Poll: Have you ever been arrested?

[Tallison]

Poll question: Poll: Have you ever been arrested?

Looking for numbers here, not details, unless your proud of them.

[khashka]

Doesn't everybody get arrested at some point?

Uh, maybe not. Sorry.

Khash.(twice)

[Tallison]

5. What inspired this...

was a guy I met last night who bought a round of shots for everyone in the house who'd ever been arrested. His bar tab must have been HUGH!!!111!.

[khashka]

1. Deleted by an act of idiocy

[Metta]

2. And I plan to keep it that way unless it's an act of civil disobedience.

Up that.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

3. Nope......not yet......

Time will tell, though......

Maybe if I commit an act of civil disobedience......?

I plan to live a crime-free life, otherwise......


:shrug:


:hi:

[William Bloode]

4. Arrested, convicted, and imprisoned!

Multiple times! If i had to give an honest number of times i have been arrested, it's more than i can remember. 40 minimum, but i figure 60 or better.

This is NO bullshit. i can take the print out of my record in my hand, hold it as far above my head as i can then let it hit the ground, i would still have 4-5 unfolded sections.

I live civil disobedience everyday.

[Tallison]

6. Without soliciting details...

Sounds like it was for stuff you'd do all over again?

[William Bloode]

10. I still live my life mostly the same.

I still ignore most laws i don't agree with, i am just not trying to kill myself like i did when i was younger. I spent most of my life till i was 28 in some type of institution, whether legal, or mental.

These days i have kids. I have not been locked up but twice in the last 10yrs. I try to think a bit. Add to that i am less active and rarely go out in public.

Do i have any regrets? Not a single one really, they were my choices and i stand by them.

[Tallison]

14. It's the violent stuff

I have a hard time getting my head around. Anything illegal I've done has been mainly self-destructive.

[William Bloode]

17. Violence is part of life.

I have commited violent acts, and had violent acts commited to me. Sometimes ya gotta do what ya gotta do. I don't crave violence, but i was raised in a violent atmosphere, violence was a way to survive. Of course i have never been shy about boxing someone in the ears either. It's like that for a lot of us folks down here on the bottom.

It can be argued my lifestyle was self sestructive, sure. Not many though can claim to live their lives on their terms as i have. I do not feel constricted by rules, never have. I also have no problem taking whatever punishment, or bad forture has or will befall me.

In the end it is just simply i don't fear what the government or anyone else can do to me. I may die for this mindset one day for sure, but to me thats true freedom. All they can do is kill me :D

[Tallison]

39. Out of curiosity, given your background

how do you feel about violence as a means of advancing a particular cause?

[William Bloode]

75. Well,

I am of the opinion that you have to break a few eggs to make an omelet. If a cause is noble enough it would merit violence to pursue it. Only as a last resort though, one should try other avenues first.

[wildhorses]

80. I sure do like your attitude

it is not the dying that I am afraid of but, the living to suit other people's ideas of HOW to live that scare me.

[bridgit]

22. William Bloode, sup...

:hi:

[William Bloode]

76. Howdy Bridg,

:hi:

[Dangerously Amused]

7. No. But the day isn't over yet. nt

[Tallison]

11. Considering anything specific?

:D

[Dangerously Amused]

13. Ha, I don't need to work that hard.

Trouble seems to have a way of finding me!


:eyes:

[Dark]

8. Damn "Public Intoxication" Laws. n/t

[Crazy Guggenheim]

9. Once. In 1977 I was arrested for unpaid parking tickets. The judge

let me work it off with Community Service. At the time I was in school so I went to the Tutorial Office and became a tutor. Well I did such a good job that they took me on as a regular after I finished!

[Tallison]

16. You deadbeat!

I knew there were skeletons in there somewhere...

On edit: Did they handcuff you?

[Crazy Guggenheim]

83. They didn't even handcuff me.

[GOPisEvil]

12. Never!

Have I done stuff I SHOULD have been arrested for? Yeah, but I guess I lead a charmed life.

[swimboy]

15. Yes. It was inconvenient and worrisome, but I was not ashamed.

[jmm]

18. I've been handcuffed and called a threat to national security

(during separate incidences) but never arrested. The closest I came was when I was with a small group of protesters on campus and we were threatened with arrest if we didn't leave the building. I started to yell that the school could get in serious trouble for having us arrested without reading the riot code to us. It took them so long to locate a copy that by the time they did the chancellor had caved in and agreed to a meeting.

[Tallison]

28. I honor national security threats like you

Good work! :applause:

[Truebrit71sbruv]

19. Yes... I was on an anti-student loan march

in the UK in the 80s... and I asked a policeman on the barricades stopping us marching into Parliament Square in London if his head went all the way up to the top of his helmet...

He arrested me for a breach of the peace...

Which is just as well... because if he hadn't I'd have been right at the front when they rode horses through the front rank of students...

[Tallison]

30. What's the anti-student loan issue about?

Aren't student loans a good thing? :shrug:

[Truebrit71sbruv]

77. No...

... this was back in the 80s when the Thatcher government decided to do away with 40 years of educational excellence by stopping free education up to the end of your first degree.

The system that existed then gave each student a yearly grant that covered all tuition fees and most living expenses (depending on how much you partied...).

But Thatcher (may she burn eternally in the deepest pit of hell) thought that only the rich should get a university education, but was forced by her Education Sect to at least introduce the Student Loan scheme. This now means that most students leave education with anything between £30-60k debt.

THAT was why we were protesting.

I know the US has a totally different system, and that the onus has been on the parents or scholarships to provide, but what Thatcher did sent shock-waves through the system and actually caused a fall-off in Uni applications.

However, good ol' lapdog Tony Blair has made things all better now - by creating lots and lots of "vocational" Degrees - which means that individuals with IQs lower than their shoe-sizes are going off to get a BA or BSc in Beauty Therapy or Town and Country Planning...

So the UK is safe again.

Hooray...

[Tallison]

85. Gee, now you can be just like the US...

where anyone can be president!

[Truebrit71sbruv]

87. Yup...

... so long as he/she/it has the cranial capacity of the contents of a handkerchief

[Tallison]

93. Or the attention span of a Cheerio

:hi:

[Fox Mulder]

20. Nope.

I don't get caught. :D

[meganmonkey]

21. Just once, last month, and to those considering Civil Disobedience,

I highly recommend it :evilgrin:

[Tallison]

31. Congratulations!

I hope you got a picture of it to frame!

[wildeyed]

23. No, and it's a freakin' miracle.

I was very wild as a youngin'.

[serryjw]

24. TOO many parking tickets!

was in a holding cell twice until someone bailed me out.

[Tallison]

33. Jesus, they actually detained you for that?

What a waste of resources. I think in VA they just revoke your license without notice, causing you to drive on a suspended, and then they detain you.

[serryjw]

43. Twice

30 years ago I was working in an (incorporated )area near D/T LA. I used to work late and didn't want to walk to the employee parking lot, so I'd park near our bldg. I wasn't the only one. They told me when I got hired it would happen If I remember correctly, it was like $300 for parking tickets and that was 30 years ago!

[LeftyMom]

25. Nope I'm boring

but once my son's older and I can be a better activist that may change. :D

[Tallison]

35. Perhaps you're just clever

about not getting caught? :shrug:
I'm the hopeful hooligan here.

[LeftyMom]

37. Other than a shoplifting incident in junior high

I can't recall that I've ever done anything arrest-worthy. Now if the right situation comes along and demands it of me, I'll do what I need to do. Gathering the grandkids around and telling them about the time thier grandma got arrested could be fun! :D

[flvegan]

42. See? What you need is

a really bad influence on you in your life.

:hi:

[LeftyMom]

44. Oh look, a volunteer!

I did just think of something else I've done that was arrest-worthy, but as it involves That Category of Human Activity One Does Not Discuss in the Lounge (TM) I shall leave that up to the imagination. :evilgrin:

[flvegan]

46. C'mon, we've all done "arrest worthy" stuff...well, except me

I'm going to go flip the "imagination switch" right now. I'll let you know what I come up with.

[LeftyMom]

48. You know, the angel act works better

on people who don't know you. :)

[flvegan]

52. Whaaaat?

I am the textbook example of purity and the poster boy for the innocent.

[LeftyMom]

54. Hide the bolt cutters (and borrowed dogs) when you say that

you might convince somebody that way.

[flvegan]

56. Okay, good points.

I don't think that Grand Theft Canine (or chicken, or...) is arrestable. Trespass, though...hmmmm...I should've thought more clearly.

But then, what of it. YOU have done far, far worse. And I can prove it!

[LeftyMom]

57. I have???

Maybe in your dirty mind! ;)

[flvegan]

58. Yup...and I'm a witness

Coronary Grand Theft.

I'm the victim.

[LeftyMom]

59. That was really bad

:loveya:

[flvegan]

61. Oh, well in that case

I must've just misplaced it. You're free to go, Ms. LeftyMom. Charges...dropped.

[LeftyMom]

64. I threw the smilie in damn it!

What more do you want? Men!

:wanders off in search of comfy shoes and complimentary toaster:

[flvegan]

66. Heh heh heh

C'mon...admit it...it was cute. Okay, it was lame.

Grand Theft Coronary...Coronary Grand Theft. That's funny shit! I was alluding to stuff, you know.

Sigh.

[LeftyMom]

69. Really, I had no idea

Errrmm... we're not exactly keeping this under our hats, are we? :eyes:

Oh wait, I don't own a hat. Damn it!

[flvegan]

71. I can't believe you gave me the rolleyes smilie.

Keeping what under our hats? I own 2 hats. One shamelessly plugs my rescue, the other rolls down over my face...when needed.

What you talking, 'bout, Willis?

[LeftyMom]

72. Well I was rolling my eyes at me too

so at least you're in good, scratch that, fun if disreputable company.

[flvegan]

73. No, "good" works

But fun...fun has been proven.

Disreputable? Still gotta prove that one...

Oh, that's bait. Bad, bad flvegan...

[LeftyMom]

74. ample evidence for disreputable lies in your email inbox

O8)

[Lilith Velkor]

26. Once, for NO FUCKING REASON

In this incident:

http://www.dccouncil.washington.dc.us/patterson/kathypatterson.org/pages/prinfo/pr42603.html

Now that my PTSD has been triggered, I'm going to go freak out. More later.

[Tallison]

34. Wow.

I'm surprised they had the manpower to arrest 400 people. Are you part of the class action suit?

[Lilith Velkor]

62. Goddamn right I am.

They had already contracted manpower from out of the area, I'm sure of that because they were all white.

When I realized the park was surrounded and nobody was getting out, I linked arms with the black bloc children. We all formed an inner perimeter to protect the bystanders and elderly folks in case they attacked. So I was in the front row for most of the hour or so before we were cuffed.

After I got home, I checked my voicemail and there was a message from my employer that I was fired. I've only had odd jobs ever since.

There is a bright side to that for me, and that is the fact that I have paid no income taxes for this particularly obscene phase of the Iraq war. Cold comfort, but it's something.

[no name no slogan]

27. Once-- for civil disobedience

Got arrested "trespassing" on the property of the leading manufacture of cluster bombs, back in the late 80s, when the enemy was The Commies®.

Good times, good times...

[Tallison]

36. Wow, that's an honorable one

I'm assuming you deliberately wandered on to said property...

[no name no slogan]

38. Completely deliberate

The guy who got arrested before me tossed a bucket of blood on their doorstep. I was with a few other friends who barricaded the door with our bodies, prohibiting entrance to their building. I plan to do it again, one of these days.

[leftofthedial]

29. twice

once for politics

once for religion

[La Lioness Priyanka]

32. no but i maybe

if i ever get my hands on this person!

[Initech]

40. Nope. Came insanely close to being arrested though...

It was because of some stupid rent-a-cops on a power trip wandering through the UCSD campus on the biggest party day of the year.

They tried to accuse me of drinking when I didnt even have a single drop of alcohol when I walked onto the campus. Morons. :grr:

[Moosepoop]

41. No, but my house was raided once.

There's nothing like being gotten out of bed by a team of cops with a warrant.
Nothing came of it, though.:yoiks:

[Tallison]

49. Cool! Was it a search or an arrest warrant?

[Moosepoop]

68. It was a search warrant.

My newly adult daughter had moved out of my home and in with her new boyfriend, Shithead. (This was a few years ago.) She wound up moving back home with Shithead in tow. One night, the cops came knocking and got us all out of bed, armed with a search warrant for stolen property.
Turns out a friend of Shithead's had gotten busted for breaking into houses and stealing a LOT of big-ticket items like TVs, stereos, mountain bikes, computers, etc..

After getting busted for one of the break-ins, and confessing to the others, Shithead's friend told the cops they could find some of the stolen loot at my address!!! So they got the warrant, and once inside my house they had one officer hold us in the living room with a video cam running while the others searched the house. They moved us into another room in order to search the living room. No stolen property was found.

I found out later that the only reason we weren't all forced to lie on the floor in handcuffs during the search (as happened at the other address that was raided at the same time) was because the raid at my house was led by a detective who wasn't even supposed to be there... he had seen the paperwork and has known me for years. He told the officers he was coming along on this one, and not to engage in that sort of behavior unless it became necessary, such as if they actually found stolen property. I will be forever grateful to that detective.

At the time, I couldn't figure out why Shithead's friend had lied to the cops about where he had deposited the stolen stuff, but now that I understand a lot more about Shithead (hindsight being what it is), I'm pretty sure that the stolen stuff probably WAS here, briefly, while I and my daughter were at our jobs, then moved before the police arrived. Shithead is long gone from the picture, and my daughter is now engaged to a very nice man. :)

[steely]

45. Once, but I was for something stupid...

a long time ago.

[Tallison]

51. It's all for stuff either exceedingly stupid or

exceedingly smart, I think.

[AVulgarianHue]

47. No, but cops used to take every opportunity they could..

to frisk me.:blush: :grr:

[Tallison]

50. Women suspects should have the right to

ask for a female officer to perform such searches.

[AVulgarianHue]

53. They do, or did

After many bogus stops and gropings, I sought out the information pertaining to conduct.

[jmm]

60. It depends on the type of search they want to do.

Male cops for fear of personal safety are allowed to do a preliminary pat down of women. Although I can say from personal experience some of them get a little too happy with their hands while doing it. If they want to do a more thorough search, for example if they think you've got drugs hidden on you, they're suppose to get a female cop. I've actually refused to consent to a search by a female cop once. Like I told the male cops trying to talk me into consenting as much as they'd like to watch I really don't like the idea of getting felt up by a woman. I knew I could've gotten the whole situation over with quick by consenting but I knew I did nothing wrong so I was willing to waste some of my, and more importantly their, time waiting on a warrant I knew would not be granted so they'd think twice before doing that to someone else. If more people did the same it wouldn't be worth their time to try to get meritless search warrants.

[Tallison]

63. Good for you

And while they wasted the time of only one individual, I'm betting you wasted the time of several of them. :cheers:

[MarsThe Cat]

55. several times- but only once found guilty

when you're a BIG guy, you don't have a right to defend yourself.

[Wcross]

65. Damn those public nudity laws anyways! n/t

[flvegan]

67. And the whole "I had no idea it was illegal" NEVER works.

I hear you.

[swimboy]

84. That's what tripped me up!

[hickman1937]

70. Yup. Right after the divorce I got a ticket on the way to work.

It was Christmas time, and I was broke. I ignored it. Mothers day my ex took the kids and I was headed for the bookstore when I got pulled over again. Arrested, cuffed, and taken to the station for driving on a suspended license. Fortunately I had the 100 bucks bail in my purse. The officers were very kind, and had me laughing thru my embarrassment. They also were hooting on the cop that brought me in. All in all not the worst experience in my life.

[Mizmoon]

78. He told me he was 18!

I swear!

[SarahB]

79. No, but I would for a cause I believed in.

But not for stupid shit.

[Flaxbee]

81. Yes, for "carrying a dangerous weapon in an airport"

in 1994, right after my first year of law school.

My aunt had sent me a cannister of pepper spray, which didn't need a permit in Illinois but DID need a permit in California (I had no idea). I was on my way to Providence, Rhode Island for a summer internship and in my hurry to get ready for my sister to drive me to the airport (three hours early, which was good, as it turned out) I tossed the pepper spray into my handbag and didn't think twice (would have been fine if I'd tossed it into my check-in luggage).

The airport scanners caught it and the San Diego Harbor Police arrested me, stuffed me (gently) in the back of the police car, took me to the station and fingerprinted me, then let me go with a ticket and court appearance date (and drove me back to the airport).

Had the court appearance extended b/c I was in RI, not CA.. Once I got back to California I took the pepper spray course ("Do not spray your spouse in the face with pepper spray, no matter how angry you are...") and the judge tossed out the charge. Said to me "Let me guess: your boyfriend in Arizona sent you the spray and you didn't know you needed a permit here". I said "Close, it was my aunt from Illinois."

That was 1994. I shudder to think what would happen today. I'd probably be in gitmo...

[sendero]

82. Yes..

.... and spent a night in jail too.

But not for any noble purpose, just caught making a mistake by a small town cop with an empty jail.

Had to call me ex to bail me out. It was not pretty. :(

[newyawker99]

86. No n/t

[slybacon9]

88. Twice. A fight in Mexico and for taking pictures of the GGate bridge

during code red terrorist warning down at Fort Point. The FBI thought my Holga camera was a bomb. They arrested me and never checked my van with tinted windows that was parked right there.


can you say.... BUUUUUUULLSHIT.

[ScreamingMeemie]

90. Holy Cwap! Something sort of similar happened to my sister in law

at the border to Windsor here. She'd never been to Canada (she's a California girl) and was just video taping the ride over the bridge...The customs agent freaked out over having "possibly" been videotaped and they pulled her out of the car and detained her for 3 hours. Needless to say, my sil doesn't much like coming to MI for visits. :hi:

[ScreamingMeemie]

89. Nope. And only one speeding ticket, and I fought it...and won!

A well lived life. :hi:

[LostInAnomie]

91. Criminal Mischief

I messed up a golf course when I was in high-school. Too bad I was 18 at the time.

[AussieDave]

92. No - but I've been thrown out of bars

does that count ???