Your Experience With The Law

I've had some run ins and arrests, but no convictions. I know GoldenCinderblock has everyone beat on this.

PS: Getting arrested suckssssssssssssssssss

As far as speeding, got clocked doing 103-104 in a 45.

Luckily, I had significant connections and the judge gave me only a fine and no jail. I was passing a guy in a rice burner and he took offense to the pass and floored it and so dropped it into 3rd and passed him over 100 on this road - cop clocked the whole thing. I was in high school or something.

My experience: always lawyer up and always pay the premium for a clean record.

Mostly speeding and parking tickets with a few civil suits here and there (mostly empty threats with no actual crime committed).

In fact, I have never been stopped by police in my life so far. all the tickets came in the mail or were under the windshield wiper.

But I never married before, so I am guessing that made it easier to avoid violent crimes.

The police officers I have met were exceptionally friendly and very professional - I mostly need them for directions. But I have met them all in cities, so can't say anything about rural LEOs.

"Crab Chiggins" What's your experience running into the law? Arrests, tickets, etc?

Flagler, FL 2019

I'm riding my road bike and run a stop sign and got pulled over by a cop SUV. 2x $160 tickets for $320 I had to pay to this fuck - fuck him. What in the actual fuck.

Somehow have had a license for 10 years and never gotten a ticket that stuck.

Two weeks after I turned 16, I got clocked doing 25 over. Cop was cool as hell and gave me a parking ticket and a slap on the wrist. Since then, a few times I've been pulled over for a taillight being out but that's it.

For someone who speeds as much as I do, the fact I have nothing on my record is pretty astonishing. Knock on wood.

A few run-ins and an egregious number of speeding tickets from when I was younger (actually lost my license at one point).

Had a friend from high school get busting doing about 120 past a cop. He actually slowed down thinking that would help and it allowed the cop to catch up to him.

also, if someone really had previous convictions and/or lots of issues with the law: it would be unlikely that such a person would get a chance in a regulated environment like finance, education, health care, most government jobs, etc

Therefore I highly doubt such a person would be on WSO?

10 moving violations, 2 non-moving violations, skateboarding on a highway, something like 8 parking tickets, I was accused of a hate crime in high school because I was in a traffic accident and I called the Middle Eastern guy a terrorist, also in high school the school resource officer found my phone and looked for the name "mom" to call the # and then accused me of having a drug dealer because I listed my friend Mary as "Maryjuana." I feel like there's other stuff but I'm losing track.

Had cops come and handcuff me and a couple of my friends for a few hours for literally no reason one day when we were playing basketball. Beyond that, I've been pulled over a bunch but actually had no tickets--I'm very friendly and polite and immediately own it, and they usually just give me a pass. Also kind of related, my friend who used to move a lot of weed and some other stuff bought all of it from cops in our town for years, which was a pretty interesting supply source.

Got a warning from the police for having an alcoholic beverage in public while being underage. My school had just beaten our rival and I left my frat to head back to the dorms. I carried 2 beers for my roommate and as I cross the street, the cop calls out for me. I wasn’t too drunk since I had less than 5 beers the entire day. I made some bullshit story about how I was giving the beer to my friend but I couldn’t get ahold of him. Cops believed me and made me pour the beer out in front of them. They gave me a warning and put my name in a “database”, but it was campus police so I don’t know if the city or county police would see my warning. That has been the only encounter I’ve had with the police.

We were pre-gaming on Halloween and our group had the alcohol and weed munchies, so someone decided to lead all of us Wendy's. On our way to Wendy's, we had to walk across a narrow street that separated a cemetery, and two people in our group started throwing paper wraps at passing cars. One of the cars ended up being a private cop, and shortly after passing us, the car turned on its siren and did a quick U-turn and the cop jumped out of the car. The cop threatened to handcuff us to the cemetery fence to teach us a lesson, but let us go instead..

The story gets worse however.. We end up getting to Wendy's 20 minutes later, and suddenly one person in our group passes out. 3 people are holding this guy, and his state of health is getting worse and worse. My friends were pleading to the customers don't call the ambulance he's ok, and after saying that the passed out guy falls onto the floor and starts having a seizure, his eyes having rolled up into his skull, resembling that of the Undertaker from WWE.

The store cleared out really quickly, and a huge crowd formed in front of Wendy's, and around 9 cop cars came. Everyone in the group, including myself, was around 17 at the time, so we were fucked. The cops started checking people's bags for alcohol, and I snuck away with a few of the friends to dump the alcohol. Unfortunately, the dishonest cop still gave us all a misdemeanor for open container, without checking our bags, and an ambulance took the drunk friend away.

Thankfully, the misdemeanor would be cleared from my record once I hit 18, and my friend survived the ordeal, but just barely. Had the ambulance came much later, he would have died of alcohol poisoning.

This is why you don't drink with white people, we're crazy.

I tried to get into a bar with a couple friends when I was 21, and one of our friends' little brothers was 20. He was going to just go back home, which was a few blocks away. The bouncers saw his ID, and then told all of us to leave now. I was like, well we're of age beside him so we're going to go in but not him. He said, "No you're not, all of you have to leave now." I was pretty drunk and yelled, "Are you fucking serious? You're a fucking bitch." I was literally leaving the area when two cops outside on bicycles tell us to come here, and I got written a ticket. They said I was disturbing the peace, which wasn't even true since I was on the way of leaving the premises anyways.

Got busted by an undercover when I was 14 stealing a bike with a friend. Said friend then proceeded to dump that bike in the middle of the road and we went upstairs to his to play PS3or2, no idea. 10 mins later got cops talking with our doorman and we and our parents got an invitation to the station that same night. Parents were not amused about it to say the least.

After 18 mostly just mild alcohol induced encounters

The responses here are kind of disappointing. I was expecting to see some crazy shit.

heading back from the Masters one year on I-95. got stopped in bumfuck NC (yes I drove, you try flying out of Augusta) and was so fucked up from the night before I had my girlfriend at the time driving. must've smoked a half ounce of weed just to stave off the shakes. then comes the blue lights. she tells me later I was so fucked up it looked like I was crying and the cop was staring down her shirt a bit, she called him out on it, got away with a speeding ticket despite the cheech and chong like scene.

pulled out my gun on a tow truck driver who was linking up with my friend's truck as we were in the process of loading/unloading, were no more than 15 minutes away from the car. he had a bigger gun, I paid a bigger tow fee.

college party later in my career. we'd heard rumors of some creeper who was hanging around some of the girls we brought around, somehow he caught wind of the party and came over. started saying some really really fucked up shit and so someone called for his head, and damn he got it good. first was a 1-2 punch from a typical sized guy (5'10, 155lbs frat bro), nothing much, then behind him someone came in with a flying haymaker, and I actually saw the recipient's jaw break maybe 10 feet from me. after that, got tackled through a wall by a D2 D-line recruit onto the back yard, cops were already en route, the guy said he was going to fucking sue us, someone continued kicking the shit out of him and he never did. the cops only came because one of the guys fleeing the party got hit by a car. he wasn't even involved in the fight, just had a sack of weed on him and is a pussy from Maryland so didn't want to call mommy for bail money. he was fine, got hit by a sentra or some shit going 15, barely a bruise.

another college party, started off normally enough and then I go outside and see what looks like a person sitting on a tailgate (no big deal, I was visiting friends in the south, everyone has pickup trucks I guess) but not looking good, I thought someone was talking to him, I later find out he was supporting him so he didn't fall over, some freshman who couldn't hold his liquor. well the driver of the pickup truck didn't know his tailgate was being used as a gurney, so he pulls away, kid falls out face first, loses all of his front teeth, cops come, moms sue, that fraternity no longer exists at that school.

couple buddies were slingin weed for extra cash in college, I was over for a smoke session and heard an non-chill knock at the door. you do the math, someone ratted. cops barge in, throw everyone on the ground in cuffs, my friends get taken, I get a pass because I wasn't involved and didn't live there, one of the dealers rolled on the guy above him and I think to this day has people looking to murder him or at least hurt him badly.

had a banger of a party at my house in college, we were moving out and the owner was likely bulldozing the place (he was a degenerate in his own right, bought weed from my roommate), so figured fuck it let's make it a night to remember. had 300+ people there but I didn't want any trouble, so I told the guys no hard stuff, just beer, if you wanna smoke pot do it upstairs privately, I could live with getting some freshman drunk, I couldn't live with an OD. well someone didn't listen to me and this bitch who'd been passed around by all of my friends without standards was a target for my grossest roommate without any game at all. I find out she's snorting klonopin in his bedroom and I promptly throw her the fuck out. party continues for about 30 minutes and then I hear a knock and then a crash, not like a car hitting a pole, the kinda crash you feel when you're in an earthquake. cops had used battering rams to knock down every door in my house (2 rear doors and one front door). I'm upstairs packing a bowl for some chicks I'm trying to wrangle into...well you know, and then I hear the yelling. I take a quick peek outside, find flashlights on all the windows and lots of cars outside, I go to the top of the stairs, cops are kicking everyone out, looking for the owners, I'm like that's odd, usually they'd be checking IDs and writing drinking tickets, maybe 5% of the people were of age. no, they're looking for the residents. my cheesedick roommate who invited klonopin katie has already left, so it's me and the other guys left to deal with this shit. cops come upstairs, throw us against the wall, cuff us (way more uncomfortable than I remember, this was not a friendly cuff), give no explanation just keep yelling WHERES THE FUCKING DRUGS and I'm petrified. I'm 20, maybe 21 at the time and I'm thinking they smelled weed. thankfully the chicks were clever, they hid everything, he made them go wait outside while they searched the house. thankfully those cops were dumb as fuck and didn't find anything. we get put in the backseat of the cop car and see a computer screen with some MS DOS lookin script. apparently k-pin girl called the cops and said we were slinging dope out of the house so they showed up with the cavalry thinking they'd solve college's drug problem. spend a night in the can with the other drunks and degenerates, get bailed out by my best friend, get to bed around 7am, skip a charity event the next day.

the funny part is this - maybe 2 months later I'm having a party at another house and I get arrested by the same fucking cop. he eventually lets me go with a warning and then says I'll see your ass in court. fucking pigs.