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Apparently Ohio State – and college football in general – isn’t very popular in the state of Tennessee.

At least not with the police.

Bonnie Jonas-Boggioni, 65, and her husband were driving home to Plano, Texas from Columbus after attending her mother-in-law’s funeral when a pair of black police SUV’s stopped the couple a few miles outside of Memphis.

“Knowing I wasn’t speeding, I couldn’t imagine why,” Jonas-Boggioni told the Columbus Dispatch. “They were very serious. They had the body armor and the guns.”

On the back of Jonas-Boggioni’s car was a Buckeye leaf decal, similar to the one players’ have on their helmets, and cops mistakenly thought it was marijuana leaf.

Yes, really.

“What are you doing with a marijuana sticker on your bumper?” one of the cops asked Jonas-Boggioni.

(AP)After trying to explain that the sticker was not a marijuana leaf and that she and her husband were not trafficking drugs cross-country, the police advised Jonas-Boggioni to remove the sticker as to not cause any more confusion.

You know, just in case there were any other moronic drug cops out there that didn’t actually know what a marijuana leaf looked like.

From the Columbus-Dispatch:

    [Jonas-Boggioni] was too rattled to notice what police department the officers represented. But she suspects that a joint drug-interdiction effort was under way because they had passed several law-enforcement vehicles from different agencies.

    Neither the Tennessee Highway Patrol nor the Shelby County sheriff’s office in Memphis had information about the traffic stop. A marijuana sticker would not be a sufficient reason to stop a car, said a spokeswoman for the West Tennessee Drug Task Force.

Regardless, Tennessee police apparently aren't botany experts. If they were, they’d know a marijuana leaf has seven leaflets (see above picture) and a narrow shape as compared to the Buckeye leaf, which is fat and has five leaflets.

At least that’s what it says on the Internet. I have no firsthand knowledge of this.

As for Jonas-Boggioni, she acknowledged the cop’s wishes, but got back in her car without removing the sticker.

“I didn’t take it off,” Jonas-Boggioni told the paper. “This little old lady is no drug dealer.”

Just an avid Ohio State fan.

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Here is Box's ideal world.

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Box is a refined man.  Drinks only the finest wines and escargot.  Box, Gloversville IS that world.

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to bad they didn't have a bumper sticker for oxycontin or prozac.....all under the guise of national healthcare access

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This is just crazy.
It takes a special kind of stupid to think a major drug-running gang trafficking in marijuana
would be so stupid as to put marijuana stickers on their car, just so everyone knows they’re doing it.
But then again, Tennesse is the same state where:
•     the lieutenant governor called Islam a cult
•     the GOP called for jailing anyone that followed Shariah law
•     the state wanted to let science teachers offer alternatives (i.e. a pack of lies) to teaching about climate change
•     a GOP legislator claimed that AIDS came about “from one guy screwing a monkey”
•     a local gun nut made a video saying he was “gonna start killing people” if President Obama issued any executive orders on guns
•     a school principal told kids ”If you’re gay you’re going to hell”
•     the state Tea Party said on Barney Frank’s retirement “good riddance you perverted sodomite“
•     a GOP congressman suggested secession from the Union over health care reform (do you promise?)
•     the state legislature and governor bash gays pretty much every chance they get (along with the help of the US Chamber of Commerce)
•     where only 33% of GOP primary voters think President Obama was born in the US.