Current Events > I got booked today. It was a humbling, sobering experience.

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I drove myself to the prison, which is a massive, decaying fortress of brutalist architecture. I met with a secretary that my lawyer told me to specifically ask for at the prison administration office, a pretty older woman named Sabrina. I sat and waited on a very low couch for the arresting officer to come and process me, while Sabrina and a barrel-chested police captain talked about how I would not need to go through conventional arrest processing. Apparently, my lawyer had spoken to the captain, and I was to be released on my own recognizance without paying a bond.

Two young officers, who could not be more than four years older than me, came to pick me up, and I walked between them to the prison facility itself. A bleary-eyed woman in orange scrubs looked at me from behind her hands through a holding cell window while I waited for the arresting officer to get the paperwork prepared. I don't know exactly what my lawyer arranged with the captain, but I skipped most of the processing, as in, no pat-down, no strip-search, nothing. Not even taking off my shoes. When they took my wallet, keys, and phone, they didn't even check them in, he just put them in a plastic bag.

I kept calling the arresting officer "sir" and eventually he said, "I'm only four years older than you, you don't have to call me 'sir'." He was professional and polite while I got my picture and fingerprints taken. He even talked to me about my job while he was processing my fingerprints. I think he could tell that I was incredibly nervous. And I was; I was absolutely fucking terrified.

The worst part was right before I left. I was waiting to get my things back, and I saw two men being led in handcuffs to an old, worn door labeled "Men's Shower". And these two men, one white and one black, about in their late 30s or early 40s, were very neatly groomed, like they had just walked in the jail from outside and put on orange scrubs as some kind of costume. They were two completely normal, regular dudes. The entire experience to this point had been eye-opening, but when I saw those two men, I realized that they could be anyone. They could even be me.

When I was leaving, the guard, an old black man, said with a smile, "now get on out of here and I hope I don't see you here no more."

I have been so fucking lucky so far. I could have hurt someone. I could have killed someone. I never, ever want to see the inside of a prison in real life ever again, and I will never again be so foolish as to risk my own life or the lives of others. I'm not even upset about my picture getting taken and inevitably winding up in the Jail Report (which is very popular around here). If anyone gives me a hard time for it, I will simply reply, "that's none of your business", because it really isn't. This is my struggle and mine alone.

I was far more brave today than I ever thought I could be.
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would you eat this pizza
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What did you do, if you don't mind me asking. I'm glad you didn't have to stay.

how has TC been posting the same garbage for this long
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You don't get booked at a prison.
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Burgess posted...

You don't get booked at a prison.

Copypasta? I read this before.
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Laserion posted...

Copypasta? I read this before.

TC does nothing but steal topics from other places and use copypasta. Seriously though this one is terrible and written by someone that doesn't understand the topic or language itself.
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did your mom make you a welcome home dinner B)
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philo when did you become a criminal

did you start doing the marijuanas
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i got a dui but it was bullshit because i was totally good
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youre kicked out of my monster hunting club

no criminals aloud
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what a waste. I was actually interested in this thread, only for it to be pasted
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I got sucked into it as well.

spanky1 posted...

youre kicked out of my monster hunting club

no criminals aloud

So he cant speak?

i hate watching movies that i think are based on a true story
only to find out its fake

what a waste of my time
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ItsYourFault posted...

spanky1 posted...

youre kicked out of my monster hunting club

no criminals aloud

So he cant speak?

that would be preferable yes

cranked
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