Random Thoughts

[Clodfobble]

Originally Posted by Gravdigr

If you drive down the road with ANY prescription pills not in their proper container, [and get stopped by the popo] you will go to jail.

Is it that you just go to jail long enough for them to figure out what the unlabeled pills really are, or are you saying it is illegal to drive with an otherwise perfectly legal prescription outside of its orange bottle?

[xoxoxoBruce]

I was crossing into Canada when the man asked if we had drugs. My wife whips out an unlabeled pill bottle with a few of each of her prescriptions in it.

That held us up for a while.

[orthodoc]

Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

I was crossing into Canada when the man asked if we had drugs. My wife whips out an unlabeled pill bottle with a few of each of her prescriptions in it.

That held us up for a while.

Canadian customs officers are FAR more hostile than American ones.

[xoxoxoBruce]

Originally Posted by orthodoc

Canadian customs officers are FAR more hostile than American ones.

That's an interesting observation. I've found the Canadians to be pretty hospitable and polite, whereas the Americans to be 50% rude pricks. I wonder if it's a mindset, on both sides, to be nice to guests but keep the natives in line?

[Snakeadelic]

Originally Posted by orthodoc

Canadian customs officers are FAR more hostile than American ones.

Weirdly, in my days of occasionally crossing over from Washington to British Columbia, the one and only time I ever got hostile treatment at a border station was when a Canadian friend was driving me home! It was the Americans who flipped out on us. They looked at my driver's license (but not his, although he was driving), then proceeded to ask me things like where I was born, where my mother was born, what was her maiden name, where did I live, why had I been to Canada...and they asked everything twice. They only asked him if he was Canadian and planning to stay in the US after dropping me off. He said no and they went right back to grilling me! It was so strange...

[Gravdigr]

Originally Posted by Clodfobble

Is it that you just go to jail long enough for them to figure out what the unlabeled pills really are, or are you saying it is illegal to drive with an otherwise perfectly legal prescription outside of its orange bottle?

Here, in KY, if you have a legal scrip, even for penicillin, and the pills are not in the prescription bottle that is marked with all the prescriptiony info on the label, and the police find out (doesn't matter if you're driving, riding a bicycle, or walking), you'll be charged with "prescription drug not in proper container".

Scenario: You're driving and run a stop sign, Barney Fife pulls you over. Barney goes through all the bullshit, and while you're pulling your ID/wallet outta your purse a Xanax tablet (for which you have a legal prescription) falls out and bounces across the hood. You're going to enjoy the hospitality of the county jail. Not just until they find out if you have a legal scrip, but, until you make bail. And go to court, and be sentenced, and do time for having a prescription drug not in it's proper container.

Now, if you're digging out your ID, and a prescription bottle of Xanax falls out and bounces across the hood, as long as it's a legit scrip, you're golden. (Unless, in the case of Xanax, or some such, you admit to driving under it's influence.)

If you have a loose pill, and a legit scrip, bottle and all,, sometimes the cop will let you slide.

If the bottle is at home, you're in trouble.



ETA: One of these won't help, either.



(Well, maybe with a verrrrry understanding popo. But, I doubt it.)