Have you ever been arrested?

[Armistead]

Care to come clean, share your experience?


I've been arrested 3 times as I recall.

Once in Myrtle Beach for being drunk in public. Dismissed.

Once during my first divorce. I moved out without anything. I guess a few months passed, she told me door was unlocked, I could go get my clothes and things we agreed on. I drove an hour there, door was locked, called her, she changed her mind. I knew she was gone that weekend, so got a truck and friend, went back and got through a window and moved all my crap out. Two days later at work, cops came and arrested me. Damn house was still in my name........errrrr

Then got arrested for a bar fight, lawyer got charges dismissed.

A few years ago, I went to visit Wern and he threw my entire family in jail.
Not sure if charges were dropped.


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[Jimbuna]

Can't say I have but I've been involved in a fair few.

[Schroeder]

Nope. Never had any issues with the police.:rock:

[Garion]

Nope, but like Jim I too have been involved in a fair few. :cool:

Cheers

Gary

[Takeda Shingen]

No, I've never been arrested. In fact, I've never even had as much as a speeding ticket.

This thread should be interesting. My intuition going in is that, if anything, we'll see a few more brawl-related legal entanglements given the number of hot heads on the boards.

[AVGWarhawk]

Yep, once. Tipped to many and drove a car. DUI. Judgment, BPJ. Speeding tickets? Yep, many. Was ordered to a driving refresher class after obtaining 6 points.

[Tribesman]

No, I've never been arrested. In fact, I've never even had as much as a speeding ticket.

Never had a speeding ticket, or a parking ticket. However
Six times.
1 murder, 3 assault, 1 suspicion of possession, 1 drunk in charge...of a pushbike.
Of them all just 2 of the ABH ended with actual charges being laid, cleared both times.

[Herr-Berbunch]

Must've been '97? Was in a pub for Sunday lunch with my then-girlfriend and her family when in came her mum's cousin and her family - they didn't get along (I've no idea why?). Girlfriend's mum went to the loo, as did her cousin and two minutes later there is screaming and shouting with girly punches and hair flying all over. We all rushed through, they all rushed through, fracas ensued, police called, arrested.

All charges later dropped as someone saw good sense that it was six of one and half a dozen of the other.

I'm not a violent person but I did, however, drop their keys to their brand new Toyota in a toilet cistern after they fell on the floor. :D


*I need to get Tribesman drunk and hear these stories! :o

[WernherVonTrapp]

A few years ago, I went to visit Wern and he threw my entire family in jail.
Not sure if charges were dropped.



:haha: You guys are still in there? Lemme run and get the keys. It was just a joke, I swear!

Anyway, I've never been arrested. My only traffic citation came within 2 weeks of me first getting my driver's license but that stopped showing up on my record over 25 years ago. I have many former friends whom I grew up with in my neighborhood or went to school with, who have done hard time for murder, armed robbery, drug dealing, etc.. I also have former friends and family members who have died as victims of crime in Paterson.

[Ducimus]

I have come close to being arrested through no fault of my own. My emotionally unstable, substance abusing ex-girlfriend was lying to the police, and I nearly paid the price for it.

Aside from that, I have never seen the inside of a police car, police station, or court room. I have had some minor "offenses" if you want to call them that.

- I had one speeding ticket in Mississippi in 1993,

- one parking ticket in California sometime in 2001 through 2003, i dont remember exactly.

- The worst that has ever happened was around the same time period. I had my car impounded once for parking it on a public street with expired tags. That was a joy to fix. Having to get a ride from a roommate, wait in a 3 hour line at the DMV to get a moving permit, and pay another 300 dollars to get my car out of impound.

As laws, rules, and regulations go, I've always lived my life on the straight and narrow. For me, risky behavior and "lawbreaking" is driving 85 in a 75 MPH zone. I usually do just 5 over.

[mookiemookie]

Yes. In college I had some drinks, did the responsible thing and walked home. While laying in bed I realized I had parked my car in a spot I was going to get a ticket in, so I got up to move the car. Cop said I rolled through the stop sign, and hauled me in.

$600 fine and defensive driving class and case was dismissed. Of course this was years ago, so I'm sure the penalties would be much different now.

[nikimcbee]

No, but I've had a couple brushes with the law in Idaho.:shifty: That's as close as I want to get.

[Sailor Steve]

No.

[Armistead]

The funniest police involvement I ever say was at my friends wedding. His father had given him a new car as a wedding gift. The brides family were known to be terrible decorating the wedding car, even destroying them. So much so when her brother got married, he kept his new Trans-Am locked in a garage, but they found it and went to town.

My friends father told them no paint, fish, damages, etc. One family guarding the car, the other plotting. It finally got nasty when they tried to mess with the car and a fight broke out, which led to many. The police came and arrested several.

It's something that should be on youtube, but long ago.

[AndyJWest]

I came close once after kicking a policeman's helmet - and no, he wasn't wearing it at the time... :)

[kranz]

Never been arrested.

Got a ticket, tho.
I was trying to stick an advert of my English private lessons on a post (which is illegal if you don't have a permission) and two municipal guards caught me red handed.
They asked me how many I had already sticked so I said that it was the first one (the 5th actually :)).
Got a 12 Euro fine, paid it the same day and....got my money back three weeks later because the bank account number on the form was out-of-date.

Never paid it again as I had the confirmation of paying it for the first time and it was my mom who received the reimbursement. (her signature = not my problem).

Retarded municipal guards are retarded.:yeah:


1 murder
watch out, we got a bad....over here :salute:

[Wolferz]

Bunch of law breaking gits 'round hyere.:stare::D Especially that Armistead gang.:hmmm:

Never been arrested but, got rousted for a bag of weed once. Cops lets us all go. They kept the weed and a fresh pack of papers though.:-? They seemed more insulted that we didn't have any beer.:doh: I was a Dr. Pepper totaler. They weren't interested in that.:shifty:

[Stealhead]

I have never been arrested.

I came close once when I dropped a Lowenbrau from the forth floor balcony.That one was a complete accident I was talking to a friend and it was just after we got off duty fist beer I had had all week and only a few sips.Well the beer just slipped out of my hand and feel down and hit the hood of a VW Passat parked in the front row bounced and then hit the wall/railing on the first floor.No sooner had I heard the bottle smash I hear this female SP that had been patrolling the dorms yell,"Some @*$5&! just threw a bottle at me". At the same time I was a bit impressed by this bottles random ballistics and structural integrity.

I thought well that is just grand now it went from dropping a beer to assault.So we took the rest of the Lowenbrau and hid it in back of a wall locker and just hung out military police are very good at catching people trying to escape on foot so it is better to stay put it looks less suspicious.The cops came up with a working dog which made me very worried at first but I knew dog handler and he never said anything even though the dog was doing the sit alert on me.They had better fish to fry anyway I smelled pot smoke in the air around the time I dropped the beer bottle and I saw a few people get carted away after they talked to me.More than likely the tokers.

I felt bad about denting the VW but not bad enough to also risk taking an assault change and telling the truth and risked hoping that a courts marshal board believe my claim.Besides you buy car insurance for a reason.

Speeding tickets I earned a few of those when I was younger.

[Ducimus]

I have never been arrested.

I came close once when I dropped a Lowenbrau from the forth floor balcony.That one was a complete accident I was talking to a friend and it was just after we got off duty fist beer I had had all week and only a few sips.Well the beer just slipped out of my hand and feel down and hit the hood of a VW Passat parked in the front row bounced and then hit the wall/railing on the first floor.No sooner had I heard the bottle smash I hear this female SP that had been patrolling the dorms yell,"Some @*$5&! just threw a bottle at me". At the same time I was a bit impressed by this bottles random ballistics and structural integrity.

I thought well that is just grand now it went from dropping a beer to assault.So we took the rest of the Lowenbrau and hid it in back of a wall locker and just hung out military police are very good at catching people trying to escape on foot so it is better to stay put it looks less suspicious.The cops came up with a working dog which made me very worried at first but I knew dog handler and he never said anything even though the dog was doing the sit alert on me.They had better fish to fry anyway I smelled pot smoke in the air around the time I dropped the beer bottle and I saw a few people get carted away after they talked to me.More than likely the tokers.

I felt bad about denting the VW but not bad enough to also risk taking an assault change and telling the truth and risked hoping that a courts marshal board believe my claim.Besides you buy car insurance for a reason.

Speeding tickets I earned a few of those when I was younger.


Nice AF dorm story. I have one similar, that i did deliberately, that probably would have gotten me hauled off. It was at my last duty station before leaving active. I had only been stateside about 2 or 3 months, was still in "overseas mode", and it was the friday just after an exercise. (thats the excuse i'm using LOL )

I ahhh.... made an MRE heater bomb, and dropped it casually into the bushes from the 3rd story on the other end of the barracks, and casually walked away to the other end of the barracks. It takes awhlie for the water to boil.

KABOOOM. My buds gets a giggle, the SP's show up, and im in my room at the other end of the barracks watching TV acting like i knew nothing.

[Stealhead]

KABOOOM. My buds gets a giggle, the SP's show up, and im in my room at the other end of the barracks watching TV acting like i knew nothing.


I think who you are dealing with has a lot to do with it.In my case I had not seen the cops so I did not know who they where if I knew any of them or not.So I chose not to take the risk of being honest because I felt they would not believe me anyway.The dog handler knew me but the others did not he looked to be NCOIC but I could not be sure because they had others searching for the bottle tosser and the the source of the pot smoke.More than likely I have a feeling that the pot heads also got blamed for the beer thier where plenty of hot heads stupid enough to display an attitude and even take blame for something they did not even do.I actually pulled that of once in high school but that is another can of worms.

That and your attitude if you get caught red handed.And I guess I did but only the one that knew was the dog handler and understood the dogs signs in fact only he would know that exact dogs signs a dog picks one person and stays with them in the military.I only knew what the dog was "saying" because he had told me in a conversation some of the dogs alerts.The human also knew me well enough to know tossing a full beer was not something I would do willingly.

That is the thing though you never know the officer you are dealing with.It might be Jimbuna in which case you'll get beaten severely :D.

[mapuc]

Once for many many years ago, but me and my friend was innocent

Markus

[BossMark]

Yes 3 times twice for drunken and disorderly and once for having a piss in the street

[AVGWarhawk]

Once for many many years ago, but me and my friend was innocent

Markus

Aren't we all? :haha::O:

[AVGWarhawk]

Yes 3 times twice for drunken and disorderly and once for having a piss in the street

Busy guy, huh?

[mapuc]

Aren't we all? :haha::O:


Here's the real story.

I have never been arrested. Here is why my friend and I was freely "arrested"

This happened due to a severe blizzard that had hit southern part of Sweden.
We had been in Elsinore(Denmark) and already when we was there the storm came and when we had arrived back to Helsingborg(Sweden) there was already about 1 meters of snow.
No bus no train no connection with our town. We went to the police and asked them if they could help us. They couldn't but if we wanted we could borrow one of the cells for the night. Of course we did. They did not lock the door.

So there you have the story.

Markus

[STEED]

once for having a piss in the street

Stone the crows! :huh:

Around here cops don't give a hoot, they look at you and move on.

I wonder if its too do with all that paper work they rather not do. :hmmm:

[AVGWarhawk]

Here's the real story.

I have never been arrested. Here is why my friend and I was freely "arrested"

This happened due to a severe blizzard that had hit southern part of Sweden.
We had been in Elsinore(Denmark) and already when we was there the storm came and when we had arrived back to Helsingborg(Sweden) there was already about 1 meters of snow.
No bus no train no connection with our town. We went to the police and asked them if they could help us. They couldn't but if we wanted we could borrow one of the cells for the night. Of course we did. They did not lock the door.

So there you have the story.

Markus


Likely story.

:O:

[BossMark]

Stone the crows! :huh:

Around here cops don't give a hoot, they look at you and move on.

I wonder if its too do with all that paper work they rather not do. :hmmm:
Turned out the wall I was doing it against was the arresting cops sisters.:oops:
Busy guy, huh?
I was in my late teens and early twenties at the time.:oops:

[Betonov]

Nope. Never.

Of all the stunts I pulled I was never close to being just suspected :D
one minor ticket for speeding was my biggest brush with the law.

[vienna]

Never been arrested, but had some interesting experiences with the law...

In my hometown of San Francisco, I never had a run-in with the law. They are much more laid back there and I was friendly with quite a few of the local police and even had a whole family whose members were in various law enforcement agencies in the Bay Area who lived a couple of houses down from mine. No problems there...

Then I moved to Los Angeles...

From the moment I got here, I was pulled over, stopped on the street, and generally seemed to be a favorite of the LAPD. This started in 1970 and continued for a number of years. I would get stopped at leats once week, either while walking or driving. The LAPD was run buy a rather right-leaning leadership and they seemed to take the whole "Dragnet/Adam 12/Jack Webb" bit rather seriously. The main reason I seemed to be a target was that I was a long-haired male who, in their eyes, was either a drug user (never used them, though) or a Commie/Radical. The stops were almost comical and served to do nothing but waste my time and their's. The upshot of each stop was either they filled out what is called a "Field Interview Card (FIC)", where they note all the "suspicions" reasons they had for stopping you and all your vital information (home address, workplace info, etc.) or, if I was driving, a ticket for some trumped up infraction or another. I once was stopped while driving, had myself and my car searched, and then given a ticket for the ever convenient reaso, "burned-out tail light". This happened a block and a half from the downtown traffic court building, so when I was allowed to go, I drove a little under two minutes to the court building and went to the vehicle inspection station located in the parking structure. Thsi is where one goes to verify repairs or coorctions have been made that were cited by the officer issuing the ticket. The inspection station was run by the Califronia Highway Patrol. I showed thr offier my ticket, he went around to the back of the car, told me to step on the brake and verified the light worked. As he was completing the paperwork, he looked again at the ticket and said, "Wait a minute; you got this ticket a couple of minutes ago. How did you fix it so fast?" I told him I didn't fix it because it wasn't broken or burned out. He had me pop the trunk and he very carefully inspected the light fixture from inside the trunk. After he was sure I had not made any repairs, he was very angry and said I should fight the ticket in court and offered to give me a letter regarding his findings. I told him what would happen would be I would go to court, the officer wouldn't show up, the ticket would be dismissed and both his efforts and my time would be wasted. He reluctantly agreed and told me he and his fellow inspectors had seen this sort of ticketing abuse by the LAPD before far too often, had made complaints about the problem and the time wasted, but had not gotten any response from the LAPD...

I was once handcuffed and placed in the backseat of an LAPD car. I used to work swing shifts at a bank data processing center from about 4:00 PM to about 12:30 AM and one night/morning after work, I decided to drive out to a theater where a musician friend of mine worked as a projectionist in a theater on the Westside. He was a film buff and would often find rare or odd films or compilation reels of vintage movie trailers and would screen them for himself and some his friends after the theater's regular hours. I went to the theater, but it was dark and there was no response when I rand the bell, so I just guessed he had gon e straight home after work. You had to go down a sort of alley/passageway off the sidewalk to get to the entrance to the theater, and as I walked out of the alley, I saw two police officers wlaking towards me from aruond the corner of the block. I said hello to them, started to walk to my nearby car, and then they stopped me and asked where I was coming from. I told them about my friend and why I was coming out of the alley. One officer walked back around the corner and came back driving a police car. The officers then ran me for "wants and warrants" (I had none; I'm am a very law abiding/boring individual) and verified my vitals. They also searched me and my car which was parked a few feet away. One of the officers then backed the patrol car a short distance down the block and parked it while the other officer handcuffed me and walked me down to where the car was parked and put me in the backseat, closing and locking the door. As I sat in the car, I looked up and saw the patrol car was parked in front of a jeans store (sort of like a Gap store) whose windows had been broken out in an apparent burgurlary. It then dawned on me I was been held as a suspect in the burglary (since the beginning of the whole event, the officers neither infirmed me of why they stopped me or read me my rights or engaged in any other conduct one would expect in an arrest). As i sat in the car, I could hear them talking because they had left the window partially down. They stood in front of the store, standing amidst the broken glass, shining their flashlights in to the dark interior of the store. The dialogue went something like this:

Officer 1 [Off1]: There's no lights on in there...
Officer 2 [Off2]: Yeah, it's really dark in there...
Off1: You think anybody might be in there?...
Off2: Can't tell from here...
Off1: One of us should go in and check it out. You go in, I'll stay with the prisoner...
Off2: Me? You go in and I'll stay with the guy...
Off1: Why should I go in?...
Off2: Why should I go in?...

This went on, back and forth, for about a couple of minutes, and I was about to call out that I would volunteer to go in if it sped things up, when all of a sudden, the officers drew their guns and aimed them at a door that was just barely opening at the side of the building near the store front. The officers ordered whoever was at the door to come out with hands up. Two young men came out shouting out they lived in the apartment over the storefront and they had been the ones who called in the burglary report to the LAPD in the first place. The officers verified this by making a radio call back to the station and brought the two men over to the car saying "We caught one of the suspects" and pointed me out to the witnesses. They Looked at me in disbelief, looked at each other, turned to the officers and said "There is no way this guy (me) was involved". The officers then said "Are you sure? Are you positive? Are you certain? Could you look at him again?...etc." One of the witnesses became rather annoyed and told the officer to check out the original report he, the witness, called in, because, as, the witness put it, "This skinny, long-haired white kid does not look like a group of 5 or 6 large Black guys with two pickup trucks, which is what we reported to the emergency operator on the phone". The officer persisted for a very brief period, but gave up knowing the situation was not really going to go in their favor. They got me out of the car, took off the handcuffs, filled out a FIC on me (probably in the event I suddenly became 5 or 6 large Black men at a future date) and busily set about to secure the crime scene. The two guys who witnessed the crime from their aprtment window apologized for not coming down sooner to clear things up, but they were afraid the LAPD officers would shoot first and ask questions later if they came out the door (which nearly almost happened). I told them I was just glad they showed up at all and thanked them for getting me out of a potentailly nasty situation. They offered me a cup of coffee or tea, which I accepted. When I finally left the scene a bit later, there were more officers on site and I saw one of the two original officer talking to a sargeant who then walked over to me as I was unlocking my car. He asked me about what happened, I told him, and he offered me and apology and said it should never have happened the way it did. I thanked him, got in my car and drove away...

The LAPD has since gotten rid of the wingnuts previously running the Department and have very much improved and modernized their policing activities and methods under new leadership. Gone are the days of looking for commies and subversives, strutting around obliviously as if they were in some Jack Webb fantasy world while the street gangs grew, organized, and armed themselves. There were a lot of really good officers on the force back in those days, but they were overshadowed by the antics of those who posed rather than policed...


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[Jimbuna]

Yes 3 times twice for drunken and disorderly and once for having a piss in the street

Amatuer :)

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[Spiced_Rum]

Arrested with some friends in Germany for after "borrowing" a bicycle, charges dropped. Speeding fines in Germany and England; cautioned for speeding in Florida, France, England, Bosnia-Herzegovina, and West Africa. Had my car towed away and impounded in Italy for parking in the wrong place.

Any other misdemeanours have gone undetected. Good conduct is all about not getting caught. :arrgh!:

[Armistead]

Bunch of law breaking gits 'round hyere.:stare::D Especially that Armistead gang.:hmmm:

Never been arrested but, got rousted for a bag of weed once. Cops lets us all go. They kept the weed and a fresh pack of papers though.:-? They seemed more insulted that we didn't have any beer.:doh: I was a Dr. Pepper totaler. They weren't interested in that.:shifty:

What about that time for prostitution?

Maybe I should posted "Things you should've got arrested for".

[STEED]

Arrested with some friends in Germany for after "borrowing" a bicycle, charges dropped. Speeding fines in Germany and England; cautioned for speeding in Florida, France, England, Bosnia-Herzegovina, and West Africa. Had my car towed away and impounded in Italy for parking in the wrong place.

Any other misdemeanours have gone undetected. Good conduct is all about not getting caught. :arrgh!:

:o

Speed freak. :haha:

[Jimbuna]

I once arrested someone for being drunk in charge of a horse in a busy city high street.

[antikristuseke]

I have spent one night in the drunk tank after my last breakup, got drunk, woke up in the drunk tank with no recollection of what had transpired.

[vienna]

I once arrested someone for being drunk in charge of a horse in a busy city high street.



Odd, I would think the only possible way to be in charge of a horse in a busy city high street would require one to be drunk... :hmmm:


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[STEED]

I once arrested someone for being drunk in charge of a horse in a busy city high street.

One of the Queen's guards?

[vienna]

One of the Queen's guards?

If so, then the horse would have been superfluous...


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[Spiced_Rum]

I once arrested someone for being drunk in charge of a horse in a busy city high street.

Bit harsh, surely the rider is only a passenger and the horse is in control of himself. So as long as Mr Ed is sober there is no problem :03:

[vienna]

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[u crank]

I once arrested someone for being drunk in charge of a horse in a busy city high street.

I was once given a speeding ticket in Toronto by an officer who was standing on the side walk at the bottom of a hill. His horse, I kid you not, was tied to a tree. He had a stopwatch in his hand and told me the distance I had travelled and the time it took. I looked at him in disbelief but since I had a 'substance' in my possession I was very polite.:yep:

No I've never been arrested.:sunny:

[Wolferz]

by: Armistead
What about that time for prostitution?


Clear case of mistaken identity. I've cut my hair since then.

Speaking of which, how did your soliciting case turn out? Did you get off:06:

[HW3]

No.

:subsim:

[Tribesman]

I once arrested someone for being drunk in charge of a horse in a busy city high street.
Avoid the high street, police cars can't jump hedges:03:
Though my horse did get barred from 2 pubs when I was living in England

[Father Goose]

Have you ever been arrested?

Nope. I have had weapons drawn on me...once by NIS and the other by a SWAT team. :eek:
Both times I walked away with my firearm.

Almost being shot is a lot more exciting than almost being arrested.
Thank goodness I'm a "good guy". :sunny:

[Armistead]

Clear case of mistaken identity. I've cut my hair since then.

Speaking of which, how did your soliciting case turn out? Did you get off:06:


I got off, lack of evidence...:oops:

[Rockstar]

Yes, and underage at the time. It all went down hill real fast the moment I opened up an Army Field Manual called Viet Cong Booby Traps and Mine Warfare Techniques. What we did was really farked up, caused a lot of damage and pissed off a lot of people. I was an American kid living in Central America I was never so scared in my life of going to jail. The police jerked my chain and jerked it hard and I was crying like a two year old girl but what those detectives did put me on the straight and narrow.

[kraznyi_oktjabr]

Nope. I have had weapons drawn on me...once by NIS and the other by a SWAT team. :eek:
Both times I walked away with my firearm.

Almost being shot is a lot more exciting than almost being arrested.
Thank goodness I'm a "good guy". :sunny:Now THAT is interesting! :D What happened?

[STEED]

my horse did get barred from 2 pubs when I was living in England

Bah..I got barred from three for wearing a flat cap. Yes a flat cap! :o

The third pub told me to take it off, I said no on the grounds other people in the pub were wearing different hats.

[Tribesman]

Bah..I got barred from three for wearing a flat cap. Yes a flat cap! :o

The third pub told me to take it off, I said no on the grounds other people in the pub were wearing different hats.

I heard that a pub in New Malden that banned hats to keep out the chavs, they had to bar a pensioner who had been drinking there for decades because he wouldn't follow their stupid rules:doh:

[BossMark]

I heard that a pub in New Malden that banned hats to keep out the chavs, they had to bar a pensioner who had been drinking there for decades because he wouldn't follow their stupid rules:doh:
The working mens club which drink very often banned a pensioner who is also a war veteran because he refused to take his trilby off. But he was reinstated a few weeks later after a petition of over a 100 members to the committee.

[Armistead]

Nope. I have had weapons drawn on me...once by NIS and the other by a SWAT team. :eek:
Both times I walked away with my firearm.

Almost being shot is a lot more exciting than almost being arrested.
Thank goodness I'm a "good guy". :sunny:

Open carry:yeah:

I've run into a few puffy cops, but for the most part they leave you alone where I live.

[Oberon]

Can't say I have, although I did get asked to 'Move along' by a copper with an MP5, although it was just outside the Houses of Parliament and the PM's motorcade was just about to come out.

All those rotten eggs went to waste... :haha: (j/k)

[Aktungbby]

Try that outside the Pentagon with a camera! Been detained on occasion but never booked. Got into a frackus at a gun show once years ago where I was on the door (armed) and two plainclothes ATF agents entered, obvious by their body English alone, in search of show venders doing illegal sales. Apparently it is illegal to address them loudly: "Good Morning Officers welcome to the show" over the PA system...after the initial onset it became obvious that the armed venders and myself and our in-house sheriff's deputies outnumbered them and they left to stalk elsewhere. I later ended up guarding the Federal Building they emanated from and we all had a laugh! My job there was to make sure no one parked a rental truck on the street outside as in Oklahoma...or took pictures... :arrgh!:

[Platapus]

I was arrested twice when I was in the military.

The first time it was due to a mistake LE made. Since I knew I was totally innocent and could easily prove it, I found being arrested a pretty interesting experience. After all, with a good law-abiding troop like me, what are my chances of ever being arrested again? Right?

The second time it was when I "activated an intrusion detection system on a Priority A resource". Priority A resources usually have those lethal force is encouraged signs. (gulp) :oops:

Note to self: Failure to follow ALL procedures for securing/opening an area WILLresult in the alarm being activated. :oops::oops:

It took the military about two weeks to determine whether I was a threat to national security or just a maroon, despite overwhelming evidence.

The military has no sense of humour when it comes to Priority A areas. :nope:

That was also an "interesting experience" but not as enjoyable as the first. :nope:

[CaptainMattJ.]

No, but ive been caught with a small amount of weed and a glass pipe. He made me stomp out both and sent me on my way.

[MattD]

Yeah - in England and have been 2 or 3 times depending if you count being 'de-arrested' as an arrest.

First time was when I was in the Army - 19 and got into a bit of bother and ended up getting 7 days in the guard room. Plenty of doubling and marching and 'discipline' from the MPs and time to think of the errors of my ways. Decided I definitely didn't want to go back and I didn't. Even got promoted a year later and did 6 years in the end.

Finished in the army over a year now but got arrested twice since - both after nights out on the beer. First time got into a row with a bouncer at a nightclub who wouldn't let me in. Was on a stag weekend and I was the only one he wouldn't let in. Police came and got me away from the bouncer and then cuffed me and put me in the back of the car. After a few minutes they gave me a bit of a talking to and asked me where I was staying and they brought me back to the hotel. Told me I was being 'de-arrested' and told me if I didn't go in they would take me to the station. Got out of the back of the car and they started taking off the cuffs when another group coming back to the hotel saw them taking off the cuffs and they started asking what I had done.

Then a few weeks ago got arrested again fro drunk and disorderly. Was taking a piss and got caught. Heard a woman's voice saying put it away and turned around to find 2 cops. They asked me my name and I started saying have you nothing better to be doing. Probably not a good idea and got handcuffed straight away. Got walked down a busy street to a waiting van and put in the cage in the back of the van and brought to the cellblock for the night. Must have gone asleep straight off and woke up about 7 but it was nearly 9 before I got breakfast (beans and sausages) and they took me out of the cell to get photographed and fingerprinted (a bit over the top) for taking a piss and now I have on the database. I ended up getting a penalty notice and a fine there and then so at least I didn't have to go to court.

I know I was stupid as I have applications in for both the police and the prison service as police is the job I wanted to do since I was a kid but will probably be hard to get that now but hopefully I still have a chance. Think I have a better chance with the Prison Service now.

[Jimbuna]

I know I was stupid as I have applications in for both the police and the prison service as police is the job I wanted to do since I was a kid but will probably be hard to get that now but hopefully I still have a chance. Think I have a better chance with the Prison Service now.

Well you've certainly got the experience :)

[Platapus]

Welcome Aboard MattD

[kraznyi_oktjabr]

Welcome aboard MattD! :salute:

[MattD]

Thanks for the welcome!

Well you've certainly got the experience :)

Not everybody is perfect!

[Wolferz]

Man, MattD, you're a cop magnet!:O: And you want to go from military to paramilitary? Why? Are you that bored? You should speak with WernherVonTrapp. Maybe he can talk you out of it.
My Army unit supply sergeant was a prison guard at Joliet for a spell. He related some hair raising stories about his time there. I too have seen the inner workings of many jails and prisons. Not as an inmate mind you. Just a technical contractor at work.:shifty::O: They're not pretty at all.

Prisoners can do all sorts of strange things when they're in stir. IE: I was sent on a repair consultation call (from a competing company) at the Kentucky State Pen to repair a cell block control system in the Maximum security cell block. The controls were set up to enable the guards to not only issue instructions through a speaker in a cell but, also to listen in through the same speaker that was mounted in the lighting cabinet at the top of the wall. Yes, a speaker can double as a microphone. After opening the cabinet I found the speaker wires stripped and tied together to negate any eavesdropping by the guard in the control room.
Now, consider if you will. This cabinet was mounted in the corner where the wall met the ceiling about ten feet off the floor and secured shut with security screws that require a special tool to remove. Somehow a prisoner had fished out the wires through those little holes in the speaker grate, stripped them and tied them together. The strange part is, the wires were placed back inside the cabinet. All of this would have had to be done while standing on a cellmates' shoulders without a patrolling guard catching him doing it. The holes in the grate were nowhere near large enough to pull a folded wire through them and none of the holes had been elongated in any way to accommodate the feat. After effecting the repair, I anchored the wire to the cab so it couldn't be fished out again. I suspect the residents got a big surprise not long afterward. Possibly in mid coitus:har:

[Packlife]

4 times. An every 1 of them were always interesting. First time was walking w/ my sisters drunk boyfriend an I was arrested for breaking curfew since I was 17, while my sisters drunk boyfriend was told to go home, should I mention were were only 6 buildings away smh. I should explain I haven't been popular w/ the local cops from day 1. Next 2 times happened in 1 week from Saturday to the following Friday an it's way to long a story. The last time was for fighting. Plus I gotta add a "forced" visit to the station for a breathalyzer after a longggg night of drinking when I was 17.

[Jimbuna]

Thanks for the welcome!



Not everybody is perfect!

Rgr that :03:

[Madox58]

Once.
OK, twice.
OK! OK! Several times!
You happy now? Or do I need to whip out the 'Cod Piece' image?
:o

[Jimbuna]

Once.
OK, twice.
OK! OK! Several times!
You happy now? Or do I need to whip out the 'Cod Piece' image?
:o

No need :O:

http://img51.imageshack.us/img51/7884/7tyb.jpg (http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/51/7tyb.jpg/)

[Madox58]

:nope:
Bastid!
:haha:

[Herr-Berbunch]

No need :O:



As Jim clearly always keeps a copy to hand. :o

[Madox58]

Yes. He is pretty quick with that is he not?
:haha:

I know what he'll be doing with that retirement time now!

[Wolferz]

Once.
OK, twice.
OK! OK! Several times!
You happy now? Or do I need to whip out the 'Cod Piece' image?
:o

You want another entry on your rap sheet?:stare:

[Madox58]

Wait a minute.
We talking civilian arrests, military arrests, or both?
:hmmm:

[Jimbuna]

Yes. He is pretty quick with that is he not?
:haha:

I know what he'll be doing with that retirement time now!

Too many house chores I suspect :-?

[MattD]

Man, MattD, you're a cop magnet!:O: And you want to go from military to paramilitary? Why? Are you that bored? You should speak with WernherVonTrapp. Maybe he can talk you out of it.


A cop magnet, eh?? I actually left the army about a year ago after doing 6 years and had some plans but they didn't work out so am doing a pretty dead end job and regret leaving now. That's why I am thinking about my options and yeah would like police or prison service - think alot of ex army guys go for those jobs too.

[WernherVonTrapp]

That's why I am thinking about my options and yeah would like police or prison service - think alot of ex army guys go for those jobs too.
Welcome aboard MattD. Sorry to hear you had that run-in with the law. I cannot speak for the rest of the USA, and I don't know where you're from but, in New Jersey, if you have an adult arrest record, you can almost certainly forget about any career in any type of law enforcement, including corrections. I hope I'm wrong, but I'm presuming it's probably pretty close to the same for the rest of the country.
The only exception to this would be, having a close political connection or political pull (I've seen some amazing things happen) and, if somehow you can get your arrest record expunged. Anyway, if you want to save yourself a lot of headaches, bad health and a stringent "tow-the-line" lifestyle, I would consider a different profession. Law Enforcement is too strict and it becomes more than a profession: It becomes a lifestyle that you have to live.

[antikristuseke]

A cop magnet, eh?? I actually left the army about a year ago after doing 6 years and had some plans but they didn't work out so am doing a pretty dead end job and regret leaving now. That's why I am thinking about my options and yeah would like police or prison service - think alot of ex army guys go for those jobs too.

I went for private security, right now all I do is sit on my arse and stare at what little cleavage appears on security cameras, while trying to keep two subordinates, who can not tell their arse from their elbow, from accidentally choking on their walkies :88)
But yeah, law enforcement and sitting on ones arse pretending to do what hey pay you to do are popular with ex military, which reminds me, I have to appear in court soon as a witness. Some fecesforbrains tried to nick a bike from in front of the bank I work at, made it about 10 meters before he found himself face down on pavement with a knee aplying slight motivatory pressure on his kidney to kindly place his arms on his back so he could be handcuffed.

[TarJak]

Never been arrested but have had a close shave or two. Handed a few over zealous drinkers over to the rozzers when I was working as a bouncer many years ago.

[Herr-Berbunch]

Handed a few over zealous drinkers over to the rozzers when I was working as a bouncer many years ago.

Video footage does exist, even from that long ago. :O:

http://amjohnnosblog.files.wordpress.com/2013/06/lily-gif.gif?w=604

[TarJak]

Not quite that long ago but close.:D

[Wolferz]

I see the hangman caught you early Herr-Berbunch.:03::haha:

[Wolferz]

A cop magnet, eh?? I actually left the army about a year ago after doing 6 years and had some plans but they didn't work out so am doing a pretty dead end job and regret leaving now. That's why I am thinking about my options and yeah would like police or prison service - think alot of ex army guys go for those jobs too.

Well, you can always re-up, if you're still healthy.:yep:

By all means pursue any career you wish.:up:
I've worked a security job numerous times and it's always boring, like guard duty.:D

Paul Blart. Mall cop.:haha:

[WernherVonTrapp]

Video footage does exist, even from that long ago. :O:

http://amjohnnosblog.files.wordpress.com/2013/06/lily-gif.gif?w=604
:har:

[MattD]

Welcome aboard MattD. Sorry to hear you had that run-in with the law. I cannot speak for the rest of the USA, and I don't know where you're from but, in New Jersey, if you have an adult arrest record, you can almost certainly forget about any career in any type of law enforcement, including corrections. I hope I'm wrong, but I'm presuming it's probably pretty close to the same for the rest of the country.
The only exception to this would be, having a close political connection or political pull (I've seen some amazing things happen) and, if somehow you can get your arrest record expunged. Anyway, if you want to save yourself a lot of headaches, bad health and a stringent "tow-the-line" lifestyle, I would consider a different profession. Law Enforcement is too strict and it becomes more than a profession: It becomes a lifestyle that you have to live.

I'm in England so it might be different here. I now it is tough to get into police but it is more about convictions here. I know they would know about me getting arrested but don't think it would be a deal breaker (I hope) because I ended up being let go the first time and then on the recent one I just got a fixed penalty for drunk and disorderly - just like a ticket and didn't have to go to court.

One of the officers was actually pretty cool. The other one from the one who arrested me. The friendly one got talking to me while we were waiting on the van to go to the station and he was ex army as well. I told him I was hoping to go for the police as well and he laughed at me when I asked him could I use him as a referee!! I am definitely a chatty drunk. We had to wait in the yard before I got booked in as there was a que and he lit up a smoke. I asked him if I could have one too and he let me have one. Was funny trying to have a smoke as I was handcuffed but managed it OK. I remember him saying sleep it off soldier when he put me in the cell!!

I think he put in a good word for me not to get charged and just to get a ticket instead. He wasn't there in the morning when I got out though. Who said cops can't be friendly

I went for private security, right now all I do is sit on my arse and stare at what little cleavage appears on security cameras, while trying to keep two subordinates, who can not tell their arse from their elbow, from accidentally choking on their walkies :88)
But yeah, law enforcement and sitting on ones arse pretending to do what hey pay you to do are popular with ex military, which reminds me, I have to appear in court soon as a witness. Some fecesforbrains tried to nick a bike from in front of the bank I work at, made it about 10 meters before he found himself face down on pavement with a knee aplying slight motivatory pressure on his kidney to kindly place his arms on his back so he could be handcuffed.

Doesn't sound too bad mate! Have applied to get the security license there a few weeks ago and then I will be able to apply for security jobs when I have that but not sure if I really want to do that.

Well, you can always re-up, if you're still healthy.:yep:

By all means pursue any career you wish.:up:
I've worked a security job numerous times and it's always boring, like guard duty.:D

Paul Blart. Mall cop.:haha:

Yeah still fit enough. Am 27 now but could go back but don't really want to go back. I left all good but had a good job lined up with a mate or so I thought but his business really didn't work out so am just working in retail now.

Ah guard duty. Don't miss that too much. They never show hours on guard duty in the cold and rain in any of the movies, do they?

[Wolferz]

Ah guard duty. Don't miss that too much. They never show hours on guard duty in the cold and rain in any of the movies, do they?


That would put all the recruiters out of work if they did.:timeout:

I still remember pulling a guard duty shift during a field exercise from 03:00 to 0:600 in ten degree weather with a twenty to thirty mile an hour wind blowing. Had to huddle myself into the crook of a tree, all the while asking myself "WTF did I do this for?!?!? Long johns and a MOPP suit were no help.:down: We weren't issued any extreme cold weather gear at the time.

[donna52522]

Nope, but came close a few times. Never got a speeding ticket either, but plenty of warnings...none of them written though.

Edit: I'm still young though, give me time.

[antikristuseke]

Doesn't sound too bad mate! Have applied to get the security license there a few weeks ago and then I will be able to apply for security jobs when I have that but not sure if I really want to do that.
Truth be told, I got lucky. Spent two months working the bank floor, two months being the aide of the shift manager and now more than a year as a shift manager. Having a security license is not a bad thing, but usually its the same hurry up and wait crap as the armed forces, only with more waiting.


Yeah still fit enough. Am 27 now but could go back but don't really want to go back. I left all good but had a good job lined up with a mate or so I thought but his business really didn't work out so am just working in retail now.

Ah guard duty. Don't miss that too much. They never show hours on guard duty in the cold and rain in any of the movies, do they?

We are about the same age then, with the difference that I can't join up again because my discharge was for medical reasons.
But speaking of guard duty, I tended to like it... Mostly because I was in a recon unit and we didn't do much standing guard other than observation posts, messing with sentries was fun:smug:

[feslerae]

I shot a man in Reno once, but I just wanted to see him die.

[WernherVonTrapp]

To add to my first reply, I've never been technically arrested. On more than one occasion, in my youth, I found myself surrounded by cops with revolvers and shotguns drawn. One of these occasions even saw me handcuffed and seated in the back of a Paterson Police cruiser. Oh yeah, I've been chased on foot a couple of times too, but again, in my youth.
No record though.:smug::up:

[antikristuseke]

Oh I have been chased numerous times in my youth for drinking in public while underaged, I outran them on all occasions. When I was 16, I did track and field, untill I got my first job which back then made me a lot of money so I lost interest in sports.