Last month, Florida police stopped a woman in Fort Pierce for crazy driving,
allegedly careening all around the road, ABC 10 reports. When Kennecia
Posey, 26, rolled down her window to talk to the cop, the officer said he
caught a big whiff of weed. Police searched Posey's car and said they found
two small bags of drugs inside her purse—one of marijuana, and the other
full of cocaine.
Admitting defeat, Posey copped to the fact that the weed in her purse was,
well, hers, according to the police report. But the coke? Oh no. That was
all thanks to a freak act of nature.
"I don't know anything about any cocaine," Posey reportedly told police. "It
's a windy day. It must have flown through the window and into my purse."
Police apparently didn't believe Posey's tale about a magical gust gifting
her gak through an open car window, and she was arrested for felony cocaine
possession and a misdemeanor marijuana charge. But there are still a lot of
questions needing to be answered. First of all:
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Why blame the coke on the wind but fess up to the weed?
If you figured that the police were going to buy your story about a fateful
flurry blowing some blow into your purse, why not just double down and blame
the weed on the wind, too? Did you make some quick mental calculations
about wind gust and the weight of your nugs and think, Cops will never buy
that the wind picked this bag of weed up, it's too heavy—but the coke? It's
just powder. I got this, no problem.
To be honest, that logic is probably sound. Good call.
What kind of massive wind power does it take to blow a small bag inside a
moving car?
Let's consider the physics of this scenario for a second. You're in a car,
speeding down a roadway in Fort Pierce, Florida, presumably with your
windows down, and at some point, a big rush of air sweeps a plastic bag of
cocaine into your car. Even without any real knowledge of aerodynamics, that
seems pretty dicey.
How strong does a gust of wind have to be to force a nearly weightless
plastic bag straight into your car without getting caught in the car's
slipstream? What sort of heavy-duty winds were whipping through Florida that
day? The weather report says that it was pretty balmy in Fort Pierce when
she was pulled over on March 21, but there's no recorded mention of any
cocaine-force gusts.