This exciting but uncomfortable (you'll see why later!) episode happened to a group of friends last summer. It was the end of another school year and so a large group of us decided to take a little camping trip. We agreed that we'd spend our weekend in the lovely, if a bit touristy, location of Acadia which is a popular vacation spot on the coast of Maine. Since there were so many of us we had to ride down in three different vehicles. I guess I was lucky enough to get into one of the indesreet little compact cars. Some of my friends, however, rode down in an old dodge van. The van was not bad in itself but the paint job was. Next to various words written in spray paint such as "the groove mobile", "peace", and "Fukengruven" where the words DARE to keep kids of drugs. This was enough to get the van pulled over. Now this is when the "episode" occured. The poilce pulled the van over on the highway without giving a reason and then proceded to ask questions like all cops do. "Do you have any illegal drugs in the car?" etc. The driver (who I'll call D) said no of course, and in fact they did not have any drugs in the car, which was unusual. Someone did have a pipe though (I'll call her R). Soon, for no reason another cop car pulled up, and then another! They ran D's license and found it clean but just then yet another cop car pulled up with a dog in the back. By now R was getting scared. She couldn't really afford the $200 fine for the pipe. Being female I guess she just had one more place to put it then guys do and she did! The cops proceded to search the car (probable cause? Don't ask me!) ripping everything up (the bed, the tapistries, the paneling the cushions, the backpacks, the trash etc.). Well the didn't find anything and the searches they did on my friends didn't turn anything up...but the dog did smell R's crotch a lot. Well I guess dogs do that a lot anyway :).