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One of my favorite stories involved the police seizure of a young man's corvette.  He'd bought it as junk and restored it.  Police stopped him for speeding and saw white powder on the floor. He told them it was baby powder, but police claimed it was cocaine.  The vette was seized and the man arrested.  Out on bail, he heard from friends his vette was being driven by the police all over town.  When he complained, the police chief stated to the local media, that the vette was police property and it was forfeit. A week later the lab test came back -- baby powder,  Man got a call to pick up his vette -- washed, waxed, and tank full.  But, many more miles recorded, than when seized.  Lawsuit cost the city quite a bit.  Cost the chief his job -- should have said alleged.


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