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- A video shows an Ohio state trooper performing the Heimlich maneuver on a man choking on a bag of weed.
- The man swallowed the drugs in an attempt to hide them from the trooper.
- The amount of marijuana carried by the man was, at maximum, a misdemeanor offense.
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An Ohio State trooper saved the life of a man choking on a baggie of weed by performing the Heimlich maneuver.
An Ohio Highway dash-cam camera shows an officer approaching a driver of a vehicle, repeatedly asking, "can you breathe?".
After the man seems to have answered no, he got out of the car, attempted to make himself sick, and then began doubling over.
At this point, the state trooper began the Heimlich maneuver, quickly ejecting an object from the man's airways.
"What did you swallow?" the officer asks the man.
"I'm sorry, Officer," the man replies, "it was a bag of marijuana."
The footage then shows the man sitting onto the floor, and the state trooper informs him that an ambulance was on its way to check his medical condition.
In Ohio, the amount of marijuana carried in this instance would be classed as a misdemeanor, an offense punishable by a maximum fine of $150.
"Do you really want to die over a minor misdemeanor?" the officer asked the man as he caught his breath.
On their Facebook page, the Ohio State Highway Patrol wrote, "Don't try to swallow a bag of drugs before getting pulled over in an attempt to keep a trooper from finding them."