Inexplicable: Phillip Williams, 47, for some reason
approached two uniformed police officers in Tampa, Fla., in
March to ask their opinions of whether the substance he had just
purchased for the crack pipe he was holding was indeed cocaine.
After examining the pipe, the officers suspended their
then-current investigation of a burglary and put the cuffs on
Williams. The month before, in Orlando, Michael Garibay, 34,
approached a sheriff's deputy in a marked patrol car and asked
him if he was "straight," which, as Garibay proceeded to explain
to the befuddled officer, meant, "Do you want to buy cocaine?"
After Garibay pulled out a baggie of white rocks, he was
arrested. [Tampa Tribune, 3-22-06] [Orlando Sentinel, 2-3-06]
