I once had sex fully clothed, but only because (a) it was in the middle of one of the coldest winters Minnesota ever had and (b) we hadn’t seen each other for three weeks.
How about “spring water”?
Probably just “untreated water”.
Wild water
Heh, that was in an old “Peanuts” comic strip: “You mean they drink wild water?”
“Bourbon and Branch” = Bourbon and unchlorinated water.
Grain alcohol and rainwater
Have you ever seen a Commie drink water?
Back in the backpacking 70’s you could buy lightweight cans of “freeze-dried water.”
Strictly for emergency use.
INSTRUCTIONS: Open can. Add water to rehydrate. Drink.
Yep. As you obviously know (but others might not), they were gag gifts.
If there was some magically easy way to store liquid hydrogen indefinitely and add atmospheric oxygen to it to make water, I could see armies and hikers taking advantage of the 1:9 weight advantage.
It’s been replaced by “community service.” But yeah-- it was considered a way for someone who had committed a petty crime to pay for it, and also get straightened out more effectively than prison or jail would do. It was pretty much for young men from generally clean backgrounds who had committed a first offense because they “fallen in with a bad crowd,” but not so deeply they couldn’t be pulled out.
Nowadays, if you have any kind of conviction as an adult (and if you have one as a juvenile, you better have had it expunged), it needs to be non-violent, and a misdemeanor or very low-level felony-- or something that was a crime when you did it, but no longer is, like a drug charge for pot in California before it was legalized. Anyway, in the last case, you can get it discounted, but the others you need to get waivered, and the last I heard, you were permitted only one waiver, so if you also needed a waiver for strong prescription glasses, or too many missing teeth by one, but replaced by implants, or something, then also needing the conviction waiver could keep you out.
A cop is investigating a suspicious location but doesn’t bother telling dispatch where he is, so when he’s inevitably killed the police can’t send backup to figure out why he isn’t reporting back.
A PI or off-duty cop decides to search a suspect’s place without a warrant; he plans to sneak in and get out before the suspect is home.
He finds the evidence the will make the case, and just takes it with him.
Somehow, it’s used against the suspect, and the case is over.
This is so highly illegal, I imagine a suspect who doesn’t have a lawyer (or maybe isn’t even under arrest yet, is just in for “helpful” questioning) is confronted with the evidence, and confesses. That’s the only legal path I can see to using this kind of evidence.
On TV, it sometimes does make the suspect breakdown and confess while his lawyer is sitting next to him saying “SHADDUP!!” Other times, we aren’t privy to what happens, just left with the knowledge of the suspect’s clear guilt.
The suspect says “OK, I will tell everything”. But we won’t get to hear it because it’s end of scene and we cut to the next.
Yep. Or goes alone instead of with a partner.
Archie Goodwin searched an apt, found the murder gun- and then hid it again in a different pla it, and called in a anonymous tip.
A cop could do that same. But if he is found out- the evidence and likely the case is thrown out.
Even if he has a partner they split up so the other one can get picked off. That’s not how back up works.
The Kevin Bacon show from a few years ago The Following did that almost every episode (it seemed like that anyway.) I had to stop watching for that reason. After the first cop you are searching a building with gets their throat slit because you split up you think you would try to do something different the next time. Not Kevin Bacon.
Well, the more secondary characters they kill off, the more actors get a Bacon number of 1.
This would probably be another thread, but to what extent can police and prosecutors benefit from the contributions of third-party illegal searches? And what if anything prevents the police from claiming the results of any illegal search came from “an anonymous informant”?