Has anyone here ever been in the slammer?

[LaurenG]

I haven't yet but you never know under this administration.:hi:

[Dave Reynolds]

1. Once.

Four stitches in the back of my head from "falling", too.

[LaurenG]

2. Oh Bummer

who threw you down and broke your head? :shrug: :hi:

[Dave Reynolds]

3. It was a nightstick stroke

in the jail elevator, my big mouth instigated it.

Pueblo, CO 1984.

[LaurenG]

5. I was married to a nightstick weilding cop once

I am sorry that they hit you. I do know how they are.

[Bucky]

4. I think everyone should spend at least one night in jail. It would...

It would make all of us better citizens. It build compassion and instills a fear of the law... something most Republicans I know could use a good dose of.

[LaurenG]

6. roflmao

I don't want to spend the night in jail!

[name not needed]

8. As long as I get to choose the jail.

[China_cat]

7. During the Vietnam days

Several arrests for demonstrating, one for walking downtown in my bare feet in December (part of a campaign of harassment), cops on the porch taking pictures through the windows, arrested for 'drugs' (baggie of flea powder sent over from the neighbor whose dog was staying with us. I offered to shoot the cop up with it)

[LaurenG]

10. What an activist with TRUE experience

I guess the cop declined your offer. Too funny :rofl:

[mongo]

9. a couple of times

but only for 1 night. (and no I wasn't drunk)

On edit: Just some advice -- if you are ever wanted on a warrant, never, EVER turn yourself in on Saturday afternoon. You'll never get a jumper that fits on Sat night, once you are taken to county jail.

[LaurenG]

13. Did you hit the bouncer or were you the bouncer?

I'm just kidding.:hi:

[mongo]

16. Once was actually for speeding

There's a sign when you enter Wisconson -- "Wisconson arrests drunk drivers and speeders". Believe it.

I don't talk about the other time much.

[LaurenG]

17. It's OK . Thanks for the warning though

Should I ever go to Wisconsin, I'll be thinking of you as I drive the speed limit.

[Ptah]

11. No, but I have visited each of my children there. n/t

[LaurenG]

12. I'm sorry I know that must have been hard

It seems as the parent you are hurt by what happens to your kids. At least thats what happens to me.:hug:

[Ptah]

14. The hardest part is that they chose that path.

Kids.

What are you gonna do?

:scared:

[LaurenG]

15. Love them

and wish them happier days while we bite our nails.

[Ptah]

18. They were so cute when they were young.

[liberalpragmatist]

19. Have they been doing better since? - nt

[Ptah]

21. No. As it turns out I'm not a good parent.

:cry:

Looking back, I can see the mistakes I made.

But, no mulligans.

I still love them to any end.

[LaurenG]

25. Adorable

I am really sorry about the heartache. I hope you can find peace in-spite of circumstances.:hug:

[In_The_Wind]

20. Not me!

:hi:

[LaurenG]

24. Hi Joan

Thankfuly me neither. I' probably cry...a lot.

[In_The_Wind]

28. That's one experience I can do without!

[maveric]

22. Yep. maveric was a bad guy early on.

I havent seen the inside of a jail cell in 26 years.
And I dont plan on ever seeing one from that side again.

[LaurenG]

26. My dad actually

told a Texas highway patrolman he would rather go to jail then pay his ticket. They locked him up for 3 days for not paying his speeding ticket.

[khashka]

23. Once

My ex wife's fault. That girl has a mouth on her!

I could see where this was heading and was being all polite and respectful. Five minutes of kissing up and everything would be OK. Ah, but not her. The woman never saw a fight that she wasn't sure she could win. End result, we got busted and spent the night in jail. We hadn't done anything wrong or broken any laws, so there were no charges.

Just a big guy with a big gun who couldn't deal with a woman talking back to him. Afterwards I told her "Sometimes discretion truly is the better part of valour... you need to learn how to pick your fights. And if you ever get me arrested again!"


Khash.

[LaurenG]

27. Ah a woman after my own heart

I have since learned (mostly) to just let it go, especially with cops. The best thing to do is get away from them alive and un-arrested. lol

[RandomKoolzip]

29. I spent 8 hours in a New Orleans jail one day.

I was busted shoplifting CDs at Tower Records.

I haven't even THOUGHT about shoplifting anything since.

[LaurenG]

36. Do you remember which CD's nt

[xchrom]

30. several times

i was a bad bad boy in my youth.

i can laugh about it now.:crazy:

[LaurenG]

38. That must have been scary at the time

I hope never to be in the slammer. :scared:

[xchrom]

40. i was very bad.

i was incorrigible.

jail is no fun -- but i was a bad ass at the time -- it all actually heped to turn me around.

[RetroLounge]

31. 2 times

Both traffic related...

Getting pulled over speeding on a Sunday in Northern Wisconsin in a 1965 Impala SS with illinois plates, really long hair, an army fatigue jacket, a dufflebag and a guitar in the back seat, no money, and well, you get the picture. Damn cop put me in a cell in the next nearest town, which happenned to be 4 blocks from my Parents house. Mom bailed me out...

RL

[LaurenG]

37. My brother was clocked doing over the speed of 120

on the freeway in Fort Worth. He did see the inside of a cell once they caught him.

[havocmom]

32. Do mammograms count?

:shrug:

[LaurenG]

33. roflmao

That would be worse and should be considered cruel and inhuman punishment.

[JackBeck]

34. No, but I was handcuffed and placed in a van.

I was 21 and had just moved to NYC.I went to St. Mark's place to buy two bags of some herbal smokey stuff. After I had gone about two blocks, an undercover van pulled up on the sidewalk in front of me and my friend. An undercover officer gets out and tells me to show him what I had just purchased. Scared out of my mind, but still ahead of his game, I showed him one of the bags. When he turned around to interrogate my friend, I took the other bag out and kicked it under the van. For whatever reason, he decided to handcuff me and drive me back to the scene of my purchase. Said cop kept on asking me if I had bought heroine, which I had not nor would ever. He picked up the dudes that I had purchased from so now the three of us are riding around in an undercover van. I eventually was let go, but only after the cop "couldn't" get my cuffs undone and was only able to do so after taking me into the police precinct. So then I returned to where he picked me up, grabbed the bag of weed still on the street and went home.

:hippie:

[LaurenG]

35. A happy Ending!!

Great story.

[KamaAina]

39. Well, I did spend quite a bit of time in the back seat of a police cruiser

belonging to the Jefferson Parish, La. Sheriff's Dept.

Down there the cops get to use their "units" like company cars. A friend of mine was seeing this JP deputy, so she'd make him take my carless self to pro-choice demos and the like -- in the back seat of his unit! No flashing lights or anything...