A cop pulled over a car for a routine traffic stop when he noticed something suspicious in the woman’s car; a spoon with a strange residue on it.  Certain that this constituted drug paraphernalia, the officer arrested the woman on the spot and haled her off to jail.

She would end up spending 2 days in jail before being able to make bail, and was also ordered to participate in a drug treatment program before the test results came back from the lab: the strange substance turned out to be dried up spaghettios, something I’m sure the woman tried to tell the officer during her arrest.  I can only imagine what this cop would have conjured up had he stumbled upon my kitchen.  I can envision all sorts of drugs and terrors and related charges.  After all, there are already some unappreciative folk in my family who think my cooking equates to an act of terror.

This case serves as yet another example of the police-state mentality that has been building in this country, one in which cops assume the worst and ask questions later.  When you can be arrested for spaghettios, you can literally be arrested for anything.  So the next time you’re getting pulled over you may want to discretely hide the baby formula.