Deputies: Drug suspect flushes confession down toilet
LAKELAND, Fla. (AP) - Authorities in Florida say a man confessed to trafficking methamphetamine - and then flushed the detective's recorder down the toilet.
The Ledger reported Saturday that Polk County deputies say they found 30-year-old Patrick Townsend driving with 32.4 grams of meth in his boxers during a Wednesday traffic stop.
Deputies say Townsend confessed, claiming he usually deals in much larger quantities. A detective recorded the confession but left the recorder on a desk. Authorities say Townsend grabbed it, hid it in his armpit and asked to use the bathroom, where he flushed it.
An arrest affidavit says that when the detective looked for the recorder, Townsend mocked him by saying: "Tighten up on your job, homie."
Townsend was jailed without bail Saturday, charged with meth trafficking and destroying evidence. No information on an attorney was immediately available.
The Ledger reported Saturday that Polk County deputies say they found 30-year-old Patrick Townsend driving with 32.4 grams of meth in his boxers during a Wednesday traffic stop.
Deputies say Townsend confessed, claiming he usually deals in much larger quantities. A detective recorded the confession but left the recorder on a desk. Authorities say Townsend grabbed it, hid it in his armpit and asked to use the bathroom, where he flushed it.
An arrest affidavit says that when the detective looked for the recorder, Townsend mocked him by saying: "Tighten up on your job, homie."
Townsend was jailed without bail Saturday, charged with meth trafficking and destroying evidence. No information on an attorney was immediately available.
have fun in your withdrawal in the hole ya junkie!
Hang i'm HIGH.
maybe the key to a cell will find the same place all that's just funny
Oh, that's real frickin' bright - dig a bigger hole for yourself, why don't you?
The toilet paper is facing the wrong way. LOL
 @Tattooed_Angel Nope, that's exactly how it should face. Especially in a public bathroom! The less they have to put their nasty hands all over the roll to tear some off, the better we all are.Â
 @Tattooed_Angel Oh Man! You called it! That is SOOOO irritating! LOCK HIM UP!!!
 @Susabelle  @Tattooed_Angel You really need to learn how to properlly hang toilet paper.
Do you really want random strangers' nasty hands all over the roll as they tear some off? AFTER they've been poking around down there? o_oÂ
 @Tattooed_Angel  @MargeGunderson I have to restrain myself from doing in friends' houses that when it's facing the actual wrong way, not the correct way in this photo. :^DÂ
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A dear friend and longtime co-worker and I have had this feud going for more than 10 years now. Except her reasoning against having it the correct way is her mother-in-law did it that way somehow thinking it makes people tear less off the roll each time.
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So she confessed to me that she tears off two extra squares each time she sees it turned that way just to offset the cheapskate savings. And now we turn it around each time mostly to mess with each other.Â
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Oh, and it's a little-known fact (Cliff Clavin shout out) that Dear Abby receives overwhelmingly more responses when this subject is addressed in her column, than any other topic. Â
Even far more than such as abortion, infidelity, teen pregnancy, drugs, rude neighbors, etc.Â
@MargeGunderson No way Jose! Having the roll facing the outside is the proper way. That way all you have to do is pull on the end to get the amount you want and tear it off. You don't need to have your hands all over the roll.Â
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I am so anal (no pun intended) about this that if I see a roll turned the opposite way at someone else's house, I will turn the roll around.  :)
32 grams in his boxers. Yeah, I'm sure he was trying to show the ladies, "yeah this is all real!"