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DALLAS - Police didn’t have to go far to find $400,000 worth of cocaine — it was in an undercover car they’d been driving for two months.

An officer cleaning the car at a patrol station Wednesday discovered the nearly 50 pounds of cocaine carefully hidden in hydraulically controlled compartments.

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Apparently the vehicle that was being driven was seized in a drug raid along with another, a Honda. Both cars were searched and no drugs or other illegal items were found so the vehicles were auctioned off and Dallas PD purchased one and was using it as an under cover vehicle.

I don’t know about you, but I find it hard to believe that they searched the vehicles and didn’t locate the drugs and have been driving around with them illegally for X-Amount of time. I think it more likely someone, in the department, hid it there thinking that no one would think to search the vehicles and just got unlikely that a nosy cop decided to check. I mean really, it was a vehicle seized in a drug raid and is used in undercover assignments. What are the chances that no one is going to find the compartments and search them? Slim. More than likely, that cop never realized that vehicle had those compartments to begin with and checked them out.

That’s my thoughts on that matter anyway. I’m a highly suspicious person by nature and I just find this story hard to swallow. On the off chance that it is true though, I hope whoever bought the Honda wasn’t a civilian who has had to drive through a checkpoint at some time with it. They’re likely behind bars.

Perhaps it’s just me, but I can’t help but to feel that this officer was looking for someone to toss into the clinker:

UNION CITY, Ga. - A McDonald’s employee spent a night in jail and is facing criminal charges because a police officer’s burger was too salty, so salty that he says it made him sick.

Kendra Bull was arrested Friday, charged with misdemeanor reckless conduct and freed on $1,000 bail.

Bull, 20, said she accidentally spilled salt on hamburger meat and told her supervisor and a co-worker, who “tried to thump the salt off.”

On her break, she ate a burger made with the salty meat. “It didn’t make me sick,” Bull told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

But then Police Officer Wendell Adams got a burger made with the oversalted meat, and he returned a short time later and told the manager it made him sick.

Bull admitted spilling salt on the meat, and Adams took her outside and questioned her, she said.

“If it was too salty, why did (Adams) not take one bite and throw it away?” said Bull, who has worked at the restaurant for five months. She said she didn’t know a police officer got one of the salty burgers because she couldn’t see the drive-through window from her work area.

Police sent samples of the burger to the state crime lab for tests.

City public information officer George Louth said Bull was charged because she served the burger “without regards to the well-being of anyone who might consume it.”

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News flash, stuff like this happens all the time. The cooks in restaurants do this all the time, something goes wrong in the process and they attempt to salvage it instead of tossing it out. I can’t say I blame them either. But really, if the burger was too salty would you have kept eating it or would you have brought a complaint to the management’s attention immediately? This is McDonald’s after all.