Anyone been arrested while running?

I've been pulled over running on a San Antonio street. It was 6-6:30 Sunday morning. Not exactly rush hour. He told me it was illegal to run on the street and get back on the sidewalk. Of course, an hour later I'm running with a group of about 20 people. We run on the street right past a police substation. We've done this every Sunday morning for years and no cop ever said anything.

I was pulled over by a cop for running in a bike lane; it was weird because the sidewalk where I was supposed to be running according to the flatfoot was full of cyclists and skateboarders at the time which didn't seem to bother him. I gave him attitude and he wrote me a ticket. I was very tempted to give him Hugh Jorgan or Harry Balsac but I chickened out. Gave him my roomates name instead.

pat, get back to work.

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No, I've never been arrested while running, but...

Many years ago I was running with my high school team mates. While on a run, we approached a cross walk in a pack of ten or twelve. A car braked to a stop, but nosed into the cross walk. One of my knuckle headed teammates kept his line, ran *across* the hood of the car, and rejoined us as we went merrily on our run.

It wasn't five minutes before two squad cars pulled us over "en masse" and the senior officer asked (in essence), "WTF?"

No, we didn't give the guy up. (That decision lead to many headaches for our coaches, our parents, and ourselves.)

funny, that sounds just like something that happened at the local university here in town. the police contacted the head coach, who promptly raised hell with the team (who almost had a teammember hit by the car) and someone ratted the poor kid out. 5 week suspension, if i remember correctly. oh well, seems to happen a lot in this town (take your best guess).

i was in Minneapolis for work and went out early on a Monday morning for a few miles in the vicinity of the Mall of America, near my hotel. While cruising on an access road around the mall, mall security pulled behind me in a fake cop car and told me I was trespassing. I laughed at the guy and kept going. he pulled just to my right and told me if I didn't leave mall property in 30 seconds I'd be arrested. I laughed at the guy again and told him I was just out for a run and to get a life. Then he made a show of calling the police on his radio in a loud voice, reporting a trespasser. I just laughed at him and ran across the street and continued on. the closest I've come to being arrested on a run.

Is there something (legally) wrong with running without a shirt?

i was doing a 1.5 mile time trial the other day at the johns hopkins track.

there was a high school lacrosse warming up for a game - going through their stretches. they had the scoreboard on - showing 45 minutes to game time.

on lap 2, some student security person told me the track was close - i proceeded to run. the next lap she told me to get off the track - still hammering away - i told her that i needed less than 5 minutes - that the game didn't start for another 45 f-ing minutes.

the next time i came around, she told me she was going to call the police - i said go ahead, i was rolling.

i finished up my time trial (7:45 for those who care), and as i'm walking back to my stuff, i see a cop talking to the security girl. i notice he's on the other side of the track - and that my bike is halfway between us. i walk over to my bike, hop on, and the cop yells after me

"hey, i want to talk to you...."

i take off pedalling - he yells at me that i was trespassing and that he's radioing for help.

i lose the cops on the streets of baltimore with the guys in the ghetto calling me "lance armstrong" as i hammer away.

one of the best days of my life.

i just wonder if you could get public indecency or something similar.

baltimore, you are a bad ass! Two of my buddies and I were almost chased off the NC State track one time, but no cops were involved. My idiot friend told the lady that confronted us that we'd just transferred in from Western Michigan (ha).

somerandomdude wrote:

oh well, seems to happen a lot in this town (take your best guess).

Morro Gay?

Perhaps "somerandomdude" should enlighten the rest of us about the finer points of pushing a poor helpless peace officer off his motorcycle when he was just trying to keep the street clear of a lumbering slobbering bigfoot that had escaped from the local zoo and was running and somehow winning a local roadrace.

Or something like that.

No, but I've run while being arrested ;o)

Have never been arested while on a run but have been pulled over.

Was running with a friend of mine near his neighborhood when we came to the end up a short street. I-64 was right on the other side of the fence and we hopped the fence and ran along side of the interstate so that we could get to an exit ramp just up ahead which would take us to another road. A cop passed and turned his lights on and motioned for us to get off on the exit ramp.

Just asked us what we were doing and then just told us we couldn't run on the interstate. Told us if he ever saw us out there again we would be in trouble.

I imagine the answer to your question may depend on the neighborhood you're running in.

I think the SMU alums will recount the number of times a Highland Park police officer have pulled them over for running on the streets. If I recall correctly, someone was even ticketed.

Myself, I have only been told (through a squad car's bullhorn) to run on the sidewalk.

Sadly, no CURRENT SMU male can regale you about such stories as there is NO LONGER ANY FREAKIN' MEN'S TRACK AND FIELD PROGRAM!

Highland Park is the haughty residential neighborhood of the Dallas elite. Commonplace for African American professors at SMU to be questioned when taking a stroll through the neighborhoods.

Looks like no one has my Dad beat. Here goes:

He was running on a highway because we were going to visit my grandma and he had us drop him off 12 miles from her house so he could get his workout in before Thanksgiving dinner. A short part of that run was on the breakdown lane of a very low traffic highway.

But yes, it is illegal (but I really don't think he knew that, and he had done dozens of times before without incident). As he begins to approach the exit where he will get off the highway, a cop stops and tells him he can't run there, and that he should turn around. Well that's stupid, because turning back to that last exit is about 3 miles back, and going forward is about 1.5 miles. After asking the guy if he could just go forward for another 10 minutes and get of the next exit, the cop says 'No', and so my Dad pretends to agree to the cop's wishes. Cop drives off, my Dad keeps running toward the exit he planned on getting off at all along. Cops bangs a quick U-turn, and approaches my Dad again, saying "TURN AROUND.' My Dad I think is like 1/2 mile from the exit now. My Dad is like: " give me a break, I will be off here in 2 minutes." Cop refuses to listen and threatens to bust him. My Dad says "fine, catch me.'' Cop chases on foot, and my Dad is a quite a good 'thoner. So my Dad loses him easily. But......he cuts into the woods to get off the road, and comes to a fence. He is sort of trapped. The cop catches up. My Dad tries to jump the fence, but it collapses, and he lands on his shoulder, dislocating it. Now HE is pissed. The Cop is yelling "now I got you" and my Dad is yelling back some choice words for this pig with nothing better to do than to harass a runner who was just trying to get off the highway as quick as possible. My Dad runs off with dislocated shoulder, comes to a side road, hitches a ride to the hospital, and gets it popped back in. Arrives to T-giving dinner on pain meds and a little late. But with a good story.

Top THAT one folks.

Never been arrested, but came close once for breaking a windshield with a rock, but I would have pleaded self defense. I have recently been an eye witness to a fatal car crash while on a run, pretty horrible.

Took a group of Kenyan runners to the Parkersburg Half in '02. Got there a couple of days early, so the morning before the race they got up at the hotel to go out for a run. I figure they'll be back in an hour or so. 20 minutes later they're walking back in the lobby and being escorted by a state trooper. Turns out they'd left the hotel and proceeded to set off running on the first long flat grassy place they could find - the median of the interstate. No arrest made, and the same cop was working the race the next day and they all waved to him and laughed. Just made them promise to stay of the interstate unless they were in a car.

a few years ago one of my teammates took a quick bathroom trip to the woods in Van Cortland Park just minutes before a race. A Cop saw him pissing and yelled at him and told him to hand over some ID, kinda stupid seeing as the kid is just wearing his singlet and shorts. He kinda froze, but then sprinted back to the line away from the cop. Maybe the cop realized what was going on after that

My buddy went to visit his grandparents and went for an early morning run only to return to a guard at the gate that wouldn't let him back in and held him there till he could finally get ahold of his grandparents to explain who this shirtless kid was trying to get into the community!