JRT Posted February 7, 2007 Share Posted February 7, 2007 Hey guys... I've been reading the forums for the past week or so and figured it's time I join since I'm loving all the posts, and love hookah! My name is Joe, I currently attend college at Northern Michigan University and have been smoking the shisha for a year and a half fairly regularly (oh and I've never been one for great spelling or amazing grammar on forums so thats my advance warning!)Now for the story... and a quick description before hand so the mods don't get mad right off the bad (not a bad story but at first may seem to be off the topic of shisha, but I assure you it's not!) I was reading one of the stickies about not talking about illegal substances and using them in hookah's and then it went on to explain how many non-hookah smokers are fairly ignorant to what hookah's are used for...***The Story***Well a couple of my buddies, myself and our girlfriends decided a camping trip was in order! We naturally packed up our hookah, our tents, food, firewood, chairs etc. We played on a nice relaxing three day trip to one of the local state parks a couple hours north of us (chicago area at the time). Day one goes by great! Smoking some great shisha by the fire with great friends in the middle of nature--not much better in my opinion. We felt fairly accomplished being as though our girlfriends were very anti-hookah trying to tell us all the side affects (much of which they had no idea about) and not buying the fact that we only smoke shisha out of it! They didn't understand why we would want to smoke flavored tabaco.. Regardless we even had them smoking by the end of the night! So day 2 rolls around and its somewhere in the neighborhood of 1pm and we are making some breakfast/lunch and the park police drives by. We think absolutely nothing of it. 10 minutes later he drives by again, and we are sitting there wondering whats up and why they keep circling the camp ground... Within the half hour we had the park police, state police, k-9 unit and local cops surrounding our camp zone! Everyone at this point is completely freaking out because we hadn't done a thing and had zero idea why they would be there. One of the cops pulls up to my friend and asked him for our hookah, my friend hands it over and they start pulling samples of the shisha and swiping the bowl to do THC tests on it. While this is happening the park police are taking our names down to ban us from coming back and the k-9 unit is searching our camp grounds! The cop pulls my buddy and us asside telling us they are going to have to confiscate the hookah and take it as evidence and do more testing on it because he was sure it would test positive under true lab tests.. then this younger cop (25ish?) pulls his superior officer asside and goes "sir we can't do this and confiscate it, you can tell this hookah holds a special place in thier heart and has many good memories"... then a minute later he hands the hookah back and my buddy and I are just laughing. All in all they booted us from the camp grounds, no tickets were issued and the cops found nothing obviously.***End***Just figured it was kind of an interesting story and a good way to introduce myself as a fellow hookah advocate! Can't wait to get to know you guys a bit more and learn some new techniques etc for smoking!-Joe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pieces Posted February 7, 2007 Share Posted February 7, 2007 Welcome to the forum! You've come to the right place to meet others with the same particular passion, and some with other outrageous cop stories Enjoy your stay, and happy smoking. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Purdue Posted February 7, 2007 Share Posted February 7, 2007 Well welcome to the forums! Good story, I hate how so many people see a hookah and get the wrong idea. Funny thing is, once you explain it, they want to try Maybe next time the cops will stop by and have a bowl of shisha with you! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JRT Posted February 7, 2007 Author Share Posted February 7, 2007 QUOTE (Purdue @ Feb 6 2007, 09:22 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>Well welcome to the forums! Good story, I hate how so many people see a hookah and get the wrong idea. Funny thing is, once you explain it, they want to try Maybe next time the cops will stop by and have a bowl of shisha with you!haha that would have been amazing.. the whole police department stops by and goes "hey you guys mind if we join?" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pieces Posted February 7, 2007 Share Posted February 7, 2007 Actually, I know of a few hookah lounges that stayed well contacted with the city and the local PD, and they'd end up with quite a few officers going in off duty for a smoke. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JRT Posted February 7, 2007 Author Share Posted February 7, 2007 I really want to smoke hookah with a cop just for the sake of smoking hookah with a cop.. I don't know I guess it's just the fact that its such a social experience and I think it would be cool to talk about the law in a laid back way with a cop.. get their actual opinion on some things as opposed to just what they enforce if that makes much sense. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Molson Posted February 7, 2007 Share Posted February 7, 2007 Hey JRT your not by any chance near sault michigan are you? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JRT Posted February 7, 2007 Author Share Posted February 7, 2007 QUOTE (Molson @ Feb 6 2007, 09:50 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>Hey JRT your not by any chance near sault michigan are you?I'm in Marquette up in the UP so if your in the UP then I'm sure I'm relativly close Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Molson Posted February 7, 2007 Share Posted February 7, 2007 im actually north of the border in ontario and was wondering if theres any hookah bars south of it cause therens none here... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JRT Posted February 7, 2007 Author Share Posted February 7, 2007 I'm 90 percent sure there is one in marquette, I'm trying to stay away right now since it costs more to smoke shisha at a bar then it does to smoke in my dorm And since I'm in college I try to conserve what little money I have Now when I get back home... thats a different story since I have a job, but look up marquette and see how close you are and I'll look into it for you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rovelz Posted February 7, 2007 Share Posted February 7, 2007 where'd you go camping at? I've lived in SE wisconsin for my entire life, although i'm only 20, and was an active scout until i left for college. Just curious as to what campground freaked out because of a hookah so I don't make the same mistake. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JRT Posted February 7, 2007 Author Share Posted February 7, 2007 QUOTE (rovelz @ Feb 6 2007, 11:49 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>where'd you go camping at? I've lived in SE wisconsin for my entire life, although i'm only 20, and was an active scout until i left for college. Just curious as to what campground freaked out because of a hookah so I don't make the same mistake.Hrmm I'm going to have to try to remember the name... It was in northern Illinois if I'm not mistaken.. It was one of the state parks so if you know the names of some of the Illinois state parks ill be able to let you know... All I remember is I was pissed to get booted out a day early after paying and all that jazz . Not to mention what do you do with all that extra firewood etc... bah! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JRT Posted February 7, 2007 Author Share Posted February 7, 2007 QUOTE (rovelz @ Feb 6 2007, 11:49 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>where'd you go camping at? I've lived in SE wisconsin for my entire life, although i'm only 20, and was an active scout until i left for college. Just curious as to what campground freaked out because of a hookah so I don't make the same mistake.Forgot to mention, state parks have very strict rules on substances aloud (no alcahol etc) so in my opinion it's best to just find a place to camp that isn't a state park if you plan on smoking hookah.. also that way you won't have to deal with some of the dumb rules and small children camping with their parents. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rovelz Posted February 7, 2007 Share Posted February 7, 2007 ah... still in IL. I haven't been to many there, only a few. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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