Hurt myself running away from police. Anyone ever do this?

Tell the truth, repent, accept your punishment, start a new and better life.

It's time for the administration to tell the truth.

Say you were playing basketball.

Lie to your parents and then go to the doctor. Don't see what's so bad about that. Or tell them the truth. Who cares? What are they gonna ground you? Big deal. Anyway, it is your fault for putting yourself in the position to get hurt, if you actually care about running well. You can kiss any hopes of having a good senior XC season away, if your ankle is actually broken.

Stand up against your tyrannic parents. Make them understand that you are entitled to partying as much as you like.

Hillary's Benghazi Truth wrote:

It's time for the administration to tell the truth.

yea, damn u obama

Relax, it's probably not broken. I twisted my ankle once and thought for sure I had broken it. I almost blacked out and was vomiting from the pain. 2 days later, after icing and elevating it, I was back running no problem. Sprained ankles are intense pain, but generally only keep you out 2-3 days.

As far as your parents go, it depends on your relationship with them, but they don't need to know everything you do. If you're comfortable lying to them, then it'll be pretty easy to make up a story. It's not like you're missing an arm or something. Regardless, do what you have to do, so that you can go see a PT and find out if it's broken and/or how to treat it.

Turn yourself in to the police. You are an evil person.

It is not uncommon for a sprained ankle to swell up to that size or larger. Don't take the level of swelling as any indication that it is broken/not broken.

I sprained my ankles really badly playing basketball several times and I was generally back to playing in games in 1.5 to 2 weeks. You can probably do easy runs again in less than a week. Hopefully you iced it when you got home, and you should put it in a bucket of ice everyday if you want it to heal asap.

And yes you should lie to your parents. You are about to be a senior in high school, you should know how to lie well by now. It is a valuable skill that will get you far in life.

Here are some lying tips that will help you. Always initiate the conversation when you need to tell a lie. Initiating the topic puts you in control of your story. You don't want people asking questions about your lie, you need to lead with a story that is believable. Give enough details that they don't need to ask you questions for clarification or you might stumble on them. You should show that you are upset about it. Showing a different emotion during your lie helps keep you from appearing nervous or defensive.

Now go lie to your parents and ice your ankle.

Ice it up, get the swelling down, take some ibuprofen and wear an ankle brace. You're back to running tomorrow.

Eh. Shit happens. I rolled my ankle badly the summer before college, and I ran fine freshman year.

As far as running from the police, all mine was done in cars. I broke my old beater car twice running from cops. Got away both those times, as well as a few others. This was always on small back roads with lots of twists and turns and places to hide. Never got away on the highway.

Adolescence was a fvcking blast.

OP:

When I finished Sophomore year of High School, we had a big party in a field outside of town. No one had any idea whose property it was but it looked like a good place to throw down some kegs and start a fire.

About 3 hours into the party, cops showed up, blocked the exits and basically had us trapped like rats. I suppose I could have run and tried to make it to the highway, but what was I going to do? I would have been about 45 miles from home and we didn't have cell phones at this time (1994). Plus, there were about 150 of us at this point, so we knew they weren't going to arrest all of us.

I had been brought up to never lie to a cop. So they lined us up and asked us who brought the kegs to the party. No one said a thing. Then they asked us individually if we had been drinking. I told the cop that I had a few beers, but wasn't driving. We had already shown ID and we knew that they were calling our parents if we were under 18, so I figured I wouldn't lie. I had no beer on my person at the time.

Long story short, I got a possession ticket and 99% of the other people got away scott free after lying and telling the cops they had nothing to drink. I had to go to court and I remember talking to the officer before the trial. He joked with my dad and told him I should have just said "No, I haven't had anything to drink."

I got the charges dropped and expunged, but I remember driving home from the court house and having my father tell me that he was extremely proud of me and thought the cop was a waste of taxpayer money. I think I might be the only kid that has ever had to go to court with their dad for a drinking ticket and come home in better standing.

im an azzhole wrote:

This was always on small back roads with lots of twists and turns and places to hide. Never got away on the highway.

Adolescence was a fvcking blast.

Who are you? Junior Johnson?

Well I wasn't carrying moonshine, but I did grow up in a small town and all my idiot friends and I used to drive the country roads looking for stupid shit to do.

All the cops were either old old men or very young fat slobs who were bored to death and looking for someone to stop. We gave them plenty of reasons to try to stop us, but I never got caught.

I tore up the left front suspension turning off the road at speed into a field. The dropoff was bigger than I thought, so I bent up the tie rods and broke the bearing.

Another time I slid off the road on a left turn and broadsided an embankment. That was a helluva hard stop. It broke a motor mount, the engine lurched forward, and the fan absolutely destroyed the radiator. Hahahaha. The sound that car made as I floored it to take off. I had a hard time explaining that one to the old man.

If you do lie to your parents, don't change the time of the injury just the circumstances. You will want to give the time of injury to the doctor so they can properly evaluate it. this could lead to you getting busted if you tell your parents it happened on a run today.

I assume this is a troll job or did you really have a big party in the woods on a Monday?

robert paulson wrote:

If you do lie to your parents, don't change the time of the injury just the circumstances. You will want to give the time of injury to the doctor so they can properly evaluate it. this could lead to you getting busted if you tell your parents it happened on a run today.

I assume this is a troll job or did you really have a big party in the woods on a Monday?

I didn't consider the time of the injury being a big deal. How big of a difference does that make?

Not trolling. It is summer for me and my friends. We have parties several nights a week.

I loved reading your response and it reminds me of dumb shit I used to do, too.

4:20 or bust wrote:

I didn't consider the time of the injury being a big deal. How big of a difference does that make?

Doctor or PA may consider the discoloration or amount of swelling and the time since the injury. They may not but it would be safer just to tell your parents that you rolled it on a root walking up to Johnny's house last night than to concoct a whole new time line. I assume they know you left the house last night. Just put the injury into a simple story for something innocuous that think you were doing when you were out (ex. missed the curb, caught a crack in the sidewalk) Don't make it something where someone else is to blame as you don't want to risk getting into an issue where someone will want to track down someone else insurance to pay.