early 80s.. I was young.. probably 14 yrs old.. riding around my hometown of East Boston with my 18 yr old cousin from CT.... little did I know his car was unregistered and he had a bit of weed in the car.. like personal use stuff.. not enough for selling or anything... would be "legal" today... anyway.. cop pulls us over.. "L&R?" no registration obviously. pulls him out and puts him in the cruiser... then he gets in the drivers seat of the car and starts searching.. finds the rolling papers then starts peppering me with "where's the reefer"... he never found any, and let my cousin and I go with a "get the damn car registered"...
now that I'm older, I think about this and wonder if the cop had any right to do what he did. That day, I was scared shit.. more about what my parents would do though..