The dumbest attract-the-cops person I encountered was on a coach from
London to Bristol. The only smoking area is the back of the upper
deck. Black teen boy sits in the front seat of the upper deck. Comes
back with three-paper roll-up and asks me for a light. Okay, let's
not start a conversation. He returns to the front. Man in suit behind
him asks him to stop smoking. He ignores reasonable request. Smell is
drifting back: dope, of course. Suit goes downstairs, talks to
driver. Coach stops on motorway by emergency phone, which driver
uses. Soon, police escort arrives. We stop at next service station.
Lad at front escorted off. We sit around. After ten minutes, police
came for me. They were told I seemed to be his friend. Strip search,
all my stuff, everything - turns out the kid had a bag full of
heroin. So he lights up a big joint in the NO SMOKING area of a coach
and ignores a request to stop or move!
― Martin Skidmore, Wednesday, 17 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)