Busting Chops For 20 Years

Peter Carlson (thanks, Raja): Guy gets pulled over by a cop. He steps out of his car. He's wearing a white T-shirt, bluejeans, a baseball cap and a goofy grin. The cop asks if he's been drinking.

"A couple of beers," the guy says.

Ah, the old "couple of beers" gambit. In traffic-stop America, everybody has imbibed only "a couple of beers" — a couple being loosely defined as somewhere between two and 387. This cop's not buying it. Now , he's getting a goofy grin.

"Something leads me to believe narcotics might be involved," the cop says. "Any guess what it might be?"

"No."

"Have you smoked any pot tonight?" the cop asks.

"No."

So the cop reaches over and plucks out the joint that's tucked behind the guy's right ear, sticking out from under his baseball cap for all the world to see.