The Utah Court of Appeals has ruled the overwhelming presence of air fresheners and strong smells can give police officers reasonable suspicion to search a car.
— From Court: Over-perfumed vehicles can be searched at the Salt Lake Tribune (and something to consider before you buy that new Nissan Fuga).
Use Amarige. Go to Jail.
Rick, thanks for the laugh. I can think of a few offenders in my own fragrance collection.
I suppose dousing myself in Fresh Cannabis Rose/Santal or Smell Bent Hungry Hungry Hippies then getting pulled over wouldn’t bode well.
But even drug-sniffing dogs could not possibly operate in a cloud of Amarige…I think that might have worked better than Lysol.
Such snark! Poor Amarige… not a bad frag no matter what you all say. 🙂
LOL…you know I’m kidding!
Rick – LOL 😀
The Pine Tree Police! This reminds me of how much baby powder I inhaled and Binaca I chugged in high school, trying to cover up various illicit odors.
Binaca! I had almost forgotten Binaca.
Put down the atomizer and step away from the Giorgio.
😀
LOL!
Teehee!!
I guess I better not be spraying Juliette Has A Gun Midnight Oud in the car 😛 The name itself is enough to get me arrested in Utah I bet
Or, don’t drive in Utah. Or, don’t drive in Utah with large quantities of illegal substances 🙂
I used to burn incense in my car before I discovered the wonderful world of perfumes. One day I was ticketed for speeding, and the officer’s parting words to me were “nice incense”. He was obviously being sarcastic, although I was too naive at the time to understand why. I think I replied, “Thanks” quite sincerely. I would have loved to watch him search my car and find nothing but a pack of incense.
I love to have my car wonderfully scented. We just don’t think like criminals (or police).
How funny!
And as proof of how warped my mind has become… I read “Utah” as “Ulta” which, to my knowledge, has no Court of Appeals, unless you want to count the service counter. (“Please can you take this back? I thought I loved it in the store, but I changed my mind when I got it home…”)
Worse…I don’t even shop at Ulta.
Hahahaha ….I stopped going into the Ulta when they put up this huge display for a Jessica Simpson flanker and then ooohed and ahhhed about it while trying to get me to spray it…..uh-uh, not going there…too far from home (and a sink!)
ROFL!! Excellent.
I find this interesting from a legal perspective and I can’t help but wonder if it will go up to a Circuit Court or further…
If you extrapolate the situation to a home, to me, this becomes really problematic in the arena of reasonable/unreasonable searches. Again, interesting.
smells like a lawsuit to me.
Well… it’s already a lawsuit, right? 😉
Joe, same with the “she had 2 cell phones” angle. But I don’t know much about probable cause.
This is interesting to me. I’ve just been reading Gerd Gigerenzers “Gut Feelings” – he’s the dude who created or sponsored much of the research behind Malcolm Gladwell’s “Blink”. While I have a gut feeling of my own that our politics may not be sync, the research is very interesting. But he has a section on cops who spot drug couriers, and he argues that we should let them work on intuition alone (as long as they prove themselves regularly successful). After all, judges decide on the legality of police searches based on their own hunches. He gets a hilarious quote from a judge, who says “I trust my own hunches, not the cop’s hunches.”
That is hilarious!
While reading these (hilarious) comments I kept thinking about my poor brother, who had an entire bottle of Chanel edp (I forget which scent, but it was for women) burst in the backseat of his car one scorching day. He might as well sell his car now.
HA — but nobody in their right mind would buy it!