Jail experiences

Page 3 - Seeking answers? Join the AnandTech community: where nearly half-a-million members share solutions and discuss the latest tech.
Aug 26, 2004
14,685
1
76
Originally posted by: Arkitech
Originally posted by: Armitage
Wasn't there a guy posted on ATOT awhile back that claimed to have just gotten out of jail from some kind of gang related charge?

I remember that, very interesting thread

someone dig it up
 

RaDragon

Diamond Member
May 23, 2000
4,123
1
71
Originally posted by: NeoV
I have a good jail.courtoom story....

Got a ticket for making an illegal turn out of a dunkin donuts store - my turn to buy for the office that particular Friday....my POS (now) ex-wife says she'll take care of getting the ticket paid.........1.5 years later I come home from basketball and house stinks like cat litter...it's a bit after 11pm, so I had to drive a bit to get to a 24hr grocery store, and it's pouring rain, a really hard storm......I get pulled over about halfway...apparently one of the headlights of my pickup had burned out.....so he takes my info, goes back to his car............and waits.........and waits.....about 20 minutes later he comes up and asks me to get out of the car, cuffs me, kind of pushes me onto the hood, pats me down, asks me if I have any weapons, etc, etc...I am like "wtf is going on?"....turns out there was a warrant for my arrest FROM THE UNPAID TICKET mentioned previously...so they take me to the local station, finger print me, take some pictures....I call the POS at home, and it's probably 1am by now...and she hangs up on me, thinking it was a wrong number as she was 99% asleep while I was talking...nice.....so then the cops come from the city where I got the ticket, and take me to their jail......they ask me for my shoelaces....I'm like "why?"...uh...some people have hung themselves....my reply is "it's an unpaid traffic ticket!", and another remark about the fact that my shoelaces would likely not hold up since I'm 6'0 and 3 bills....so I put my lovely orange suit on, and am shown to the cell area.....two 'cells' on each side with a tv in the middle...3 other people in there.....one had raped his ex wife, one was in for his 5th or 6th drug related arrest, and the other guy had some parole violation involving selling weapons....(I found out all that the next day, I didn't know it then..)...so I go sleepless that night, and the next morning we get carted off to the courthouse a few cities away...lucky for me, that day is traffic court day - so I get to walk in front of a few hundred people in an orange suit and handcuffs.....as we were walking into the courthouse, I was very thirsty, but I was cuffed to the guy in front of me, who was a little tiny guy....so I braced myself for the inevitable tug, but I was stopping to get a drink of water.....nearly pulled his arm off! He was all pissed, but I didn't even respond to him...

So we are in the courtroom....the first guy gets up - had raped his ex wife...real classy guy...the crowd is clearly appalled with this guy...pretty much the same thing for the next two as well....my turn....the judge, who could pass for the twin brother of the guy who killed himself near the beginning of Dances with Wolves, kind of paused when he read the charges aloud...."unpaid traffic ticket" doesn't have the impact that 'assault, rape, and felony weapons charges' have...then he remarks that it had been a little over a year and a half since the ticket was given, and asked how they tracked me down - he didn't appreciate the humor in my remark of "must have been all those milk cartons my picture has been on"....and then I was fined $300, and that was it....and I asked if it was necessary for me to spend a night in jail for that purpose, with no reply.....

I never did get my shoelaces back....

The cities involved are North Randall (jail), Bedford (courthouse), and University Hts (pulled over) - and they can all below me....

These stories need no embelishment....

That sux. Sorry to hear about your ordeal.

Moral of the Story:
Pay your own parking tickets.

 

EmperorIQ

Platinum Member
Sep 30, 2003
2,003
0
0
I had a friend who was in jail for roughly a year:

according to friend. Being in jail is about respect. You must hang out with your own race as soon as you get in, and do not step on other's toes. If you do, and that person it outside of your own race, your group has to either punish you out of respect for the others, or decide not to back you up, and send you away.

that was about the summary he gave me. jail seems to have thier own form of government.
 
Nov 7, 2000
16,403
3
81
a friends brother was just in jail for 10 days for violating drug probation

he said it was mostly full of crackheads, but i havent gotten any good stories
 
Aug 26, 2004
14,685
1
76
Sep 29, 2004
18,656
67
91
Originally posted by: Xionide
I never have been to jail and hopefully never will. Please share some stories of your time "in".

Everyone goes to jail eventually. It's called marriage.
 

V00DOO

Diamond Member
Dec 2, 2000
3,817
2
81
"What exactly is tossin salad?... When a man is sucking you #$%$ he could pretend it's something else, but when he is eating ass, he knows he's eating ass." Chris Rock on HBO Special
 

TheLonelyPhoenix

Diamond Member
Feb 15, 2004
5,594
1
0
My freshman year of college, someone in my dorm was caught by a mob of cops as he was flailing at an unmarked cruiser, completely drunk, screaming "I hate pigs! I hate pigs!"

He went to the drunk tank for the night, and woke up in a puddle of his own urine, still wasted. They ended up having to give him another cell because of how bad the smell was, where he took off his piss-soaked pants, threw them in a corner, and sat huddled on the floor with his sweatshirt pulled down around his legs. The other guys in there were not happy about how badly it reeked... a couple of them threatened to sodomize him the next time they saw him.

He's also the only person I've ever known with a prison name: Piss-Pants. :D
 

ElFenix

Elite Member
Super Moderator
Mar 20, 2000
102,393
8,552
126
jail made me realize all that man on man love could really be :heart:
 

clamum

Lifer
Feb 13, 2003
26,252
403
126
I've been to jail but only for like an hour, and was bailed out before they could put me in a cell. Had to go through all the fingerprinting and mugshots stuff though.
 

randal

Golden Member
Jun 3, 2001
1,890
0
71
I was headed to Santa Fe to pick up a friend and give him a ride home to Colorado Springs for Thanksgiving. I got pulled over for doing 95 in a 75 in MiddleOfNowhere, Colorado at almost 1am. I didn't even know the cruiser was behind me until I saw the red & blues -- there weren't any other cars for miles and miles and miles. At the time, though, I unfortunately had a red license that permitted work, school and grocery store trips, and only during defined hours. 300 miles from Colorado Springs was not included.

So he cuffed me and off to the slammer I went. On the way there (Over an hour's drive!), though, we stopped and helped a lady with a flat tire. Ended up at the police station. It was very difficult a good-sized man like me (6' ~225) to get out of the back of a cruiser while having my hands cuffed behind my back - eventually the cop just grabbed my arm and dragged me out of the car, where I face planted into the cement with a grunt. I still remember that clearly. I was booked, stripped of all my possessions and given a orange jumper to wear. Nobody else was in the holding cell at all.

Eventually called a bondsman (bail was $500) because it was a Saturday morning and the earliest court was Monday, and no way was I going to stay in a cell over the weekend. Unfortunately, the bondsman didn't like the fact that I was 20 and had nothing to offer - had only been at my job a year or two, no collateral, nothing ... except credit cards. Including his fees I put almost $700 onto my credit cards that night. I was so broke that I had to borrow twenty bucks from the bondsman to pay for my motel room. I called my parents and they got up and drove down and picked my sorry a$$ up at 4:30am. My mother wouldn't talk to me for months, and my father's only comment was "Wow son, you really f*cked this one up."

So I only spent an hour or two in a cell, but the cinderblock walls and the cement floor were hard, cold and extremely harsh. I have a phobia of cells now, and haven't had a ticket since then -- before this time, I'd racked up almost 8 vehicle-related tickets in just under two years.
 

randal

Golden Member
Jun 3, 2001
1,890
0
71
My acquaintance, Mike, is going through the court system for being an accomplice to second degree murder. Apparently he and a buddy got into it with a couple guys outside a strip club -- they scuffled and it ended. Mike and his buddy thought it would be cool to chase them down in their car, though. So both cars pull over ~2 miles from the club, and they get out and start duking it out. Mike's buddy whips out a knife and slices one guys belly open, then stabs him in the chest 3 times. The victim and his friend jump in their car and head for the hospital, but the victim is DOA.

Mike and his buddy sped off to Mike's place, where they washed the knife and buried it, then burned their clothes (soaked in blood). Well, the cops found the ashes and the knife and the blood in the sink, and now Mike is fscked.

Unfortunately, Mike's parents have tons of money and own a local cigar shop and homebrew store where all the big muckitymucks in town go to buy their vices. All the lawyers and judges are on a firstname basis with his parents, so Mike will probably get a slap on the wrist and a fine. I'd like to see him in a ditch.

True story. Happening right now.
 

SuperPickle

Golden Member
Nov 1, 2001
1,256
0
0
Went to jail two times, each for less than one day. Once for a DUI where I sat in a holding take to get untanked - uneventful. The other time was waiting for release from a wreckless driving charge:

It was early in the morning as I went in for sentencing. I was to wear one of those ankle transmitter jobbers but had to wait until the end of the day for transportation and setup at my house (for 60 days). I was stripped of jewelry and shoes, but kept my clothing and just went through a pat-down. Into the "Bull Pen" I went with four other characters.

First, I met a wirey caucasion guy that was held for domestic violence. Classic stereotype with a splotchy beard of a 14 year old, clothes straight out of 1986 (this was 1996), dumb as hell but was clearly the leader of the crew. He talked of wannabe anarchist philosophy and looked like he could use a cigarette - or twleve.

Next, was a very large African American gentleman. This fellow reminded me much of that guy from The Green Mile. Although rather slow in speech and movement, he was the nicest of the bunch. He was in jail waiting prosecution for getting busted with five pounds of pot in his trunk, divided up in units of saleable units. I inwardly chuckled at the protest of his "intent to sell" charge.

Lastly, was the Native American fellow. He was rather mentally dull and was in the clink for being the getaway driver for a bank robbery. I'd never encountered a bank robber before and knowing the security and surveilance of finance instititions, this dullard did not disappoint my preconceived stereotype of one.

All of these guys had been put in "The Pen" because they had been accused of smokeing pot in prison. Being the nineteen year-old world-n00b I was, I was most curious as to how these guys 1) aquired pot in jail and 2) got equipment to light the hooch in a non-smoking pen. I had not the balls to ask the first question but the answer to the second was offered me: apparently it's common practice to gnaw a #2 Dixon-Ticonderoga to the graphite innards, place these carbon rods of semiconductivity in electrical outlets and bridge the poles with toilet paper until the short circuit created fire. Yay for McGuyver jail activities.

After roughly 9 hours, I was freed but still look at this racial joke in-the-making as a defining moment in my life - mostly because I have decided to never aspire to be a small, wirey white guy selling pot out of my trunk while driving for a band robber. I consider it a lesson learned.