Have you ever been put in jail? (Question of the Day 1-8-10)
Once.
Pot.
Got a few hours of shut eye in a holding cell until they figured that i was harmless and they let me go with a lecture and a fine. I didnt listen to the lecture and i didnt pay the fine either. My punishment for that?? 30 days suspended drivers license (Do you think that stopped me from driving?) and take a Drug and Alcohol and Their Effects on Driving Test in order to get it back. The test didnt have a single question about drugs on it either.
United States law enforcement confuses me. They seem to not want to focus on real crime. Its odd.
No. I've never even gotten a ticket. But I'm always afraid I'm gonna be at the wrong place at the wrong time, and I'm gonna get convicted of a crime I didn't commit. Like in pretty much every Hitchcock movie.
" DUI in '89, but no handcuffs or being put behind bars. The dude took me to jail, and I sat on a bench and watched Trading Places until my parents showed up after being booked. "shit son, thats some heavy justice at work right there. Then again you could argue that being made to watch Trading Places counts as "cruel and unusual punishment".
" @Claude said:What? I liked that movie. I even got to wash Fire Trucks for my community service. I love Fire Trucks." DUI in '89, but no handcuffs or being put behind bars. The dude took me to jail, and I sat on a bench and watched Trading Places until my parents showed up after being booked. "shit son, thats some heavy justice at work right there. Then again you could argue that being made to watch Trading Places counts as "cruel and unusual punishment". "
" @mrfizzy said:oh i liked it too, but it would surely have to count as unusual, and yeah, washing firetrucks doesn't seem so bad." @Claude said:What? I liked that movie. I even got to wash Fire Trucks for my community service. I love Fire Trucks. "" DUI in '89, but no handcuffs or being put behind bars. The dude took me to jail, and I sat on a bench and watched Trading Places until my parents showed up after being booked. "shit son, thats some heavy justice at work right there. Then again you could argue that being made to watch Trading Places counts as "cruel and unusual punishment". "
" @Claude said:Being Ex-Military in a small town probably helped. Plus, I wasn't a dick." @mrfizzy said:oh i liked it too, but it would surely have to count as unusual, and yeah, washing firetrucks doesn't seem so bad. "" @Claude said:What? I liked that movie. I even got to wash Fire Trucks for my community service. I love Fire Trucks. "" DUI in '89, but no handcuffs or being put behind bars. The dude took me to jail, and I sat on a bench and watched Trading Places until my parents showed up after being booked. "shit son, thats some heavy justice at work right there. Then again you could argue that being made to watch Trading Places counts as "cruel and unusual punishment". "
Have you been drinking? Yes
Step out of the car...
Honest... but to a fault? Hell no. I learned my lesson.
Nope. The closest I've been to any police altercation was one night when I was smoking weed with a few friends when the paddy wagon showed up. The cop just watched us leave calmly.
No, and hopefully I never will got to jail. I'm pretty sure I've never committed an offence for which I can be jailed. And even if I do get sent to jail one day for something or other, then I'm betting it'll be one of those lax, minimum security jails for white-collar criminals - you know, the type that don't even have fences really and allow you to go home on weekends.
If I ever do end up in a maximum security jail, I'd estimate that I'd be dead in.... oh, say 4 days at most.
No, I have never been put in jail, detained, or arrested. I have come close three times....I mean REALLY close.
1) When I was 13 I had made a spear with a metal point connected to an 8ft shaft. I was using it to throw at a snow drift. When the cop came I stashed it buy he found it...I was pretty lucky not to end up in the back of the car on that one...it was a serious spear. I sort of played dumb about it too, "What? No, I wan't ding anything. I was just walking around teh parking lot! Spear? No that's not mine..." I was so busted, but he let me gon. He took the spear, and I got to walk away with my heart pounding.
2) Drove away from a State Trooper who stopped buddy and me for speeding. He stopped us, talked to us, but then didn't come back for 15 minutes. Meanwhile he stopped another two cars and thought I saw him wave us on...or I though he did. HE WAS SO ANGRY. Don't drive away from the State Police kids; they take an extremely dim view of that.
3) Two buddies and I were at a punk rock show somewhere in Connecticut (Enfield? Simsbury?), after the show we walking back to the car. But we all had to pee... so we went into a side parking lot of a building and pissed on the side wall of some stores. It was a...donut shop. We all pissed on the side of a donut shop while a town cop was rolling by in his car. That cop was beside himself when he saw us pissing on his donnut shop. Since we were sober and contrite he let us go to avoid paperwork, but he told us, "I'm going to remember you boys...NEVER come into my town again!" I think we were saved because there was a ton of worse dudes in town because of the punk rock show. (True story, it might sound outlandish that we were all caught by a cop pisisng on a donut shop, but it is the god-honest truth.)
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