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ftp_123
Moral of the story: if the police have to ask for permission to search your {car,house,person}, the answer should pretty much always be no.

The 4th amendment is your friend and will atrophy if not used.

pstuart
Then they call in the dogs and cue them to indicate probable suspicion. Problem solved! /s
gumby
I understand that in at least some jurisdictions you can refuse a dig search and just be arrested.
pstuart
That doesn't sound like much of a win.
SN76477
With a proper warrant that is fine.

Candy isn’t going to set off dogs.

cbluth
Understandably. But they train the dogs to provide false positives, and then they arrest you anyways.
CyberDildonics
I'm not sure why you think that is the moral of the story of someone being held as a prisoner for 3 months for no reason.
[dead] captainwhoreal
Even if it was real, why lock someone up over it? US is one of the most evil regimes and yet claims to be the land of the free. That reminds me something that goes along "Arbeit macht...