Funny stories about how you got arrested or almost got arrested.

[Bones68charger]

Ok, spill the beans, I want to hear the funniest stories about how you got arrested or almost got arrested...

I'll start...

I almost got arrested because my and my buddies tried to steal a life size cut out of Brittany Spears from a McDonalds.

Me and my friend Chris were to distract the kids working behind the counter while my friend Chad took off with it, our plan was if he got caught he would run down to the Hardee's down the street and wait in the boys rr for us.. Well he got the cut out and got to the door when the manager caught him while he was walking out of the bathroom. Chad dropped the cut out and took off running.

The manager called the cops while we acted like we did not know what was going on.  When the police arrived the manager pointed to us saying we came in with him and when the cop asked us our names we both gave him assumed names and said we where on a frat. prank.

The manager wanted us arrested but the cop just laughed and said that since we did not have the cutout he could not do anything to us or something like that. I think he thought the whole thing was stupid..

Well we left and went looking for Chad. He was not at Hardee's or anywhere we spend 4 hours looking for him and it was really pissing us off.

Finally Chris got a call on his cell phone which turned out to be Chad trying to pretend to be Chris's drunken twin brother. Turns out Chad and ran/walked 10 miles north of town and hitched hiked with some Indians the rest of the 40 miles back to our college.

When asked why he took off on us... He said that he thought we were going to jail and he did not want to be late for his Human Sexuality class the next day... We were so pissed at him.

Could you imagine being arrested for stealing a life size cut out of Brittany Spears well i cam close to it..

What's your story?

[Shakey]

Charged with 94mph in a 55mph zone, over the 0.08 limit, dangerous driving and possesion of a deadly weapon.  Spent the night in the Jackson County Jail in Black River Falls, WI.  All this took place back waaay back in the day when I was young and foolish.

It wasn't really that funny!   

[Mean 318]

This one isn't me, but one I got from a guy I used to work withat the local junk yard. He told me how back in the 70s he raced the cops from Grand Forks to Fargo one day in his 6 pack gto, a trip that is about 75 miles or so. He beat the cops, the arrested him  the next day at his house. He spent a month in jail.

[moparguy01]

I plead the 5th.

[bull]

When I was young and dumb and full of you-know-what I did some partying, which was great sport in my small town because there wasn't much to do. Funny thing is the cops didn't have much to do either since they spent many of their summer evenings chasing us around the woods.

Once we had a bonfire going by the lake when we saw four flashlights in the distance. One of the people holding the flashlights yelled "Nobody move" and so of course everyone moved. I high-tailed it up the bank, across the highway and into the woods and sat there for an hour until I counted four cops cars headed back toward town. Several of my buddies got MIPs that night.

Another time we were out in the woods sampling some beers when about four radar detectors started going off. By the time the cops showed up there were just two guys sitting by the fire surrounded by about 15 cars. I don't think the cops never figured the radar thing out

Another time a friend and I were going to get together with a couple girls after work one night. Well they told a few people and we told a few people and those people told more people and by the time 10 pm rolled around there were about 60 people crammed into their house. The cops showed up (I guess we were getting a bit rowdy) and we all scattered like rats into the woods. But that was after I tried to make myself fit out the 12"X24" bathroom window, hiding under the bed and breaking the deck to escape. They had to see me running that time but I guess they figured I wasn't worth chasing.

Still one other time there were about 8 of us sampling beers around a campfire at the other end of the lake when a state trooper just strolled up and had a little "conversation" with us. He was cool though. He just told us to wrap it up and clean up the mess before we left. I can honestly say that sand was cleaner than it was when we got there.

[68chrgrwife]

hmmm that all brings me back...Hubby and I were dating...we went to a motel with a couple of friends and we all started drinking (no we were not of drinking age).  Hubby and I got into a fight and we started walking down the highway...some one had called the cops because we were fighting soo loudly.  They came and picked up up and finally released us (we were all over 18 so mommy's were never called) with a township violation, paid the ticket and was free!

Just recently went clubbing with a friend and was wasted beyond wasted and drove home (yes I know stupid move).  I "california rolled" thru a stop sign and got pulled over by a cop. I was way over the legal limit, my tags were expired, and "ran the stop sign"---major ticket right.....NOPE the second cop who pulled up drove my truck the rest of the way home (like a mile), dropped my friend and I off and then had the first cop bring him back to his car that he had curbbed at the stop point.  Man that was a relief......

[Drache]

Pushed a police officer out of the way once and got threatened with assault on an officer... damn plain clothes cops! The worst was street racing my '84 Daytona Turbo Z against my friend's '95 Acura Integra. I won but got busted doing 160 km/h in a 70 zone. My car was impounded and I was fined $250 while my rich friend got off with only a fine.

Or there was a time we were moving my uninsured car from my dad's old place to his new place with shop that was 5 km's down a country road. He was following behind in his truck and we were pulled over by two young rookie cops who were out training. They even pulled their guns on us! Got away without a fine but the car was towed the hour and a half into town... that cost me $300 to get the car out of impound.

[kab69440]

To those who wonder why the heck the rear window of my car ended up like it did, there is a story behind it. It involves me not pulling over when signalled, and backroading through three counties on the way back home. The backlight blew out of the car, and took most of the rotten casement with it. Remember, roll up your windows at high speeds... But for the grace of God and a Bearcat scanner, I would have been toast. Well, even way back in the late 80's Chargers were a bit hard to find in wrecking yards. I couldn't find a replacement backlight, So, I did the best I could with what was available. A Hornet station wagon had the only glass narrow enough to fit between the sail panels, and after a few beers one night, it seemed like a real good idea to go ahead and do it.

[Old Moparz]

I never got into any serious trouble when I was younger, but could have because of some of the morons I had as friends. Hmm, birds of a feather?   

I wasn't arrested, but I was brought into the police station in hand cuffs once. I was 17 at the time, & it was the last day of school before the Christmas vacation during my senior year of high school. Some friends & I decided that we needed to cut school that day & do our last minute Christmas shopping at the mall. Good idea, but how will we get there? The buses in our area were horrible & sometimes never showed up, so I had a better idea. 

My mother had a second car that nobody used, a 1972 Datsun 510 station wagon, & we could take that! I used to sneak it out once in awhile on a Friday night to practice driving, so now that I was an expert driver, I could take all 4 of us to the mall. The plan was for one friend to meet me at my house in the morning after my parents left for work. From there, we'd drive over to another friend's house to pick him up, & then get the last guy at his house.

Friend #1 showed up on time, so we left the house, got into this awesome machine, & pulled out to get friend #2. What a feeling it was to be out & about as the driver of my own wheels. It was only about 5 blocks away, but the last block had a police car sitting on the corner with his radar watching the main road. I wasn't speeding because I knew better with NOT having a driver's license. As I drove past the officer in his car, we made eye contact. I guess he also noticed that the inspection sticker was 3 years overdue.

I didn't know it was overdue, I just knew it ran, drove, & stopped, & that was all that mattered. I pulled up in front of my 2nd friend's house & blew the horn. As we waited, the officer who was at the speed trap pulled up along side of me & rolled down his window. He motioned me to open my window & asked for my license, registration, & insurance card. I had no license & didn't know what a registration or insurance card looked like, but rummaged through the glove box because I had seen that done on TV & knew I could stall him.

I turned to my friend in the passenger seat & said "I have an idea. We should get out of the car & run, then I'll just say the car was stolen." He must not have thought that was a good idea because of the look of panic on his face & just said "No, we can't, we'll get caught." What a wuss. By now, we needed a back up plan, but my non running friend didn't offer any so I had to think of one myself. I got out of the car & went over to the officer & said "I must have left it home." & figured he'd go back to his speed trap.

The officer surprised me by saying, "No problem, I'll drive you to your house." My friend got out, I locked up the car & got into the police car & he drove me home. So now I'm in the house & looking for papers that I have no idea what they look like. My mother didn't have a sign on the wall with a message that explained what & where the car papers looked like, so I knew I was screwed. I went back out to the officer & said "I have to tell you something. I don't have a driver's license." He didn't look surprised & said to lock up the house & he was taking me to the station.

As I came back to the police car, he took out his hand cuffs & put them on me. It sucked, but what made it worse was that a neighbor just happened to be driving by & slowed down to watch me cuffed & put in the police car.    Back at the station he called my mother at work to tell her what was going on. Man, she was pissed! She drove all the way to work, then gets a call & has to drive all the way home to New Jersey from New York City to come pick me up. She yelled, cursed, threatened me, & then said, "Whatever you do, don't tell your father about this! I don't want to listen to him!"

That was a no brainer, I never said a word.   

She asked why I was not in school, so I told her the plan we had to go to the mall. She then asked what I was going to do now that school was half over, & where my friends were since I didn't drive them to the mall. I said that I didn't know, but my friends probably took the bus. Then she said, "Okay, I'll drive you to the mall." & did. She pulled up at the bus stop in front of the mall just as my friends were getting off the bus. The look on their faces were priceless since they were more shocked than I was, that not only was I at the mall, but that my mom drove me after she picked me up from the police station.

I never forgot officer Osborne's name either. 

Wow, I can't believe I found pics of the same car in the same color I got busted in.

[Rolling_Thunder]

I went through my stint way back last summer

Arrests:

Arrest #1: Long Beach, CA - Barfight...     overnight stay

Arrest #2: Long Beach, CA - Barfight...     overnight stay

Potential arrest highlights:

1: threatened to "beat the shit" out of a police officer (he was dressed in a uniform)
2: speeding - 85 in a 25...   
3: public disturbance - marine and myself decided to "take it outside"
4: public intoxication - I was not drink...    but my 3 buddys were

The list goes on....

moral of the story ?   dont drive fast, drink, or have friends who are Marines....

[71ChallengeHer]

Ok, here's mine and you guys would never get away with this. LOL  When I got divorced , I decided to have a divorce party. About 20 of my good friends met at a bar to celebrate. We all decided to meet at Denny's for breakfast. On the way to Denny's I had to take a left to take my girlfriend back to get her car. Everyone else went right to go to Denny's. I was driving my 79 Duster , nice rims, big tires, jacked up , it looked like a guys car. I had 2 of my girlfriends with me. Well, the light was taking a really long time to change, at least it seemed like it. I ran the light. 3 police cars pulled me over and blocked me in. The officer walked up to the car shined his flash light on all our legs. We all had short skirts on. LOL He walked back said something to the other 2 officers. They both left. He came back asked for my license, registration, insurance. I didn't have my registration and insurance with me. He made 10 trips back and forth to my car. Everytime shining his flashlight on our legs. Then he'd shake his head and say I'm usually really a mean guy. He finally came back and told us  we could leave. We got to Denny's and all my friends stood up and yelled thanks for detaining the cops for us.

[RallyeMike]

It's the kind of long, unbelievable story best told over a pitcher, but I was once pulled over for Hit and Run one day, and Armed Bank Robbery the next night. It wasnt me in either case - my beat up 69 Charger fit the description of a car owned by some real bad dudes in my neck of the woods.

On the first day for the Hit and Run stop, I aided the situation by trying to evade the cop when I noticed him looking the car over (a real smart move). Not a real chase in the classic sense - I just made a quick turn, lost him and started taking back roads at quick speeds thinking he would not find me. He was in a real good mood when he caught up. 

On the second night with the Armed Robbery stop, it was dark, rainy, the car was stuffed with people and so the windows were heavily fogged. By the time I realized it was me they wanted and pulled over, the cops were plenty pissed - all three cars of them. My brilliant first words to the officers with the very large guns was: "Is this because of the hit and run?". 

A couple of very long days when I was a Senior in High school. The 25 years since then have been much less eventful 

[Todd Wilson]

I been to jail twice.   First time I was riding with a buddy who thought he wanted one of those blinking lights they put up at road construction or a pot hole.  We got caught with it in the trunk. Went to jail.  2nd time I got busted with 4 cases of beer in my trunk on my 18th birthday. Had not even cracked a beer yet. Downtown we went.


Todd

[68chrgrwife]

Ok, here's mine and you guys would never get away with this. LOL  When I got divorced , I decided to have a divorce party. About 20 of my good friends met at a bar to celebrate. We all decided to meet at Denny's for breakfast. On the way to Denny's I had to take a left to take my girlfriend back to get her car. Everyone else went right to go to Denny's. I was driving my 79 Duster , nice rims, big tires, jacked up , it looked like a guys car. I had 2 of my girlfriends with me. Well, the light was taking a really long time to change, at least it seemed like it. I ran the light. 3 police cars pulled me over and blocked me in. The officer walked up to the car shined his flash light on all our legs. We all had short skirts on. LOL He walked back said something to the other 2 officers. They both left. He came back asked for my license, registration, insurance. I didn't have my registration and insurance with me. He made 10 trips back and forth to my car. Everytime shining his flashlight on our legs. Then he'd shake his head and say I'm usually really a mean guy. He finally came back and told us  we could leave. We got to Denny's and all my friends stood up and yelled thanks for detaining the cops for us.

Yeah the night I got pulled over and let go..i was wearing askirt too...and I had to do field sobriety tests...passed them all (heck I am trying to become I cop, I know all the tricks to pass them things.) in a skirt no shoes (took my boots off when I get into my car) and it was a little chilly (right before christmas n I was not wearing a jacket...the cop kept say to me...just looking at you makes me cold...please go sit in my car until we figure this out...told him I am from the east coast it was not cold and that I was fine he could follow me home if he really wanted. LOL  Dumb ass guy cops...man if that had been a chick cop forget about it I'd be in jail......

[71ChallengeHer]

Ok, here's mine and you guys would never get away with this. LOL  When I got divorced , I decided to have a divorce party. About 20 of my good friends met at a bar to celebrate. We all decided to meet at Denny's for breakfast. On the way to Denny's I had to take a left to take my girlfriend back to get her car. Everyone else went right to go to Denny's. I was driving my 79 Duster , nice rims, big tires, jacked up , it looked like a guys car. I had 2 of my girlfriends with me. Well, the light was taking a really long time to change, at least it seemed like it. I ran the light. 3 police cars pulled me over and blocked me in. The officer walked up to the car shined his flash light on all our legs. We all had short skirts on. LOL He walked back said something to the other 2 officers. They both left. He came back asked for my license, registration, insurance. I didn't have my registration and insurance with me. He made 10 trips back and forth to my car. Everytime shining his flashlight on our legs. Then he'd shake his head and say I'm usually really a mean guy. He finally came back and told us  we could leave. We got to Denny's and all my friends stood up and yelled thanks for detaining the cops for us.

Yeah the night I got pulled over and let go..i was wearing askirt too...and I had to do field sobriety tests...passed them all (heck I am trying to become I cop, I know all the tricks to pass them things.) in a skirt no shoes (took my boots off when I get into my car) and it was a little chilly (right before christmas n I was not wearing a jacket...the cop kept say to me...just looking at you makes me cold...please go sit in my car until we figure this out...told him I am from the east coast it was not cold and that I was fine he could follow me home if he really wanted. LOL  Dumb ass guy cops...man if that had been a chick cop forget about it I'd be in jail......

That's funny. Show them a nice set of legs and they forget why they pulled you over. I was very lucky that night since I wasn't feeling any pain. LOL The dress I was calling my "Divorce Party Dress" got changed to my "Get Out Of Jail Free Dress ".

[Mefirst]

I'm to smart to get arrested

Once I got close. Last summer we were out Illegal Racing. We were in the middle starting procedures, race cars making their burnout. What nobody noticed was the unmarked police car, that crept up right behind us. Fortunately there was still two rows of cars between the cop car and the race cars when we noticed them. Well the cops were also a little to fast to lit the "disco" lights, we waved off both the race cars, so they got away clean, but me and my buddy were taken. As the cop made his way towards me huffin and puffin and pissed off to the max, I turned towards him and smiled and asked him -Did you see that aw some burnout? The air was white with tire smoke. I thought, by the way the cop looked, that he would have a stroke. The cops read us a riot act for our behaviour and told us to grow up, not much else they could do..

/Tom