High Customers? UPDATE
 

Update: To whom it may concern. The customer that was the subject of this thread did come back today, and seemed to not be under the influence of a controlled substance. Interesting enough, I had a customer earlier this morning pay for his car and he was high as a kite, and paid his $1600 dollar bill all in 20's which he handed to me wrapped in a rubber band. How cliche is that?

Recently at the Shop that I work at, we have had the pleasure of dealing with many customers stinking of marijuana. Well this afternoon, an Impala pulls up in front of our first bay, windows all tinted out, and it sits there for about 5-10 minutes. Well I go to get an order on a vehicle and the person rolls the window down accompanied by billows and billows of marijuana smoke rolling straight down my nasal passages, so much so I thought I was going to suffocate. Well he asks if we give free transmission checks and I say we do, and he says "ok I will take one of those", he was obviously either not to smart or just a little to under the influence. Well I tell him I need to see if I have someone to test drive it, and I did not at that particular time. So I go back out to him and he rolls the window down, and thats when he shocked me, he actually just started smoking the blunt right in front of me and blowing his smoke pretty much straight into my face. So I told him he could stop by in the morning and we could spin it.

Well in my situation, what would you have done (all in hypotheticals). My brother says "oh you shouldn't let them smoke weed in the parking lot", but how was I too know what they were doing if I couldn't see them? Should I of called the police when I became aware of their use of a controlled substance. Personally I said no, because I really would fear the reprocussions of this in the area we are located. Boy oh boy did I inhale a lot of that smoke, my head is pounding. It was really unbelieveable. Usually you find weed pieces scattered throughout customers cars but never have they been so blunt as to demonstrate the proper way to smoke marijuana.

Pay no attention. No big deal IMO.

You obviously lack moral compass. You are not dictating how your neighbors are living their lives!

if you call the cops on some guy smoking in the parking lot, you are nothing but a giant douche.

let the cops handle some real problems.

in fact, if the neighborhood is as bad as the way you make it sound, the cops probably would have laughed at you over the phone.

The first thing I do is post a thread for everything that happens in my life daily.

I didn't call the cops. The area isn't terrible, but we have been broken into and have had graffiti painted on the building more than a couple times.

Well that wouldn't take many threads because you don't seem to have a life.

Pretty ****in rude for the guy to blow it in your face. I would have probably said something about that. Otherwise, I wouldn't have given it a second thought. If the guy gets busted it's on him, don't care

If some dopehead smokes up at home, no big deal. I don't care. It's not like I didn't do when I was younger.

If the dipshit is smoking behind the wheel, I don't have a problem in the world calling his ignorant ass in to the police. At that point, he's endangering other people. No different than drinking while driving, IMO. Not much different in the eyes of the law, either.

Spare me the bulls*it, sedated (and those that agree with you). I've lost people I loved to idiots like you that don't see anything wrong with hopping behind the wheel when they are buzzed.

I'd probably exaggerate a little and tell the cops he damn near wiped out another car with a kid in it as he left.
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you shoulda asked them if they knew anywhere to unload some H.

*chuckle*

I would have went to my car and got my pistol, then shot all the motherfuckers in that car dead.

That sh*t is illegal, and if they don't want to respect the law, then they don't deserve to live.

ROFL

Niko...is that you?

fuck yes I'm serious, and when people pass me on the interstate, and are obviously going faster than 70, I catch up, roll down my window and shoot their front tire out.

Speeding a**holes don't deserve to live either.

Your meter is definitely broken.

No smoking weed is not like drinking and driving. It's just not.

ActuaLOL

They're coming back tomorrow right?

Here's what you do. On your way home stop by the local park/playground. Find a kid by himself. Ambush him, put a sack over his head an drug him. Keep him sedated at the shop over night. The next morning when the guy comes back, roll the kid into the trunk with as many CDs of kiddie porn as you can download off the next. As soon as they leave call the cops and report the car saying you saw them loading what appeared to be a body in the trunk. Give the full details of the car and the plate.

Sit back and enjoy.:)

I was actually just throwing in a response to different post. Two birds kind of thing.

You'll have to forgive Beach Tribe he just finished his afternoon blunt. But don't worry, mj does not effect his ability to think. ;)

I knew a guy who was young and stupid and couldn't gage how high he was because he didn't smoke much. That young man blew a couple red lights and decided to walk the rest of the way... that must have been some good reef

Actually, I smoke VERY rarely.

But seriously, how many times do you hear people wrecking who are high on weed? Hard to wreck when you're going 35mph.

I follow you and I agree it just isn't the same thing. I do agree with one thing in that other post. The law does look at it the same way if they see it in your car. They have zero proof that smoking "by itself" impairs your driving ability.

I wonder how many accidents the guy has had all on his own.

Yea. It's a DUI. Driving under the influence. It is, and it should be prosecuted the same. The charge is self explainitory. It's not diving while drunk.

Don't get me wrong. I don't do it, or condone it, but I don't think it's the danger that drinking is.

You must have a very trustworthy shop

One of your coworkers is obviously dealing.....

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[QUOTE=beach tribe;4772038]Yea. It's a DUI. Driving under the influence. It is, and it should be prosecuted the same. The charge is self explainitory. It's not diving while drunk.

Don't get me wrong. I don't do it, or condone it, but I don't think it's the danger that drinking is.[/QUOTE

Driving under the influence of anything like that is stupid. Drinking and others just happen to be a lot worse "imho" hell I drove around for weeks with a broken leg and wouldn't take the pain pills because I wasn't comfortable driving on that crap.

[QUOTE=R&GHomer;4772056]Agreed.

OMG MARIJUANA

I'd have no problem calling the cops, imagine you owned the business are you going to let some idiot openly smoke weed and even risk letting customers see that? That would reflect badly on the business.

As far as cops having better things to do, a guy like this 99% of the time has warrants and 99% of the time you can find an officer nearby to assist a non emergency such as this one, this is what they're paid for.

If you smoke and don't drive, I don't give a damn at all. Live and let live.

If you smoke weed while you're behind the wheel, it damn well is.

It affects your perception and response time. Perhaps not in the same manner as alcohol does, but it certainly affects you. It also qualifies legally as Driving Under the Influence.

I have zero sympathy for any idiot that hops behind the wheel when intoxicated, be it alcohol, grass, coke, meth, pain pills, or whatever. As far as I'm concerned, take their license for 5 years first offense. 2'nd offense, lock their ass up for 5 years. AFAICS, if you do that, you're showing nothing but contempt for the life of every other driver and passenger on the road with you.

Yes, I may be overreacting. No, I don't care if I am.

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It is wrong. I'm sorry for whatever happened to you, or a loved one in the past.

Thanks, BT. For the record, I don't have any problem with you. It's just a real trigger for me. I can see where you are coming from in that it doesn't affect you nearly as dramatically as alcohol does. However, I'm happy the law doesn't make a real distinction on that point.

I didn't take it personally, and I think you judged my perception of it correctly.

God bless those fine individuals who came to your shop.

You're crazy.

Nothing wrong with getting high, but don't do it behind the wheel.

Why didnt you get in the passenger seat and ask for a couple of puffs... it probably would have made your day a bit less stressful.

Forgive me if I don't but much stock in a mental health assessment done over the internet by someone whose brain is clogged with a lifetime of bong resin. :)

That said, I am crazy. I'm completely nucking futz, but it has nothing to do with my attitude towards DUI/DWI.

Is weed still illegal? Don't seem like it no mo...

??? :skip: + :bong: = :hump: lambs

5 years in prison for 2nd offense? Like the prisons aren't already overcrowded with pot offenders. Yes, you're crazy. Ignorant too.

Driving drunk is just too big of a gamble. I'm aware that plenty of people claim to be "good" at it, and for all I know, maybe they are. But it still doesn't make any sense to risk a potentially life threatening disaster just so you can get some Sonic.

More to the point, however, I really don't think that pot smokers are all that dangerous behind the wheel. I've never done it, but I've seen countless numbers of friends get high, and they are WAY more coordinated and focused than when they are drunk. Probably even more so than I am when I'm tired. And I actually drive when I'm tired quite a bit, which I know is dangerous.

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Crazy? Yes. Ignorant? ROFL

Personally, I'm for treating pot (and pretty much any other intoxicant) like alcohol.

I simply have no tolerance for idiots who climb behind the wheel when they are drunk or high. F**k 'em.

And if you're dumb enough to climb behind the wheel drunk or high, f**k you. :)

My sentiments exactly. :clap:

You are a dumbfuk.

ROFL

I don't agree with his thought processes either, but our conflicting sense of right, and wrong, does not make him a dumb****.

His past experiences make it impossible to look at it from an unbiased prospective, and if it like I think it is, I don't really blame him at all.

I don't have much tolerance for ridiculous statements.

I'll agree that it was a ridiculous view of justice, but you have to admit, that it's a beautiful thing, that he has just as much right to be an intolerant asshole, as you do.

toke up
 

I'd have asked him to pass me the blunt.

ROFL ya don't say.

Except that is where these ridiculous laws come from.

Lawmakers will never fail to amaze us with their stupidity.
Their decisions are coin operated. I doubt this guy has the same motives in his mind as elected officials.

I'm not proud of it but i've driven whilst drunk, driven whilst high on weed and driven whilst smashed on ecstasy.

I would say weed is by far the safest one of those three.

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I'm an advocate of decriminalization of marijuana and pretty much any other intoxicant. Treat 'em like alcohol. Legalize it all, tax it, and get rid of the profit motive that drives the black market and the violence that comes with it. The war on drugs is as stupid as the 18th amendment was, and has the same problems magnified.

My only problem is with idiots who get behind the wheel when they are drunk, high, or otherwise altered.

When you have someone you loved killed by an idiot that had been drinking (but still blew "under" the limit) and was stoned, then you come talk to me about how ridiculous DUI/DWI laws are. I'm just happy they drug tested the asshole and confirmed he'd been using and nailed him on DUI, possession, and vehicular homicide.

I won't apologize for my disgust and hatred of those idiots. AFAICS, every time they get behind the wheel f*ucked up, they are saying that getting high/drunk/whatever is more important than the safety of everyone else they share the road with. That's as selfish as it gets, IMO.

Agreed. That said, contracting gonorrhea is better than getting herpes, which is better than getting AIDS. Doesn't really make any of them a good thing though.

Heh. You're not really helping your case, but I would have to say It would be a no brainer to agree. BTW don't do that shit anymore. I drove messed up the other night, which I have not done in years, and I really regret it. Nothing bad happened at all. I made it home completely safe, but I still feel like a dumbass piece of shit. I did endanger other people, and as bad as it sounds I'm even more pissed that I risked My ass out there on the road. I've worked hard to get where I am, and a DUI, or Vehicular manslaughter would go all long way toward flushing all of that, and ridlling my life with guilt, and self hate.

Stay off the road. For our sake, and for yours. I promise I will.

Smoking a blunt is NEVER the proper way to smoke marijuana.

I haven't read the entire thread, but I'm against turning someone into the police for smoking pot - no matter where they're doing it.

Too many people have already had their lives sorely interrupted (if not entirely ruined) merely because they were caught with weed that later found its way from the evidence room to some cop's house.

FAX

Yeah. It's some pot. Big deal. They probably would retaliate on the spot, because if it was low level possession they probably wouldn't have even gone to jail.

This is the solution. Just tell him straight up you don't wanna see it.

Eh, as someone who's done all three of those as well, I'd have to disagree.

It varies from person to person, and I only drink nowadays, but I definately felt more comfortable behind the wheel drunk than I did stoned or on ecstacy. None of them are very good decisions, but I don't buy the whole "stoners are just fine drivers". I'm sure people who smoke pot religiously have a pretty high tolerance and believe they can operate a motor vehicle just the same because it's second nature to be high, but that's just not true.

And I'm sure the alcoholic feels the exact same way.

The problem is, taking a piss test just tells if marijuana is in the system, not if they were high at the time of an accident. There's no real way that I know of to peg someone who is high.

In addition, people who are "conditioned" to pot, meaning the ones that have smoked daily for years are no danger on the roads. It's less intoxicating than pain pills to those people.

Weed's a tricky thing. Scientists can't pinpoint too much about it's effects on the brain. With all substances, scientists can tell you what part of the brain the drug affects and why it does what it does.

Pot bounces around goes to each part of the brain at different times, producing different results each and every time it's smoked. It's a totally different animal.

Then what about the "conditioned" smokers as you said in the previous post. If it triggers different responses each time, then who's to say the 20 year toker doesn't smoke something that hits him a little different and sets him off kilter...he's a danger on the road then.

The active ingredient THC (TetraHydrateCannabinol sp? ) changes the speed at which the neurotransmitter acetylcholine is transported across the synapses between axons & dendrites. Sometimes it speeds it up. Sometimes it slows it down. Thats why you feel high.

Smoboke greebeen bubud

I don't care if somebody wants to smoke dope. Like most things, if it doesn't affect me, it's not my business. As I see it, that's something a mature, intelligent adult should start to outgrow as he progresses through his 20s, but that's just my opinion. Beyond that, though, what kind of fucking idiot drives around smoking dope and THEN interacts with a stranger without giving it a second thought? What if you had narced him out? Then he goes to jail just because he was too fucking stupid to wait until he got home to light up?

Seriously, there's a time and a place for everything.

Personally, I'd have told Spicoli to roll his dumb ass elsewhere. Is that really the sort of person you want to do business with? Not because he gets high; but because he's STUPID.

Would I have called the cops? Probably not. But I'd have definitely confronted the guy on his ridiculous behavior just as I did the idiots driving 50 MPH down my street about an hour ago.

If were on the subject of ridding the world of anything that alters your mind while driving I think we should outlaw coffee and energy drinks as well.

I agree.... and how about women too? No women allowed in the car while it's moving.

LOL, We had a guy last week stinking up the whole store.. I asked him 'How much weed did you smoke' he said ' a lot'.. I then asked why did he smoke so much before coming up here to shop, he said 'it was his day off'...