Have you been arrested?

[Realitycrash]

If so, for what, and how did the police treat you?

I've been arrested once. I bought two six-packs of really cheap beers one Saturday afternoon at a local super-market, but for some reasons I felt that I really needed at least one expensive, nice beer. I was eighteen at the time and wasn't thinking very clearly, so I shoplifted it. And subsequently, got caught.
I now had to wait for two hours (during which my friends and my girlfriend wondered where the hell I was, since I was the one who was supposed to buy the beer) in a tiny office while waiting for the police to arrive.
So the cops show, they look me over, and ask what I took. I answered that I stole a Guinness. They raise an eyebrow and ask the security-guard that arrested me what the total value of one Guinness was, and he replied "2.40US" (translated to USD for convenience). The cops shrug and begin to take me away, but before I can exit the room, the security-guard raises his voice and calls for attention:
"Wait. I arrested him after he payed for these"
The man proceeds to provide the officers with my two six-packs of cheap-ass beer.
The cops look confused and glance at me
- "So, wait, you payed for two six-packs of beer, but you decided to steal one Guinness?"
To which I respond
- "Well, yeah. It was all the money I had, and I needed something to wash the taste out of my mouth after drinking that foul shit"
At which point both of the officers start laughing their asses off. They shake their heads and bring me and my beer out to their car parked outside, drive me around the corner, and tell me to get out.
I do so, one of the officers hands me my beverages, and chuckles again:
- "Hey, do us a favor, alright? If you are going to start any fires in the park tonight, piss on them when you're done? Alright? Have a good one"
And they drives off.
My gang (and my entire subculture in the city at the time) spent our time in a specific park, where we hung out and drank, etc. When night fell, we usually started small fires to keep warm, at which someone always called the fire-department, meaning the city have to pay a large sum to send out a fire-truck to pour water on what is basically a miniature camp-fire made out of sticks and discarded six-packs.
So instead of booking me for a crime I pleaded guilty to committing, he let me go so the city could save money (The fine I was set up to pay was around 200USD, while just sending out one fire-truck costs at least five times that).

Well, I kept my word, and I haven't committed a crime since.
I thought it was a funny story anyway, got any to share?

 

[Soviet Heavy]

Are you in England? Just curious why you needed to specify US Dollars, since their Legal Age is 21.

As for myself, no, I haven't been arrested. I did have a run in with the police when I crashed my car, but it was just to fill out their incident report and to fine me for the improper lane change. (I lost control, spun over into the oncoming lane and then slammed into a hydro poll)

 

[Wintermute_v1legacy]

Nope, but I've had the police pointing their guns at me one time for no reason. They asked me to pull over, so I did. Then they dragged me out of my car by my neck, pushed me against a wall, searched my body and my car, then let me go. All the while making sure that I didn't look at their faces or their car. Abuse of power and all that. Yay for Brazilian police.

 

[Realitycrash]

Are you in England? Just curious why you needed to specify US Dollars, since their Legal Age is 21.

As for myself, no, I haven't been arrested. I did have a run in with the police when I crashed my car, but it was just to fill out their incident report and to fine me for the improper lane change. (I lost control, spun over into the oncoming lane and then slammed into a hydro poll)

Nah, Sweden. I just feel it's common curtsey to translate the currency to a number most people could understand. 15SEK isn't something which tells people a whole lot.

I've had some run-ins with Bobbys in England, though, but they have always been pleasant and just told me and my friend to pick up our trash when we're done drinking.

Nope, but I've had the police pointing their guns at me one time for no reason. They asked me to pull over, so I did. Then they dragged me out of my car by my neck, pushed me against a wall, searched my body and my car, then let me go. All the while making sure that I didn't look at their faces or their car. Abuse of power and all that. Yay for Brazilian police.

Oh, that has happened a few times as well. They've never pointed their guns at me, though. One time me and a few friends were threatened by two loons, though. So we called the police, they show up, and the loons were stupid enough to still be around. Apparently they were known since before, because the cops (both female and about 160cm tall) both pull their guns at them. Was a sight to behold.

 

[Vicarious Reality]

I got stopped once and fined for riding three people on a pack moped that we taped a lawn chair onto
I do not think that counts as being arrested

 

[Jazoni89]

I was arrested once for carrying an offensive weapon in public, a kitchen knife to be exact.

I just came back home after I was assaulted, and just grabbed the knife and ran out to find the guy who assaulted me, to make him pay.

Needless to say i didn't find him, and the meat wagon rolled up to take me to a nice comfy cell to chill off for the night.

 

[Johnny Novgorod]

No, never. Closest thing was a speeding ticket.

 

[Muspelheim]

Is the park Slottskogen, by any chance? It sounds awfully familiar. Right up to the fires, I remember once when one group wouldn't put theirs out, and the policemen just drove over it in their cruiser. On rowdy nights, they had a little headquarters right across from the penguin pen, too.


I've never been arrested, or anything, really. I look ridiculously harmless, and act politely and respectfully towards authority figures, which probably helps.

Policeman: "Everything's alright here?"
Young Master Muspelheim: "Good evening, constable! Everything is in order, constable."
Policeman: "You're not high, are you?"
Young Master Muspelheim: "No, constable. It's just how I talk, I think I was born with it."

I'm also a massive coward and I've got a talent for legging it before things go too hot, which have saved me some trouble.

 

[Esotera]

My friend got arrested after a night of really heavy drinking, then bailed on the spot. The hilarious thing is that the officer's handwriting on the bailsheet was so bad that to this day we still don't know what he did.

Anyway, I've not been arrested but I got moved on once for allegedly harrassing Gordon Ramsay whilst he was filming Kitchen Nightmares in my town.

 

[FalloutJack]

Nah, it was just a citation and a fine. They've never had to cart me away.

 

[hazabaza1]

Nope. Never leave the house and if I did I doubt I'd break any laws so I'm clear.

 

[Wraith]

Once for bumping a police viehicle, shooting at pedestrians, hijacking, and domestic terrorism all on the same night.

San Andreas is a tough place, and you must be tough to survive! Grove Street!

In real life, no, never.

 

[DANEgerous]

I have been cuffed and told I was under arrest twice both being utter bullshit so i call bullshit and I got off both times. The first and less intriguing one was that I failed my drivers test and said "Fuck" to which the entitled ass thought to tell the cop outside the car and tell me how many laws I broke with vague threats for half an hour until they gave me a court order for and when I got to court I found they had no case at all on record.

The second far larger far longer far funnier one was they had 5 cop cars and 7-10 cops in a parking lot i drive past and I see one make motions with his hands as if they where guns so I thought "Oh they found the guy they are looking for in that park" he did not point at me he look like he did pew pew hand guns at a park well in front of me I was almost home at this time and about 10 feet from it I see him and his lights signal to turn into my driveway. He chases me hit the back of my car pulls his gun tells me to get out get behind the car slams me to it and cuffs me. He then says I an under arrest for "Felony Evasion" and i simply respond with "Nope" he then look baffled and a neighbors teen walks out and asks something and get shut down so I say "Please film this" as I know the kid he then accuse me of being on drugs because i look way to calm only the to tell a superior officer i look scared as hell and know I have been caught.

This goes on for some time until I hear "He know we got him he has a Dark Maroon Ford Fiesta" then i just as one he is being contradictory and two was in a bright red Kia Spectra. This make him mad and he asks what I am thinking to which I respond to with "Sir now that would get me arrested" because hell I am thinking this man is not a cop, he is a utter moron. he then asks what in in the trunk of my car "Pizza and orange juice" I reply so he opens it up saying "you busted now" To find Pizza orange juice an a broken PC so the guises say "Ha a PC i bet this is where the drugs are confiscated!" So i say fine take the damn thing and he take it and me back to Jail and put me in the drunk tank for two hours and test me for drugs find absolutely nothing.

So I order a court date for various legal infractions and end up winning $3,012.79 the judge finding his case absolutely absurd and baring him for police service via his superior officer.

 

[Goofguy]

Nope, I've kept my nose clean all these years and it's my intention to keep it that way until I buy the farm.

 

[Diddy_Mao]

Not arrested, no.

I used to teach a series of classes as part of the "Cop Watch" program. These classes were designed toward teaching people their basic civil rights.

What a police officer can and can't do if they stop you, what to do if you're arrested or questioned, the purpose of Miranda rights and the 5th amendment... and so on and so forth.

Myself and my associates were frequently accused by the police of running a "criminal training centre" and as a result not a one of us didn't get harassed to some extent by a handful of local cops.

One day I was told I was a "person of interest" in a case they were working and was brought in for questioning.
I sat in their interview room for a couple hours, told every person who came in that I wasn't saying a word without a lawyer, and was free to go shortly afterwards.

 

[Amethyst Wind]

Never been arrested but I have been in the back of a Japanese police car because I was walking 12km between towns at 2am.

 

[kypsilon]

I have only ever been arrested by...beauty. /prose

I've never actually been arrested but I have been to prison...but it was empty and newly built. The sight of multiple cells each with a toilet and only bars between them keeps me from getting into the thug life.

I can't pee while you watch!

 

[Combustion Kevin]

a friend of mine got arrested once for fighting in the streets, but wasn't charged for anything and the cops let him go the next day.

turns out, the officer that arrested him recognised the guy my friend was fighting with, and he hangs out with a pretty vile crowd, so he got my friend off the street so they couldn't shiv him later.
Heard those guys were arrested for armed robbery too last week, fuckin' idiots thinking they're "gangsta", didn't that fad die out like ten years ago?

 

[Dirty Hipsters]

Spoiler

If so, for what, and how did the police treat you?

I've been arrested once. I bought two six-packs of really cheap beers one Saturday afternoon at a local super-market, but for some reasons I felt that I really needed at least one expensive, nice beer. I was eighteen at the time and wasn't thinking very clearly, so I shoplifted it. And subsequently, got caught.
I now had to wait for two hours (during which my friends and my girlfriend wondered where the hell I was, since I was the one who was supposed to buy the beer) in a tiny office while waiting for the police to arrive.
So the cops show, they look me over, and ask what I took. I answered that I stole a Guinness. They raise an eyebrow and ask the security-guard that arrested me what the total value of one Guinness was, and he replied "2.40US" (translated to USD for convenience). The cops shrug and begin to take me away, but before I can exit the room, the security-guard raises his voice and calls for attention:
"Wait. I arrested him after he payed for these"
The man proceeds to provide the officers with my two six-packs of cheap-ass beer.
The cops look confused and glance at me
- "So, wait, you payed for two six-packs of beer, but you decided to steal one Guinness?"
To which I respond
- "Well, yeah. It was all the money I had, and I needed something to wash the taste out of my mouth after drinking that foul shit"
At which point both of the officers start laughing their asses off. They shake their heads and bring me and my beer out to their car parked outside, drive me around the corner, and tell me to get out.
I do so, one of the officers hands me my beverages, and chuckles again:
- "Hey, do us a favor, alright? If you are going to start any fires in the park tonight, piss on them when you're done? Alright? Have a good one"
And they drives off.
My gang (and my entire subculture in the city at the time) spent our time in a specific park, where we hung out and drank, etc. When night fell, we usually started small fires to keep warm, at which someone always called the fire-department, meaning the city have to pay a large sum to send out a fire-truck to pour water on what is basically a miniature camp-fire made out of sticks and discarded six-packs.
So instead of booking me for a crime I pleaded guilty to committing, he let me go so the city could save money (The fine I was set up to pay was around 200USD, while just sending out one fire-truck costs at least five times that).

Well, I kept my word, and I haven't committed a crime since.
I thought it was a funny story anyway, got any to share?

Sorry to break it to you but you weren't arrested, you were just detained by the police. Had you been arrested they would have booked you and there would be a record of the arrest.

 

[Realitycrash]

Spoiler

If so, for what, and how did the police treat you?

I've been arrested once. I bought two six-packs of really cheap beers one Saturday afternoon at a local super-market, but for some reasons I felt that I really needed at least one expensive, nice beer. I was eighteen at the time and wasn't thinking very clearly, so I shoplifted it. And subsequently, got caught.
I now had to wait for two hours (during which my friends and my girlfriend wondered where the hell I was, since I was the one who was supposed to buy the beer) in a tiny office while waiting for the police to arrive.
So the cops show, they look me over, and ask what I took. I answered that I stole a Guinness. They raise an eyebrow and ask the security-guard that arrested me what the total value of one Guinness was, and he replied "2.40US" (translated to USD for convenience). The cops shrug and begin to take me away, but before I can exit the room, the security-guard raises his voice and calls for attention:
"Wait. I arrested him after he payed for these"
The man proceeds to provide the officers with my two six-packs of cheap-ass beer.
The cops look confused and glance at me
- "So, wait, you payed for two six-packs of beer, but you decided to steal one Guinness?"
To which I respond
- "Well, yeah. It was all the money I had, and I needed something to wash the taste out of my mouth after drinking that foul shit"
At which point both of the officers start laughing their asses off. They shake their heads and bring me and my beer out to their car parked outside, drive me around the corner, and tell me to get out.
I do so, one of the officers hands me my beverages, and chuckles again:
- "Hey, do us a favor, alright? If you are going to start any fires in the park tonight, piss on them when you're done? Alright? Have a good one"
And they drives off.
My gang (and my entire subculture in the city at the time) spent our time in a specific park, where we hung out and drank, etc. When night fell, we usually started small fires to keep warm, at which someone always called the fire-department, meaning the city have to pay a large sum to send out a fire-truck to pour water on what is basically a miniature camp-fire made out of sticks and discarded six-packs.
So instead of booking me for a crime I pleaded guilty to committing, he let me go so the city could save money (The fine I was set up to pay was around 200USD, while just sending out one fire-truck costs at least five times that).

Well, I kept my word, and I haven't committed a crime since.
I thought it was a funny story anyway, got any to share?

Sorry to break it to you but you weren't arrested, you were just detained by the police. Had you been arrested they would have booked you and there would be a record of the arrest.

Funny, because it's called 'arrested' in my country. It's what they always say. I'm sure there's some legal definition that differs it, but it's always been called 'arrested' when I have asked.
Heck, I've been in custody for more than eight hours several times (because I was drunk and I needed to sleep it off) and they sure did make a record of it.
Difference is that I have never been sentenced, no.