Police & Thieves

FROM THE ARCHIVES ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED 2005 08 25

I have had the week off of work so I haven”t really been around too much this week. I have been trying to keep up my reading of everyone’’s journals but haven”t really had the time to enter anything myself. I have two additional posts saved as drafts as they both are incomplete thoughts so far and need to be flushed out a little bit more. A post will be arriving shortly addressing methadone maintenance and my general feelings towards it as a treatment method. The other post has quite a bit of information about my early life up to the start of university and also addresses the type of environment that I was raised. Unfortunately I can not remember what point I was hoping to make with this entry as on second reading there is no indication as to where I am going to go with it. Guess I will have to ponder that one a little bit longer.

Fairly uneventful week until last night. Jim ran a red light on his way home from work, mostly because there was someone tailgating him so badly and driving really quickly that he panicked and went right through the light. Turns out that it was a cop. Sometimes at night it is hard to see the type of vehicle behind you as we have a large pickup truck. Red, flashing lights and everything else that accompanies an officer pulling you over.Jim said that he was kept about forty minutes and that the officer kept walking back and forth to his cruiser. After his license and his profile came back as clear, the officer asked him if anyone else drove his truck and he answered yes. Remember that I sometimes give my dealer my vehicle when I am at work as a trade. The officer asks him what he knows about “Jane Doe” and Jim says that she used to be one of our tenants and was also a friend of his wife’’s. The officer asks him if he knows anything about her private life and Jim responds that he didn”t really so the cop tells him that she is a speed dealer. Jim feigns surprise stating that he thought that she may have dealt pot but had no idea. The officer quipped that she used to but had moved up in the world. He also advised Jim that if she is ever pulled over driving his truck with anything at all on her then he would keep the truck!

The officer eventually let him go with no ticket for the running of the red light. Strange I suppose but then again not so strange considering what happened to me a month ago so…Obviously we want to keep our vehicle. We stopped by her place to give her the warning so she may be closing up shop soon. Don”t blame her but with her out of the game and my primary dealer currently MIA, things are looking grim on the opiate front. My last resort is still around but at $20 a pill, money tends to disappear rather quickly. Guess I can do one of two things. I can either do some networking or throw in the towel and call it a day. Wonder what I will end up doing?