So to add discussion value to this story I'm about to tell you, I posed the title question, "Have ever gotten into trouble with the law?" I ask because yesterday, I almost had a scary run-in with the cops. So yesterday we had a half-day at school. So me and a friend decided to smoke what was left of my hash. So we began the walk toward the Erie Canal, where we were gonna smoke. On the way there we walked past a car with two of the four or five black guys that go to my school inside. They were also smokin a bowl, so they called us over and asked if we wanted in. We said hell yeah. So there we were, clam-baking his car, when all of a sudden a cop, it might have been a sheriff, I can't remember, pulls up behind us and slowly drives by right as I'm about to light up. I gave the bowl to one of the black kids, and we were panicking, so we rolled down the windows to air the place out, unknowingly sending smoke billowing out of the car, turned up the music, and pretended to be just chillin. Our hearts were pounding so fast as the cop kinda stopped, but then turned the other way and kept going. So we all kinda laughed and kept toking, but that's the closest I've ever been to getting in trouble with the law. I don't suppose anybody has a real story?
Last weekend actually I got in trouble with them twice. First for breaking into school at 3:00 a.m. Then the next day for sneaking in and out of a hotel window when someone thought I was breaking into the hotel. Nothing came of either one... besides a week's suspension from school this week...
Well I was busted for trafficking the one time. I was like 15 though so just got a weeks suspension for selling the oxi's. Let me tell you I learned how to properly evade attention after that. Takes a good smack in the face before you really figure out the system. Lol @ just referring to them as black kids. Real civil. Basically if you ever get in trouble you don't know what pot is and you don't know any of your friends from jesus. You don't say this unless directly asked at the station (you never say anything about any criminal activity to a cop in the field, they try to goad you into revealing things. Example they might find a g on you and say "a pound of weed? you know how much trouble you'll get in for this?" and you'll be all like " THATS NOT A POUND ITS A GRAM" and they'll be like "so it is your weed". Think of it in terms of the law system, innocent until proven guilty. Just cooperate, be confident never break eye contact and don't disclose information that has anything to do with the crime even if it remains just being silent. Confidence is SUPER IMPORTANT if you look anxious you're fucked. Anyway yeah. In Canada we can basically smoke a j going down the street without fear of reprisal so I don't share your pain.
Yeah, the scariest thing I've heard all year was "Oh shit, a cop!", the other day. It's kinda funny when I think about it.
Well my 'run-ins' with the law are all pretty pathetic, but that's what happens when you're a white guy who usually wears a suit. Plus the most 'interesting' one involved helping them out; namely I was a witness in a murder trial last month. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-birmingham-17225480 - the local newspapers were much more flattering; said the person who called the fire brigade (ie- me) saved the second victim's life. The other time me and some friends were at a mate's house in a small village in the countryside and a bunch of drunks came through at some point in the night, leaving cans, damaging some guy's hedge and apparently shoving beet mats through his letterbox. We spent the next morning talking down the local lynch mob because apparently we were the only 'outsiders' around at the time. Fortunately, said village's lone PCSO seemed to be on our side.
@TheShaw A cop came out of a store one time once, and had a white powder on his shoulder and wasn't looking at me and my father and my dad thought it would be a good idea to yell " YOU GOT SOME WHITE STUFF RIGHT THERE " And my dad does not get sex jokes so he was jsut trying to be polite. Man the cop was pissed but when he looked... he got all quite and walked to his squad car.
Well I haven't had any problem with the force at all. My brother on the other hand was fined for drunk driving...with a bike. The story is that he was drinking with his friends and he wanted to go home and just carried the bike besides him. But he got bored of it and jumped on it and he just rode it for about a minute and the police showed up. They stopped him becouse he didn't have a light thingie on his back ,not becouse he was drunk.Then they wanted to check if he was intoxicated and they showed the probe up his mouth and the rest is history.
Well they do give you expenses - I had to take a day out of uni, and it was valentines' day. Unless you mean on the forums, in which case I figured it would be incredibly sad to start a thread saying 'I might be a witness 'cos I saw a shed on fire' Oh, and in terms of media, they didn't seem very interested, I imagine they just had a police statement show up on their desk one day, seeing as two different local papers had almost identical stories. Plus my friends all asked so many questions, it felt like I was the one being milked. That kind of thing always seems to happen - 'never a cop when you need one'. The worst thing is that's probably what they expect you to give as an excuse.
My mom got pulled over for not wearing a seat belt....Right in front of the sign on the road that said click-it or ticket.
