Have You Ever Been In Jail?

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- he could have ended his career that night.

 
Let me go out on a limb and guess that he did not get lucky that night.  []

Not just no but he** no!

I have never been and believe me, Mexican jails are way worse than the ones in USA, actually if the police doesnt like you even when you did nothing wrong they can take you to jail, how? well they always carry cocaine bags in their cars, if they just dont like you they put one of those little baggies in your car and say they found it there and to the jail you go, you cant say it was not yours since they are the police anyways, who are they gonna believe? you or the police? []

Once... on a field trip. We have a high sucurity prison in our city. I always hate driving past it. My dad was driving past it one day and he had to check a wheel because it had a nail in it and a police officer told him to move it. I think you would more likely get pulled over for going slow, then for speeding right there.

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Well, I started telling the story, then decided I didnt feel like typing on here at the moment, so just ended it at yes.  Then I decided a yes without an explanation left too much to the imagination so I changed it.

I got a DWI.  I worked on Burbon St for 5 years at a fine dining Ralph Brennan rest.  We gt off work at about 1am and had a bar down the street we always went to for a while.  Get home at about 4am, sleep till 3pm, get up go back to work.... such is the life of a New Orleans waiter.  Anyway, went home the same way every night.  Right in N.O. at a red light under the interstate bridge is a LONG red light (usually with a homeless person sitting there so its a little uncomfortable when your alone).  I go this way daily and I had JUST missed the light.  Didnt feel like waiting, looked around and went.  Out of the bushes comes a cop on a forking bike.  I really feel this was planned as Im sure Im not the only person not wanting to wait at a 5 min light at 3 in the morning, and I was the only car in sight, so I feel it was what they were there for.  Not that it was right, but still.  So, I was my usual mature polite self, didnt do me any good... didnt even give me any sort of sobriety test, and NO I wasnt drunk.  Never will I admit to that because I wasnt.  Even later in the night when the "special" cop decided to make me blow into the thing I was barely over the legal limit which is truly nothing, especially to an everyday drinker I must say. 

I was treated like crap for no reason.  Handcuffed to some gate while he dug through my purse and used my cell phone that he pulled out to call my mom without even telling me, walked outside to do it too. So now I started being a smartass to make myself feel better.  The jail in New Orleans is quite a place.   The sandwiches had green meat... although one of the 15 women in the cell with me the next morning wanted it[:'(].  I heard some mighty things with those women.   Somehow I was the last one there and was out the next night at about 4pm[8|], even though my parents were there at about 3:30am right when I got there.  You know "paperwork" takes a while.  

It sucked.  Never went back.  Theres the details for ya lol.

Ah I forgot the best part.  Right when I got there before I got to go into the holding cell I had to wait in a lobby area for a long time and it was like 30 degrees in there.  I had my feet in the chair with my arms around my knees and some guy come and SCREAMS in my face, scared the f***ing SH** out of me, to put both feet on the floor.  About 30 min later I put one leg up (he was long gone) ... comes back and SLAPS my knee HARD and screams again.  It took all the pride I had in my little body not to sit there and cry my eyes out.  I didnt tho.
 
They treat you well at least.  Really... they do.[8|]
 
I can totally understand tho, a little blonde haired girl in a waiter uniform... keep that bit** in line right!

No, I've never been in jail, but my brother has... He did say it was not a fun "trip"-he was arrested for marijuana. Bad bad bad. I don't plan on going either. Would be very difficult to find a job... I don't have any bad habits that would get me there. 

Makes you wonder why they call it the Big Easy.
 

I have never been arrested, but both DH and myself work at a faculity for juv. offenders. They are placed by either state courts, or in some cases social services. While working in the dorms (I now work in the on site school) I learned to administer drug tests, search rooms, and search personal belongings after clients returned from home visits. I have learned to stay calm and rational when faced with irrate or out of control clients. I have been called every name you can possibly imagine, I have been hit in the face with a softball (2 black eyes and a broken nose) and have had multiple objects thrown at me including clipboards, plates, chairs, books and shoes. Even "kiddie jail" is not a fun place. I try to remind my kids, especially the older ones, that if they fail to learn from their experience, and are arrested again they will go to "real jail" where it only gets worse. I truely care about my kids, and would like nothing more, then for them to leave our placement having gained the skills to handle life in the real world, without getting into trouble again.

Thanks for sharing the story, Amy.
 
I have, a few times, driven when I had too much to drink.  Never when I felt like I was drunk but certainly when I was probably over the legal limit.  I am not much of a drinker anyway and will usually try to get a ride home if I have over 2 drinks in an hour or so. 
 
I guess they have to draw the line somewhere.  What we could argue, I suppose, is where that (BAC) line should be drawn.  The indisputable fact though is drunk drivers kill people and we need to do what we can to mitigate that.  Tough laws, I believe, is the answer.  We need to change the attitude that some people have that it is okay to drive when they have had too much to drink.  Tough laws will do that. 
 
Unfortunately, our current laws are more of an annoyance than they are effective.  What I propose is for a first time DUI offender, 6 months mandatory jail time and 1 year suspension of driving privileges.  The best lawyer in the world can't get you off.  If you are caught over the legal limit, you go to jail.  End of story.  If you make the penalty severe enough, people won't drive drunk.

It is a pain not to be able to drive when I know I can.  I can admit tho, that Im more willing than a lot of people to say when I cant.  It has in the past been a huge inconvenience for the people I was with at the time, and for myself the next day getting back to my car... but I WILL say when I dont want to, and do.  I generally can do just fine tho and I know I have been over the limit and fine.  The limit is actually very low.  For my weight I think its a beer and a half, thats perfectly fine driving IMO.  I know why they are there, and I agree with them even tho they inconvenience those ofus who will do the right thing.  My uncle was killed because his drunk friend ran a stop sign.  He was drunk too and left his car at the bar.  Riding with another drunk is not a good solution either.  Anyway, although its a complete pain the arse, its not bad what you get off with for the DWI. 
 
Actaully tho, I think I was much much favored in court because we proved that I was working overtime, going to high school for the first half of the day and going to 3 college classes after and still had good grades.  Never been arreseted, all that good stuff.  So I did get off easier than another may have.  But I think thats fair, to look at someones life and record before just a ONE penalty thing.  But I see your point too.

never been in jail...but i was take into custody and interrogated when i was 17 near the gaza strip in israel...there was a no swimming sign that me and my friend ignored (incredible waves)...turns out it was a high security area, where terrorists were accustomed to try and land by boat.
 
at 15, me and a bunch of friends were chased by 2 cops when we were smoking something at a local high school field during a saturday night concert...we had to run through a tall, thick wall of thorn bushes to get away...whenever i hear of black kids being shot while running away from cops, it makes me think.

Saw this thread and I had to post mine....Kind of long but I hope its entertaining, and all true by the way.
Anyone ever been to Thailand? Well, I was there for my second time when I was in the military. I was about 23 then, as some of you have probably heard, Thailand is known for being cheap. ($0.75 for one beer!!!) So my three other buddies and I were pretty...whats the word im looking for??? Drunk thats it! Well it was 2am and we were still bar hopping and just having a good time playing Connect Four with the bartender ladies. By the way if that game ever becomes an olympic event Thailand will get a gold medal!
 Well it was in between two bars down a street when the "police" came up to us and started asking us questions and searching our pockets etc.. The shore patrol was no where to be seen and neither was any other military around to help or even do a run to get them for us. On of the police pulled out a small baggy of weed and claimed it was in my friends pocket. NO WAY IN H#LL!!! We get pee tests why would we do that? Anyway, handcuffed and thrown in the back  of a car and taken to a police station where they lock us up in a room that was probably 50'X50' with about 70 other guys in there. Mostly drunks and a few not very nice looking guys that tried to mess with us but backed down after my buddy bit his nose. (another story) They made a big deal about taking out belts and shoelaces so we wouldn't kill ourselves. Now a Thai Prison is NOT a place anyone would want to end up. This was just a jail cell and it was nasty. It smelled...bad, puke, p!ss, and other bodily excrement in a room with a lot of other guys and it was about 90degrees. A bucket for a toilet that hadn't been emptied for a year or two..I could go on but I won't.
  Well after about an hour of begging the guard to let us call the embassy, ship, shore patrol, anyone..my friend realised that he still had his wallet and so did we...We all pull them out and the guard looks right at them like they are made of gold!! After that we get taken into another room and pretty much had to pay a "fine/bribe" to get out. It took all of our money in our wallets minus about $20 for a ride back. It was about 8am by the time we got back to our hotel. We didn't tell our command because in the US military if you are in trouble you are guilty end of story.
  Gotta love the 3rd world!!
And two weeks ago, my wife and I went back for a week vacation and had no problems at all!!

Raise your hands if you want to hear the "bite nose" story  []