This site is weird. Ive just typed in two responses, one disapeared one stuck. Im now officially bored with this ‘improved’ website. I was a DC then took promotion exams and ended up running various teams. Officially retire on 9th Jan, although Im off as of now
@snuffster: Congratulations, join the gang. Jaap Bes.
I started smoking a pipe quite young, when all my mates were smoking cigarettes. Which has led to run ins with policemen. I used to be something of a metalhead, so perhaps that didn’t help- wearing Iron Maiden T shirts and a studded belt, probably doesn’t fit the stereotype for pipesmokers. So one time I was sat in a park, on the grass, reading a book, and puffing happily on a churchwarden full of some terrible cherry and vanilla cavendish that for whatever reason I thought was a good idea at the time. A policeman and woman come by, ask what I’m smoking, I told them, and they asked to see the packet. Of course I had it in a leather baccy pouch which I had just emptied, which didn’t help my case. So the policeman took the pipe and had a hard sniff at the bowl. I think the ash he inhaled nearly killed him, but after struggling to stifle a sneezing fit he left me alone. Another time, aged about 20, I was walking in a park with my wife, and sat down at a bench, still smoking a massive briar full of Light Flake (an altogether superior tobacco). A police van pulled up, and a young officer got out and came over. “what are you smoking in that then?” I explained it was tobacco, but he wasn’t having any of it, told me I was high as a kite and my eyes were like pinpricks. Of course they were, he was standing over me with the sun in my eyes. Eventually his mate came over too, an older bloke, asked me what I was smoking. I told him it was Dunhill Light Flake. He just said “good lad” and literally led his colleague away by the arm. But in terms of snuff, it’s only teenaged chavs who think it’s drugs, makes me wonder, do they waste perfectly good cocaine by taking it as a pinch? What do they think coffee tables, razor blades and banknotes were made for? Could be that the strongest potion they have is the glue filled lump of “dog bar” hashish they spend their pocket money on…
Most of my run ins with police tobacco wise have been pipe smokeing. And every single time it’s either a really young officer that seems more nervious then I’am, or some local yokel called about someone smoking drugs.
I definately think Pieter is an “Airport R?eservation Office” PMSLMAO Stefan
I work for a Sheriff’s Office and they all know I use snuff…on a regular basis. I even got a Sgt. hooked on it. He asks for some every time he’s around me…I don’t mind at all. One of the Investigators asked about it and wanted to try it. I’ve been there for 12 years though and have used it the entire time I’ve been there, so they’re pretty used to it by now.
Never been a problem for me on or off duty and I have made a few converts on the way. Ive yet to come across a cop dumb enough to think pipe baccy was pot, although one moron of a bar keep chucked me out of a bar when I was a teenager with the never to be forgotten words ‘you’re not smoking heroin in my bar’. Twat.
well he was right you were not smoking herion in his bar, and that seems to piss him off. Yeah I’ve been kicked out of places when I was a teen for smoking pipes in places it was o.k. because some twat thought it was something else.
I’ve never had any problems with snuff or snus use anywhere and I’ve been around. When I smoked rollies I was challenged few times when there was smell of ganja in the air but that was not big deal.