My very first arrest
 

How exciting.

I'm not even sure if it's on my 'record' or not.

That's gonna suck for future job opportunities.

what the hell happened??

Yeah, spill.

well,this guy went a loooong way after his arrest,hope it will be ok for you too...

I didn't know you could be arrested for bad fashion.

He actually doesn't look very nerdy there.

Truncated, you got arrested for something pathetic like throwing a firecracker out a car window, didn't you?

eh? that profile photo is like the apex on the nerd scale

Aside from the collar, I see absolutely nothing weird about it.

Ha!

(I like his sweater though, he should've left off the shirt beneath it.)

I won't go into the whole tale, because it will piss me off to no end, and bring up a topic of debate on this forum that probably should not be addressed.

I was out shopping today, and there was this massive pro-life demonstration going on outside. A few of them tried preaching their business to me, in a less-than-diplomatic manner. I'll simply say this:

1. I hate pro-lifers. Yes, hate them. I don't 'dislike' them, I don't merely hate their beliefs - I hate them, as people. If it were my choice, I would collect pro-lifers across the globe and exterminate them.

2. I hate religious fundamentalists. They are ignorant, pig-headed, weak, mindless, hypocritical fuckbags. Said fundamentalists are usually pro-lifers as well. If they're not, well, kill them too.

3. I hate people shoving their dogmas in my face. My belief system is not up for negotiation. You will not enlighten me with pamphlets, slogan-chanting, threats of hellfire, or gruesome photos. I find NOTHING more insulting and invasive than someone trying to push their credo on me. It's an intellectual rape, and I won't stand for it.

Needless to say, I was rather upset that these people approached me with their tripe. I politely asked them to leave me alone. That did not suffice. I told them I had no interest in what they were saying. That did not suffice either. I told them to try me again after they'd each adopted a few abandoned crack babies, and expressed my concern over their masturbation habits, as surely, wasted sperm is an abortion of sorts.

There was some shouting. I didn't go ballistic and hit anyone; that ain't my style. But the police did break up the altercation, and we got carted away.

Total waste of my day, and I was supposed to get a goddamn haircut.

that's because it isn't weird, it's nerdy. look at his posture, his weak frame, his chin almost consumed by his neck, those ridiculous tinted lenses, the collar, the big hair

You can get arrested for hassling people who are hassling you?
If you're gonna get arrested anyway, you should at least be able to hit someone.


Look on the bright side:
You could have wound up with the disaster of a haircut I wound up with yesterday. I don't even want to leave the house now.
Did you get booked and everything? Court appearance pending?

so what when they arrested you what was the actual charge (if that's the right word)?

"Inciting a riot" would be a pretty kick-ass charge, if you must get one.

And I see what you're saying about the Gates picture. The posture in his profile is quite nerdy. But I dunno. I think he looks like a relatively cool nerd. For the 70's, of course.

He looks a little like Andy Dick in the full face shot.

so are we ever going to find out the outcome of the story?

She's making us wait to build the suspense.
She knows a lot about showmanship.

the invisible log-in thing is really antisocial

I probably would've punched someone. I used to get into trouble in grade school for fighting. In high school I came to my senses and saved the punching people thing for after school. I've never punched another girl though.

I like to do that sometimes myself.
Plus, it's not like she ever implied she was anything but antisocial anyway.

that's quite impressive that you only fight males

Does Hallmark make a "Congratulations on your first arrest!" card? Because you're totally getting one if they do.

yeahyeahyeah, i'm just impatient

I'll bet the scene looked something like this:

Probably because I've never been touched inappropriately by a girl.

But I've been around the world a million times
And all you men are slime

Quite true.

Well if you find this happens...just send her my way.

We have ways of taking care of that. ;)

Companies make inquires of their prospective employees regarding felony convictions, not misdemeanor charges.

Although I agree with what most of what you expressed to the fascists-in-training, the line you crossed was when you started talking about how they should all be exterminated. When the police showed up to break up the ruckus, they may have talked to someone else on the scene and/or involved who told them that you used words like that & thus, they took you away instead of just letting you go on your way.

I'm on the phone. Story will have to wait. Doesn't get much more exciting.

I didn't express those sentiments to them. They likely arrested me because it would have looked biased if they hadn't.

But I stand by that statement. They are an argument for abortion in themselves.

I should note that I wasn't some kind of bad-ass activist in this exchange. It was just an awkward, disruptive incident that fucked up my schedule. I'm only irritated because it was someone else infringing upon MY course of behavior, and I paid a price for it.

what the hell did they charge you with?

Disturbing the peace?

While I won't get into the finer points of the issue, I hate people who get in your face and give you reasons to believe what they do when you don't want to hear them, and then expect you not to hate their guts afterwards. In reality they're just making greater enemies out of the ones they already have and making themselves look like idiots. It baffles me as to why they would consider themselves to be supporting their cause. They must realize it completely destroys any shred of credibility. Perhaps they were pro-choicers trying to spur on pro-choicers and reignite the flame? That would make way more sense to me.

Now if one will excuse me I have a quota to meet:
The self is made by projection and introjection, to have a self is to have enemies, & to be a self is to be at war. To abolish war is to abolish the self. War is The Hunt perverted. The problem is not the war, but the perversion, the skewed perception. The perversion is repression; war is sex perverted. As in Blake: "War is Energy Enslav'd." The war to end war is total war; to have no more enemies, or self, Consummatum est. As in Christ: "I bring not Peace, but a Sword," for peace lies in finding the true war, a reconciliation of opposites. The heiroglyph for war is Atlachinolli, "Burning Water," effusion et atdeur; a hemorrhage, a blossoming war. The identitiy of peace & war, of Zen & Ken, is the unification of the opposites in wars of love.

For a more vernacular explanation, please read: http://www.aikidoschools.com/terrydobsonstory/

being arrested is not cool or exciting...

That fucking sucks. I mean, if you had to go through the trouble of getting arrested, it would have been nice if you could have at least given one of those fucks a broken nose.
Stupid religious bullshit.

who is the nerd in the pic?

The reason why no one has named the nerd is that it should be obvious. Here's a clue: he's a pirate thief.

These days it's not really feasible & is definitely not advisable to "sue the city" or whatever, although it sounds to me as if truncated, in my opinion, without knowing all the particulars of the facts from the incident, is entitled to compensation (that of course she cannot possibly hope to receive which only serves to add insult to injury) for the whole thing. If the city is going to allow assemblies of that nature that actively engage passers-by then the city is liable or should at least make assurances that through actual due process (you know, that stuff we pay taxes for & rarely receive) that the individuals who were a catalyst to the whole thing (the people that approached truncated initially) are held responsible.

I've never been arrested. My parents would get so pissed, even if it was a false arrest or something.

did you commit any good crimes?

Perhaps public indecency involving socks.