Couple Arrested For Driving Stolen Car Filled With Uranium, a Rattlesnake and Whiskey

[RandySF]

Police officers in Guthrie, Oklahoma, who thought they were carrying out a routine stop of a car whose tag had expired came across a rather unusual stash.

Stephen Jennings was driving with Rachel Rivera in the passenger's seat of a stolen Ford vehicle when they were stopped by officers at around 11 a.m. on June 25. Officers found there was another passenger in the car—a timber rattlesnake.

Bodycam footage shows one officer spotting the serpent in a storage box on the back seat and exclaiming: "That sucker is huge," KFor reported.

Jennings admitted to police that he also had a pistol in the console and officers then found an open bottle of Kentucky Deluxe whiskey—but that was not all.

A search of the vehicle also unearthed a canister of radioactive powdered uranium.

With classic understatement, Guthrie Police Sgt. Anthony Gibbs said, "There's quite a few unanswered questions. So now he's got a rattlesnake, a stolen vehicle, firearm, and somebody under arrest," he said.

Police are investigating what the purpose of the uranium was. The dangerous substance has not yet resulted in any charges. "When that happens of course, we call in a company that deals with that specifically and it's taken safely into possession. The uranium is the wild card in that situation."


https://www.newsweek.com/uranium-rattlesnake-whiskey-arrest-oklahoma-unanswered-questions-1448695?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Twitter&utm_campaign=NewsweekTwitter

[Maru Kitteh]

1. OH EM GEE

Laughing so hard I'm in tears over here

[First Speaker]

2. This sounds like a 50s film noir...

[Jake Stern]

3. Paging Quentin Tarantino

This shit needs to be put in a movie.

On Edit: Bet these two have some stories.

[King_Klonopin]

9. I was reminded of Hunter S. Thompson.

Were they heading for Las Vegas? Perhaps they were conducting experimaental tests for Sandoz Labs?

There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of a uranium binge.

[Jake Stern]

11. Indeed

Fear an Loathing in Oklahoma

[jmowreader]

20. This is more like the plot of a Coen Brothers film

[912gdm]

4. Im curious how refined the uranium is

You can own uranium. I have a small vial of it for shits and giggles cause I collect rocks.

[womanofthehills]

35. My ceramics class at UNM in the 70's had a jar of uranium on the shelf to use for ceramic glazes

Most of us were smart enough not to use it in glazes, except for our teacher. We also had a jar of lead. Those were the days.

[NBachers]

5. Kentucky Deluxe Whiskey- $11.59 a liter

Kentucky Deluxe Blended

A blend of Kentucky bourbon and neutral grain spirits and aged in oak barrels for 36 months creating a smooth textured whiskey.

Size: 1 Liter

Proof: 80 (40% ABV)

Origin: United States

Distillery: Heaven Hill Distillery

[Celerity]

7. bleech and I found it even cheaper

1.75L 12.99

https://www.davidsonsliquors.com/kentucky-deluxe-blended-whiskey.html

plastic bottle, keep it classy!

[NBachers]

8. They tint the grain alcohol with coal ash slurry from the retaining ponds.

[tonedevil]

12. That's why you cut it...

with radioactive powdered uranium. Have you never heard of cocktails?

[KY_EnviroGuy]

13. Arsenic from the ash gives it that special "character".

Little know traditional artisan trick from the Kentucky hills......

[King_Klonopin]

10. Plastic provides the advantage of being able to squeeze the whiskey into your mouth.

Obviously, they are experienced inebriates.

[Demovictory9]

6. the rattlesnake, whiskey and pistol might not be illegal

[912gdm]

16. and neither is the uranium.

you can go onto amazon right now and order some

and in a few days someone will drive up and put it on your porch

[Demovictory9]

24. wow

[backscatter712]

25. Natural uranium is part of the soil in much of the country.

If you got yourself some centrifuges and started enriching it to make U-235, that's when every federal agency in existance will want to have a word with you...

[DBoon]

31. skip Amazon, get it from these guys

https://www.unitednuclear.com/

[KY_EnviroGuy]

14. Who among us don't pick up such items at a local yard sale?

Guns, whiskey, pet rattlesnakes and uranium for glow nightlights?......

[TexasBlueDog]

15. Fella could have a pretty good weekend in Vegas with all that...

Extra points for identifying the movie, character and actor.

[MicaelS]

17. Dr. Strangelove..

Slim Pickens.

Major Kong.

There..

[TexasBlueDog]

19. Ding! Ding! Ding!

Extra cookie for you!

[pecosbob]

21. It was written as 'Dallas' originally but Kennedy was assassinated a few weeks before release

so they changed the script to 'Vegas'.

[pecosbob]

18. Sounds like the plot of Repo Man

[hunter]

22. That's a great movie.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087995/

[pecosbob]

23. Harry Dean Stanton...I don't have the words.

“No movie featuring either Harry Dean Stanton or M Emmet Walsh in a supporting role can be altogether bad”

[Blue Owl]

27. There's one in every car...

n/t

[DBoon]

30. What ya' got in the trunk?

"Oh...you don't wanna look in there."

[backscatter712]

26. Wow, he's sure covered all the bases, hasn't he?

[MrScorpio]

28. Shoot...

A fella could have a pretty good weekend in Vegas with all that stuff.

[Tanuki]

29. And he was wearing a "smilie face" necklace.

[TexasBlueDog]

36. That's the face of a man who knows he's never gonna see his whiskey, uranium, rattlesnake, pistol or

stolen car again!

[TexasBlueDog]

37. Is this man a Democrat or a Rpublican?

C'mon, you know you want to claim him. lol

[treestar]

38. Looks like he is 6'6" or so?

[smirkymonkey]

32. C'mon! Who doesn't go on a roadtrip without uranium, a rattlesnake and some

Kentucky whiskey? Oh, and a gun. That just goes without saying.

[struggle4progress]

33. I know! What is happening to our pioneering American spirit of fun?

[smirkymonkey]

34. *snort*

[treestar]

39. I thought this was going to be Florida Couple

Looks like Oklahoma Couple is giving them a run for their money.