a story about police jurisdiction

so there was a tradition back when i lived in steamboat,the lift ops new all the locals by looks or by dress,or whatever but as you sat in line for the gondola up ,once you got to the lift you'd only have to mutter the magic words''club car'' and you and your homies would pile in while the tourons with their skis and Texas joker hats would stand there looking bewildered as they were allocated the next gondola.. club car was ,unsurprisingly short for' we wanna smoke bud on the way up thank you 'and 99% of the time you were obliged a nice smooth ten minutes to get in the right mindset for some serious jib/bonking...haha.i laugh because on a trip to California to ride it had signs up saying no jib/bonking,fucking cali squares......lol,anyway we were punk as fuck in Colorado and all we did was broke the rules.really though.Anyyyyyyyyyyway this one day during peak season up we get utter the magic words and the guy shrugs his shoulders and looks over at some guy who obviously had some kind of pull over this young hard grafting kid.so we pile in with these three mustachiod men ,who could not of been more not from round our way ,anyhooo,it took about three seconds to realise they had no impact on the bowel of Colorado chronic we had packed so out it came and we passed it round,even being nice enough to offer our fellow travellers a taste of the rockies,we just sort of giggled at the stone faced response we got off them .So we near the top of the lift and we are all fully caponed now,one of these clowns goes.'' if we were back in Boston right now id throw you punks in cuffs,you are out of order''..without missing a beat a few of us said well fuck off back to Boston and well come meet you their and you can arrest us then.fair enough.the last minute of the ride passed in a happy haze for us ,yet i could see these pigs were fuming,like veins bulging etc.the minute we stepped out of the ganjola the guys scream out to the ski patrol,the police of the mountain ,as it were''these guys have been smoking pot the whole way up!!!!!''in such an injured tone ,i really did almost feel sorry for the guy..the ski patrol guy,looked at us,laughed and shrugged his shoulders,and that ,is why i loved steamboat.   have a good day everyone.really.

mark halliwell 2011