OK. Who here has been arrested?

[momophile]

And can you tell us what for, please?!

[Ptah]

1. I haven't, but both my children have. n/t

[momophile]

6. anything interesting?

[Ptah]

8. Is a multi year prison term interesting to you?

[momophile]

13. hope they faired okay.

I was definitely scared at the thought of actually being sent to jail for any amount of time. 19 hours was enough for me for a life time.

[Ptah]

14. Only two years and seven months to go.

I'll let you know about the effects then.

[flvegan]

2. Define "arrested"

is that just cuffed and stuffed in a squad car, or are we talking mugshots and a trial?

[momophile]

4. oh my! just cuffed or the whole thing! do tell!

:bounce:

[flvegan]

9. I was cuffed and put in PC once.

Small town, I was...geez, 16, I guess. Guy tried to rape my friend in an upstairs bedroom at a party. She told me. I verified it with him. He swung first.

The rest? History. I went in the squadcar, he went to the ER. Cops told me they'd have largely done the same thing (off the record, of course). Tough being on the senior football team and getting your ass handed to you by a fat little freshman.

Even worse when that fat little freshman's mom taught the senior English class...

I don't believe in violence any more. But I'd still probably do the same thing today.

[Monk06]

23. He tries to rape your GF and is insulted when you call him on it?

That takes the a special kind of stupid.

I hope you speed bagged is slimey ass.

BTW flvegan, you rock.

[MrCoffee]

43. I have a disturbingly similar story to that...

a female friend of mine was getting beaten up by her boyfriend (piece of shit slimebag is more like it). so we got up a little posse and went to rectify the situation. cops cuffed us, sat us in the car for a while. when they figured out what was going on, they shook our hands and turned us loose.

[SammyWinstonJack]

3. Never have had the "pleasure", and I plan never to have . nt

[LeftyMom]

5. Nah, I've been closely investigated but never taken into custody nt

[Ptah]

7. How about you? Have you ever been arrested?

[momophile]

10. yes, proudly.

protesting in Chicago when the war started. charged were dropped later, though. which is good, because I did not want to go to trial.

[Ptah]

11. 1968?

[momophile]

12. 2003.

[Ptah]

15. At least you're not a criminal.

[HEyHEY]

16. My version of a fire drill is much different from most people's

[Courtesy Flush]

17. Never. Nope. Not me.

I've been inside of jails on may occasions, as a social worker.

Believe me, you don't want to go there. I'm glad I can just walk right back out.

[Courtesy Flush]

18. Did you try asking on a freeper board?

My brother's a drooling freeper. He's been arrested many times.

[Mojambo]

19. DUI back in my 20's

Not such a fun experience, but straightened me out right quick about the whole drinking thing.

[bertha katzenengel]

20. Almost. I tried to give some water to some folks who'd been arrested

after a Soulforce demonstration. A very angry, nasty, ugly human being of a police man screamed into my face "what the fuck are you doing in here do you want to get arrested too?!!!!"

I had unknowingly walked into an area where no one who wasn't a cop or an arrestee was supposed to go. I dropped my water, turned on my heel, and went to my car without a word. I asked people I saw on the way to come with me and get the rest of the water and fruit I'd bought (knowing those guys would be there a while).

It left a horrible taste in my mouth.

[u4ic]

21. No,

and I hope I never am.


Unless it's playtime...:evilgrin:

[smtpgirl]

22. Obviously I have, or

My threads would never be locked!!!!

At LEAST THIS THREAD IS BETTER THAT THE PUPPY THREAD,

OH, WHOOOAAAAHHH, I AM IN WONDERWAMA

IS BOB MCALLISTER HERE??

OR HOW ABOUT SIR GRAVES GHASTLEY??


I'd rather wrap & eat Charmin than respond to the puppy thread!!

Too much time on my hands

[gr8dane_daddy]

24. I've been a bad, bad boy...

chicks dig bad boys! :headbang:

[Ptah]

25. What were you arrested for?

And are you proud of it?

[gr8dane_daddy]

31. Disorderly Conduct...

can't say I was proud of it...can't say I'm ashamed either. Youthful actions....only live once.

[u4ic]

28. Not this one

Sorry. :hi:

[WCGreen]

26. DUI, Curfew, Disorderly conduct twice....

And that was all before I was 20...

Good thing I got my shit together, huh....

[Generic Brad]

27. The coppers got nothing on me

Nothing, see?

[WhollyHeretic]

29. I was arrested for possession of alcohol by a minor and it was

probably 3 months before my 21st birthday.

[ZombieNixon]

30. I came close to being arrested by the Secret Service

for "harrassing the President." (I never even got in the same venue with the fucker. :eyes:)

[corporatemedia]

32. BIGGEST MASS ARREST in the history of U.S. 1971 DC POLICE RIOT

I went in along with 8,000 on Monday, another 4,000 went in on Tuesday, and another thousand or so on Wednesday.

Read about the Police Riot of May 1971 -

http://dc.indymedia.org/newswire/display/3990

A story that's not often told.

[MrCoffee]

42. I had an International Law prof who volunteered to do defense work

for people arrested in that action.

[momophile]

48. only 800 to 1000 arrested the day I got picked up

or at least that's what I've heard. 8000 is a damn lot.

[seemunkee]

53. I think my brother was there

I was too young.

[William Bloode]

33. Many times.

Everything from assault, to burglary. Buncha stuff.

[blonndee]

34. I was, when I was 15, for running away.

I'm not sure what the charges were, but I was handcuffed, transported in a cop car, and put into a juvie jail (TERRIFYING!) until my parents came to pick me up.

Looking back, maybe I was just "detained" and not "arrested," although it sure felt like being arrested at the time.

[YellowRubberDuckie]

50. I used to work in one of those places.

I will always wonder what happened to some of those kids. Some of them I don't have to wonder about because they are in prison now. :shrug: Makes me sad, but some kids you just can't reach.
Duckie

[NewWaveChick1981]

35. I haven't.

:hi: And fortunately, nobody I know has either. :)

[rug]

36. 5 times.

1. NYC - Harassment (of a cop)- Dismissed

2. NYC - Harassment (of a cop)- Acquitted

3. Benton Harbor, MI - Pedestrian on a Highway (Hitchhiking) - $50 fine

4. Boston - Concerned in Affray (a/k/a Riot, at a demonstration) - Dismissed

5. NYC - Theft of Services (cab driver showeing me the sights instead of taking me straight home) - Dismissed

After the last arrest I went to law school for self-defense.

God Bless the Public Defenders and Legal Aid across the country.

[hippywife]

37. Just once when I was 19.

Possession of half an ounce of pot. It was a misdemeanor in my state back then (almost 30 years ago.) It was in a very small town and the cops acted as if they had hit the mother lode. :eyes: My friends bailed me out that night, I had to go to court a week later. Paid a fine and left.

I would seriously love to get arrested now for civil disobedience but I make so little now and can't afford to lose my job and that's exactly what would happen. I admire anyone who can and does.

[BarenakedLady]

38. Not yet

But I'm hoping today's the day. *crosses fingers*

[billyskank]

39. You are crackers

:D

[billyskank]

40. No, but I was once down the station and told that, although I wasn't

under arrest and was technically free to go, if I did leave then I would be under arrest.

Pretty meaningless distinction really.

[Bucky]

41. I shot a man in Reno just to watch him die, but got off on a technicality

My lawyer pleaded that if what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas, then holding a different standard in Reno constitutes a violation of the "equal treatment under the law" clause. I was so happy to get off that I shot the DA. Unfortunately this was in Carson City, where the clause doesn't apply.

[petronius]

47. LOL!

:spray:

[ccjlld]

44. When I was 15

I ran away from home with a friend and ended up spending a weekend in jail. We never made it out of town, we were at her boyfriends house, whose family was rumored to be the town drug dealers.

My mother decided to move us out of that town during the year I was staying with my grandparents (sophmore year of HS). It's probably a good thing she did, several years later, the boyfriend murdered my friend. He just recently got out of prison for the murder, along with his brother who was also a friend at the time.

[Evoman]

45. Close, but I managed to run away and hide

It was when I was a kid (about 12), and I probably would have been taken home, not arrested, but still....

I don't wanna say what I've done (I didn't hurt anybody or steal anything), but I feel bad about it and would never do it again.

[Fountain79]

46. I almost got arrested at the border....

for something I didn't do. I was on a bus coming back from Mexico and drugs had been found on one of the suitcases. The American border guards tried to pin it on me.

[ForrestGump]

49. I killed a man in a fistfight,

got sent to the Big House, learned to play guitar in there, and when I came out I fell into a lucrative career in film and music but my head got too big and I began being a really arrogant SOB to my erstwhile friends, and everyone else, until my cellmate smacked me in the throat and...

Oh...wait a minute. That was the real Elvis in Jailhouse Rock. Momentary identity crisis.

Sleep deprivation: don't do it.

Getting called 'Elvis' several thousand times a night helps, too... :D

[Anarcho-Socialist]

51. Once. I was caught skipping school. I was 14 or 15

I got picked up by an unmarked police car. The arrest was for "trespassing" because I was hiding out in a quarry which someone owned.

[cobalt1999]

52. Once.

In a small town in Kentucky on Labor Day weekend many years ago. Thought I'd have to spend the entire weekend there, but they called a judge who granted me bail after 1 day.

I can say that spending a holiday Friday night in a Kentucky holding cell is an experience you don't soon forget. Surprisingly, I was quite popular there...everyone wanted to talk with me (maybe because I had all my teeth and could speak proper english).

I remember one guy yelling in the pay phone, hanging up, sitting down next to me saying "Bitch, won't bail me out". I ask "what were you arrested for?" Him: "Domestic violence". Me: "umm, maybe the yelling approach wasn't the best strategy". Another guy was arrested 6 times that year alone. We talked about everything from the government to cars.

Actually, if I wasn't so freaked out, I would have had a good time chatting with the guys in there.


Another time I almost got arrested in Mexico because I wasn't carrying enough cash to pay off the cops that stopped me. Luckily they drove me to an AmEX machine and once paid off, they let me go. That would have been bad.