Stupid is no way to go through life

By Doug Page | Tuesday, January 26, 2010, 11:48 AM

Just before 10 o’clock on a Tuesday morning, an Englewood officer spotted a young man crossing one of the city’s busier intersections. A yellow lab was following the young man, who was puffing on what turned out to be a marijuana cigarette.

When the officer pulled up next to the young pedestrian, the officer reported the strong odor of marijuana. When asked if he was smoking marijuana, the 18-year-old denied it. The young man said he was going to a nearby gas station to fill out a job application.

“I told him smoking pot and smelling like it when you walk in to apply for a job is not the way to get hired,” the officer wrote in his report. The young man then admitted to smoking a blunt, which he threw in the street when the officer pulled up.

When asked if he had any more pot, the young man said no. But when the officer patted down the young man, he found a bag of weed in the young man’s back pocket.

The officer loaded the young man and the dog in the back of his cruiser. It was then the young man utter what can only be categorized as an understatement: “I’m sorry. I know it was stupid.”

Let’s see: smoking dope on a weekday morning while walking through the one of the busiest intersections in the city en route to a job interview.

Yep. Stupid.

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