I was just kidding.
But yeh, if you’ve seen enough cop shows (et al), you’ve seen those tiny ziplock baggies the prop guys fill with oregano. That’s a dime bag. Dime = $10. See?
It’s just enough for a night of fun.
Then you get into ounces. Like an eighth or a quarter and so on. But asking for that is more for tiding you over a longer period of days/weeks.
It looks like a plastic bag with marijuana in it.
Back in my pot smoking days a nickle bag was two fingers high, and dime bag was four.
Many years ago someone showed me a little pot in the corner of a baggie and said it was $35.
I’ve been totally out of touch with that world for years but from the way things were going I’d assume that by now you would need a magnifying glass to find a dimes worth of pot.
Are you positive this is right? I cannot imagine many people, sober or not, could recite the alphabet backwards. More likely, the cops ask you to recite the alphabet forwards, and they just look for certain things there (sing-songy recitation, etc)
When I was on jury duty for a DUI case a few years ago, the arresting officer described three field tests that he administered the defendant; examining his eyes for irregular movements while passing a pen back and forth, walking a straight line, and standing on one leg while counting to thirty. Reciting the alphabet, forwards or backwards, was not discussed.
It’s not just cops planting drugs on people, they also run crooked lineups.
Yep. Backwards.
I gave him a weary look, then took a stab at it. It was pathetic, but he could tell I wasn’t drunk. He stopped me somewhere around “Q”.
He didn’t even make me use a breathalyzer. He didn’t ask me to come out of my car, either, and I had pulled into the corner gas station.
Only around this time of year.
Those field sobriety tests are rather bogus because I supposedly failed 2 out of 3 during my DUI drugs arrest even though the case was later dropped after blood test results. They knew I wasn’t drunk, so they refrained from doing a breathalyzer. Doing something as basic as walking in a line toe to heel can be difficult when your heart is racing because you can tell the officer is expecting perfection and is going to arrest you no matter what. During the eye test, they basically just accused me of a variety of things and yelled “bullshit” when I replied “no”, and were saying “ah ah ah, you’re not moving your head smoothly, try it again,…”. They really had no reason to behave that way. My record was clean at the time, and is clean to this day. I have no traffic infractions so I pay low insurance rates. I’ve read online that you should just decline doing the field sobriety tests and ask if they’re going to arrest you or not.
Now it’s backwards. A nic is larger than a dime. When I was in high school, a nic was $10, a dime was $20, and an ounce was $40. The good old days. 
This guy can do it backwards, he’s also an awesome dancer.
Wow. You and I agree on something. Yeah, this guy really messed up. Personally, if I ever managed to get so drunk I was .158, I probably couldn’t get a key in an ignition, and I’d also wonder if I just dreamed something like the pot incident.
I can recite it backwards pretty easily sober, because I have a visual memory, and I can picture it written out then just read it backwards. I can spell words backwards the same way. I doubt I could do it drunk, though. I can’t focus my regular eyes or my mind’s eye.
I’ve failed the eye test before due to astigmatism. (The cop actually said, ‘well, you failed, but it’s possible you’re just astigmatic and not drunk’, so then he gave me a breath test wich I passed). I’ve never failed an actual breathalyzer test though, nor even come close, and I’ve never gotten a ticket for anything alcohol related. My friend who’s a lawyer says she generally advises people to decline the field sobriety tests. I would never decline, personally, because I would feel like not cooperating makes you ‘look guilty’.
Don’t mess with Texas.
If somebody ever asks me to recite the alphabet backwards to prove something I’m going to ask them to do it first if its so easy a caveman can do it.
In my day, for good Mexican, it was $5 for a quarter ounce nickle, $10 for a half ounce dime, $20 for an ounce, and $45 for a quarter pound. Those certainly were the days. 
A lot of Deaf people can’t pass them when the light is bad, because the same nerve problems that make them deaf make them rely on vision for balance. Add to that the fact that a lot of people are really ignorant, and don’t understand that some speaking D/deaf people have odd-sounding voices because they can’t freaking hear themselves and think the way they sound is a symptom of intoxication, a lot of Deaf people are screwed if they get pulled over, even for a busted tail light.
I know at least one Deaf person who can speak pretty well, but when she got pulled over for going about 10 above the limit, pretended she couldn’t speak at all, and wrote notes (after telling me to shut up and stay out of it, which I had no problem with) back and forth with the cop, so her voice wouldn’t be mistaken for a sign of intoxication. She was let go with a warning.
There are probably people who can hear, but have inner ear damage and have problems passing a sobriety test.
I know I can pass one just because most of the things they ask you to do are part of the Army induction physical-- they are looking for problems with balance and proprioception, not intoxication, the things that inner ear damage messes with. Anyone who has had an inner ear infection knows what I’m talking about.
I could tell he was going to arrest me the moment he asked me to step out of my car. I’m a guy who had long hair and was driving a beater at the time, so I was going to jail no matter what. Also, they asked me what part of town I hailed from. Profiling 101. Like I said above, I had a clean record at the time and still do. The case was dropped after blood test results, but they put me in jail for 48 hours, and they purposely did NOT do a breathalyser since they knew I wasn’t drunk.
I have never seen or heard of five dollar bags of weed in the USA, supposedly in some areas with really large populations of addicts and cheap drugs they sell tiny 2-5 dollar bags of heroin or crack/coke. Generally a dealer isn’t going to want to mess around for less then ten bucks.
Were you the only person in the vehicle? When I find dope in a vehicle and there is only the driver I don’t need to get a confession. I just charge them with possession.
No big interrogation needed.
Without regard to whether that officer was pulling something on you or not:
If I’m looking to charge someone with something, I find out another cop or lowly correction officer tells the subject to be quite and not say anything [which is, in my professional opinion, dispensing legal advice] that officer and I are going to have a conversation with internal affairs investigators.
