# Ranters Play in the Pit -- I think it's for the Month of July

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**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [July 1, 2014, 5:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ranters-play-in-the-pit-i-think-its-for-the-month-of-july/692072 "2014-07-01T05:16:06Z")\
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**Author:** ![Lacunae\_Matata](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8491ac/32.png) [@Lacunae\_Matata](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lacunae_Matata)\
**Post date:** [July 15, 2014, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ranters-play-in-the-pit-i-think-its-for-the-month-of-july/692072/144 "2014-07-15T02:54:42Z")

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That’s great, **LB**. My husband reacted the same way when I backed into someone at the dry cleaners two summers ago. (Except that, did you know, cops get awfully suspicious when you call them up and ask “Honey, where’s the insurance card in your truck?”)

Quoting myself from the December mini rant thread:

> [@Decemberrants: Yule post'em here, plz](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/decemberrants-yule-postem-here-plz/675207/787):
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> Oh, my idiot cousin (late thirties, mother of four, never married, but currently engaged - to a guy who got out of prison on July 1, meth charges. Prior sentences were for car theft and burglary.) Anyway, D thinks that I’m her ally, because we both found ‘twue wuv’ a bit later in life. So she basically asked me whether I thought that she and her Boo are meant to be. As it turns out, I don’t know her Boo, but my husband has arrested him two or three times, and I mentioned that I really might overlook a single youthful theft, but meth? No. I wouldn’t have that person around my kids.
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> But I sort of phrased it as “hell no. Et cetera.”

Yep, my Cousin Rhon-duh managed to get herself arrested yesterday for driving on a suspended license, but she got very very lucky. Her Sweet Baboo got arrested during the same traffic stop - two misdemeanor and three felony counts of drug possession. From what I can tell, he’s still on parole, so he’s probably headed back to prison, and I think this is his third strike. Considering that they were both in the car, she could easily have been charged for possession also, but apparently the arresting officer was being nice. (Of course, she’s acting like the entire search was bogus, even though his parole status means that no warrant is required for the search.) I suspect she’ll be contacting me soon, because my husband and several of my friends work in the jurisdiction where there were arrested… Hooray!

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