Thoughtful smoker’s butt lands her in jail

It was shortly after 10 p.m. when a sheriff’s deputy stopped a gold-colored Ford Ranger on south-bound Idledale Parkway after observing a willowy, white-clad arm toss a lit cigarette from the front passenger-side window. The young man driving the car was on probation for possession of a controlled substance, but insisted he had nothing to hide and invited the officers to search the vehicle. That must have chagrined the willowy, white-clad young woman occupying front passenger-side seat, who hotly denied jettisoning the smoldering smoke, claiming that she diligently keeps her “butts” in the car. Unfortunately for her, she was also keeping a bogus drivers license in the car, along with a small glass jar containing a green, herbaceous substance. Under mild interrogation, deputies learned that she was also packing a colorful marijuana pipe in her panties, which she surrendered with her modesty reasonably intact. Sensing that the interview wasn’t going well, the girl slyly broke the filter off an un-smoked cigarette and presented the snowy-white article as evidence of her essential honesty. “See,” she reproved the deputies, “I always keep the butts of the cigarettes.” Not buying it, the deputies appropriated her illicit collection and treated her to a free ride to a smoke-free county facility.