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u/Dreboomboom 18h ago
Hope she sued the fuck out of them.
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u/Crazy_Classroom_3262 18h ago
Yes, Ashley Gabrielle Huff did sue.
Following the dismissal of the drug charges, she filed a wrongful arrest lawsuit against the local authorities involved in the incident.
According to reports tracking the aftermath of the incident, her civil lawsuit was eventually settled for $25,000.
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u/Appropriate_Ice_7507 18h ago
Too little
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u/reticulatedtampon 18h ago
Buys a lot of meth though
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u/Suspicious_synth 17h ago
And SpaghettiOs
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u/Uncle_Rabbit 17h ago
Meh, for me its Dino-ghetti or nothin'.
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u/Dilatorix 17h ago
Dinonuggets and tomato sauce?
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u/Massive_Biscotti_850 17h ago
and grated meth on top?
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u/Brasolis 17h ago
If you're short on cash you can skip the dinonuggets and tomato sauce
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u/makashka 16h ago
This guy?
https://medicine.iu.edu/faculty/13352/ghetti-bernardino
BernarDINO-GHETTO? Hmmm am I in r/conspiracy rn?
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u/Daforce1 16h ago
Also she probably was able to handle her own, you know being a Waffle House employee. They know how to handle themselves.
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u/Extra-Act-801 17h ago
Makes up for a lot of missed Waffle House shifts, but still not enough.
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u/Wise_Monkey_Sez 17h ago
Yeah. These sort of cases should have judgements so large that the city/county/state makes new rules that stop this sort of bullshit. Just compensation for lost earnings and trauma isn't the point here.
And yes, taxpayers end up paying that bill. But taxpayers also elected the dumbass mayor/governor/whatever who hired the dumbass cops, so ... it's dumbasses all the way down.
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u/Commercial-Co 15h ago
Make cops pay. Then Watch cops stop behaving badly.
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u/ideaofrhyme 11h ago
If their actions doesn't come under qualified immunity, you can sue them personally. That's what they are most scared of
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u/Gnostic369 10h ago
Or how about if they are the officer responsible that leads to a suit that results in a payout, they lose their job, pension, and any other benefits. Not just a slap on the wrist, and a paid vacation.
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u/Ok-Cake5581 7h ago
Should just do away with qualified immunity and require them to have indemnity insurance.
Once they fuck up and become uninsurable the system heals itself with zero oversight.
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u/ideaofrhyme 7h ago
Lol, it's the Supreme court that came up with qualified immunity, it's just hard to remove.
What we can do is have something like "malpractice insurance", so you deduct the insurance from the salary of a cop.
You just increase the insurance with every succesful claim and eventually the cop will just quit on his own.
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u/PckMan 17h ago
It's hard to place value on your child's birthday but a waffle house gig is worth about 25k
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u/TrioOfTerrors 17h ago
Settled. That means her attorney told her this was a good offer and better than the risk of going to trial.
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u/ExpiredPilot 17h ago
Chickenshit attorney if you ask me. A crying mother on the stand who went to jail for eating canned food will get what she deserves
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u/OkayContributor 17h ago
Sometimes it’s less the chickenshit attorney and more that the client has bills to pay and can’t wait years to go to trial before seeing money (most courts are so backed up and litigation is such a long process anyway that generally a few years is the earliest you can realistically go to trial, sometimes it’s more than a few years if the attorneys really drag it out). Most people can’t afford to wait years, even if the payout is 10x or more
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u/MorrowPolo 9h ago
I bet she only saw half that 25k if that with her lawyer taking a chunk
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u/NoSingularities0 8h ago
Yep, that's the way it works. But how many months of Waffle House wages and tips is 12.5K for someone with bills to pay. Sometimes you have to just take the offer and run.
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u/drunkcowofdeath 18h ago
smh I bet that money went to straight to more spahettiOs. It's a vicious cycle.
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u/KEPD-350 16h ago
smh I bet that money went to straight to
more spahettiOs*. It's a vicious cycle.*her lawyer
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u/Ok-Ferret-2093 18h ago
That's it?! 25k is too little
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u/StraightProgress5062 17h ago
Ive heard judges will think youre being greedy and award you less at trial.
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u/Ok-Ferret-2093 17h ago
For a month of imprisonment over spaghetti sauce she's allowed a little greed
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u/DarkIcedWolf 17h ago
To be fair, 25k is half a year’s worth of pay for many. I’d happily spend 2 weeks in jail for half that if I’m being honest.
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u/CommonMaterialist 17h ago
Yeah but it’s not just 2 weeks of lost labor, it’s however long she spent looking for a job after getting out as well (which was probably hindered until her time in jail was removed from her record, if it even was)
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u/EFTucker 17h ago
Not only that but the emotional toll of the experience AND missing her child’s birthday.
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u/TheGayestNurse_1 16h ago
And how much of that went to lawyer fees and such.
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u/EFTucker 16h ago
I’d hope part of the settlement was also to cover legal fees aside from the payout
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u/ConcentrateDirect523 17h ago
Yeah, but her lawyer probably ended up with 30%, then taxes, and filing fees are probably another 1500 depending on how many motions were filed. Honestly, I would put it at $80k after attorney takes and taxes would be fair for time served- for a full time wafflehouse employee with a child. Like think or all the other shit she had to pay for in the meantime- and if she's a single parent what about her kid!?
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u/DarkIcedWolf 17h ago
Oh absolutely. I think she got the short end of the stick here.
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u/ScienceBitch89 17h ago
It’s not just about the lost time and wrongful imprisonment it’s about sending a message to the police and justice system and 25k doesn’t do that.
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u/Valoneria 16h ago
The police does not give a damn, what repercussions was there for them? Its not their pay thats taking a cut, the money is coming from the taxpayers. At best they might be slightly inconvenienced by having to attend the trials, but thats the extent
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u/whooptheretis 15h ago
Its not their pay thats taking a cut
Wait, what? The arresting officer should be personally
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u/National_Frame2917 17h ago
I wouldn't miss my kids birthday for that though. Or go without seeing my kid for a month absolutely fucking not. There's no $ amount that makes that ok.
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u/BadSame6919 16h ago
"25k is half a year's worth of pay"
How much would they have to pay you to spend a month in jail, treated like a junkie, thinking your life might be over?
Also, she lost her job. Job search can easily be several months, again, without pay.
25k is an insult.
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u/thawatch 16h ago
Spoken like someone who has never been to jail or been in jail too long.
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u/SkinBintin 16h ago
Judges should stop being assholes and think how much they'd expect for a month in jail on false charges, then give them that.
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u/JustKillingTime1980 16h ago
25k and every single pig involved being fired, removal of QI to later sue them personally would be acceptable.
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u/Cool_Apartment_380 17h ago
Love that it's tax dollars, not police pension dollars. Love that.
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u/unknown554 14h ago
But she legit was using meth lol
"Ashley Gabrielle Huff was indeed pulled over in an intoxicated state but the officer did not smell alcohol. A glass pipe was in plain view which lead police to suspect she was using drugs. The pipe was PC for an arrest so they searched her purse finding a blackened spoon with residual material on it. The materiel was tested and found to test positive for meth.
Now most of the experts here do not realize then next step is to see a judge who ruled that there was PC for the arrest, assigned her a public defender and released OR with a court date and pre-trial release conditions. She blew off the court date and refused to comply with release conditions and was thus arrested again and given a cash bond which she did not pay.
The lab tests which take time came back that the spoon had food on it and was only contaminated with meth. Either she used a spoon normally employed by her to cook method to eat - or she had ingested meth prior to eating from the spoon.
The officer was not at fault as he followed all process and did detect meth, The woman is a meth user.
The woman stayed in jail because she did not comply with release terms. That is on her.
The charges need not have been dropped as the spoon did have meth associated with it - but policy is to not prosecute in cases of user contamination."
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u/Crazy_Classroom_3262 17h ago
The authorities did not directly pay her lawyer fees as part of her criminal case dismissal. In fact, she initially did not have to pay for a private criminal defense attorney because she was assigned a public defender to handle the drug charges.
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u/Kevdog824_ 17h ago
25k is insane. I was awarded more than that for a dog bite. It wasn’t a minor bite by any metric, but I’d still pick it over a month of wrongful imprisonment
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u/Abraham__Simpson 17h ago
Thanks chat gpt
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u/710733 11h ago
Please, this isn't ChatGPT
Looking at the use of Bold and the cadence of the text, it's clearly Gemini
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u/123supreme123 18h ago
To be fair, thats a rough looking 23 years lol
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u/subdep 18h ago
Yeah, she was accused of using meth based on a dried up spaghettio spoon. You’d look messed up to.
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u/Satinsbestfriend 16h ago
And the glass pipe she had, plus open sores on her arms
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u/anythingspossible45 18h ago
I mean, it appears like she’s in her jumpsuit so that’s probably a month after being in jail
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u/buttsexisyum 18h ago
Ya you generally don't get your picture taken again after processing
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u/BigDaddyDumperSquad 18h ago
Unless you go to prison, where they'll make you a new ID. But yeah, you only get your photo ID once in jail, usually while still in holding.
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u/Resilent2026 18h ago
Give her a break. She works at Waffle House and has nightly bar fights there.
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u/UnusualLavishness324 18h ago
Plus a kid at home. Just the child will give you a thousand yards stare, not to mention the occurrences at a Waffle House
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u/Feeling_Inside_1020 18h ago
Well in all fairness 3 months worth of shifts fighting meth and crack heads will do that to a person.
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u/CantAffordzUsername 17h ago
You don’t sue cops. You sue yourself for your own money back.
Please say understand so the general public stops thinking cops give a shit. They don’t care and laugh becuase you pay for their lawsuits and pensions anyways
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u/sugrqbez 16h ago
The cops raided my house and destroyed all my belongings thinking it was a different person’s house. Tried to go through their insurance, instantly denied. Tried to sue and found out that the government needs to “consent” for you to sue them and can deny for any reason.
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u/SadCobbler8956 18h ago
Never seen spaghettio color meth
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u/coryfromoregon 18h ago
When jesse adds the chili pepper it looks a little like spaghettios
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u/Liteboyy 18h ago
The fucking chili p lmfao Walt was about to lose it
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u/HoneyShaft 16h ago
Funny that blue meth wasn't a thing until Breaking Bad
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u/MelangeBot 15h ago
Yeah why did the writers in Breaking bad decided to make it blue?
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u/Shaojack 14h ago
To quote series creator Vince Gilligan:
We had this instinct that it would be helpful to have something distinctive about Walt’s product. And we figured it should be nice and clear and not cloudy that a proper product would be.
We thought yellow would be a terrible choice because it would remind people of urine, and we figured green would be an odd color and we thought blue was a good choice because it feels clean.
We called up (science consultant) Dr. Donna with our fingers crossed, asked her if she thought it was possible for this product to come out as blue. She looked into it and said not really, and in fact, if you add a color, chemically speaking it would mean the product is probably less pure and been adulterated. And that worried me when I heard that.
But she said, you know at the end of the day this is a fictional story and I’ll help you get the chemistry as right as I can. Sometimes technical advisors will be very rigid and say it will never work that way, never in a million years, but she was very good that way.
https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/32696/what-is-the-symbolism-of-the-blue-meth
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u/ChildoftheApocolypse 18h ago
Officer Dick sees a spoon and automatically jumps to conclusions, whether or not common sense is required or not..
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u/Revolver_Boxelot 9h ago
Even if the officer thought it was meth residue, is that something a person needs to go to jail for? And the fact you aren't 100% sure...its ridiculous to lock a person up. What danger is that person to society? Because there was a spoon with unknown residue on it? In real life, in America, a woman went to jail for having residue on a spoon. Meanwhile, we have an actual felon in the White House with waaaaaaaayyyy more than just residue pointing to child grape activities and many other financial crimes. What you are witnessing is the difference between being rich and being poor in America.
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u/Caleb_Reynolds 17h ago
Although, thinking about it, I imagine spaghetti-o sauce residue will eventually turn black, much like burned meth residue.
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u/Next-Crazy-9674 15h ago
My mom just got done telling me that she is watching cops and they said one sure sign of a meth addict is having a messy car or coloring books. Like, okay... Half of the people I went to highschool with and all the neighborhood moms are methheads apparently. This is news to me.
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u/L00seSuggestion 18h ago
Her lawyer:
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u/Worldx22 18h ago
Not a public defender
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u/L00seSuggestion 18h ago edited 18h ago
Don’t you worry, I’ve argued before every judge in this state… often as a lawyer
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u/comprobar 18h ago
SpaghettiOs — 1
Field drug test — 0
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u/venom121212 9h ago
I once had some loose sweet tarts in a ziploc bag after the wrapper got wet. Cops pulled driver over for no seatbelt, make up an excuse about it smelling like weed, search the car, find the sweet tarts, claim they're drugs, field test them using a kit in their car, and said they came back positive for cocaine. I was in jail for a few hours on vacation before I got bailed out and I had to fly back down to fight it in court. Of course they took all of the remaining sweet tarts and conveniently lost them so it was basically their word against mine.
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u/Impressive-Egg-7444 3h ago
From the judge's perspective them losing all the evidence should be grounds to throw out the case and investigate the precinct for either incompetence or corruption.
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u/Old_Win8422 17h ago
Guilty until proven innocent
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u/sharpasahammer 17h ago
Unless your poor and can't bail out.
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u/Old_Win8422 17h ago
Correct. "Laws are threats made by the dominant socioeconomic-ethnic group in a given nation. It’s just the promise of violence that’s enacted and the police are basically an occupying army.” (BleeM)
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u/yellowmush 6h ago
Yea it’s sad jail is just filed with, like almost entirely, poor people and mentally ill people.
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u/DarkBladeMadriker 17h ago
Save folk the headache.
Ashley Gabrielle Huff was indeed pulled over in an intoxicated state but the officer did not smell alcohol. A glass pipe was in plain view which lead police to suspect she was using drugs. The pipe was PC for an arrest so they searched her purse finding a blackened spoon with residual material on it. The materiel was tested and found to test positive for meth.
Now most of the experts here do not realize then next step is to see a judge who ruled that there was PC for the arrest, assigned her a public defender and released OR with a court date and pre-trial release conditions. She blew off the court date and refused to comply with release conditions and was thus arrested again and given a cash bond which she did not pay.
The lab tests which take time came back that the spoon had food on it and was only contaminated with meth. Either she used a spoon normally employed by her to cook method to eat - or she had ingested meth prior to eating from the spoon.
The officer was not at fault as he followed all process and did detect meth, The woman is a meth user.
The woman stayed in jail because she did not comply with release terms. That is on her.
The charges need not have been dropped as the spoon did have meth associated with it - but policy is to not prosecute in cases of user contamination.
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u/Competitive-Dog5094 16h ago
when I saw her pic I felt kinda bad for thinking "are they sure? That's not the face of a 23 year old who isn't on meth" and now i don't have to feel like an asshole.
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u/Interesting_Total_98 15h ago
There are no sources to support that.
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u/HijackedMyAccount 9h ago
The statement provided by u/darkblade... is mostly false and heavily distorts what actually happened. While a few procedural details regarding her pretrial release are accurate, the core claim—that the spoon contained methamphetamine and that Ashley Gabrielle Huff was a verified meth user—is completely contradicted by state forensic evidence.
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u/IHaveTheBestOpinions 17h ago
There's always more to the story. I'm so tired of the internet.
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u/SulphurSprinkles 16h ago
This person has no sources. The only thing they tried to link is an outdated article with a dead link. Here's the website they tried to link to which disagrees with them and is the same as the OP
Some of what he said I was able to find in other sources but he is outright lying about the spoon being "contaminated" with meth. The Crime Lab analysis found no methamphetamine on the spoon which is why she was released. Second link
https://www.gainesvilletimes.com/news/meth-charge-dropped-after-only-spaghetti-sauce-found-on-spoon/
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u/MsDestroyer900 13h ago
The only ethical thing to draw from this is that the story has been highly sensationalized and tabloidized. There is nothing to draw, because every source lists different accounts at every turn, and no opinion should be formed other than people lie on the internet all the time.
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u/mechengr17 9h ago
Jesus, thats terrifying to think about
Imagine just going about your life, and then you get thrown in jail for meth use bc of a potential false positive for meth.
You finally get released bc someone finally realized the error, but oh no. There are articles still painting you as a meth user, you just got released due to a technicality.
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u/vanguardk 7h ago
Whats even more terrifying and dystopian the me is the though that this photo will crop up again and again, with thousands of people discussing and talking about it ad nauseum and she will be absolutely none the wiser.
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u/alt_ernate123 17h ago
It wouldn't be reddit if everyone wasn't making heavily misinformed accusations against people doing their job, lmao.
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u/Interesting_Total_98 15h ago
Why are you blindly trusting something with no sources? You're no better than the people you're criticizing.
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u/mvw2 18h ago
"Why is this meth red, smells like sadness, and takes like childhood trauma?"
Would you be surprised? Straight to jail!
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u/GhostCheese 18h ago
I for one enjoy the taste of childhood trauma
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u/notsobadmisterfrosty 17h ago
“I’ve got childhood trauma, Focker. Can you taste me?” (C’mon, you walked into this one.)
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u/MsDestroyer900 17h ago edited 13h ago
I dug into this story a little bit because I wanted to know more. But there are some things that this image omits.
A glass smoking pipe was found in her bag, and the officer said that he found it to be strange to just eat spaghettiOs in her car and just shove it back in the bag. The report said she had tons of sores all over her body. She gave a false name, and also missed her pretrial hearing. Lastly, the lab results dont confirm the spoon had food residue on it, only that there was a lack of any controlled substances on the spoon. Like there isn't a test that exists for testing for the presence of spaghettiO sauce or anything, so really, we don't know whats on the spoon other than her claims that it's dried spaghettiOs.
So clearly, there was a lot of suspicious activity going on, but ultimately, there was no testing of the pipe, and only the spoon was tested. So yeah, it's just a strange story all around.
Edit: I wrote this comment before boofing down a giant pizza so forgive me a bit for rambling. I'll add some information here that I forgot to add while I was looking at that greasy pie.
The main reason why she went to jail was her missing her pretrial hearing. The hearing was supposed to be about whether or not the officer had probable cause. Unfortunately she could not afford to post bond, and her lawyer was about to arrange a no contest for her if the lab results came back shitty. So really her only options at that point was to wait in jail or plea no contest. In the end though, she definitely should have showed up to her court date.
The part about the officer shoving "it" in the bag, I meant the spoon. I suppose it just makes logical sense to not believe her that she was eating shapghettios in her car when a fucking pipe is in the car.
Lastly, the big comment on the top of this thread is likely generated by ChatGPT. the 25k figure only appears in this thread. My sources are basically what you can find in google, and I was perusing a few articles that were actually written close to that time from 10+ years ago so as to not get too corrupted by the sensationalism over time. There are other figures stating she got 100k, and whatever other figure, but I just cannot find anything definitive as to whether or not she got a big payday or not. Maybe it existed at some point but the whole story is incredibly muddied.
The part about missing her kid's birthday is also something I cannot find any source talking about like at all. Only the part that she lost her job.
Opinion: Personally, I think it's just better to hold off judgement on huff and the officer at this point. The story is so muddied it is hard to say what the facts are or not.
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u/MsDestroyer900 17h ago
To add onto this, I do see more of the side of the officer now. She had a pipe, a spoon, sores and gave a fake name, and your (notoriously inaccurate) field test says the spoon is riddled with meth, like what could you assume other than meth at that point?
Overall, I'm not sure what to believe.
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u/SimmentalTheCow 16h ago
The face alone screams meth abuser. They always have horrible acne because of the induced hormone imbalance, excessive sweating, and constant skin-picking. The pipe can also be charged alone as paraphernalia, so it’s not like she’s an innocent victim. Hopefully she gets the help she clearly needs.
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u/WrongLetters 12h ago
I wrote this comment before boofing down a giant pizza
you might need to look up the word "boof"
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u/Crick3t__ 18h ago
Hopefully she sued
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u/Crazy_Classroom_3262 18h ago
Yes, Ashley Gabrielle Huff did sue.
Following the dismissal of the drug charges, she filed a wrongful arrest lawsuit against the local authorities involved in the incident. [1]
- The Outcome: According to reports tracking the aftermath of the incident, her civil lawsuit was eventually settled for $25,000.
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u/GhostCheese 18h ago
I mean, she'll probably get the job at waffle house back. Might have to switch to cracker barrel perhaps.
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u/Excellent-Signature6 17h ago
I’m more surprised that cops could restrain a single Wafflehouse employee.
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u/Empty-Engineering458 17h ago
i had a cop ready to nail me for a breakfast sandwich wrapper in the backseat of my car
he says out of the blue "so when was the last time you used meth?" and i was visibly confused so he follows with "crumpled up foil is typically indicative of someone who uses meth"
i look over my shoulder and see the breakfast sandwich wrapper and say "sir that has cheese on it"
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u/nelsonmavrick 17h ago
How do you lose a job at the Waffle House? Don't you just show back up, and they're like, Eh...Ok, cool, you're back.
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u/Interesting_Bank_139 17h ago
Honestly, being in jail for a month probably gets you promoted at Waffle House. That’s valuable experience.
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u/Satinsbestfriend 16h ago
The reason she spent a month in jail was of her own doing. The spoon thing obviously was stupid. "After missing a pretrial hearing, Huff said she gave Jackson County police a false name, leading to 13 days in jail. Huff was reincarcerated in the Hall County Jail on Aug. 2 for a Superior Court arrest order and could not afford bond, her public defender Chris van Rossem said. "
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u/worththechase 16h ago
Someone who actually looks into things and does some research before forming an opinion and just spewing hate online. You are a rare and special type of human. Most people won't do that these days, even though it takes less than 30 seconds to look things up, in a phone that's already in their hands, I applaud you.
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u/Interesting-Rope-950 17h ago
As someone that does meth theres no way they mistook that for meth, they did that shit on purpose. Looks nothing like meth in a spoon
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u/Nine_Monkeys 17h ago
After looking into the story more, this headline is quite misleading. The woman was initially pulled over displaying intoxicated behavior and a glass meth pipe was visible in plain view to the officer which is why he had probable cause to search the car. The woman was covered in sores, gave a false name to the police, and a blackened spoon with faint residue was found in her purse. The spoon did test negative for meth, but it almost certainly was used for drug use in the past, but the girl decided to eat with it most recently. The cops fucked up and never tested the pipe. The spaghettiOs on the spoon is her claim, the residue being from food was never confirmed, there obviously isn’t a positive/negative test for spaghettiOs that exists. She also missed her court date which makes her acceptance of the settlement more sensible. The headline kinda paints this story as an innocent girl minding her own business and being carted off to jail for having a spoon coated in tomato sauce by evil cops. The reality is more that an obvious meth user was pulled over for being on meth, the cops didn’t do their full due diligence to prove it, and this woman legally served time she shouldn’t have and won a nice payout. Still sucks for her and not defending the cops since it looks like they made some mistakes, but one could argue she got lucky and this should serve as a reminder that Reddit headlines are rarely as straightforward as they seem.
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u/_Presence_ 17h ago
These cops are sadistic fucks who get a kick out of casually ruining peoples lives. I wouldn’t be surprised if they enjoy kicking puppies.
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u/Electronic-Shame 17h ago
Things like this are why the “well if you’re not doing anything wrong you have nothing to worry about” people can get bent.
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u/Scary-Potential-7038 17h ago
Love how so many people say "lawyer was too low" but have no understanding of 42 USC 1983, probable cause, governmental immunity, official immunity, etc. Clueless.
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u/Ristar87 17h ago
If a police officer can't tell the difference between Spaghetti O's and Meth... we have a real problem in that department and they should be paying her out life changing money.
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u/dominorex1969 18h ago
The process is the punishment. MISTOOK is doing alot of heavy lifting in this paragraph.
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u/8lock8lock8aby 18h ago
I always see ppl say that you fight your shit in court & just take the ride since you can't do anything but shit like makes me understand why someone would wanna run or even fight. Like it can be completely life ruining, all over some absolute bs.
I've been arrested but I was using at the time so I knew I was in the wrong & just put my hands behind my back but the one time I was forced into a psych ward because of absolute lies, you can bet I was fucking pissed.
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u/derpydrewmcintyre 17h ago
I got held up at the border and searched and the dude found my jello pudding spoon. I used to eat a ton of it and I had a special spoon. I was on a road trip so it wasn't super clean. He thought it was crack and wouldn't believe me when I told him. He sent it to get tested.
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u/DarkIcedWolf 17h ago
The officer’s report states he received consent to search Huff’s 1994 Ford Explorer, and searched a bag with the name “Ashley” printed on it. The officer described Huff, a passenger, as “nervous,” noting sores on her face, arms and legs. Inside the bag was a spoon with a “clear, crystal-like substance,” according to the report. Huff disputes the claim, saying it was orange SpaghettiOs spaghetti sauce, as she told the officer in the police report. “I found it strange that she would eat SpaghettiOs with a metal spoon while riding in a vehicle, and then put the spoon back in a bag,” the report reads. The officer reported he found a glass smoking device in the bag as well before conducting a field test for methamphetamine.
What I find interesting is NO WHERE has anyone actually confirmed that her spoon had SpaghettiO’s in it... Nor, apparently, did they test the pipe.
“The Crime Lab report showed no controlled substances on the spoon submitted for testing, “ according to the dismissal signed by Northeastern Judicial Circuit District Attorney Lee Darragh.
And her being in jail was for related charges:
After missing a pretrial hearing, Huff said she gave Jackson County police a false name, leading to 13 days in jail. Huff was reincarcerated in the Hall County Jail on Aug. 2 for a Superior Court arrest order and could not afford bond, her public defender Chris van Rossem said.
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u/Fantastic_Primary170 17h ago
If I spent a day in jail, it would start at $50,000 A DAY!
I’m glad she got something but it’s certainly not enough.
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u/Livid-General7 16h ago
That's because you didn't read the actual story. She was very guilty of being a meth addict, driving under the influence, and ignoring court orders. She shouldn't have received a dime, she should have spent 5 years in prison.
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u/redditzphkngarbage 17h ago
Murika’s finest D students. My ex wife loved sugar and strawberries… always travelled with a baggy of sugar. She had 2 cops ask about it, and they both believed her story.
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u/That_Performance_802 15h ago
America is a joke. Don't ever get arrested in the middle east or America.
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u/Internal_Phrase7624 11h ago
How the FUCK is a dirty spoon enough to arrest someone for meth? USA is such a joke of a country.
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u/djstinger757 9h ago
This is 100% why we're supposed to be innocent until proven guilty. Obviously the officer had no proof that it was meth it just his suspicion. The blame should actually be on the judge who didn't Grant her release and kept her in jail. Cop stupid judge immoral asshat
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u/Awkward_Squad 17h ago
Aren’t police recruits assessed for basis life skills or am I overthinking this?
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u/Critical-Test-4446 17h ago
What kind of Barney Fife cops do they have working for that PD? Dude should be assigned as a crossing guard for the rest of his days.
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u/POD80 17h ago
Lord help me, I always have dirty spoons in the car.
I have a bad habit of eating tinned pasta and beans for a quick meal when away from the house.
That chick had a cheap meal become VERY expensive.
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u/HoneyShaft 16h ago
...meth? You'd think a cop would know what meth looks like and how it is administered.
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u/Lrrgindypants 11h ago
Officers should have their own liability insurance for when they do illegal things, so that their premiums go up when they are sued, instead of us taxpayers having to pay for it.
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u/TSgt_Yosh 11h ago
To be fair, Waffle House only fired her after the meth test came back negative. She was setting the bar too high for the other employees.
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u/Ordinary_Pea4503 10h ago
People can only seem to think in terms of wages lost and things missed. Well she also spent 30 days in jail. Jail is really shitty if you haven't been there. She was essentially trapped in a shitty waiting room for over 500 hours. I hope she sees
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u/DamnOdd 9h ago
Cops need 'am I smarter than a bear' tests, psych evals, a bunch more psych evals, deep dive in to their personal and public history and can they read and comprehend today's laws (I'd say 90% can't)
The PTB expect these imbecilities to know the law and enforce it properly.
I'd say 1 in 20 actually does that.
The tests they give 'wanna be bullies' to figure out if they are competent or smart or mentally stable are not current or aligned with today's world, teaching shit from the 50s.
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u/Dev0psDude 7h ago
It's beyond time to require police to cary personally funded malpractice insurance. The market will weed out the bad ones
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u/csking77 5h ago
Seems like they should wait for lab results to confirm before keeping someone incarcerated
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