Rollin'

If only everyone were as frank as David McLemore, the La Marque man who was pulled over for driving erratically on the Gulf Freeway on Wednesday morning — well, honestly, we're not sure where we'd be. See, McLemore was weaving through traffic while rolling a joint, and when the police pulled him over, he told them so.

It happened just before 7 a.m. Wednesday when Gilberto Villareal, a Galveston County sheriff's deputy, noticed McLemore's car veer across three lanes of traffic to exit from the northbound lanes of the Gulf Freeway onto FM 646. Villareal pulled McLemore over and, according to his report, noticed the smell of marijuana coming from his car. Villareal asked McLemore why he was driving so erratically, and McLemore told him that it was because he "was busy rolling a joint." Well, hey, if your car smells like the back row at a Steve Miller concert, we guess there's no point in coming up with an elaborate story to explain it away, right?

Villareal seized about three ounces of pot from McLemore's car. McLemore, 41, was taken to jail and faces a possession of marijuana charge, which could result in a year in jail and a $4,000 fine.