Anyone gotten arrested yet? Or at least hassled?

[Lashes]

I'm just wondering because, yaknow, how stupid and aggressive some cops can be... And as a dripper (well, ex-dripper thanks to the ADM cart mod) - I felt that dripping while at a stop light looked mighty close to "drug use" and the bottles I have are not exactly "professionally labeled" I mean basically if I get lit up and the cop has NO clue to the existence of e-cigs, its basically my word he has to take for it...

I would think in a hostile situation like this, the very best I could hope for would be that he/she confiscates my equipment / juice and sends me on my way.

Anyone have any experience with a situation like this? I hope it never happens, however I feel it inevitably will...

[CHUCKLEHEAD]

I'd num chuck thier ass!!!

[JustJulie]

I've been approached twice by a police officer. Both times, they were very polite, simply asking what I was doing. So I explained it to them. I never turn down the opportunity to spread information about vaping.

I disassembled my equipment to show them how they worked, and I gave my traditional, "I was a 2+ pack a day smoker for 30 years, and this saved my life" spiel. One showed genuine interest and congratulated me on giving up smoking. The other officer basically scratched his head and said that now he had seen everything.

I think the key is not to get defensive or "in your face"--just view it as an opportunity to share information.

It also helps that it was daytime, and I was outside in public places, clearly being open and notorious in my vaping (not looking like I was trying to hide anything). It also helps to look like a 46 year old suburban soccer mom.

[enadrown]

The other day I was hanging outside in the front yard with the hubby and the baby with my pink e-cig. Cop drove by several times on the side street, then drove around the block and parked across the street in front of a neighbors house, rolled his windows down and watched us hanging out in the front yart planting some potted plants. I laughed, these cops here are so rediculous, I made sure to drip a lot to make sure he saw it good and it looked "suspicious". Don't know if that's why he was parked out there, but he was sure interested in what we were doing.

In his defense we have a VERY nice porch my husband built this summer, maybe he was admiring it! He didn't leave until he got a call on the radio to go somewhere else.

[mcl5000]

Originally Posted by enadrown

I made sure to drip a lot to make sure he saw it good and it looked "suspicious".

That's obviously the best thing to do. Oh wait, nevermind.

Anyway, anybody that would get arrested for vaping is obviously doing something else also that is actually illegal. Cops are going to question you sometimes, because you're using a drug delivery device, but once they find out what it is you're fine. Unless you're a **** to the cop, which most people are for some reason.

[ski]

I was at a wedding recently and one of the guys seated at the same table I was at was a cop who patrols the projects in Staten Island. I was doing a little somewhat-stealth vaping (holding the vapor in but not hiding what I was doing), and put the nicostick 510 mod I was using down on the table. He asked me, "is that one of those e-cigarettes? I've seen alot of those recently". Just curiousity and he already knew what it was.

[doots]

I go STEALTH at all times.

[sstambo]

Doots,How do you go stealth?

[doots]

Just Kidding SStambo..

I dont vape in in stores generally, etc. sometimes if Im going to be in there a lot time I will take the device but I can wait til I get out and back to my car.

I see cops I keep it down.. Dont want to give them any reason to pull me over thinking I am inhaling drugs or something from a device that looks like a pipe bomb. lol

[sstambo]

Ya, I'm pretty open with mine. But I only vape where you would be allowed to smoke. I did vape in a bathroom at a restaurant once. Nobody was in there. I saw somewhere that there is a vaporless juice. I really like my vapor though. But maybe for a long plane ride or something it could prove useful.