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Verizon will block certain words for their subscribers. I'll bet all the blocking Verizon will be doing will get annoying.  And why is the numeral 5 banned?

This story is true, mostly.  A man is traveling with his family through North Carolina.  His car is stopped at a license checkpoint and the officer checks the license and then asks for consent.  The man agrees.  In a suitcase the officer finds a bottle of pills.  Since the man was going on vacation he combined his prescription medicines in one unmarked bottle, taking just enough to cover him for the trip.  The officer recognizes that some of the pills are listed as controlled substances and charges the man with possession of controlled substances since he did not have the prescription with him.  I don't necessarily blame the officer since I'm sure he can't take everyone's word for the fact they have a prescription at home.

However look at it from the charged person's perspective.  One Day 1 of vacation his medication has been seized.  Since he is a dentist he may have to report the charge to the licensing board.  He has had to hire an attorney.  He will have to take a day off work and travel to a distant county for the case.  Probably his attorney will be able to present the prescription and get the case dismissed.  But even if that happens, a criminal records check will always show that he was charged with possession of a controlled substance but the case was dismissed.  To get rid of the dismissal record, he will have to go the the extra trouble and expense of getting an expungement.  Since a person is only eligible for one expungement per life, if this ever should happen again he will not be able to get another arrest expunged.  Even if the case is expunged there that just takes the record out of the court system.  It does not remove it from any other database that gobbled up the the court system's data on that day, it also does not require the police department to erase the arrest history.

So even if you are doing nothing wrong, it is not a good idea to agree to a search of anything, period.

N.Y. grand juror finds unique way to get out of jury duty.