity"/"lack of thought"/etc)