OT: Ever Been Arrested?

[Ash]

So I'm sitting here watching COPS and I wonder if any of you have ever been arrested.

I have.

In 1997 when I was 23 I was arrested for O.W.I. (Operating While Intoxicated)
Yeah yeah I know, it was a stupid mistake.
My buddies convinced me at the time that I was ok enough to drive us all home from the bar but I wasn't.
I was pretty f**kin' far from ok!

I pulled into a gas station going at least 20-30 mph and I ran up over the curb so hard I blew my right front tire out.
I was drunk off my ass when I got out of my car and examined my tire.
I would estimate that my 2 buddies & I had split at least 10-12 pitchers between us.
As I stood up from looking at it, here comes a police car pulling right up behind my car, blocking me in.
It was a lady cop and she gave me the field sobriety test which I failed miserably.

That was the only time I've ever been arrested and trust me when I say that I'll never make that stupid mistake again.

Have you ever been arrested and if so, why?



Post Edited (06-28-04 23:21)

[daveblackeye15]

No not once (yet).
Why: Because I don't want to be arrested.

[raj]

Nope.
Never got caught.

[Sam]

Yeah but, mostly for stupid stuff, DUI, drunk in public, petty theft commercial burglary, and brandishing.

[Chopper]

no, but i had my rights read to me in a military manner, talk about some scary s**t.

[peter johnson]

Yeah, twice, in my youth -- not much to say beyond it's a nasty nasty experience, I learned nothing from it other than I didn't like it, and would avoid it again at all costs.   Not a damn thing romantic about it that I can recall -- just hassle.
peter johnson

[Deej]

Chopper wrote:

> no, but i had my rights read to me in a military manner, talk
> about some scary s**t.

In my department we don't read them to you, we tap them out in Morse code, on your skull.....ah.....civil liberties.

[Chopper]

LoL. And Deej I believe you know the whole story behind my adventures with military law.



Post Edited (06-29-04 21:02)

[The Burgomaster]

No, but I was questioned once.  One of my buddies worked for a small stereo store back in the early 1980s.  He thought he forgot to lock the back door of the store one night, so me and a few other guys drove there with him.  The store was in a strip mall and we parked behind it while my buddy checked the door to see if it was locked.  Coincidentally, a computer store in the same strip mall had been burglarized a few minutes before we got there.  The police saw us sitting in a car behind the store and thought we were the ones who had broken in.  They made us get out of the car.  Then they separated us and questioned us individually.  We all told the same story, but they were still suspicious.  Eventually, the police got in touch with the manager of the stereo store and he verified that my buddy worked there.  I was pretty scared even though I had done nothing wrong.  The police let us go, but they gave us a lecture about using our brains and not parking behind buildings in the dark.

[Neon Noodle]

Nope - but I had to appear at a hearing. Suffice to say I was young, stupid, and had idiots in the car who said "I don't know whose that is, officer" so by proxy, it became mine.
I have a wife and a child now - I have no desire to go back to that level of immaturity.

[BeyondTheGrave]

i never been arrested but been hassled by a security guard many of times. once i was in barnes and nobles with two friends reading a book. (yeah i know nerd) basically everyone in the store reads the books it like a library. so when we were leaving a guard stopped us and took us to the back. he patted us down and asked us were the books were. we told him we put them back and showed him. we wounded his pride and told us "not to do it again". we told him we didnt do anything in the first place and left.

other time (yeah i know its alot) i was at wendys waiting for my friend to order and this guy in regular clothes tells us to leave. none of my friends spoke up so i said my friend ordering he still says you and your friends have to leave. so i said can i have some ID for who you are are you a cop or a guard.(i did see him come out of the employees only door but he didnt word thier). he just stood thier and said just leave when your friends done and left. these were the stupidest encounters ive every had with authority.

"I know I know ive been exposed permeant psychoses..
at least the colors are nice"- Aeon Flux

[Fearless Freep]

I was arrested once because I was hanging out near a bus stop and a nearby house was broken in to.  I sorta matched the description of one of the guys who did it.

It was rather unnerving to a) stand in front of a whole bunch of people saying "Yeah, he's the guy" and b) realizing the police officer was..less then honest abuot what he said I was doing when he found me..in a way that made me look more guilty.

[AndyC]

My buddies and I had a few run-ins with the cops, back in the day. Just youthful horsing around, nothing too harmful.

I remember one time, a bunch of us were riding in my best friend's old Tercel. He did the thing up with racing stripes, a big CB whip and dual exhaust (which all his vehicles had, even the 4-cylinder ones).  It was his winter beater, not his good car, so he used to abuse it. Anyway, he burns a u-turn right on the main street of our home town, not seeing the cop approaching up the road. The cherries go on, and we decide to run for it, since it was already dark out. We turned down various side streets, cut through a parking lot or two, and finally parked it between two larger vehicles at the high school. We got out, ran like hell down the street, then settled down to a normal walking pace. The cop came down the street, asked us if we'd seen a little blue hatchback, we said no, and he went on ahead.

The Tercel had another great police adventure when it was on its last winter. It was about a week from being junked, and we took it out to the farm where the good car was stored. We'd already been abusing the hell out of this little car, sometimes to the amusement of others. Pull into a donut shop, get out, kick the crap out of the doors, run a key down the side, and lightly buff the fender. That sort of thing. Anyway, we were on our way back, taking the scenic route, when Dennis decides to jump over the railroad tracks. He launches the car into the air, and it comes down hard enough to pull apart his custom exhaust (made from 2-inch electrical conduit he got from work) right in front of the y-piece that split it into the dual tailpipes. So, this thing is dragging on the ground, catching on stuff. He decides that another run over the tracks should bend it under and out of the way. So we do it, and stop for another inspection. I got out, looked back, and doubled over laughing. The tracks had caught the pipe and pushed it straight back. Tailpipes had slipped through their hangers, shooting straight out the back of the car until the 'y' caught, at which point the tailpipes had swung out to the sides and the rest of the pipe had crumpled into a ball under the back bumper. So, we continued to take the back roads home, thinking we'll just slip into town by a back way, stop at a buddy's body shop and saw the mess off. Just as we are coming to town, we pass a line of oncoming traffic, with an OPP (our version of state troopers) cruiser hiding at the back. He whips around and pulls us over and we have to tell him the whole story several times, assuring him that we did not hang the pipes that way, and telling him repeatedly that we were just taking the car into town to scrap it. He was somewhat concerned about the overall safety of the vehicle, largely due to the superficial damage we'd done while goofing around. After checking the car for booze (can't imagine why), he let us go. He was dead serious, but knowing cops as I do, I can't help but think that we made his day, and gave him a story to tell that was almost as good as ours.

There is another interesting story, but I don't have time to type it now. Later.



Post Edited (06-30-04 16:03)

[Fluffy Catfood]

I got arrested a few years ago, I guy attacked me in a nightclub, so my friend jumped to my defence by smashing a beer glass in his face. His face got sliced up pretty badly. about a year after the incident the police called up and said I was under arrest (They certainly took there sweet time) . The guy who got his face cut up said that it was me that did it. Luckily he and his friends were so p**sed of there heads at the time of giving their statements that none of their stories matched. My friend confessed and got a 1 year good behaviour bond, the police dropped the charges against me. It was rather annoying to know that this dickhead was the one that started it and attacked me yet I was the one getting arrested. All I did was get punched in the face, and then hit him back in retaliation (Which he never mentioned to the cops). I'm glad his face is all scarred now, the stupid prick. Actually the reason he wanted to fight me was because a few weeks earlier when I was learning to drive, he assumed I was going to make a turn when I wasnt and ran up the rear of my car, breaking a bit of plastic off his bumper. He is one of those cocks thats in love with his car, thats why he was p**sed. Personally I thought his car was s**t, theres something about doing up a station wagon that seems stupid to me.

[maria paula]

mmmmmmmmmmmmm................, yes, i have to admit it,  for one night, when i was 19 years old, im not ashame about it because  in my defence i have to say that it wasnt my fault at all, i didnt had nothing to do, but i was there, in the  wrong place. now years  has passed by  and i  find  that situation pretty comic and pathetic .



Post Edited (06-30-04 14:30)