ever been arrested while running?

that story is too funny to be true.... is that for real?

I meant that story by Mr. G

Almost arrested.

I was trespassing onto a school track, because I wanted to time myself in a brisk mile. When asked to stop I told him after another 2 laps, which I finished.

People that do not stop when the police request them to do so should go to jail.

Bragging about resisting arrest is beyond my comprehension.

It ain't cool kids.

mplatt wrote:

People that do not stop when the police request them to do so should go to jail.

Bragging about resisting arrest is beyond my comprehension.

It ain't cool kids.

Not bragging, just saying what happened. I was lucky that I wasn't hauled in.

not sure he went to jail, but hesch was arrested when he was in the middle of winning a local jamba juice race here in SLO, it was pretty funny. they had him up against a motor home in handcuffs as the whole field went by, i did feel kinda bad for him but i had to get my jamba juice (only way to beat him i suppose :).

about 15 of us got warnings for running naked, i guess its a $700 fine. I also got a ticket for urinating in public a few years ago, at least he let me finish.

mplatt wrote:

People that do not stop when the police request them to do so should go to jail.

Bragging about resisting arrest is beyond my comprehension.

It ain't cool kids.

Gosh golly, John Boy, wouldn't want to to make the nice policeman's job difficult. What fun could be had there???

Lighten' up Francis!!!!!!

Most of us could not deal with the difficulties that many police officers deal with on a daily basis.

Police deserve respect, always, even if they are a little over the top at times.

Many of us have pulled some dumb shit while growing up. I don't brag about it, or even relate those stories without some sort of remorse or warning to younger people to make decsions they will not be ashamed of later.

I have never been arrested or avoided detention. I have been stopped by "over the top" police, I listened to them and did what they told me to do.

Christ, we are supposed to be the good guys.

mplatt wrote:

Police deserve respect, always, even if they are a little over the top at times.

This is one of the dumbest things I have ever heard. And I say ths as someone who once woke up in a cell stuck to the plastic mattress with my own blood, thanks to some cops who were "a little over the top."

Nobody deserves respect simply on the basis of their job title - ever been asked to keep a secret by your parish Priest?

Good Grief....Are we the good guys ?

That's it, I'm gone...

A limey in the US wrote:

mplatt wrote:

Police deserve respect, always, even if they are a little over the top at times.

This is one of the dumbest things I have ever heard. And I say ths as someone who once woke up in a cell stuck to the plastic mattress with my own blood, thanks to some cops who were "a little over the top."

Nobody deserves respect simply on the basis of their job title - ever been asked to keep a secret by your parish Priest?

The system deserves respect, the police are part of the system.

I am sorry I had to explain this to you.

99.999% of the time if you follow the rules you will not wake up in a puddle of blood. I'd bet my house that the overwhelming majority of times people wake up in their own blood they could have avoided it by following rules and direction.

This isn't running-related, but one of my friends in high school drove a car with expired tags on it for around a year. I think like 6 or 7 times during that year he got pulled over for having the expired tags. Each time the cop would walk up to his door with his gun ready and they'd pull him and all his passengers out and throw them on the ground and cuff them. They'd be laying there on the grass next to a main road face down while he tried to explain that the car really wasn't stolen and that he was just too lazy to get new tags. My friend was an idiot, but I found the whole thing funny. Not quite as funny when you're a passenger of his carrying a couple grams of reefer (not that I was).

The cops finally took the expired tags off his car so he'd have to get new ones.

mplatt wrote:

Police deserve respect, always, even if they are a little over the top at times.

I have been stopped by "over the top" police, I listened to them and did what they told me to do.

Christ, we are supposed to be the good guys.

First, I would argue that in fact, the cops are supposed to be the good guys - not the "I'm on a power trip" guys; not the "I'm too small minded and uneducated" guys, not the "I have an insecurity complex so I need to take it out on others" guys.

Second, do police really deserve respect, ALWAYS? The Rodney King cops? The New York City cops (do a google search)? the corrupt LAPD cops?

It may be easier, and safer, to do whatever a cop says to do, but that does not make it OK for a cop to abuse, or incorrectly wield, his/her power.

"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."

Nice job Platt man. One of the dumbest things ever said......and now...

mplatt wrote:

The system deserves respect.

the absolute dumbest thing EVER said.

Why don't you follow this advice:

SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL POLICE FORCE - BEAT THE CRAP OUT OF YOURSELF.

j squire wrote:

My HS XC team got followed by police through Ottawa Hills once. The team was at least half black. If you know Toledo, this doesn't surprise you at all (it's the village that got sued when the cops arrested a black man waiting for a bus).

I have been stopped running through there before, appartently I didn't have enough reflective material on or enough money in my pocket.

Mister Platt,

This qualifies as theft - the job of returning stolen property to the putative rightful owner is the job for the Police and the courts do decide. You need to learn some respect for the system.

"the system deserves respect"

Is the single funniest thing I have read on these boards in months.

Platt, are you sober when you write these things?

"The system deserves respect."

This could almost have been written by the character Pyle in "The Quiet American."