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sorry, no prison... just lock-up like I said

I was in the lockup in Nantucket, MA, for having an open container of (light) beer on the street. The ununiformed officer wasn't enamored with my attitude, apparently. A bunch of people gathered around and started yelling at the cop, who then threatened to arrest them all.I got to see the Nantucket police beat the crap out of young drunk people in the holding area. I got to share a cell with a heroin addict who kept telling me what he was going to do to the cops (this, while we didn't even have shoe laces). I spent a while trying to talk him out of doing anything crazy, and finally he passed out. The local drunks were let out of protective custody at 2:15 AM (like Otis the drunk on the Andy Griffith Show. They wouldn't let me make a phone call, and when my friends came by, they wouldn't let them see me. I did not get assaulted by the police (in fact, they were very polite to me), but I did get to spend an extra day in Nantucket.Then the DA dropped the charges. I caught a ride home with a guy who was charged with something more serious, who got a continuation without a finding. That was a Memorial Day weekend in the early 90's.The bottom line is that cops pretty much beat the crap out of people with impunity, even in small touristy towns.

I had a numb section of my left hand for about 4 months from the handcuffs. They pinched a nerve. It wasn't my first time in cuffs, just the first time being cuffed by the cops.

The cops don't use the fuzzy ones.

no but I know someone here who does

Steve, what was the heroin's plan?

He was no heroine. He had no plan. It was more like a half hour of "I'm gonna do this. I'm gonna do that. ZZZzzzzzzzzzzz." He was pretty young, and he looked like he was in pretty rough shape.At worst, he would have taked a swing at a cop, and he would have been thrown to the ground, cuffed, and be tried for assault. I don't know why he was in lock-up in the first place.

Wonder who you could be talking about I've never been arrested for doing some of the stupid stuff I've done with a couple of friends of mine (and when I look back on it, I should have), but I do remember sitting in the police station with a pair of handcuffs on waiting for an officer to come in and take them off for me (all officers were on patrol). I was goofing around in my brother's room (why, I don't know, that's what little sisters do I guess) one day before I had to go to school and I saw a pair of handcuffs on his dressor. Me being the overly bright person that I am desided to put them on... needless to say I couldn't find the key to get them off. I was so embarressed when I had to go tell my mother what I did... we couldn't reach my brother at his work to ask where the key was so she had to take me to the police station where I was subjected to an hour of teasing from the firemen and dispatchers. When the police officer finally arrived I had to sit there while he'd uncuff one wrist and then cuff me to the chair while he was making fun of me... I was so humiliated! It got even worse when I had to tell the principal why I was late for school... my family has never let me live that down and now I have my own pair of handcuffs my sister gave me for chirstmas one year as a gag. Yep, I'm the genius in the family lol

Now those can come in handy!!!!

Well after my sister gave them to me she told me she shouldn't have because she thinks I'm going to turn out to be one "kinky bitch" as she likes to put it