Ever spend the night in jail?

No but I have stayed at my mother-in-laws house one time.

2:18* wrote:

No but I have stayed at my mother-in-laws house one time.

Did she take your shoelaces so you would not harm yourself or others?

I spent a summer in Seward, AK with a buddy and about the first week we got there, there was a little Jazz festival going on outside of the restaurant we worked at. I had the morning shift and got off at one but my biddy didn't get off until 10:00, so I decided to stick around.

Well, a ton of Pick Axe Porters later I was so hammered I could barely function. As I walked home to our wooded abode about a mile away I had to shit really bad. So, apparently, I dropped trou in the middle of the street and proceeded to take a dump. This would have been fine unless the Seward Hotel for ex-Air Force, Marine, etc was directly across the street. I'm assuming they didn't care for what they saw and called the cops.

Next thing I knew I woke up in Seward's jail with a bad hangover and an ass chocked full of shit. I got charged with disorderly conduct and paid $50 for my night in jail. Not a good way to start a summer, especially in a town of a few thousand.

Funny/sad thing was there was a park bathroom not 40 feet from the spot of my bowel movement, and my house was only a couple hundred yards away. Wasn't my buddy's fault, except for the fact that he didn't get off until 10.

Probably not the smartest thing to be doing, playing Frisbee on Durant Avenue in Berkeley in front of the Tower Records store. This guy I was tossing with hit this store manager's parked BMW and he warned us to knock it off. We sidled 50-feet or so down the street and this bimbo asked if she could throw it. She threw a horribly errant toss which dove 50 feet out of the way into this irate store manager's BMW right in front of a cop. I got that sinking feeling. Cop was having a bad day so he took me to the slammer for the night. What a bunch of shit, I was 19, I should have just hauled ass out of there but I froze up. Even the store manager was apologetic, he just wanted me to get a ticket or some kind of warning. Officer Salas can suck a wet fart out of my ass.

Oh, and the did take my shoelaces. They even took my friends shoes when he was wearing sandals. When we asked why, they responded "Policy". Then we called them "stupid pigs" and didn't get to call our bail bondsman for 4 hrs.

As a display of definace, while my buddies all slept on the benches and floor, I stood at the bars for 12 straight hours. It accomplished nothing, but in my drunken state I felt like a freedom fighter.

Yes indeed. If you have no fear, you'll be fine in jail.

That sounds like the biggest crock of shit I've ever heard. What were you arrested for? Poor frisbee accuracy? I doubt a cop, especially in Berkeley that bastion of liberalism, would arrest you for a plastic disc accidentally hitting a car. Admit it, you were selling weed.

That could easily happen in today's Berkeley. It still has its quirky elements, but it hasn't been an over-the-top, sell weed on the streets, bastion of liberalism in two decades.

I graduated high school with a guy that is now serving life in prison for murder. The thing is that there is a rumor that one of his friends committed the murder while the two of them were robbing a guy. The guy I graduated with was the one caught and charged, the other guy never said anything and let him take the fall for the murder.

Not sure if that is the correct story or not, but my classmate is now sitting in prison for the rest of his life.

I have a couple times

A few summers ago I watched the Oliver Stone film "The Doors". There is one part of the movie where Jim Morrison gets harassed and mased by a cop backstage for making out with a chick in a bathroom stall. Then he goes on stage and insights a riot with the crowd about "the man in the little blue hat and little blue suit" that f***ed with him.

Well, the night after I watched that move I got harassed by a cop at this Summertime Regatta and started yelling to the people the same shit about the man in the blue hat and blue suit trampling our rights. About a half dozen people started to riot with me and got arrested. After the night in jail and many lawyer consultations, we went to trial and won our case. So, long story short, I am the one that got others arrested.

Sincerely,

Asshole McGee

PS, the fantastic Radiohead song "Anyone Can Play Guitar" was written by Thom Yorke the day after he saw the "Doors" movie and was similarly influenced. Too bad I'm not that creative, I could have been rich instead of on trial.