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Originally posted by Patrick-SP2022:

Was that right after you stated you like your steaks well done?

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Originally posted by flashguy:
Will this do?
DSC_2441.jpg by David Casteel, on Flickr
(Exhibit at the Colorado State Penitentiary)

flashguy

No, that resulted in this:
IMG_0662 by David Casteel, on Flickr

flashguy

Twice.

First time I was sitting in a car with a girl, smoking cigarettes and listening to music back behind the mall. Cop pulls up and hauls us down to the station for curfew violation. Girl gets picked up by her mother, mine said something to the tune of "I'll see you in the morning, a night in jail will do you some good".

Second time I was in Cancun on spring break. I was doing the deed out on the beach like any good American College kid would. The cops busted us and threw us in their POS car. I shouted "mucho deniro, mucho deniro" whilst motioning to my pocket. They reached in, took the 2oo or so pesos I had and let us go. 20 years ago and I still talk to that girl occasionally.

My only arrest was in Viet Nam when I was a Navy advisor in 1970. The Army MPs arrested us for having five people in a four seat jeep. They took us to the Army Provost Marshal.

Two guys were seated at a raised area where you had to look up at them when standing in front of them. They told us to go sit on a wooden bench on the wall while they contacted our Commanding Officer.

I was an E-6 and the other four were E-7 and E-8. I mentioned we were sitting on the Group W bench and started singing Allice's Restaurant. The other four joined in. The harmony was great. The Provost Marshals told us to shut up.

Our C.O. arrived and took custody of us. We went outside and he said don't do it again. We agreed and got in the jeep and left.

If I was guest of the county hotel, eight hours of concrete bunk and itchy wool blanket, but there was never any paperwork written on the incident, does that count?

Several times! Kind-of...

We used to do plumbing and electrical maintenance for the county including the court house and the old rock county jail.

Getting locked in the bull pen with 12 to 15 mostly drunks to repair the single out in the open toilet that they themselves tore up, and while they were now shitting on the floor instead was never my idea of fun We always went in pairs when called to the jail at least.

One day the County Judge office called while I was eating lunch... "Come quick... the electricity is leaking out on to the floor"... it was tar leaking out of an old overheating florescent light ballast.

One time we were working in a cell but we weren't locked in. The cell was occupied... one guy. The guy got dressed and just walked out the unlocked door and left! Turns out he was a trustee inmate and had keys to all the cells. Had me going for a bit.

On one occasion State Troopers left a drunk at the county jail overnight. Well, he ripped the steel sink bowl off the wall and used it to bash the china toilet to bits, flooding the place in the process. The *brilliant* Judge let him go with a fine of $150 to repair the damage! Yea judge... gonna cost you a bit more than that to fix.

When the County Judge got replaced so did we, replaced by a much bigger company for the service work. Boy was I ever glad to lose that customer.

I goy a speeding ticket in Manhattan Kansas in 1974. Cost $12, $1.00 per mile over the limit. That's it, last ticket, ain't had one since.

Yep. About 20 years ago I decided it was a good idea to race some motorcycles on the interstate with a Corvette. Never saw the cop we passed but he caught up with us as we exited the highway. Said he clocked us at 140. Only reason we all didn't go to jail that night was one of the motorcyclists was brothers with an officer. When we showed up for traffic court we all went straight to jail. We were released after 7 days. I learned my lesson.

To top it off they took off my G-Shock Mudman when they hooked me up and never put it with my other stuff.
I went to the PD yesterday to see if they had it and the thug who arrested me smiled wide and told me he never saw a watch. Sure glad I put the $1500 in cash I had on me earlier I have saved for my new Dan Wesson in the house otherwise I'm sure he'd never have seen that too.

I did an 18-year stretch behind the walls (8 hours at a time).

Once 1999,I didn't do it not guilty.In my Forrest Gump voice that's all I got to say bout that.

When I was twelve years old in seventh grade we we had a class named "Personal Citizenship". One of the lessons of that class was a field trip to the Jackson County (MO) Jail. We were shown an empty cell block. If I think about it I can still smell the mix of urine and disinfectant in the air and see the fading light green paint on the walls and bars.
That was over fifty years ago so I can say for sure it made an impression.
Do any schools still have classes like that? If not, they should.

Been a while. I might have seen the bars a time or 2. Builds character.

When I was in the U.S. Army I was stationed in Darmstadt Germany from 1985 to 1990. In 1986 I was at the Darmstadt Heiner Festival, which is like a county fair but with beer. My then girlfriend, my best friend Rick, his girlfiend Sylvia, our friend Dan and his gilfriend, Batina spent the majority of the day eating "fair food" and drinking German beer. We were all pretty well lit. I had 13 liters of beer from about noon until around 11:00 pm. I went to use the restroom and got lost. I was found by a couple of Polizei and taken to a holding cell. I was too drunk to communicate in either English, German or Redneck. My girlfriend and friends were franticall searching for me and finally ask the Polizei and drug my drunk ass back home. THe only thing I remember about that night was wandering around the woods and finding a couple doing the nasty on a big boulder.

Technically, I wasn't arrested or in jail as it was a trailer like a cattle car with bench seats, no door and no guard. That's as close as I've come. Fond memories,

A cub scout field trip to the local police station yielded a visit to the holding cell and the drunk tank. Never been to either on less friendly terms. Best part of the field trip was when they passed around a shotgun and an AR.

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Originally posted by Slippery Pete:
Been a while. I might have seen the bars a time or 2. Builds character.

ahhh, so now we know the story behind the screen name. Might have to check the Post Office Wanted Posters and listen in on police scanner BOLOs.

"All units, be on the look out for Machine Gun Kelly, Baby Face Nelson, and Slippery Pete".

Nope. And my goal is to continue that streak.