Wild Stories from your youth ......
Thursday, December 22, 2022 8:10 PM
...that no one will believe but are true. Even if you include getting stopped for a traffic violation, I still have less than 100 police encounters in my life, but most are memorable. October 1977. I hitchhike home from ZooMass, Amherst and pick up my brother's car in Framingham. My purpose is to drive to Boston, buy 2 pounds of weed, bring it back, split it up between my sales force (2 brothers) and then hitchhike back to college.His vehicle? 1967 Pontiac Grand Prix, painted black, with house paint, drips and all. Literally the single worst car I have ever seen.
Drive to the Fenway area, buy my weed, get back on the Mass Pike and head home. Go through the toll booths and then 7 miles from home a loud bang, black smoke and the car dies. Open the hood. No fucking oil. OK I will hitchhike home and get my mom's car and some oil. Trunk lock punched out. No locks work on the car and I am not leaving $900.00 worth of weed in the car to be stolen. I pick up my brown paper shopping back with 2 pounds of weed in a ziplock bag, stick out my thumb as I turn to face traffic and good luck, first car stops....great ....state police officer ....not so great. Like an idiot I grab the door handle with my right hand, leaving the bag in my left hand so it is now on the seat between us after I get in.
I told him what happened, we chatted red sox and if you have ever read Edgar Allen Poe's short story "the Telltale Heart" you would understand why I was going nuts inside waiting for him to say something. I mean the smell was overwhelming, at least to me. I kept thinking I know you smell it, we both do, for God's sake say something, arrest me, don't torture me like this. It was a 7-minute ride to the exit. felt like 107, but he dropped me off told me to take care and left. When my brother accused me of burning up 6 quarts of oil on a 30 mile drive, thereby ruining his car, I went fucking berserk. To this day I still don't understand how I walked away unscathed, but luckily, nothing bad can ever happen to me because back then that was 5 years in jail.
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