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Cocaine charges and a team suspension for Georgia Southern quarterback Shai Werts were dropped Friday when lab tests confirmed what Werts said when he was arrested: The white substance on his car was bird poop, not cocaine.
Werts was pulled over on Jul. 31 and charged with speeding and cocaine possession. Despite the extreme implausibility of powder cocaine just sitting comfortably on the hood of a car going 80 mph, police and media outlets acted like it was Werts who had the ridiculous story, not the cops who confused bird poop and cocaine. Headlines, written mostly by idiots, took the cocaine theory at face value. As of Friday afternoon, few retractions had been made.
This was always a straightforward case: A bird pooped on Werts car, and a moron cop decided the crap was coke. Georgia Southerns student newspaper viewed video of the arrest, and quoted the following exchange from it:
Browder [the officer]: Whats that white stuff on your hood, man?
Werts: Bird s--t."
That aint bird s--t.
I promise you, thats bird doo doo.
I promise you, its not though.
I swear to God, thats bird doo doo.
I swear to God, its not. I just tested it and it turned pink (for cocaine).
South Carolina prosecutors said Thursday that actual lab testing found no drugs, dropping charges against Werts.
https://www.nydailynews.com/sports/college/ny-shai-werts-bird-poop-cocaine-20190809-aswnivt7e5ebdf3pvgujpijpta-story.html
LiberalFighter
(50,477 posts)dlk
(11,425 posts)Kid Berwyn
(14,642 posts)Thanks to the young mans integrity, he pulled through safely.
I wonder how many lighter flesh-tone QBs have been treated as criminals for bird poop?
spooky3
(34,300 posts)He sues.
Demovictory9
(32,320 posts)aikoaiko
(34,127 posts)I'm glad to hear that the field test was false.
Whoever makes the field tests need to be held accountable.
Cracklin Charlie
(12,904 posts)Just silly.
SunSeeker
(51,367 posts)displacedtexan
(15,694 posts)I forget which state it was of the two. When he told them it was a Boston Fern, they laughed and made him wait overnight in jail until a university botanist could come to examine the plant. He was told to stay quiet when they processed him out.
left-of-center2012
(34,195 posts)Cops mistook the powdered sugar from a donut on her clothing as cocaine.
She was jailed until lab tests proved her right.