Is that a fishing reel in your pants, or are you just happy to see me?

Nope, it turns out it was a fishing reel, and he probably wasn't happy to see a cop.

Police said a man was arrested after an officer found him in a store's bathroom with a $700 fishing reel stuffed into his pants. An employee of the West Marine store in the Hillsmere Shopping Center alerted an officer on Monday afternoon to two suspicious men.

Police say Timothy Hamilton, 37, of Glen Burnie, locked himself in the restroom, where the officer found the fishing reel in his pants.

Hamilton was charged with theft and possession of drug paraphernalia after the officer found a glass drug-smoking pipe under the seat of the Jeep that he had been driving.

Huh. You wouldn't think that crackheads do much fishing, but there you go.

(And yes, I know that he was probably going to try to sell the reel to buy more drugs.)