Has Anyone Ever Had A Run-in With The Police?

[Adster]

Was 14, set a girls hair partially on fire. Mate gave me a rigged lighter without me knowing. Was aiming for her hood but went all the way through.....what a stupid twat I was.

 

And got expelled for a month with police bought in. A month at home playing Call Of Duty. 

 

SOMEHOW the girl fancied me and said if I wrote a letter of apology no charges would be pressed. 

 

2 weeks later I was on a date with her sat in Argents Mead drinking cheap blue WKD. Meeting her parents properly for the first time was.....fun 

 

 

What a state.

[Izzy]

@Gerard if ever there was a thread made for you 

[SpacedX]

15 minutes ago, Bellend Sebastian said:

My tip, from experience, for picking the guilty person out of a line up is to go for the person that is fidgeting, sweating profusely and looks really guilty. But they rarely got picked, for some reason

Perhaps the fact I couldn't stand still, was too hot, and averted eye contact didn't help then.

 

I guess the sulphate didn't help matters either.

[Bellend Sebastian]

17 minutes ago, Line-X said:

Perhaps the fact I couldn't stand still, was too hot, and averted eye contact didn't help then.

 

I guess the sulphate didn't help matters either.

Yes, that'll do it

[The Quick Brown Fox]

Twice, 

The first I was about 18 and got caught driving with no insurance (took a mates pregnant Mrs to the hospital), got pulled, asked to provide paper within 7 days, went in to the police station and told them I had no insurance and was cautioned "anything you say can and will.....etc" "do you have anything to say? " Me after watching Roy Chubby brown says and yes I really said it "please don't hit me again officer" I was expecting a little laugh but no I got a dodgy look and she wrote down what I'd said. It was then I knew I'd ****ed up. 

Licence revoked and 600 quid fine plus costs. 

[fuchsntf]

2 hours ago, Paninistickers said:

Something I mention so little in normal life, I largely forget it ever happened. 

 

I did 7 weeks in the clink when I was 18. Well, young offenders anyway. Parva. Which, as a quiet middle class, unremarkable lad was quite an experience. Character building stuff.

 

Offence was affray. A glorified pub brawl. Something probably most lads have in one way or another done in their late teens.  

 

Bravo to my solicitor. How he quite managed to get a first ever offence that usually ends up as a fine or, at worst,  community service into Parva was quite a feat. 

 

 

Jesus...The Dirty Duck...opposite The London Road Police station...every Saturday were Pub brawls...I Dont dare to Think how many wouldnt of turned

Up for Work on Monday...if the police had intervened....

 

One incident...7-9 from us from Nparks, were having some Banter ( friendly) with lads/lasses from Saf.Lane,Syston & Ay.stone...

Suddenly we saw & heard a big rumble outside...Some Outsider-Football fans had come Off the train, ( apparently planned) 

and had the Audacity to start on "our very own" bobbies...

I mean nothing wrong with ourselves having the odd confrontation with the London-Road Thin-blue line, but upstart-outside-Football- fans..!!!!

 

The Dirty- Duck... emptied !!! lads n lassies, usually spending W.ends irritating the blue-lamp-boys, this evening found ourselves at each others sides,

The Station was Short staffed, due to some outside-W.end demos. So there we were finding ourselves total innocent like ,protecting and joining our brave Boys in blue...also a group of W.Indians & Asians, walking down from London Road  jumped in & helped out....Probably The only Time the City was " one"..

 

Dirty-duck patrons , gained some Credit & not too much hassle for a couple of weeks...Though to be fair it was only later in the years ,the Trouble got out of hand,

Baby-face Next Generation yobs, Couldnt hold it...!! 

 

One by then, went to 7 hills, Grannies, even Annabeles  for peace & quiet..!!

 

Its nice when you get older...you can Open up & admit to all your vices..!!..well some!

 

Edited 29 January 2021 by fuchsntf

[VLC86]

If you didn’t get a caution for possession of weed as a teenager you havent lived IMO.

[The Blur]

I was living in Catford at the time of my run in with the police.   I decided to walk the family dog at a local park,   when I went in I immediately noticed a helicopter hovering above but it was a community festival that weekend with metal fences being slowly put up through the park so I thought the helicopter was overseeing the preparations so I thought nothing of it.

 

Close to the end of the walk,  I then saw a healthy looking cheerful dog with a collar wandering around off the main paths in long stalked grassland.   I returned home but could not stopped wondering whether if the dog was lost as I did not see his/her owner close by.   I returned to the grassland area and wandered around to look for the stray dog but it has disappeared however I felt hairs on my neck stood up as something bad were going to happen.   I turned around and saw two police officers with their guns out aiming at me.    They were saying something however the kicker was that I am deaf and cannot speak very well.

 

I put my hands up but the policemen just kept getting closer and were saying something-  I just gave up and moved my hands slightly to point at my ear and mouth ‘I am Deaf’ while praying that my movements would not trigger them.   The penny finally dropped with the officers but they were still wary of me so one of them grabbed my hand and smashed it against the barrel of his gun for some reason.    We then spoke for a bit-  they asked my name ,checked my identification and asked me what I was doing in the area which I explained.   They explained that the helicopter was looking for a suspect on the run whose the description partially matched me.   The fact I was stalking around in the long grassland area did not help the matter either.    At the end of the conversation as they were letting me go,  the little ****er came back, tongue lolling out and tail waggling and all that to us.    I left the dog to them and went back home.

 

Perhaps if I was living in USA then I might not be so lucky-  there are couple of reports where deaf black people were shot by the police due to difficulties in communication while being apprehended so I was pretty grateful that nothing has happened. 

[VLC86]

7 minutes ago, The Blur said:

I was living in Catford at the time of my run in with the police.   I decided to walk the family dog at a local park,   when I went in I immediately noticed a helicopter hovering above but it was a community festival that weekend with metal fences being slowly put up through the park so I thought the helicopter was overseeing the preparations so I thought nothing of it.

 

Close to the end of the walk,  I then saw a healthy looking cheerful dog with a collar wandering around off the main paths in long stalked grassland.   I returned home but could not stopped wondering whether if the dog was lost as I did not see his/her owner close by.   I returned to the grassland area and wandered around to look for the stray dog but it has disappeared however I felt hairs on my neck stood up as something bad were going to happen.   I turned around and saw two police officers with their guns out aiming at me.    They were saying something however the kicker was that I am deaf and cannot speak very well.

 

I put my hands up but the policemen just kept getting closer and were saying something-  I just gave up and moved my hands slightly to point at my ear and mouth ‘I am Deaf’ while praying that my movements would not trigger them.   The penny finally dropped with the officers but they were still wary of me so one of them grabbed my hand and smashed it against the barrel of his gun for some reason.    We then spoke for a bit-  they asked my name ,checked my identification and asked me what I was doing in the area which I explained.   They explained that the helicopter was looking for a suspect on the run whose the description partially matched me.   The fact I was stalking around in the long grassland area did not help the matter either.    At the end of the conversation as they were letting me go,  the little ****er came back, tongue lolling out and tail waggling and all that to us.    I left the dog to them and went back home.

 

Perhaps if I was living in USA then I might not be so lucky-  there are couple of reports where deaf black people were shot by the police due to difficulties in communication while being apprehended so I was pretty grateful that nothing has happened. 

A very convoluted way of saying you got caught dogging mate.

[Parafox]

2 hours ago, Bellend Sebastian said:

I used to do ID parades as a student. Think it was about fifteen quid, which in the early 90s wasn't bad.

 

Was yours behind a two way mirror? Some of ours were, others weren't, they'd have the witness wandering up and down the line giving you a good close look.

 

My mate did one like that, and managed to get wrongly picked out of the line by a copper who'd been run over by a joyrider and quite badly injured, and thought it was him. A more intense experience than he was expecting

several years ago I was involved in a n ID parade when I worked with EMAS. I was on duty with a colleague and we were sent to an assault on Humberstone Gate. As we arrived we heard 2 gunshots. We stood by at a safe distance when a car pulled up alongside us. As I looked down at the passenger, he revealed a gun and then the car sped away. Eventually the police asked me to go to an identity parade in London. They took me there in a police van and I was asked to pick out the person I saw in the car. I'm still not sure if I got the right one as I never heard anything since.

[Parafox]

3 hours ago, StanSP said:

 

 

3 hours ago, Paninistickers said:

Something I mention so little in normal life, I largely forget it ever happened. 

 

I did 7 weeks in the clink when I was 18. Well, young offenders anyway. Parva. Which, as a quiet middle class, unremarkable lad was quite an experience. Character building stuff.

 

Offence was affray. A glorified pub brawl. Something probably most lads have in one way or another done in their late teens.  

 

Bravo to my solicitor. How he quite managed to get a first ever offence that usually ends up as a fine or, at worst,  community service into Parva was quite a feat. 

 

 

I've been to Glen Parva YOC a few times in my career, It was a very intimidating place. As is Welford road prison. I've few tales I could tell

Edited 29 January 2021 by Parafox

[Parafox]

52 minutes ago, fuchsntf said:

Jesus...The Dirty Duck...opposite The London Road Police station...every Saturday were Pub brawls...I Dont dare to Think how many wouldnt of turned

Up for Work on Monday...if the police had intervened....

 

One incident...7-9 from us from Nparks, were having some Banter ( friendly) with lads/lasses from Saf.Lane,Syston & Ay.stone...

Suddenly we saw & heard a big rumble outside...Some Outsider-Football fans had come Off the train, ( apparently planned) 

and had the Audacity to start on "our very own" bobbies...

I mean nothing wrong with ourselves having the odd confrontation with the London-Road Thin-blue line, but upstart-outside-Football- fans..!!!!

 

The Dirty- Duck... emptied !!! lads n lassies, usually spending W.ends irritating the blue-lamp-boys, this evening found ourselves at each others sides,

The Station was Short staffed, due to some outside-W.end demos. So there we were finding ourselves total innocent like ,protecting and joining our brave Boys in blue...also a group of W.Indians & Asians, walking down from London Road  jumped in & helped out....Probably The only Time the City was " one"..

 

Dirty-duck patrons , gained some Credit & not too much hassle for a couple of weeks...Though to be fair it was only later in the years ,the Trouble got out of hand,

Baby-face Next Generation yobs, Couldnt hold it...!! 

 

One by then, went to 7 hills, Grannies, even Annabeles  for peace & quiet..!!

 

Its nice when you get older...you can Open up & admit to all your vices..!!..well some!

 

I used to DJ at Grannies and Annabelle's. OMG. I must have been there at the same time as you at some point.

[Mike Oxlong]

43 minutes ago, The Blur said:

I was living in Catford at the time of my run in with the police.   I decided to walk the family dog at a local park,   when I went in I immediately noticed a helicopter hovering above but it was a community festival that weekend with metal fences being slowly put up through the park so I thought the helicopter was overseeing the preparations so I thought nothing of it.

 

Close to the end of the walk,  I then saw a healthy looking cheerful dog with a collar wandering around off the main paths in long stalked grassland.   I returned home but could not stopped wondering whether if the dog was lost as I did not see his/her owner close by.   I returned to the grassland area and wandered around to look for the stray dog but it has disappeared however I felt hairs on my neck stood up as something bad were going to happen.   I turned around and saw two police officers with their guns out aiming at me.    They were saying something however the kicker was that I am deaf and cannot speak very well.

 

I put my hands up but the policemen just kept getting closer and were saying something-  I just gave up and moved my hands slightly to point at my ear and mouth ‘I am Deaf’ while praying that my movements would not trigger them.   The penny finally dropped with the officers but they were still wary of me so one of them grabbed my hand and smashed it against the barrel of his gun for some reason.    We then spoke for a bit-  they asked my name ,checked my identification and asked me what I was doing in the area which I explained.   They explained that the helicopter was looking for a suspect on the run whose the description partially matched me.   The fact I was stalking around in the long grassland area did not help the matter either.    At the end of the conversation as they were letting me go,  the little ****er came back, tongue lolling out and tail waggling and all that to us.    I left the dog to them and went back home.

 

Perhaps if I was living in USA then I might not be so lucky-  there are couple of reports where deaf black people were shot by the police due to difficulties in communication while being apprehended so I was pretty grateful that nothing has happened. 

 

35 minutes ago, Costock_Fox said:

A very convoluted way of saying you got caught dogging mate.

Yeah, dogging in Catford. That’s just plain wrong ! 

[fuchsntf]

36 minutes ago, Parafox said:

I used to DJ at Grannies and Annabelle's. OMG. I must have been there at the same time as you at some point.

Early-mid 70s..

[MPH]

So many years ago now I was involved  with a youth holiday to Wales.. on one particular day we decided to run a game in a local town. The plan was that most of the  leaders would dress up in disguise, the young people would  try find them and if they found them had to say ‘ secret squirrels nuts’, get a ‘ code’ and if they got all the codes they would win. At least that was the plan. Some good disguises.. a nun, one woman dressed as a Muslim woman full face covering ( bit sneaky that one. My idea ) , trainspotter , proper thick rimmed glasses and black toboggan, note book and a black satchel and  a few others in good disguises.

 

 

I was one of the leaders who stayed back with the teenagers, we waited 20 minutes to give the others time to get there and hide and  then we set off for the local town. However by the time we got there, the place was absolutely swarming with police and the town was literally glowing with blue flashing lights. Unbeknown to us, the only bank in the town was robbed the week before by two guys dressed as trainspotters wearing black thick trimmed glasses, black toboggans and the same over the shoulder satchel that the gun was pulled from. coincidentally , the minibus full of the disguised leaders pulled up in front of the same bank that was robbed,they all piled out, were seen conferring and quickly dispersing around the town. Someone in the bank called the police and it was game on... the youth leader dressed as the trainspotter who made his way to the small train station had several lasers pointing at him from the bridge just above the train station.  He was white as a board by the time we got there.. as were all of the other leaders who had been rounded up who were desperately trying to explain the situation to the police. It’s really only when all the young kids turned up that the police believed their story..

 

All of us arriving 20 minutes after found it absolutely hilarious, much to the annoyance of the police who literally told us to leave the town and never come back. I can see why it irked the police.

 

We were told later that day that the bank stayed closed for the rest of the day.

Edited 29 January 2021 by MPH

[dsr-burnley]

The brother of a friend of mine volunteered for an identity parade for murder, and got picked out - he spent 3 days in the cells while PC Plod worked out the odds on firstly, a genuine murderer volunteering to join someone else's ID parade, and secondly finding himself involved in his own case!

 

Later he got £10,000 compensation.  Probably under a non-disclosure agreement, I should think.

[dsr-burnley]

4 hours ago, Webbo said:

I got pulled for a broken tail light. I was given 14 days to have it fixed and tested at an MOT station. I did that but forgot to post the proof. I ended up in court but only got a small fine. so I have got a criminal record, it was over 30 years ago, so I don't know if it still counts.

I don't know the exact details, but I looked them up a bit since (for someone else!) and it was on the lines that as long as your offence:

 

1.  Wasn't sexual or terrorist;

2.  Was more than 10 or 15 years ago;

3.  Did not result in a jail sentence of more than 30 months

 

then it was wiped clean and you don't have to report it on job applications etc.  Don't quote me on the details, but it's that sort of magnitude.  It's even more lenient for offences carried out when aged under 18.

 

I don't know how that applies to things like US ESTA applications, but they don;t want to know about trivial motor offences anyway so it would make no odds.

[Samilktray]

Got caught doing a line in the toilets of a weird Loughborough uni student night, decided to leg it just before things got more serious and ended up in the middle of Loughborough with no idea where I was. Oh to be young again. 

[Julian Joachim Jr Shabadoo]

At 14 years old, me and some friends put through a few of the windows at the abandoned mill in Quorn (now upmarket flats). It was quite out of character for all of us, we must have been really bored. Anyway there was a witness who'd phoned the police, and there being a station in Quorn they turned up in no time, took all of our addresses and gave us a bollocking

 

When I was 18, I was driving some KFC home from Loughborough to Sileby in my old Scirocco (fairly quickly, didn't want it to go cold). I was speeding on Loughborough Road A6 (60mph limit at the time) and got to One Ash Roundabout a police 4x4 appeared behind me and pulled me over. Two officers got out, the first asked me how fast I was driving and I really sheepishly said "Oooh 85, maybe 90?" The other one taking notes just burst out laughing, and said "You're the first honest person I've heard in months. Just slow down" and sent me on my way

 

And the last time I was pulled over was about a year after that, riding my old ZX-6R on the commute home from Leicester. A policeman pulled me over in Cossington saying I was travelling at 35mph (I definitely wasn't as I was aware he was behind me and made sure to not speed), but it turned out he was a bellend and wanted to brag that he had a more expensive motorcycle than I did. Fun fact: I had been travelling at 150mph roughly 5 minutes before that encounter

Edited 30 January 2021 by Julian Joachim Jr Shabadoo

[foxfanazer]

I grew up in Braunstone and I can honestly say I don't even know anyone that has had a run in with the police 

[ozleicester]

5 hours ago, Mike Oxlong said:

No, he was standing too close to me 

You should've taken a giant step

[UpTheLeagueFox]

When I turned into Kevin The Teenager aged 13 I got caught at Asda pinching a £3 cassette and sweets. Police weren't called.

Then I lifted some batting gloves from a sports shop in Lutterworth - didn't get caught but only later realised they were left-handed and useless for me.

Being a rebel wasn't my thing and at 14 my life of 'crime' was over.

 

Been stopped a handful of times by the police for speeding but not for over 10 years. Always profusely apologetic and humble in the hope they'd take pity. Only once did they give me a ticket.

[Houdini Logic]

Just before Christmas (between lockdowns) I was walking home from a friend's house with 2 others in the early hours after drinking for the majority of the night at a friend's house.

 

A cop car pulled alongside us and they jumped out, soon followed by another cop car. They started asking loads of questions about what we were up to and I was instantly pissed off (being drunk) and started being a pain in the arse, albeit a lawful one. I kept trying to walk off and when they said I wasn't allowed I explained that they needed to provide a reason. They conveniently said 3 people matching our description had apparently been seen trying to break and enter in the area. Hmmm.

 

Anyway, when I realised I wasn't going anywhere in a hurry I just kept winding them up - without swearing or doing anything illegal. I clearly pushed them too far at one point because they grabbed me, twisted my arm behind my back and stuck my head in a hedge and told me if I didn't go home instantly (which is what I was trying to do!) I would spend the night in the cells 😂

 

Moral of the story - just try your hardest to satisfy their ego and grovel a bit, otherwise you'll end up waking up with not only a terrible hangover but also  some privet in your clothing 

Edited 30 January 2021 by Houdini Logic

[Mike Oxlong]

Tbh I’d rather not say. Would’ve posted sooner but it can be a little tricky getting on the wifi out here in Gartree. 

Edited 30 January 2021 by Mike Oxlong

[Unabomber]

When I was a teenager there was a shut down car garage near my house that was boarded up. I was in to skateboarding and decided to try and prise off some wood to make a ramp. Didn’t get very far so just went home. Later on the police arrive as they thought I had been breaking in. My absolute narc of a neighbour had grassed me up. Still can’t believe it.