What’s the difference between a gardener and a cop? They both know how to plant things, but only one can toss you in jail for it.


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A police officer in Tallahassee, Florida proved that even Sunshine State cops aren’t immune from Florida Man-level antics, dumping a previously-sealed bottle of alcohol into a driver’s car before arresting him for a DUI.



In a now-viral bodycam clip from a traffic stop last May, Officer Kiersten Oliver can be seen pulling over 56-year-old Calvin Riley Sr. during a routine traffic stop. After he refused a field sobriety test, he was arrested for driving with a suspended license, which gave Oliver the go-ahead to search his car.


After coming up clean for any illicit substances, Oliver decided to take the law into her own gloved hands, snatching a sealed liquor bottle from the vehicle, dumping it onto the road, and tossing it back into the car, insisting the container was already on Riley’s passenger's seat.


“There’s an opening and he had it tucked,” she could be heard telling the second officer, before explicitly telling a third that she found “a bunch of alcohol” in Riley’s car.


While it’s unclear what happened next — the trio conveniently shut off their body cams after their interaction —this Looney-Tunes ploy actually worked. A note of a “a small bottle of vodka that was opened” appeared in Riley’s arrest affidavit.


Though Riley is set to head to trial on Friday, we really think that Oliver should be the defendant instead.