When reading posts of this nature I have in the past chose not to respond. I have no way of knowing if this, or ANY, incident on this board is true. I tend to give everyone here the benefit of the doubt until proven otherwise because I can see no reason not to, nor any way someone would profit from making false posts of this nature.

I don't find them as absurd or out of the realm of possibilities as others seem to feel.

I live in the very notorious Neshoba County, Mississippi. While civil rights violations are not as common now as they were in those movies you see on cable reruns, they still exist here as elsewhere, and they are not limited to ones based on racial prejudices.

I had a group of friends (all white) who were raided during a party because someone's ticked off girlfriend made an untrue accusation of drug manufacture. They were arrested on a bottle of oxy from an IOP that contained a grand total of 12 pills. There were no other drugs, legal or not, in the house (no, not a trailer), nor anything else illegal in and of itself. The owner of the house has just recently been released after an 18 month period of proving himself innocent of intent to distribute.

I myself was the victim of a violent crime several years ago. I had an almost full bottle of 30 Lorcet Plus Rx'ed by a local physician in my jacket, and LE found an empty bottle that was months old under the backseat. Even though I have a documented chronic possibly fatal condition, on this basis alone was this reported as "a drug deal gone wrong". I have no police record, no history of drug abuse, nor where there any signs that this incident related in any way to drugs.

I do not find it hard to believe that in a rural area some overzealous bored LE may behave in a manner as in the original post. If they want to look like they are doing something productive on this "war on drugs" a "bust" of this nature would certainly be a lot safer than trying to arrrest gang members in a crack house or storming a heavily armed trailer park crystal meth lab.