> backwoods state full of backwoods laws, and apparently backwoods people

Attacking an entire population of people like that is a nasty breach of HN's civility rule. Please don't ever post anything like this again.

It's the upvoters of such comments who should most be ashamed of themselves. The fact that people here feel angry about police seizing cash without due process can, and must, be kept distinct from cheap slurs. That takes a certain (rather tiny) degree of self-discipline, which is a minimum requirement for participating here.