Just watched an episode from 11/7/06. Very upset officer think they know everythg. And they don’t. A man got arrested for different Xanax in a bottle and the officer says pharmacies don’t do that. Guess what guys ur wrong. I’ve had it hapn several times from different pharmacy.So u should know ur facts before stating smethg like that. I would of been very offended. Not everyone is a criminal and thr for ud get further if u didn’t have a superior attitude when u pull people over it makes us not want to cooperate
I’m not sure who you’re directing your comments to. Is this in reference to a Straight Dope column you read? Or are you talking about some TV show?
I’m guessing whatever it was, if it happened back in 2006 the people involved have moved on.
Sounds like an episode of Cops.
The drugs will be put into evidence. All the person has to do is ask their pharmacist for something stating that they had two different batches of Xanax mixed into one bottle and it’ll get released back to them, probably before the court date even.
Was the persons name even on the bottle or was it someone else’s name? Was it even a prescription bottle? Did the officer also mention priors for other similar things?
I’ve watched a lot of episodes of Cops and it’s very, very rare for someone to get pulled over for something mundane like speeding and, oh, they also have a mismarked bottle of painkillers and get arrested for that. What was the PC for searching the car/person?
I’ll give you that, yes, the pharmacy can switch brands and you may get two different shapes of pills but more often than not, at least on Cops, it’s probably not the case. Remember, they’re showing the people that are up to no good, not some random (“good”) person that just happened to get pulled over with a Vicoden in her purse because she wanted to keep one at work in case her fractured rib flared up.
Fllady38, welcome to the Straight Dope. The General Questions forum is for questions with factual answers. I don’t see a question in your post. However, it is unclear what your intent is with your post so I am not sure where to move it. For that reason I am going to close it. Please read the forum descriptions before posting again, in order to choose an appropriate forum.
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